One of Europe’s major recycling hubs for beverage cartons, backed by Stora Enso and Tetra Pak through a joint investment of EUR 29 million, has started operations in Poland. The new line has the potential to triple the annual recycling capacity of beverage cartons in the country from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes.
Jun 21, 2023
A new recycling line for post-consumer beverage cartons, with a joint investment of approximately EUR 29 million by Stora Enso and Tetra Pak, is starting operations in Poland. Featuring an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes, the state-of-the-art line at Stora Enso’s production unit in Ostrołęka (Poland) handles solely beverage carton material separation, detaching fibres from polymers and aluminium. The fibres are then recycled into carton board materials, effectively contributing to material circularity by turning used paper-based packaging into new paper-based packaging materials. This new paper recycling facility is complemented by Czech company Plastigram Industries, which, together with Tetra Pak, is industrializing a solution to recycle polyAl into new products.
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The line has the potential to triple the annual recycling capacity of beverage cartons in the country from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes, and provides scope to absorb the entire volume of beverage cartons sold in Poland, as well as additional volumes from neighboring countries, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Stora Enso has invested approximately EUR 17 million into a new repulping line that will recover the carton fibers, and Tetra Pak along with Plastigram have invested a total of approximately EUR 12 million to build the new line. The new line is set to ramp up recycling of beverage cartons throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
