Erema posts profit despite 28% revenue drop as recycling demand slows
Erema Group, the Austrian plastics recycling machinery maker, reported revenue of EUR 235m for the 2025/26 financial year, down 28% year on year, but still closed the period in profit. Management cited weak European recyclate demand, high energy costs and customers postponing investment, while pointing to Asia, the Americas and Africa as growth markets. The company opened Erema India with partner Lindner Washtech in February 2026 and took a stake in Australian textile-recycling firm BlockTexx in October 2025.
Why this mattersA leading recycling machinery supplier absorbing a steep revenue fall shows how far customer investment has stalled, a signal for capex plans across the recyclate supply chain.
- Erema Group revenue fell 28% to EUR 235m in the 2025/26 financial year, which ended in March 2026.
- The company remained profitable despite the revenue decline, citing cost control and its family-owned structure.
- Erema invested in Australian textile-recycling company BlockTexx in October 2025.
- Erema and Lindner Washtech opened Erema India in February 2026.
- Erema has operated in China since founding a Shanghai facility in 2001 and also has sites in North America, South Africa and Thailand.
- The OECD forecasts global plastic demand will triple from 460 million tonnes in 2019 to 1.2 billion tonnes in 2060, with only 17% recycled by then.
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