Alpla Teams Up With Coca-Cola Femsa To Open A New Recycling Facility In Mexico

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Alpla Teams Up With Coca-Cola Femsa To Open A New Recycling Facility In Mexico
Alpla Teams Up With Coca-Cola Femsa To Open A New Recycling Facility In Mexico

The plant, which will be located in Cunduacán, Tabasco, will cost more than $60 million to build. The project is the result of a collaboration between Alpla and Coca-Cola Femsa, a bottler.

With the new plant, the two companies hope to boost the circular economy in the states of south-east Mexico. Furthermore, the construction and operation of Planta Nueva Ecologa de Tabasco, or PLANETA, are expected to generate over 20,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Alpla Mexico and Coca-Cola Femsa, along with Coca-Cola Mexico, have already been working together since 2005 to run Industria Mexicana de Reciclaje (IMER), which is said to be Latin America’s first food-grade PET recycling plant.

Carlos Torres Ballesteros, Alpla’s managing director for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, commented on the establishment of PLANETA, saying, “This new recycling plant for food-grade PET will be Alpla’s third recycling plant in Mexico, making us a spearhead at a national level and a recycling benchmark for the rest of the world.”

“As part of our commitment to sustainability, Alpla will invest more than €50 million in global recycling capacity each year between 2021 and 2025.”