Tag: plastic scrap
Sorting machines for plastic foils and black plastics
| The Steinert Group’s new sorting machines Unisort Film and UNISORT BlackScan can detect Plastic films and black plastics with AOC and HSI technology.
Prototype for microwave-supported drying technology
| Within the Hiperdry project, a new prototype dryer for plastics pellets has been developed, combining microwave heating with superheated steam convective drying. An optimum antenna design will allow for gentle microwave application allows gentle microwave application to avoid overheating or damaging the polymer. The system is designed for time and energy efficient drying of conventional and bio-plastics.
Post-consumer scrap turns to high-quality extrudates
| APK has developed a technology capable of producing particularly high quality recycled regranulates from post-consumer film scrap originating from Germany's Dual System collection scheme (DSD). This scrap, known as fraction 310, consists of pieces of PE and PP film with a greater or lesser degree of contamination which is supplied to APK in bale form. The products leaving the elaborate cleaning, separation and recycling process are Mersalen LDPE Recompounds and also the particularly readily processable MDPE ReCompounds in pellet form.
Novel identification technology for differentiating post-consumer PET streams
| The Polymark Consortium has published its preliminary technical results outlining the successful development of food-contact approved chemical markers, a marking technique of the targeted packaging and a detection technology suitable for high speed sorting.
Dynamic Days at Starlinger recycling technology
| On September 8 and 9, 2015, Starlinger recycling technology hosted the “Dynamic Days” at the company’s technical center in Weissenbach, Austria. The event was organised to present the latest technological developments in plastics recycling following the recent launch of the recycling line Recostar dynamic, and to mark the relaunch the Recostar universal series.
Unifi selects Amut for PET bottles processing plant
| Unifi Inc. selects Amut SpA and Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) to provide the technology for a $25 million expansion that will increase its capacity to turn PET bottles into recycled fibers for apparel and automotive products. The investment is being made at Unifi’s facility in Reidsville, N.C.
