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Sacmi to start recycling HDPE for caps customers
Italy-based Sacmi is a highly special- ised company in continuous compres- sion moulding (CCM) technology for cap production. Yet it has decided to enter plastics recycling and is re-pur- posing a building near Bologna so it can recycle HDPE. The company’s reasoning was
explained at K2025 by Iacopo Biancon- cini, Business Development Manager in Sacmi’s Rigid Packaging Division. Its decision to become a recycler stems from the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Recycled content in packaging mandated in PPWR affects caps as well as bottles and containers. Adding rHDPE during production will be difficult for caps producers, he said, so Sacmi is taking on that responsibility.
The Sacmi Purecap project aims to
provide an effective response to European and international regulatory developments. It will focus on just the European market initially. The company has installed a
Starlinger recycling line, targeting production of 50 tonnes/month in 2026, with a production goal of 400 tonnes/month by 2027. It has applied for EFSA food contact approval which it is hoping to receive in early 2026, said Bianconcini.
Sacmi has carried out testing and
trial production with its CCM machines, including high output of 100% rHDPE caps. Migration testing showed safe food contact use. Stress cracking tests showed compliance, said Bianconcini,
who added that cap moulds do not need to be modified as there is no difference in shrinkage. The company will receive its raw
material supply from PET bottle recyclers. Sorting will enable separa- tion of PP contamination from HDPE and fractionation by colour family. Selling its rHDPE product to caps
producers, Sacmi will provide a “receipt” for the recycled content. On its K2025 stand, Sacmi showed the new CCM64MD compression moulding press, its fastest machine producing up to 2,850 capsules per minute with 64 moulds, and able to process input resin mixtures containing recycled HDPE. �
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