Plastic recycling: Kreyenborg uses infrared technology for the reduction of unpleasant odors in plastics.

Everything fresh: the two-stage IR-Fresh process removes unpleasant odors from recyclates.

Infrarotstrahler

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Materialhandling

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

IR-Fresh Minimizes Odors in PCR Granulates

The use of TPE materials with recycled content increases the sustainability of vehicles. They are also used more and more in the interior.

The selection of high-quality recyclate enables their use in demanding automotive applications.  

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Recyclate Reduce the CO2 Footprint in Seals and Interior Applications

Thermoplastische Elastomere

Thermoplaste

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Soft, Elastic and Recycled

Automakers have formulated ambitious plans for their vehicles. We discussed this topic with Frank Schumann from Trinseo.

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Elektromobilität

Mobilität

Lichttechnik

“Nothing Speaks against the Use of Recyclates for Demanding Components”

The quality of recyclates can be improved very well by means of suitable additives. An overview of the variety of products and their suppliers.

Overview: Additives for Plastic Recyclates

Stabilisatoren

Additive

Vitamins for the Circular Economy

The quality of recyclates is seen as too low. Improvements are possible by using additives, as was shown by the exchanges during the Forum Plastic Recyclates.

Quite clearly, the central theme of this year’s conference  was additives for recycling materials.

Streifinger, Florian

Recycling

Umweltmanagement

Additives Are Decisive

Material and manufacturing process optimized, CO2 saved: recycled wash cap from Pöppelmann K-Tech closes the loop.

Material and manufacturing process optimized, closed loop: Recycled wash cap for the automotive industry. 

Spritzgießen

Schaumspritzgießen

Sustainable Wash Cap

Christian Schiller’s goal is to turn the phrase “plastic waste is recyclable material” into reality. His tool of choice: digitalization.

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Start up

Unternehmen und Unternehmer

Ehrhardt, Melanie

“We See Our Work as Basic  Digitalization“

In general, recycled chocolate molds of PC do not meet the food contact requirements. A new recycling strategy is to provide a remedy.

Polycarbonate is frequently used for molds in chocolate production.

Polycarbonat

The Chocolate Side of Polycarbonate

RCS Plastics processes PET flakes into high-quality regranulate for preform and beverage bottle manufacturers. To ensure the required food quality of the recycled material, the company relies on Sikora technology for the quality control of the rPET flakes and pellets.

Cedric Steeg, Employee in Quality Assurance, holds material sample in front of the Puritiy Concept V.

Qualitätssicherung

Polyethylenterephthalat

Check Food Quality of Recyclates

Solvay and Hegen Partner to Bring the First Baby Bottle Made with Recycled Content to the Market.

In the future, Hegen will manufacture baby bottles from mass-balanced PPSU recyclate.

Messe Fakuma

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Recyclates Now Also for Baby Bottles

Using the latest technological advances in flake sorting helps bridge the gap between supply and demand.

Mixed plastic waste: With about 180.5 million t polyolefins make up the lion‘s share of annual plastics production.

Quantum Leap in Recyclates Quality

The stabilization of used plastics is costly. Online measurement during compounding allows for stabilization directly in production.

Plastic waste often has a very different stabilizer content. This must be precisely determined in the recycling process. 

Determined Online, Recyclate Wins

TotalEnergies has joined Nextloopp, an initiative bringing together 47 companies from the plastics value chain that aims to create food-grade recycled polymer from advanced mechanical recycling.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

Nextloopp Welcomes TotalEnergies

Interview with David Katz, Founder of Plastic Bank

Plastic Bank promotes recycling in developing countries, thereby combating poverty.

“We Must Show that Circularity Benefits Everyone“

Plastics Recycling Show Europe expands into second hall, visitor registration for the free-to-attend event is now open.

At the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in 2022.

Plastics Recycling Show Europe: Visitor Registration Is Now Open

“In difficult economic times, recycling is a reason to invest”

Interview with Korbinian Kiesl, President of Billion SAS

Mr. Kiesl, the circular economy requires that plastic recyclates can also be processed. How far advanced is Billion in this field?

The processing of recyclates has switched from being a vision to an everyday topic. These days, we no longer even ask ourselves whether our injection moulding machines can process recycled material. This is now a matter of course. Around 80 percent of our customers already run recyclates on our machines, some more, some less, but 80 percent is an immensely high proportion considering that almost no one was doing this a few years back. Three years ago, these customers were looking at K to see what was technically possible. They asked if we had any experience with these new materials. We were hardly ever asked this question about our experiences. Now, however, we are capable of dealing with concrete projects very quickly.

What role does quality play for your customers?

The more homogeneous the recyclate, the better the results for our machines, both in terms of physical properties and appearance, aesthetics. This requires a very good separation of used plastics. The machine can do everything, it‘s just a matter of whether you want to see the used recyclate or not. In the cosmetics industry – which represents an important customer group of ours – the use of recyclates was hardly conceivable until a few years ago. There, it was always a question of maintaining a flawless appearance. Today, there are customers in this industry who even want a package to show that it contains something recycled.

All customers today place their ecological interests and sustainable actions in the foreground. Within the consumer goods sector in particular, there is increasing pressure to do something. But as commercial enterprises, they are naturally looking closely at what is happening in terms of cost, plus there is a lot to be said for recyclates at present. Inflation, as well as the real cost explosion on the raw material side, be it virgin material or even all additives, mean that recycling is becoming more and more worthwhile. Recycling is a reason to invest, especially in difficult economic times.

Some users need their products to look good. What can you offer them?

If someone wants to have a smooth surface for aesthetic reasons, then our machine can make a product using the so-called sandwich process. The recycled material is inside the product. On the outside, it is surrounded by virgin material. The recyclate is therefore not visible. The prerequisite is that the chemical properties of the materials used are not mutually exclusive. For example, a furniture manufacturer uses our process to produce flower pots from recycled plastic. Customers from the cosmetics industry are also increasingly requesting this method. In times like these, it is also worthwhile in terms of cost. The product is still flawless on the outside, and cheaper recyclate is processed on the inside.

The process works with multi-component technology. There are two injection units that bring the different materials together. We first inject the virgin material into a mould. It clings on the inner walls. Then the second material is injected into the centre of the part, and finally the initial material is used to close the mould, so to speak.

In 2019, you had future ideas and visions, in 2022 you have the products and the customers who use them. What’s next on the agenda?

More and more users will utilise recyclates. This trend is irreversible. In addition, it is already becoming apparent today that non-polymeric waste will also be processed. Our customers are already occasionally making products from biomass. They obtain the material from composting plants. These products are then biodegradable at the end of their lives. The use of renewable raw materials and biodegradable raw materials, including biodegradable plastics, will definitely increase in the coming years. Certainly, it will not initially happen in such quality-sensitive areas as medical technology or the automotive industry. But in the consumer goods sector, in white goods or in packaging, for example, the use of renewable or biodegradable raw materials will rise.

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Billion S.A.S.  

https://www.billion.fr

The Select2 Twin Shot two-component machine can be used to produce components using the sandwich process.

Schematic diagram of the sandwich process

2022-08-22 VDMA Interview Billion

The world is facing major challenges: climate change must be fought; the environment must be protected, and resources must be conserved. It is also important to make good use of the opportunities offered by digitalisation. The plastics industry has a key role in this process because plastics are ubiquitous in the world.

Climate protection, digitalization and the circular economy are therefore also the three major topics at K 2022, the world’s leading trade fair for the plastics industry. To get in the mood for the industry meeting in autumn 2022, the VDMA is letting representatives of the plastics machinery industry and all other stakeholders in the sector have their say through weekly interviews.

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