Plastics Recycling Industry

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Plastics Recycling Industry Opportunities and
Challenges in SEE and Turkey

• Mag. Philippe Kruschitz
• Plant manager - Kruschitz GmbH
• 26.09.2014 / CEE Wirtschaftsforum Velden

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• Facts numbers
• Plastic waste collected in Austriafor material
  recycling
• approx. 200.000t/y
• Recycling capacity in Austria
• approx. 400.000t/y

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• Development
• Expansion of recycling plants and capacities
• New recycling plants
• Slower increase of collected/sorted waste quant.
• Increasing quality of recycling products

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• Possible material processing
• Grinding of plastic waste (approx. 8 plants)
• Production of compounds (approx. 4)
• Processing of post consumer waste (7)

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• Recycling industry in Austria
• Strong industry partners
• Excellent know-how and technologies
• Examples
• Erema
• Starlinger
• NGR
• Lindner

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Kruschitz Group
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• History
• 1959 Company Kruschitz GmbH was established
• 1990 Building of recycling plant in
  Haimburg1999 Acquisition of PET-recycling plant
  in Völkermarkt (industrial zone)2006 Start of
  "Bottle to Bottle"-recycling2008 Company
  expansion second plant in Kühnsdorf

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• Plant 1
• PET-Recycling film and pellets production
• Bottle to Bottle recycling
• Food contact certification
• 50 employees
• Capacity 30.000t/y
• Area 8 ha

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• Input materials- PET post-consumer
  bottles- PET preforms
• - PET production waste

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• Plant 2
• Polyolefins and techn. plastics
• Pellets production, compounds
• 90 employees
• Capacity 45.000t/y
• Area 24 ha

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• Business relations in SEE Turkey
• Importance of local partners and contacts
• Import export waste vs. Product
• Freight and export costs (duties)

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• Waste management in SEE and Turkey
• Quality and consistency of waste collection
• Sorting capacities
• Public awareness of recycling
• Inland processing or directing waste streams
  towards Europe (overcapacity)

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• Market for recycled plastics in SEE and Turkey
• Quality of material vs. prime/virgin material
• Price sensitiveness
• Problematic acceptance of recycl. material (TR)
• Local representation (Plast Eurasia, agents)
• Working with local branches of European partners

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• Philippe Kruschitz / Kruschitz GmbH
• Email p.kruschitz_at_kruschitz-plastic.com
• Tel [phone]