FILM | INNOVATION
Right: A MAS-K system and CDF filter is in operation at Daly Plastics to recycle post-consumer film
companies won the Recycling Machinery Innovation Award at the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2020. Daly Plastics specialises in the recycling of
agricultural and packaging films from transport logistic sources. The company
between the KIDV and seven prominent organisa- tions in the Community of Practice Laminate Packaging Materials, which was
launched in 2019. The participants are Friesland- Campina, Intersnack, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Mars Wrigley, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever. These companies all face similar challenges when it comes to the recycling of laminates. Austrian extruder manufacturer MAS Maschinen und Anlagenbau Schulz and Caroda Polymer Recovery of The Netherlands – part of Daly Plastics – have collaborated in a project to improve the quality of LDPE film from recycled materials. The
processes around 35,000 tonnes per year. MAS has supplied four extrusion lines for Daly Plastics. Peter Daalder, son of the company’s founder, moved Daly Plastics into plastics collection in 1985 and began exporting bales for recycling to China in particular. In 2013, the company decided to recycle agricul- tural and industrial film materials itself and pur- chased the first MAS machine, and Caroda Polymer Recovery was formed. The film recycling project brings together specialist extruder technology from MAS with film recycling expertise from Caroda Polymer Recovery. “The technology is designed to minimise gels that
appear when blowing thin LDPE film from recycled material,” says Stefan Lehner, General Sales Manager at MAS. “Gels in foils arise either from contamination that is not sufficiently removed or from crosslinking of molecules. Crosslinking effects are created by a
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