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Europe: Investor buys reprocessor of recyclable materials

Pan-European investor Aurelius has acquired ECO Plastics, a reprocessor of recyclable materials.

Aurelius will supply both its specialised operational improvement capabilities and financial support to the Company’s current operations, with a core focus on the long-term strategic development of the business.

The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed.

Hemswell-based ECO Plastics operates a sophisticated plastic reprocessing plants, capable of sorting 150,000 tonnes of mixed bottles per year and representing around 35% of the total bottle collection in the UK every year.

Since 2000, the company has been in UK’s plastics recycling sector with the development of new recycled plastic (recycled polyethylene rerephthalate – rPET) products.

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