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INCOE announces its new Asia headquarters in Shanghai

NCOE has acquired and is currently in the process of countries is supported by INCOE facilities located in North
Irenovating what will become its new Asia Headquarters America, Europe, Asia and South America.
facility in Shanghai, China.The new building, located only
about 1 km from the current INCOE facilities, will have a
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BViridor has opened a new Glasgow Recycling and
Renewable Energy Centre (GRREC) at Polmadie,
Scotland. Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken has
announced the opening of the facility.The development
of the new centre is part of a 25-year partnership
between the city council and Viridor. The company
will operate the facility, which is expected to create
18 new apprenticeships and 250 jobs in the region. The
runner system manufacturing capacity. The investment in council expects GRREC to divert more than 200,000t
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adjacent and identically sized workshop was acquired, will be used to generate electricity that could power
doubling the available workspace. The two existing 26,496 homes. The GRREC features a smart recycling
facilities will consolidate together into the larger new facility, an anaerobic digestion facility and an advanced
headquarters building by the end of November 2019. “Our conversion facility (ACF).Aitken said: “The GRREC will
continued growth in the Asia market made it necessary transform the way in which we manage waste in our
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said Mr. Ho Chee Kiang, General Manager of Asia operations into effect in 2021. “Our commitment to the GRREC
for INCOE. He continued, “The new factory is also very
close to the previous factory, and will have minimum
impact on our employees’ commutes while keeping us
near our key local suppliers.” The new Asia Headquarters
expansion mirrors growth for INCOE worldwide, including
a new European Headquarters facility in Germany in 2014,
a new Technical Service Center in Mexico in 2018, and
the new Global Headquarters in the US in 2018. Since
1958, INCOE has engineered productivity built hot runner
systems starting with their original patented design of the
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systems, nozzles and manifolds, pre-wired and leak-proof demonstrates how the council will work with Viridor
Seal-Fit™ systems, complete hot halves and advanced and our partners in the coming years to ensure Glasgow
control technologies provide optimized processing can take further major steps towards becoming the
advantages suitable for appliances, automotive, caps, most sustainable city in Europe.”The centre can extract
closures, electronics, medical disposables, medical recyclable materials from general waste, which would
devices, packaging, pharmaceutical and technical molding increase the overall recycling rates of the city.This
applications. A network of representatives in over 45 would divert 90% of the council waste from the city’s
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23 September 2019 Plastics News