Romania's Romcarbon opens new plastic recycling factory under RRF-backed EUR 10 mln project
Romcarbon Buzău (BVB: ROCE) announced that it has built a plastic recycling factory that will produce polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) packaging materials, such as foil and sacks.
iulian ernst · Journalist
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The new production unit, with an investment of nearly RON 55 million (over EUR 10 million), was partly financed by a RON 28.3 million grant received under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), Economica.net reported.
The products manufactured at the new facility will include polypropylene woven sacks and polyethylene packaging products, such as bags and films, with a high content of recycled material.
To this end, state-of-the-art technologies were purchased to enable the production of polyethylene packaging bags and films with recycled content of up to 100%, and polypropylene bags with recycled content of up to 50%.
The investment is intended to ensure compliance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste (the PPWR), which provides for a minimum recycled-material content of 35% for plastic packaging placed on the market by 2030, with the exception of packaging intended for direct contact with food, for which the minimum is 10%.
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