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Biffa has completed a transaction to merge its UK PET recycling operations with Esterform - an established UK PET pre-form and bottle manufacturer.
This acquisition creates a sophisticated end-to-end circular PET packaging business ahead of the 2027 launch of the UK’s Deposit Return Scheme which is set to drive an increase in PET drinks bottles available for recycling.
Under the terms of the transaction, Biffa has completed the acquisition of Esterform following an initial investment in 2023.
Esterform’s manufacturing sites in West Yorkshire and Worcestershire take recycled PET pellets to make test tube-shaped pre-forms which are blow-moulded into bottles and containers for drinks, food, personal care and household products.
Moving forward, Esterform and Biffa’s existing PET recycling operations - which will now trade under the Esterpet brand - will be held as a wholly owned portfolio business within the Biffa Group, led by Esterform’s founder Mark Tyne and his management team.
The business will benefit from investment by Biffa to provide an industry circular solution for food and drink manufacturers, delivering high quality, food grade recycled PET and pre-form bottles and containers from materials collected for recycling in the UK.
Biffa’s long-established HDPE and PP recycling operations at Redcar - including its award-winning, world-first, closed loop recycling solution for HDPE milk bottles - will continue to trade as Biffa Polymers under Managing Director James McLeary.
