SHOW PREVIEW | NPE 2018
Right: FIBCs made from 100% rPET bottle flakes will be on the Starlinger stand
Oliver Campbell, Dell Tech- nologies’ director of worldwide procurement and packaging, will give the opening keynote presentation, explaining how Dell developed a programme for the commercially scalable supply of plastics recovered from the ocean that can be used in product packaging. Sessions for plastics recyclers
include: Recycling Game Changer – Moving Beyond Mechanical Recycling – featuring John Layman of P&G and PureCycle Technologies, Joe Vaillancourt of Agilyx and researchers from Purdue University. Advances in Composite Recycling – featuring
Mark Janney of Carbon Conversions and Brian Pillay of University of Alabama at Birmingham. Under One Roof – Investing in Onsite Plastic
Reprocessing at MRFs – featuring Martin Baumann of Erema North America, Daniel Reshef of Canada Fibers and Jose Augusto Viveiro of Braskem. Additives for Upcycling – featuring Salvatore
Monte of Kenrich Petrochemicals, Prem Patel of Mil- liken and Timothy Dean of ExxonMobil. Another NPE2018 highlight in plastics recycling involves shredder technology group Weima and Commercial Plastics Recycling as official recycling partners for the whole show. CPR will have a team on site to collect and remove plastic scrap from the show floor and transport it to the Westwood parking lot. Weima will have a WLK 15 single-shaft shredder in operation there and will process the plastic material on the spot. Following pre-sorting, shredding and granulation, CPR will transport the granulate to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The North American business of Erema says it is
positive about the current context for plastics recycling in the USA due to several factors: the reduction of post-consumer plastics waste imports by China following its ban
from January, the growing circular economy movement and the ambitious targets of OEMs to increase the amount of recyclate in their products. “If I had to describe the current
situation of the plastics industry in the USA in just one word, ‘dynam- ic’ would probably be the most appropriate,” says Martin Baumann,
Vice President Sales of Erema North America. “Above all, China’s no longer being an international custom- er for post-consumer waste plastic is a dramatic development. But since, unlike waste plastic, high-quality recycled pellets can still be exported to China, this represents a potential opportunity for plastics recycling in the USA and Canada.” Erema North America has installed an Intarema TVEplus recycling line with Laserfilter at its Techni- cal Centre in Ipswich, MA for customer trials especially for the recycling of post-consumer materials with a high degree of contamination. This system is suited for reprocessing film waste with paper labels from commercial waste or washed film from kerbside waste to make film-grade pellets. The group will highlight the recycling of clean
production waste through a demonstration on its stand at NPE. An Intarema T 1108 line will be in action, processing clean LDPE production waste direct and without pre-shredding to make high- quality recyclates.
Baumann says: “Our sales in the recycling of
clean production waste are constantly growing. We put this down largely to the increasing demand for high-quality film products and the associated expansion of production capacities.” Erema’s new melt filter business unit called
Left: Clean LDPE film waste will be processed live on an Erema Intarema T 1108 at NPE
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Powerfil will be represented at NPE for the first time. The group will also show its new ReFresher anti-odour technology, says Mike Horrocks, CEO of Erema North America. Additionally, Erema will be providing details on the world’s first rPET Inline Preform system at its booth, jointly developed with blow moulding technology group Sipa of Italy. The system can make food-contact-compliant preforms from rPET flakes, in a continuous process. Erema says the benefits for bottle producers include energy savings, lower logistics and process costs and higher profitability. �
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