With the disposal of chemical waste requiring ever greater care and compliance with environmental standards, solutions that recover and reuse materials have been gaining ground in industry, helping to reduce disposal in landfills or incineration. Against this backdrop, in 2026, RECICLO, a Santa Catarina-based industry specialized in solvent recovery and chemical effluent treatment, has invested R$ 5 million to expand its manufacturing capacity, with the goal of reducing water use by up to 95%. Completion of the works is scheduled for the second half of 2026.

According to RECICLO CEO Alan Fabre, the investment includes the expansion of warehouses and the modernization of equipment and processes, and responds to changes in the production dynamics of the segment served, especially in packaging factories that operate with flexographic printing. The company is currently present in 12 countries and meets around more than 70% of the sector’s demand in Latin America.

“Our goal is to increase our service capacity. The plastic packaging industry has been expanding its production capacity, working with increasingly smaller batches and greater variation in print runs to keep up with constant changes in consumer trends. We, as the company responsible for recovering and treating waste from the flexographic process and solvents used in the sector, also need to adapt to keep up with these changes accurately,” he says.

Currently, the company has 8,000 m² of built area and handles around one million liters of solvents per month. According to Fabre, in addition to expanding the industrial space and increasing its production capacity, the investment made this year also aims to modernize processes, increasing the machines’ processing capacity, reducing dependence on electricity, and advancing toward the goal of reducing water consumption.