The Aragonese group Esfera will develop a modern factory of bags of different typologies with polyethylene, biodegradable biopolymers or materials with a high recycled content in the El Pradillo industrial estate, in Pedrola, where you will get 37.8 million euros that will create 35 direct jobs, mainly of a technical profile. These are announced to the 150 current workers that the company has in its Utebo plant, which will have to move to the new location. The Governing Council of Aragon has approved this circular economy investment declaration.
For the development of this initiative, Sphere has acquired a plot of 139,838 m² in Pedrola, on which it plans to bring the industrial complex based on the circular economy, which houses all the manufacturing processes that are currently located in the El Águila estate. of Utebo, in addition to incorporating new production lines that increase its capacity. In its current facilities, it will occupy several attached warehouses that have been extended to complete the building limits of the plots.
Biodegradable materials
According to the Government of Aragon, this project corresponds to the company commitment of develop bags or biodegradable films in coming from vegetable raw materials or bonds with recycled plastic products. Go to the demand and regulatory changes prior to the publication of the EU directive 2015/720 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which will have to be left practically short in practically all the production of plastic bonds with which biodegradable For this reason, Sphere has opted to move the facilities to optimize the flotation products and implement the technological modernization and energy efficiency of the industry. Expand your productive capacity.
