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“This can be a true game changer for of building this new facility at an exist- The investment is expected to create
providing low- or zero-carbon power ing site is that if we run into challenges more than 200 jobs, as well as about
for industrial processes,” said Neil as we’re integrating the new thermal 1,000 temporary construction jobs.
Brown, an Eastman engineer. “Any- technology, we have backup steam Eastman currently employs more than
where there are great needs for pro- and power systems in place to allow 1,500 in Longview.
cess heat — and Eastman uses a lot continued operations.” Source – Sustainable Plastics
of heat to power our processes — The Longview plant will have capacity
thermal batteries can be a solution to process about 110,000 tonnes of
because you’re able to store heat for plastic waste annually.
so long with so little loss. Another plus

Alpla Group acquires pharma plastics manufacturer

Germany-based Heinlein Plastik-Technik joins Alpla’s pharma division

ustria-based packaging ity in Bavaria. The plant comprises de- produced annually in three-shift opera-
producer and recycler Alpla velopment, construction including the tions.
Group has acquired Heinlein company’s own mould construction Alpla said it plans to turn the Ansbach
Plastik-Technik, a manu- and mechanical engineering, and pro- site into a technology centre for injec-
facturer of closure systems, dosing duction together with moulding and tion moulding and automation technol-
systems, and application aids for the assembly. ogy for the entire Alpla pharma group.
pharma and medical industries.
Heinlein’s machine fleet currently com- Heinlein will continue to operate ‘large-
Heinlein is based in Ansbach, Ger- prises more than 60 injection mould- ly independently’ as a member of the
many, and currently employs around ing and assembly machines. More Alpla pharma group. The companies
175 at its 22,000 square meter facil- than a billion plastic components are did not disclose the terms of the ac-

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