EKOREC
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| EKOREC | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Andoain, Spain |
| Website | www.ekorec.net |
Company Profile
The EKOREC group was founded in 2012 as a key player in Spanish circular economy. A part of the industrial equipment and background came from extinguished textile facilities. EKOREC industrial recycling and PET transformation know-how was powered in 2021 by merging operation with the mother company BASCOTECNIA (EPC engineering group created in 1976). The resulting industrial group is a unique example of integrated circular economy adding recycling activities with PET transformation and engineering consultancy.
EKOREC is located in Andoain (Basque Country) and is known as a reference in plastic’s circular economy within Spain, especially in PET materials. The company recycles PET bottles using post-consumer and post-industrial waste. Resulting flakes (color and transparent) are transformed into PET granule, agglomerate and PET sheet. EKOREC's customers from the food & beverage, pharma, home and personal care industry use those materials to produce new packagings such us PET trays and bottles. Within the company's production process, sustainable materials and energy from their own Cogeneration Power Plant is used.
The company owns 4 business units, 3 industrial factories at 75.000m2 of industrial area and owns a cogeneration Power Plant. The company is BRC Packaging Materials Certificated since 2013 as well as ISO 9001:2015 Certificated, also since 2013.
Products / Technology
Division and Products:
- PET Recycling
- Packaging Materials
- Power Generation
- Engineering Projects
History
- 2012 - EKOREC founded
- 2013 - BROS Packaging Materials founded, producing PET sheets
- 2015 - PET EVOH high barrier sheets added to portfolio
- 2016 - export activity consolidated
- 2020 - Recycling plant starts sales under the EKOPET plant
- 2021 - BASOTECNIA and EKOREC groups merged
References
PETplanet Insider Articles
Issue 01 / 2023: “Our activities are circular and local”
