Erema reports demand for plastic film recycling systems
Erema reports demand for plastic film recycling systems
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Ansfelden, Germany-based equipment maker Erema has reported a 100 percent sales increase in its most recent fiscal year for its Intarema K automatic processing and recycling system for plastic film edge trim.
The company indicates that by the end of March 2018, more than 40 of the Intarema processing systems will have been shipped in the previous 12 months – twice as many compared to the previous financial year.
According to Erema Business Development Manager Andreas Dirnberger, the fact that customers are concentrating more on the recycling of clean edge trim can be explained largely by the increasing demand for high-quality film products and the associated expansion of production capacities.
“The material alone accounts for around 80 percent of the manufacturing costs of flexible packaging,” says Dirnberger. “If you consider the usual edge trim figure of around 10 percent in blown film manufacturing, recycling is a must-have in terms of cost efficiency.”
The edge trim that accumulates in production can be transferred directly from the blown film plant – without pre-shredding – to make high-quality scrap material. According to Dirnberger, 100 percent of the scrap material can then be put back into the production process.
“Thanks to the Intarema K, the film manufacturer reduces both material and production costs considerably as a result,” states Dirnberger.
Manfred Goellner, head of process engineering at Hosokawa Alpine, one of the largest producers of blown film plants in the world, comments, “We expect a recycling system to work with absolute reliability and fully automatically. This is why we have a machine built by Erema in use in our in-house technical center, and also recommend that our customers count on the Intarema K.”
The Intarema K is available to OEM customers such as Hosokawa Alpine as part of standardized system packages, but there also is high demand for it among end customers, according to Erema. Coveris Flexibles Austria runs blow and cast extrusion lines, printing and finishing machines and 20 recycling systems from Erema in Kufstein, Austria.
“We have been using fully automatic edge trim processing systems from Erema for many years, not least because the payback period for the compact systems is very short,” says Ferdinand Mikesch, head of process, engineering and technology at Coveris.
The Intarema K can be used to recycle several types of clean plastic scrap, according to Erema, including PE (polyethylene) mono- or multi-layer films; PE films with PP (polypropylene), PA (polyamide), EVOH (ethylene vinyl alcohol) or EV (ethylene vinyl); and breathable films such as PE with calcium carbonate.
The Intarema K’s preconditioning unit has been designed to enable automatic adjustments to varying input quantities, according to Erema. In the event of brief material shortages, the system switches to standby mode for maximum energy efficiency, the firm indicates.
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Source: Recycling Today
Erema reports demand for plastic film recycling systems
<![CDATA[Ansfelden, Germany-based equipment maker Erema has reported a 100 percent sales increase in its most recent fiscal year for its Intarema K automatic processing and recycling system for plastic film edge trim. The company indicates that by the end of March 2018, more than 40 of the Intarema processing systems will have been shipped in the previous 12 months – twice as many compared to the previous financial year. According to Erema Business Development Manager Andreas Dirnberger, the fact that customers are concentrating more on the recycling of clean edge trim can be explained largely by the increasing demand for high-quality film products and the associated expansion of production capacities. “The material alone accounts for around 80 percent of the manufacturing costs of flexible packaging,” says Dirnberger. “If you consider the usual edge trim figure of around 10 percent in blown film manufacturing, recycling is a must-have in terms of cost efficiency.” The edge trim that accumulates in production can be transferred directly from the blown film plant – without pre-shredding – to make high-quality scrap material. According to Dirnberger, 100 percent of the scrap material can then be put back into the production process. “Thanks to the Intarema K, the…