Nordic partnership Re-Match, Geminor builds further momentum

Re-Match, specialised in the sustainable recycling of artificial turf, and resource management and trading company Geminor have further expanded and reinforced their collaboration, with the appointment of Geminor as a logistics partner for the supply of Re-Match’s new plants in France and the Netherlands.

In the 11 years since its founding by Dennis Andersen, Re-Match, headquartered in Denmark  has grown to become a leading recycler of artificial turf pitches in Europe. It is currently establishing the first of its turf recycling facilities outside Europe. with the construction of a state-of-the-art recycling facility – along the same lines as the factories in the Netherlands and France, in the USA.
The company has recycled more than 160.000 tonnes of waste turf in just over a decade.

Last year, Re-Match opened its second factory in Tiel in the Netherlands, and more recently its third factory in Erstein outside of Strasbourg in France. the company’s expansion explains the expanded cooperation between Re-Match and Geminor, according to Kasper Thomsen, operations director at Geminor,

"We have for a decade assisted Re-Match within logistics, managing transport and export permits (TFS) for old artificial turf pitches that are worn out,” he said. “We have also assisted with offtake for the residual plastics that cannot be recycled. We will in the coming year provide more volumes of up to 10-year-old artificial turf from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and other EU countries to the new recycling factories in Tiel and Erstein.”

Recycled into new products
With its patented technology, Re-Match offers an environmentally sustainable recycling process that has received EU Environmental Technology Verification (ETV), as well as EuCertPlast.
The technology is based on a mechanical separation process which can recycle the entire turf system while avoiding waste products. The output from the recycling factories consists of dry and sieved materials that are 99 percent clean and ready to be reused in products within automotive and furniture – but also in new artificial turf.

Re-Match A/S and Geminor have been partners ‘since both companies were quite modest in size, and we have grown together within the recycling industry’, said Dennis Andersen.

He added: “Currently, Re-Match needs well-functioning cooperation to deal with the big challenges that old artificial turfs represent today, and we are therefore very pleased to have Geminor as a partner in this growing recycling operation. Every year, Europe needs to replace 4500 artificial turfs, which constitutes about 1 million tonnes of waste. At present, Re-Match can handle about 620 of these artificial turfs. We hope to increase our capacity in the time to come, but there will still be an urgent need to increase the material recycling of artificial turfs within the EU.”