Dutch plastics recycler Healix is being forced to rethink its strategy as competitive pressures mount. Founder Marcel Alberts told the newspaper De Limburger last week that the production line at the company’s Maastricht site had been shut down due to price undercutting from virgin plastics. A day later, Healix announced a new cooperation model on LinkedIn.
The company is now offering a turnkey recycling line with an annual capacity of 6,000 tonnes for post-consumer PE/PP fibre waste. The facility is designed to process used fishing nets, ropes and agricultural films. Rather than looking for a buyer, Healix is seeking a production partner under a tolling agreement. The partner would be responsible for operations, labour, energy and logistics, while Healix would contribute technology, licences, marketing, sales, application development and quality assurance.
Healix said it planned to demonstrate the operation of the recycling line at its site in Maastricht on 10 October, during the K plastics trade fair which is held in nearby Düsseldorf, Germany. The aim, the company stressed, is to improve cost efficiency in partnership with others and to bring the technology to market more quickly....
