NEWS
Viridor MOU with Plastic
Energy Plastic Energy and Viridor have signed a Memoran- dum of Understanding and started feasibility work on a possible chemical recycling plant in the UK. The plant being studied would have up to 30,000 tpa throughput capacity and would treat contaminated plastics such as LDPE, HDPE, PP and PS. Waste management
group Viridor would provide predominantly LDPE film waste to a plant using Plastic Energy’s patented technology. The pyrolytic process produc- es a hydrocarbon product called Tacoil. In the project, the
recycling plant is expect- ed to be co-located with a Viridor energy recovery facility. �
https://plasticenergy.com �
www.viridor.co.uk
Alpla doubles capacity of Polish rPET plant
Plastics packaging group Alpla has expanded its PET recycling with an additional rPET line in Radomsko, Poland. Capacity at the plant, run by Alpla subsidi- ary PET Recycling Team, has increased from 15,000 to 30,000 tpa of bottle-to- bottle rPET. Georg Lässer, Head of
Recycling at Alpla, said the expansion in Poland is part of the group’s participation in the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, in which it has undertaken to invest a total of €50m. “We take this voluntary commit- ment seriously and have initiated several internation- al projects, such as the construction of a recycling plant in Thailand. We are also investing in the expansion and improve- ment of our existing recycling plants. We aim to process even more recycled
PET flakes recycled from bottles are produced at the Alpla plant in Radomsko
material for the bottle-to- bottle cycle and make the production processes at our recycling plants more sustainable by means of modernisation.” The post-consumer waste
material for the Radomsko plant is sourced from Poland and neighbouring countries. The new extrusion line was supplied by Starlinger. Hermann Adrigan from Starlinger said: “Alpla is a
long-standing and impor- tant partner for Starlinger. We are proud that we are able to contribute to the success of the Radomsko site by providing a further bottle-to-bottle PET recy- cling system.”
In addition to the
expansion of the plant, its energy supply has been switched fully to renewable energy. �
www.alpla.com
KM shows Edelweiss at German R&D centre
KraussMaffei is showcasing its Edelweiss technology for plastics recycling and recompounding at its R&D centre in Hanover, Germany. It said it is currently investing to extend its capacities for customer trials and its own testing activities. The new EdelweissCompounding line comprises two ZE
The KraussMaffei technology at its Hanover site 8 PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | May/June 2020
65 BluePower twin-screw extruders and is designed for a maximum output rate of 2,000 kg/h. It said that combining a single-screw and a twin-screw extruder for recycling and recompounding has been the normal industry practice, so the use of two twin-screw extruders is a novelty. Another new feature of the Edelweiss line is a cutter-com- pactor unit, which KraussMaffei has recently integrated into its portfolio. The line in the R&D centre is integrated into a turnkey module to highlight the benefits for the customer of easy installation and start-up. �
www.kraussmaffei.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
IMAGE: KRAUSSMAFFEI
IMAGE: ALPLA
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