Gravita India Limited has announced that its step down subsidiary situated in Tanzania, East Africa has started commercial production of Recycled Polypropylene Granules from its new plastic recycling plant having an annual capacity of around 1,800 MTPA.

The company is already having similar plastic recycling facility in Ghana, Senegal, Mozambique and India. Further, this is in line with the company's vision of replicating the recycling business in different geographies.

The Group has made investment of approx. Rs. 2.25 crores for procurement and commissioning of the said Recycling Plant which is invested from internal accruals of the company.

The company will be procuring domestic plastic scrap for the purpose of production from this plant and it will cater to the needs of plastic manufacturing industries situated in Europe & Asia. This plant will help company to change its sales mix by increasing the contribution from plastic business.

Gravita is a leading global recycling company with 12 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities worldwide, collectively capable of processing 2,84,059 MTPA.