Coveris integrates paper recycling operation with ReCover division

Coveris has strengthened its ReCover recycling division by integrating ReCover Paper, unifying the company's paper and plastic recycling capabilities under one brand.

ReCover Paper processes over 10,000 tons of waste annually and plays a key role in delivering Coveris' No Waste strategy while supporting customers to improve their sustainability performance. The division, formerly Environmental Services, manages waste from Coveris' UK label and cartonboard manufacturing sites and oversees recycling partnerships across the supply chain.

The integration supports Coveris' No Waste strategy, which aims to eliminate waste in all forms by keeping paper and plastic circular through innovative sourcing, processing, recycling technologies and partnerships.

Facilitated by ReCover Paper, Coveris operates the UK's only label manufacturer with a paper-to-paper recycling service for self-adhesive label release liner through its RafCycle partnership with UPM Adhesive Materials. The program has enabled the recycling of over 400 tons of paper release liner from Coveris and its customers since the launch of the paper-to-paper service in 2024.

The ReCover Paper facility houses patented delamination technology that processes reels of redundant paper self-adhesive labels sourced from Coveris and its customers, separating label facestock from release liners for optimized recycling. Other materials sorted and processed by ReCover Paper include over 500,000 label cores annually for re-use, redundant linerless labelestock, cardboard and transit films.

'Integrating ReCover Paper reflects our aim to create a unified, visible recycling platform across our business,' noted Adam Robinson, Coveris' paper business unit head of sustainability. 'Sixty-four percent of Coveris' sites are covered by Platinum EcoVadis scores ranking amongst the top one percent globally.'