Multi-million pound investment revealed to develop Ireland’s largest dairy in-plant |
Leading plastic milk bottle manufacturer, Nampak Plastics, has entered into a long-term partnership with Dale Farm, Northern Ireland’s largest dairy processing business, to develop Ireland’s biggest dairy bottle in-plant. The new in-plant, where bottles are taken straight ‘through the wall’ from the manufacturing process to the filling line, is scheduled to be operational early in summer 2010.
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Every Nampak milk bottle is a recycled plastic bottle! |
Nampak Plastics is set to reach another major milestone in 2010 when every HDPE milk bottle it produces will include up to 10% recycled HDPE (rHDPE). The company produces approximately two billion milk bottles every year meaning that approximately 7,000 tonnes of virgin material will be saved annually as a direct result of this achievement.
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Nampak’s school milk bottle awarded ‘Best Business Initiative’ |
Beating off stiff industry competition, Nampak Plastics was crowned the winner of the ‘Best Business Initiative’ category at the ninth annual Plastics Industry Awards, which took place at the London Hilton on Park Lane on Friday 2nd October 2009.
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HDPE milk bottle recycling rate passes the 50% mark |
According to the latest figures from Recoup1, approximately 57% of HDPE milk bottles consumed and collected in the UK during 2008 were recycled - an increase of 9% on the previous year’s figures.
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First bottles with UK rHDPE hit the shelves |
Following reprocessor Greenstar WES’s announcement that it is now the first UK based supplier of food grade recycled HDPE plastic (rHDPE), the milk bottles which Nampak Plastics supplies to Dairy Crest for Marks and Spencer’s organic milk range will now contain UK produced rHDPE.
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