ELECTRONIC AND AUTOMOTIVE | INNOVATION
Sysplast has started another
project together with the Chair of Plastics Technology at the Univer- sity of Erlangen, involving the recycling of painted, spray-coated and laminated car bumpers. The first tests have been completed successfully. Dobberke is looking to
expand Sysplast’s activities and ramp up its development projects to an industrial scale. He says: “By the end of the decade, we want to achieve a fivefold increase in our current output of around 10,000 tpa and thus bring Sysplast into the top group of recyclers in this material group in the German- speaking region. A second new system will increase capacity by 17,000 tpa by the end of 2022. The upgrade of a decommissioned system will contribute an additional 1,500 tpa. Here too, Ettlinger melt filters will once again form part of the system.” Recent projects and collaborations in automo- tive show that momentum is gathering among important companies in the sector. Major injection moulder and Tier One supplier Faurecia has signed a Cooperation and Research Agreement with waste management and recycling group Veolia to jointly develop compounds for automo- tive interior modules produced in Europe, aiming to achieve an average of 30% of recycled content by 2025. Target applications include instrument panels, door panels and centre consoles. Faurecia created a cross-company sustainable
materials division in 2021 to develop and manufac- ture new materials. The division aims to offer a complete low-CO2 cockpit and even CO2 negative materials, in order to support customers’ sustainabil- ity objectives. Veolia has been supplying recycled PP com- pounds to the automotive industry in France for more than five years. This collaboration project with Faurecia will allow it to expand its automotive product range to vehicle interiors. Veolia aims to start production of the recycled compounds at its existing recycling sites in France starting from 2023. Major materials producer BASF has revealed how it is helping a Veolia-related company in recycled automotive plastics. BASF has signed a cooperation agreement with Zhejiang REEF Technology to develop recycled compounds for applications used in the automotive sector, plus the packaging and consumer industries. The group is supplying its new IrgaCycle additives to REEF, which is a subsidiary of the Veolia Huafei Polymer
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Left: BASF says its IrgaCycle additives improve the processing and long-term stability of
recycled plastics strongly contaminated with paint, ink or adhesive residues, for example in exterior automotive part, such as bumpers
Technology joint venture in China. REEF’s core products
include recycled PP, HDPE, ABS and PA. The IrgaCycle additives from
BASF are used to improve the
processing and long-term stability of recycled plastics strongly contaminated with paint, ink or adhesive residues, for example in exterior automo- tive part, such as bumpers. Spanish research group Aimplas is a partner in a number of sustainable plastics programmes, including the LIFE CIRC-ELV Project. A new recovery process has been successfully implemented by Valencia-based Desguace Cortés, and involves separating the PP bumpers and PE fuel tanks of end-of-life vehicles, which are then recycled for reintroduction in the production cycle. Two recycled demo samples were developed in the project: one is a closed loop example of wheel liners produced by the Aragon firm SIGIT; and the other is an open loop example, in which pipes and pipe fittings were manufactured at a production plant in Portugal, near project partner ISOLAGO. The role of Aimplas in the project involved optimising the pre-treatment of bumpers and fuel tanks during recycling.
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