Success Story of PET Recycling (Part 2)

This is the first project in Austria to allow the use of recycled materials that have direct contact with food. In order to be approved, Erema had to work closely and frequently with the relevant Austrian government authorities. This application is the best example of a 100% PET bottle, debris, up to 100% egg package, and it looks to the future.

Also a little bit?

Erema has a good relationship with Switzerland's ITW recycling company and its management team. They received the first two-step VACUREMA device manufactured by Erema with a vacuum crystallizer dryer. The company's general manager, Casper van den Dungen, said that relying on the VACUREMA system can increase the intrinsic viscosity of recycled materials by 4 points. At the same time he is also the president of the European Plastics Recyclers Association and is also the spokesperson for the industry.

Bigger!

In the bottle-bottle recycling field, Erema can also say a lot of the latest significant successes. For example, Germany's Texplast recently ordered another VACUREMA device. According to Texplast management personnel, their first VACUREMA system was smoothly operated after a large number of careful adjustments, and the output of the first VACUREMA bottle-bottle recycling line was fully tapped.

The colloidal particles produced by the company are almost exclusively used to produce PET bottles. It took about two years ago with the help of Erema to take the first steps toward re-pelletizing. Before, they only sold chips.

Flexibility is supported
Snellcore is a typical VACUREMA user. The company, located in the Netherlands, produces film materials and thermoformed parts, starting with the purchase of VACUREMA flat film production equipment. After celebrating the successful start-up of the first production equipment in 2002, a contract for the second VACUREMA flat film production line was signed at the end of 2003. The second VACUREMA production line was successfully launched in the summer of 2004. Both production lines have been added to a variety of hybrid materials, from used bottle fragments and proprietary scraps, to film leftovers, start-up waste from bottle production lines, and pure rubber pellets. This solution enables the most economical input of raw materials to be selected and precisely meets the quality requirements of each end product.

Grow with global customers
VACUREMA users are not limited to Europe. The number of VACUREMA users in Asia (including Japan), North America, and South America continues to grow. One of the many examples is the Plasticos Ecoplast company in Venezuela. This medium-sized plastic recycling company handles 9,000 tons of plastic waste each year. Their initial development was due to the recycling of PE, PS, PP, and PET (crushed material). When they purchased VACUREMA's PET flat film equipment, they decided to produce PET thermoformed sheets in 2002. So since 2003, in addition to re-granulation, they have been able to provide PET thermoformed film semi-finished products to their markets (mainly local customers). The semi-finished materials, not only the production of rubber pellets, brought high value products and greater financial leeway for the company when competing with local counterparts.

According to Luis Roberto Rosa, CEO of Plasticos Ecoplast, they first met Erema at the international exhibition and they were looking for the VACUREMA technology that they showed at the Erema stand. “Erema's PET technology is a fascinating and advanced technology, and Erema sells at a reasonable price. You really have value with your own money,” said Luis Roberto Rosa's praise for his latest investment. Customers are often impressed with the technology's industry-leading flexibility and cost-effective operation. The user can no longer use the external pre-drying and lay down the traditional process of expensive and high-strength maintenance.

Source: International Plastics Business