Lindner, a leading machinery manufacturer for the plastics recycling industry, has expanded into India. The company has founded Lindner Recyclingtech Bharat (India) LLP with headquarters in Delhi.
It wants to capitalise on the huge, mostly untapped, plastics recycling market in the world’s second most highly populated country. India’s plastics recycling rate stood at 8% in 2019. The country generates nearly 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, more than any economy expect the United States and the European Union.
“India is a densely populated country with huge volumes of waste,” said Chirag Verma, a seasoned businessman in India that co-owns Lindner Bharat alongside Ganesh Karankal. “According to estimates, the mountain of rubbish will rise to more than 400 million tonnes by 2050. There is a lot to do in the area of recycling. Together with Lindner, we want to support the efforts of the waste and recycling economy in India and are looking forward to this challenge,” Verma added.
According to a roadmap for India’s circular economy for plastics, in order to recycle 67% of its plastic waste by 2035, India needs plastics recycling and sorting infrastructure to be in place already by 2025.
Lindner Bharat was founded to contribute to this goal, Lindner's CEO and owner Manual Lindner said.
“By founding Lindner Recyclingtech Bharat we want to contribute to returning greater quantities of reusable materials back into the loop or the circular economy. This needs the right shredders and system solutions as well as the relevant expertise,” Lindner added.
Family-owned Lindner, with production facilities in Spittal/Drau and Feistritz/Drau in Austria, manufactures shredders, system components and spare parts that are exported to almost one hundred countries. In addition to its headquarters in Spittal/Drau and a second production site in Feistritz/Drau, Lindner is also present in Germany, France, the USA, and Singapore, and now in India.
Last August, Lindner and Erema founded a new holding company called Blueone Solutions. The new joint-venture aims to leverage Lindner’s expertise in washing technology with Erema’s extrusion experience. The two Austrian equipment manufacturers will jointly execute research projects to fine-tune and optimise the different steps in plastics recycling in pursuit of energy-efficient solutions and consistently high recyclate qualities.