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Fakuma: Interseroh and Erema highlight recompounding


Recycling company In- terseroh has installed a Corema cascade recycling line at its plant in Eisenhüt- tenstadt, Germany, where it produces its Recythen and Procyclen PE and PE compounds. The Corema line, which started operating in September, combines an Erema single-screw recy- cling extruder with a Coperion twin-screw compounding extruder to produce compounds in a single step instead of two discontinuous stages. Interseroh and Erema


jointly presented the benefits of the system at the Fakuma exhibition in October. “With this innova- tive technology, which in its combination has been developed especially for the requirements of Interseroh, we are advancing to a new level in the field of plastics recycling,” said Manica Ulcnik-Krump, Director of


Interseroh has installed a Corema system from Erema


the Business Unit Recycled- Resource at Interseroh. The company is able to


make recycled compounds in a similar way to the compounding of new products, by dosing additives, modifying agents and inorganic fillers in shares of 0.25 to 40%. Quality control of the material rheology and colour stability takes place through online controls and Interseroh is also using Erema’s Re360 MES.


n At Fakuma, the VDMA machinery association held a Circular Economy press tour which included injection moulding machin- ery companies KraussMaffei, Arburg, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and Engel, plus equipment supplier Motan. Thorsten Kühmann, Managing Director of VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machin- ery, said machinery compa- nies can make an important contribution as mechanical engineers in the develop-


ment of the Circular Economy. Participating companies stressed the need for cooperation along the plastics value chain. Other issues were dis- cussed, including the requirement of processors for a reliable supply of recyclate of consistent quality, and the potential for digital technologies to manage variation in materi- als coming from the recycling sector. Paulo Glerean, from


Aliplast, Italy, spoke at the event as a representative of Plastics Recyclers Europe. “It is important to emphasise that efforts of all the value chain actors, including consumers, must be put on improving all of the different steps of plastics manufac- ture, usage phase and disposal,” he said. � www.interseroh.de � www.erema.com � http://kug.vdma.org


Tetra Pak and Veolia to recycle PolyAl mix


Beverage carton giant Tetra Pak has announced it is working with Veolia in a project that will enable all components of used beverage cartons collected in the EU to be recycled by 2025. An average beverage carton comprises around 75% paper- board, 20% plastic and 5% aluminium foil. The fibres are recovered during recycling and converted into paper pulp for use in both industrial and consumer products, but the recovered polymer and aluminium (PolyAl) mix has not previously


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been recycled in significant amounts. In the new partnership, the


recovered PolyAl material will be processed at dedicated facilities and converted into raw materials for applications within the plastic industry. The partners said they expect the overall value of used beverage cartons to double. Lisa Ryden, Recycling


Director, Tetra Pak said: “All materials from beverage cartons can be fully recycled into something new and useful. Our


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approach to recycling involves working with many partners along the value chain, because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.


The challenge in the EU is to achieve the economies of scale and turn PolyAl into high value secondary materials.” The Tetra Pak and Veolia


partnership will start in the EU and then will be expanded to other countries around the world. � www.tetrapak.com � www.veolia.com


www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com


PHOTO: TETRAPAK


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