Building on this commitment to sustainability and the increased use of recycled glass in its packaging, Verallia has acquired cullet (recycled glass) treatment centres across the Group to further its sustainable initiatives.
In Spain and Portugal, Verallia has finalised the acquisition of three companies of the Santaolalla Group: Ecosan Ambiental, Ecolabora and Vidrologic. In doing so, it has taken over five new glass waste processing plants, both for industrial flat glass and hollow glass.
With the purchase of Ecosan, Verallia now has four more cullet treatment centres, one located in Quer, Guadalajara, two in Burgos and one in Torrelavega, Santander.
With the acquisition of Ecolabora, Verallia is taking a bigger role in a pivotal stage of the recycling chain: the logistics of collecting glass for recycling.
And finally, with Vidrologic, Verallia has acquired another flat glass treatment centre, located in Anadia, Portugal.
The main objective of this investment is to continue Verallia’s strategy of increasing the percentage of cullet use in their production process and to progress towards its CO2 reduction target to achieve the first major goal of a 46 percent reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2019.
These five new cullet treatment centres join Verallia’s four existing plants in the Iberian peninsula. Of these, two will be commissioned in 2023: Infiniver, and Revimon in joint venture with TMA Recicla.
Infiniver, situated near Seville, boasts an annual capacity of 60,000 tonnes. Additionally, the facility can separate three-coloured glass. It will primarily supply the Verallia Portugal plant but will also serve other factories within the Group in Spain.
In Portugal, Verallia and its partner TMA Recicla are finalising the start-up of a new cullet processing centre. This new entity, called Revimon, is expected to begin operating in the fourth quarter of 2023 to support Verallia’s Figueira da Foz plant with a processing capacity of 70000 tonnes and the ability to separate two-coloured glass.
Additionally, Verallia now has another plant in Quer, Guadalajara, called Calcín Ibérico in JV with TMA Recicla, which recovers and selects up to 25 tonnes per hour of white and mixed glass from selective collection, and with the Vidrieras Canarias plant, called Revica, with a capacity to process 48,000 tonnes per year of glass waste, enough to process everything that is collected in the Canary Islands annually.