At present they are doing extension work, with an investment of over seven million euros, enabling further centralize production in Sewer and increasing year by early in about 25 to 30 new jobs, to add to the already existing 240 .
In the morning the Mayor of Sewell, Joaquín Buendía, accompanied by the Town Planning, Construction and Services, Laura Sandoval, visited the facilities of the company Plasbel Plastics SAU, located in our town in the Industrial West, being received by Antonio Beltran Garcia, Director General and Ms. Noelia Beltran Garcia, Director of Marketing of the company, as well as their father and founder of the same, D. Beltran Francisco Belmonte.
Buendia has known the important tradition of this family business founded in 1998 and has three important points of work: Sewer, Qatar and Valencia, although Sewer remains its main production site, a national leader in reusable bags and also concerning nationwide production of garbage bags, films and industrial sacks.
This makes toshers located in our industrial park, with 240 people working in it, in the existing 25,000 square meters, has the foresight to bill nearly 70 million euros this year and hopes to break the barrier of one hundred million within the next five years, as highlighted by its Director General, Antonio Beltran.
He also noted that they have an automated plant in Valencia, with 15 employees and a factory in Qatar, with 80 employees, generating plant Sewer 40 million annual kilos of products made from polymers of polyethylene products, and 25% for reusable bags, 33% for household waste bags and waste in the hospitality sector and the other 42% remaining to protective films and bags for packaging and distribution in industrial processes.
For the Mayor of Sewell, Joaquín Buendía, "companies like Plasbel Plastics, based in our town, with major investment projects implemented over seven million euros, leaders and national level regarding their production, they have to have everything our support and continued collaboration. With about 250 employees and increase thoughts. With families who see everyday family Beltran Francisco company that created and now, with new business sap run their sons Antonio and Noelia is why more than justified to congratulate you and pass on from the City Sewer our congratulations on the road already traveled, but also excited about the burgeoning and expansion are including today. I am glad that in his mind expansion and growth is Sewer above any other possibility. With the works being made and new equipment they have acquired, enable production in our town of packaging for the food industry, as they already do in Valencia, and equipment for the pharmaceutical industry. "
Also "we are proud of the efforts made and stand out for being the first company in the country that certifies plastic officially reduced environmental impact throughout its production chain sector, from which it obtains raw materials to the recycling of waste , through the manufacturing process and transport the finished product to the customer, and can be counted among the very few companies with the "Carbon Footprint Conform" 'certificate issued by Aenor ".
The visit also had its passage by the expansion work being done in that Plasbel 6,000 m2 annexes, three thousand initially, with an investment of over seven million euros, which acquired extrusion machinery, cutting and printing will be installed German technology, also improving the technology lab.
Antonio Beltran said that if everything goes smoothly, once the works are completed, production will increase by 35%, with 30 more specialists on staff, some of them already on the company and previously developed all the new project.
The forecast incorporating new employees could be between 25 and 30 new employees.
The Director General of Plasbel Plastics, Antonio Beltran, also referred to the importance that the year 2011 was for the evolution of the company, to match the entry into force of the legislation on reusable bags with the worst of the economic crisis.
"Despite being a difficult and complicated time, it was less, since we had already moved before, transforming the production system and adapting to the new situation, since before we were focused on the bags for single use. Diversification product and export was what allowed us to move forward, given that we are present in countries like France, Italy, UK, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, and elsewhere in the world, some of them through the factory we have in Qatar ".
In times of global economic crisis Plasbel away from noticing it, it was quite the opposite, since by 2010 the turnover was about 50 million euros per year to spend in the 2013-56000000;
in 2014, 64.82 million euros, an increase of 15.4% over the previous year and this year expect to close on 68 million, with much of the blame on the fact that Plasbel has become the supplier dozens of millions of reusable bags for both commercial distribution companies, among which Mercadona and Eroski, to regional supermarket chains.
For Mercadona, spending on bags has been reduced in a major amount, thanks to the close collaboration between.
The bag sells Plasbel is manufactured by only thirteen companies across Spain, highlighting them for putting a minimum of fifteen uses without tearing, are one hundred percent recyclable, with 15% to less than reused polyethylene, carrying out its stamping die not pollutants, with a thickness that make weighing 43 grams, compared with 7 grams of disposable bags, being inside the UNE53942 model developed by Aenor in collaboration with the Spanish Association of industrial plastics.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla