MOSCOW (MRC) -- Henkel says it has opened a fully automated laundry and home-care warehouse at its production facility at Montornes del Valles, Spain, said Chemweek.
The company says it has invested EUR22.0 million (USD26.1 million) in the 24,000-square-meter warehouse, which will serve as a major logistics hub for southern Europe. The center has the capacity to move more than 1 million pallets per year and more than 7 million product units per year, and comprises three different areas, Henkel says.
The Montornes del Valles site is one of the company's most important sites in Europe, Henkel says. It produces more than 200,000 metric tons/year of powder detergents, liquid detergents, and adhesives, exporting to 60 countries, the company says.
As MRC informed earlier, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany) announced that Henkel Adhesives Technologies has officially inaugurated its new production facility in Kurkumbh, India.
Henkel are also partnering with Borealis and plastics solutions company Borouge to develop flexible packaging solutions for detergents containing both virgin polyethylene (PE) and high amounts of post-consumer recyclate (PCR) in efforts to increase sustainability.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,760,950 tonnes in the first ten months of 2020, up by 3% year on year. Only high density polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) shipments increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market reached 978,870 tonnes in January-October 2020 (calculated using the formula: production minus exports plus imports minus producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of exclusively of PP random copolymer increased.