This Wednesday, the Belgian group Galloo and the community of agglomerations of Lens-Liévin (CALL) signed a lease allowing the specialist in the recycling of industrial waste to set up a plastic processing plant in Harnes.
Economically, this is good news for the territory since this establishment will generate local jobs.
The new Galloo industrial plastic waste recycling site will therefore be built by 2024 in the town of Harnes.
For the Belgian group, this represents an investment of 26 million euros, the hiring of 80 people and an objective set at 200,000 t of waste to be treated per year.
The Harnes plant will produce, from waste, raw recycled technical plastics which will then be transported to the Halluin site, in the Lille metropolitan area, to be refined there.
A “considerable deposit of plastic”
The Belgian group is already very established in Hauts-de-France.
The first site, in Halluin, was inaugurated in 1990. Many others have opened since, in particular because of the “considerable deposit of plastic that remains to be recycled in the region”, assures the management of the group.
Last year, the Galloo group was talked about in Hauts-de-France for the wrong reasons.
Between May and September 2021, the company was the victim of repeated fires.
The sites of Clairoix, Halluin and Aniche were the scene of gigantic fires.
For the latter, which occurred on May 15, dozens of firefighters had to fight for more than thirty hours to put out the flames.
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