PLAST 2018 | EVENT REVIEW


Italy shows its recycling expertise at Plast show


At the triennial Plast exhibition, new plastics recycling technology was demonstrated by leading companies from Italy and other countries. Report by Peter Mapleston


Italy has been prominent in the plastics recycling sector for many years. Large amounts of post-use film are, for example, recycled in the country, and there are numerous Italian producers of recycling equipment. Many of them had their products on display at Plast 2018 in Rho, just outside Milan, from May 29 to June 1 – or at open house events close by. Amut and its Austrian partner Erema held an Open House in a new demonstration facility at Amut’s headquarters in Novara to present a new “bottle to packaging” process for reprocessing post-consumer PET flakes. This brings together Erema’s Vacurema system and an Amut sheet extrusion line in a single process that eliminates any need for pelletising to make food-contact grade thermoforming sheet. The sheet made in Novara


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was used to make thermoformed trays for the food sector on Amut-Comi equipment at the Plast show. “Energy savings, IV [intrinsic viscosity] preserva-


tion, lower logistics and process costs lead to higher profitability and are unbeatable arguments which are driving the trend towards direct food- grade PET processing,” said Amut President Piergianni Milani. The post-consumer PET material is already decontaminated and pre-dried prior to extrusion in the vacuum reactor of the Vacurema Basic, which has an output capacity of 1,000 kg/h. The unit incorpo- rates a newly developed PET Laserfilter, a version of an Erema filter used for many years for polyolefins, and which can process input material with a degree of contamination of over 1% (compared with no


Main image: Italy’s Plast 2018 show attracted a strong attendance with plenty of innovations on display


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