Germany – Aluminium major Hydro has laid the foundation stone for its integrated recycling line for used beverage cans (UBCs) at its Neuss plant in Germany.
Set to cost Euro 45 million and to cover an area of around 20 000 square metres, the initiative will double the company’s annual recycling capacity to around 100 000 tonnes and enable the processing of a wide range of can scrap. The recycling line will create around 40 new jobs and its completion is scheduled for the beginning of 2016.
‘In addition to the UBC recycling line, we continue to strengthen our Grevenbroich-Rheinwerk-Alunorf production triangle with the ongoing Euro 130 million investment in a new automotive body sheet line in Grevenbroich and by expanding production capacity at our Alunorf joint venture plant in Neuss, where Hydro together with its partner Novelis is investing more than Euro 80 million in capacity expansion,’ notes the company’s executive vice president Kjetil Ebbesberg, who leads its rolled products business area.
Guests at the stone-laying ceremony included federal minister Hermann Gröhe.
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