NEWS Erema targets melt filter business
Erema, the Austrian manufacturer of plastics recycling systems, has set up a new business unit to sell its proprietary melt filtration technology. The Powerfil unit will sell Erema’s SW RTF partial surface backflush filter system and Laserfilter continuous filter technology as individual components for installa- tion on third party extrusion equipment. Robert Obermayr, head of the
Powerfil business unit, said the company has manufactured and supplied filters as part of its recycling systems business for many years, but added that recyclers do not necessarily think to contact Erema specifically for such equipment. “There is a good market for stan- dalone filtration units,” Obermayr said. “So Erema decided to form a filtration business unit, with a team to provide support and a point of contact for customers.”
Obermayr said Erema sees good growth potential in the filter market,
Asahi Kasei invests in China
Japan’s Asahi Kasei is to build a new compounding plant on the Advanced Materials Industrial Park at Changsu in China’s Jiangsu province. The new plant will make the company’s Thermylene PP and Leona PA 66 compounds and will have a capacity of 28,000 tonnes/year. It will be targeting the local auto- motive industry when it starts up in early 2020. Asahi Kasei already has
operations in Japan, China, Thailand, Singapore, Mexico and the US. �
www.asahi-kasei.co.jp
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better filtration technology such as the company’s Laserfilter, which uses a patented scraper technology to maintain high throughput and melt quality. The new business unit will debut at
the Fakuma fair in Germany next month, where the company will also unveil some technical improvements. These include rheological optimisation of the support breaker plate, enabling a reduction of flow resistance. Addressing the needs of PET
Robert Obermayr heads up Erema’s new Powerfil filter division
where it can supply to recyclers using extruders from other companies as well as to its own customers. He said growing recycling volumes and the need to process more contaminated materials means recyclers will need
recyclers, Erema says: “The Laserfilter processes input material with a degree of contamination of over 1% without any difficulty. The functional principle avoids dead spaces and makes for short dwell times which in turn prevents ‘black spots’ with PET. Thanks to the newly developed discharge unit, melt losses are reduced from the normal 1 to 2% with piston filters down to a tenth.” �
www.erema.com
Pyrolyx to recover carbon black
Germany’s Zeppelin Group has broken ground on a new plant at Terre Haute, Indiana, US, for long term partner Pyrolyx to recycle up to 12,900 tonnes/year of carbon black from used car tyres. The plant will take in around 4m used
tyres/year that would otherwise have gone to landfill or incineration, saving about 2.5
tonnes of CO2 per tonne of recycled carbon
black. The process, which was developed by
Zeppelin and Pyrolyx, uses pyrolysis to decompose shredded tyres to raw materials. Aside from the carbon black, these also include steel, oil and pyrolysis gas. �
www.zeppelin.com
Buss expands testing in US
Buss, a specialist in kneaders for compound- ing, has installed a working laboratory com- plete with a Buss MX 30 compact laboratory- scale compounding line at its site at Carol Stream, Illinois, US. The lab is intended for R&D, process
optimisation and customer sampling work, particularly for highly filled and heat or shear-sensitive compounds. The facility also includes fully functional QA testing equipment to analyse trial results. �
www.busscorp.com
COMPOUNDING WORLD | September 2017
The MX30
lab extruder will be used for customer sampling
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PHOTO: EREMA
PHOTO: BUSS
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