Leicester, UK -- Casepak has celebrated the official launch of its Materials Recycling Facility (MRF). Casepak has invested £21 million (€25 million) into the development of the MRF, located at Braunstone Frith Industrial Estate, Leicester, and has acquired new technologies to ensure maximum materials recovery combined with increased cost efficiency. The MRF is the UK’s first to incorporate specialist screening for highly compacted materials and also features a specialist de-inking screen which ensures that newspapers and magazines recycled through mixed collection schemes reliably and regularly reach the quality standard required by reprocessing mills in the UK.

The Casepak MRF has been designed to incorporate the very latest recycling technologies, affording significant flexibility for householders and businesses to maximise the amount of materials recycled. The resulting facility has the capacity to sort 150,000 tonnes of dry, mixed recyclables a year including paper, card, plastics, metal and glass and aims to recover 95 percent of the material processed as a resource. The remainder will be used as a fuel for energy recovery.

Environment Minister, Lord Taylor said: "I’m delighted to be able to come and open this new recycling plant. There are huge business opportunities in the growing recycling industry and Casepak’s £21 million investment in this new plant is already showing rewards. This facility is not just good for the environment, with 150,000 tonnes of waste not going to landfill, it is also a significant boost to the local economy creating 100 new jobs in the area."

Mark Smith, Joint Managing Director said: "This is a major milestone for Casepak and we are delighted that Lord Taylor has taken time to open the facility. Since the MRF became operational in September we have already secured contracts to manage several local ouncils’ recyclable material streams and we aim to do more of the same in 2012."

Casepak was formed in 1973 as a family business. The company sorts, processes and trades a further 145,000 tonnes of source segregated paper, card and plastics each year through its Collection and Processing Facility in Enderby, Leicester.

Quelle: Casepak

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