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The recycling of PVC industry plans to have a Vinyloop plant in Spain
12/08/2004
on August 12, 2004
The recycling of PVC industry plans to have operational for 2006 a Vinyloop plant in Spain, which would have an initial investment of EUR 13 million and an annual capacity of recycling of 13,000 tons per year, announced Secretary of the Iberian Forum of PVCBeatriz Meunier.
The main advantages that involve recycling processes through factories that use the Vinyloop technology, include that retrieved PVC has a quality equivalent to the Virgin compound.
So far, at European level, there is a factory of its kind in Italy and there is another under construction in France, while in Spain you want to start a project of this nature next year, to maintain contacts with various autonomous communities who might be interested in co-financing the projectthat he would lead a consortium of the sector led by Solvay (currently the patent).
Meunier pointed out that it is possible however that other companies in the sector as Atofina or Aiscondel decided to finally join with this project in collaboration with Solvay. In regard to the autonomous communities that increased susceptibility are demonstrating to co-finance a project in Spain, Meunier cited Castilla León, while he pointed out that there are other also interested autonomies.
The general Secretary of the Iberian Forum of PVC unveiled, also the results of the fourth annual progress report of Vinyl 2010, which emphasizes that its Member - producers of resin, the manufacturers of additives and the transformers - have achieved their objectives of recycling in 2003 for window framesprofiles, pipes and sheets of waterproofing for roofs.
In fact, the results show how this industry is on track to meet the targets for 2005, derived from the voluntary commitment, ten year plan of the European industry of the PVC to provide sustainability throughout its life cycle. Thus, for example, in the area of recycling and waste management, the Vinyl 2010 objectives for the year 2005 are recycling of 50 percent of tubes and profiles window and waterproofing sheetsa figure that is already practically achieved, and for 2010 has raised a goal of total 200 000 additional tonnes of waste recycling post-consumer PVC.
The major milestones in 2003 include the launch of a number of projects in Europe, in particular those related to the collection and recycling of sheets of waterproofing for roofs, pipes and profiles of window, and the final preparations for the recycling of PVC waste on the ground of StigsnaesDenmark, which will have an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes of waste, that they will be recycled through hydrolysis and whose release is planned for the last quarter of 2004.
More information: www.vinyl2010.org
