The
Company, Green Earth Recycling was formed
as a private partnership on 18th December
1994 to carry out the recycling of plastic
materials and post-consumer beverage carton
packaging such as generated by Tetra Pak.
The plants are located near village Heyr,
12 km Bedian Road, Lahore. Green Earth currently
owns and operates the following plants to
perform the above mentioned recycling operations;
- Crushing,
washing, agglomeration and extrusion
plant for granulation of plastics such
as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene
(PP), and other polyolefins which have
densities less than that of water.
-
Crushing, plate forming and sawing plant
for making boards from post-consumer
beverage cartons (mostly from Tetra
Pak)
-
Seven station Low Force Moulding (LFM)
machine to mould thick pieces upto 60
kg.
-
Seven station Injection Moulding (upto
3 kg)
-
Complete workshop for fabricating products
out of plastic lumber made in above
machine.
For
recycling operations we have three lines
for making granulate each with a capacity
of 200 kg/hour. The capacity of the plate
forming is about 300 kg/hour. We have
a total of 150 employees to run the whole
operation. We also have a joint collaboration
with Tetra Pak Pakistan for the plate
forming (board making) project, as all
the post-consumer waste generated from
the beverage cartons in Pakistan is by
Tetra Pak.
We
have imported the machines mentioned above
in points 3 and 4 (LFM) from Germany.
These machines are employing the latest
technology to mould large plastic pieces
but with low injection pressure. Using
this technology we can mould plastic objects
such as planks and profiles. This is a
tried and tested technology which is being
used extensively in the developed countries
and has been for the first time introduced
in Pakistan. Also, sheets can be produced
which can be used in the furniture industry
instead of wood, which is becoming more
and more expensive everyday. In addition
there are numerous advantages to be had
in making outdoor products from plastic.
These are that these products would be
totally water proof, termite proof and
guaranteed for life.
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