Thanks to the combination of its Intarema TVEplus RegrindPro machine with the ReFresher, Erema has enabled the PCR-HDPE produced with it to be used in proportions of up to 100 percent for the production of packaging for direct contact with food and beverages.

In the Erema Customer Centre, test runs using an industrial class extruder-ReFresher combination can also be carried out from April onwards. Michael Heitzinger, Clemens Kitzberger and Thomas Hofstätter very much hope that more customer visits will be possible soon.

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Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

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Kunststoffverarbeitungsmaschinen

Strong Demand for Recycling Systems Featuring Erema ReFresher Technology

Coperion is supplying an extrusion system to Ghent University in Belgium for comprehensive research and development tasks in chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste. The system will also be available to Coperion´s customers for testing.

Due to its intensive dispersion and devolatilization output, Coperion’s ZSK twin screw extruder is extremely well suited for energy-efficient chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste

Coperion Supplies Twin Screw Extruder to Ghent University

Pure Loop, an Erema Group company, will present its Isec evo series at Fakuma. This shredder-extruder combination is rapidly becoming established as an efficient recycling solution in injection molding production thanks to its high flexibility in processing different materials, simple operation and low maintenance requirements.

The Isec evo shredder-extruder combination is considered an efficient material all-rounder

Messe Fakuma

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A Shredder-Extruder Combination as a Recycling Solution in Injection Molding Production

Both the quantity of recycled plastics waste and of processed recyclates is continually increasing. However, there are still difficulties with the quality of the recycled plastics, which are impeding replacement of virgin material. In recent years, machinery manufacturers and plastics producers have introduced various further developments that improve the properties of recyclates as well as eliminate unpleasant odors and contaminants.

Plastics recycling is a laborious process. For the recycled material to have the necessary quality, it must first be sorted into the different plastics

Overcoming Difficulties in Plastics Recycling

Streifinger, Florian

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The Long Road to a Circular Economy

Dow, HP, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking and Karlville present a feasibility study for recycling digitally printed polyethylene barrier packaging into new high-quality PE bags.

Key industry players combine forces to recycle PE-based barrier pouch into new high-quality PE pouch suitable for repeat recycling

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Important Step towards Pouch-to-Pouch Recycling

Erema enters a new dimension with large-scale recycling plants. Up to 40,000 tonnes per year of rPET can now be produced. The first plant of this size has been shipped to Brazil.

The reactor of the Vacurema T large-scale plant almost reaches the roof of the new Erema production hall, which was commissioned in 2021.

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XXL Recycling Plant for Brazil

The growing demand for plastic recycling directly reflects the machine sales for Polystar. By the end of April 2022, a total of over 110 recycling machines will have been shipped within 12 months – twice as many compared to last year.

The new factory in Sinji industrial park is the third Polystar manufacturing facility in Taiwan.

Sales Doubled for Polystar in 2021

Conventional PET recycling lines are based on single-screw extruders with maximum output rates of two and a half tons per hour. Since 2004, KraussMaffei has been researching a process to significantly increase these quantities with the help of glycol and the use of a twin-screw extruder. Given the current high demand for rPET materials, this technology is becoming increasingly important.

Glycolic Depolymerization versus Mechanical Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling

Glycol Turns the Extruder into a Turbo

Repeats (Recycled PE at Scale) Group, a pan-European platform for LDPE recycling, made an investment in the Spanish recycling company Anviplas.

Aleix Vintró, CEO Anviplas, and Joan Vintró at the Navacles plant. An Intarema 1716 TVEplus from Erema is in operation there. 

Anviplas Becomes Part of the Repeats Group

Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, announced that it has filed its first application for EU authorisation of mechanically recycled polystyrene (rPS) as food contact material.

Polystyrol

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Dienstleistungen

Lohnfertigung

Recycled Polystyrene as Food Contact Material

Ceflex and partners PCEP, Petcore Europe, Styrenics Circular Solutions and MORE Recycling team up to understand the reality of today’s collected household packaging waste.

The study aims to understand the reality of today’s collected household packaging waste, in order to help to define and accelerate the development of infrastructure, systems and end market applications required to enable progress in delivering a circular economy.

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Elektronik

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Study of Plastic Packaging Waste Helps to Deliver a Circular Economy

Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and VinylPlus have mutually agreed to join forces to form the organisation PolyREC. PolyREC will monitor, verify, and report their plastics recycling and uptake data in Europe.

PolyREC Created to Monitor Polymers Circularity

From April 13 – 16, 2021 Hanser launches international virtual trade fair D-Expo Circular Economy for professionals with a focus on sustainability, recycling, eco-design, life-cycle, and more.

D-EXPO Circular Economy will take place as a digital event from April 13 to 16, 2021

Nachhaltigkeit

Regenerieren

Kunststoff-Regenerate

Digital Trade Fair for Plastics Sustainability

Virtual MeetingPack 2021, a prelude to MeetingPack 2022, will present innovations and address the challenges of the food packaging sector on 27 May through a series of presentations and round-table discussions.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Biokunststoffe

Packaging Sustainability and Incorporation of Recycled Material

For a long time, chemical recycling was considered an unfinished addition to established material processes. In the meantime, however, some technologies are making the leap into large-scale industrial use: an overview of the various processes and providers.

Overview of the Various Processes and Suppliers

Polypropylen

Polyurethan

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Bauwesen

Baustoffe

What Is Happening in Chemical Recycling?

High Demand of Plastic Recycling Machines

The growing demand for plastic recycling directly reflects the machine sales for Polystar. By the end of  April 2022, a total of over 110 recycling machines will have been shipped within 12 months – twice as many compared to last year.

New regulations in many countries now require producers to use a higher percentage of recycled content in flexible and rigid packaging products. Instability of raw material prices and supplies also forces plastic producers to better recycle their own production waste. Therefore, plastic recycling machines are getting bigger. Recyclers are now buying larger-capacity machines and more machines. The 800 to 1000 kg/hour pelletizing extruder has become a standard for post-consumer and even some post-industrial recyclers. A Japanese post-consumer recycling company just placed an order of four of these machines from Polystar in December 2021. In the same month, several recyclers in Australia, Colombia, Mexico, Russia and the US have also repeated their orders with multiple higher-capacity machines to be able to comply with the increasing recycling demand of washed PE film and bottle waste.

Post-Industrial Recycling –  Higher Quality Requirement

Reusability of the recycled pellets has become more important than ever for plastic producers who recycle and reprocess their in-house waste. Packaging film and woven bag producers now require higher quality recycling in order to reduce production cost as much as possible. In India, the requirement of more advanced recycling machines is rising, especially for PP raffia, woven bags and FIBC producers who need to process their internal waste. 75 Repro-One recycling machines have been installed in this sector alone in India. The Repro-One recycling technology is a combination of shredder, extruder and pelletizer into one machine. This one-step, powerful (shredder) yet gentle (low processing temperature) process produces the best possible pellets quality at the lowest operation cost, enabling the producers to reuse all of the pellets back in PP tape extrusion lines.

The packaging film sector (stretch film, CPP film, etc.) and plastic bag producers are required to use a much higher percentage of recycled pellets in the end products. For better quality control and to maximize the reusability back into the film extrusion lines, more producers have decided to recycle all the production waste internally instead of outsourcing it. Recent installations of the Repro-Flex recycling machines (a cutter-compactor integrated model designed for recycling film waste) in Denmark, Italy and Switzerland are equipped with smart features to minimize energy consumption and labor intervention.

Polystar Machinery Co. Ltd.  

https://www.polystarco.com

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 The HNT series of stretch film recycling machines are on the market in many different specifications.

LDPE film recycling machine for postindustrial waste are on demand all over the world.

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