Plastics and Rubber Recycling - Market Focus: April 18, 2024

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PLASTICS AND RUBBER RECYCLING – Market Focus

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Keson’s Waste Tire Disposal Solutions Help Customers Do Something with Growing Piles of Waste Tires and Realize Improved Profitability

According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) Tyre Industry Project (TIP), the world is projected to generate approximately one billion waste tires each year.

This development demands an increased focus on how to include waste tires in the circular economy to avoid illegal burning and landfills all over the world.

Keson has made the disposal and reuse of waste tires one of its main businesses since its inception and has experienced sustained interest in its solutions from customers around the world.

PT Amandina Bumi Nusantara: Recycled PET for Coca-Cola’s first 100 % rPET Bottles in Indonesia

The Indonesian plastics recycler produces the rPET for Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite and Sprite Waterlymon bottles on two recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling systems from Starlinger.

In June 2023, Coca-Cola Indonesia, in partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Indonesia (CCEP Indonesia), launched the first bottles made from 100 % rPET (excluding bottle caps and labels) for its most popular soft drink brands. The recycled PET is supplied by one of Indonesia’s recycling pioneers, Amandina Bumi Nusantara.

CASE STUDIES

Pellenc ST to Supply Brand-New Sorting Technology to Plastics Reprocessor Jayplas

Plastics reprocessor Jayplas are investing £45m in a new facility in Swansea, this will double the plastic reprocessing capacity in Wales. This advanced recycling plant will be capable of processing at least 100,000 tons of flexible and rigid plastics a year.

The choice of equipment suppliers was driven by a constant concern to add maximum value to the recyclable materials. Jayplas will equip this market-leading facility with the latest state-of-the-art technology.

TOMRA Achieves Worldwide Industry First with Groundbreaking Food-Grade Plastics Sorting Solution

Leading global sorting solutions provider, TOMRA Recycling, has announced the launch of three revolutionary applications to separate food-grade from non-food-grade plastics for PET, PP and HDPE. The breakthrough was made possible by the company's intensive research and development in deep learning, a subset of AI.

Thanks to TOMRA’s continued investment in GAIN –the company’s deep learning-based sorting add-on for its world-renowned AUTOSORT™ units – it is now possible for the first time to quickly and efficiently separate food-grade from non-food-grade plastics for PET, PP and HDPE on a large scale.

Pioneering Technologies for Plastics Compounding and Recycling

At this year’s Chinaplas (23-26 April 2024, National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), Hongqiao, Shanghai, PR China) Coperion will present key technologies for processing plastics at Booth F 106 in Hall 2.1. The centerpiece of the exhibits will be the STS 75 Mc PLUS twin screw extruder with its increased specific torque of 13.6 Nm/cm³ which allows the STS extruder to achieve up to 20% more throughput with markedly higher product quality. | Read more »

Virginijus Counts on Lindner’s Shredding and Washing Expertise For Big Bag Recycling

Since 2001, the Lithuanian recycling company Virginijus ir Ko in Plunge has been collecting, sorting and processing recyclable materials from trade, commerce and agriculture. In 2023, the innovative company commissioned a Lindner Washtech facility to turn big bags into high-quality pellets that can then be reprocessed back into big bags as part of the circular economy. | Read more »

Fornnax Expands Primary Shredder Series With SR-200 HD

Fornnax, a global pioneer in recycling machinery, is pleased to introduce the SR-200 HD Dual-Shaft Primary Shredder, a groundbreaking invention. The prestigious India Rubber Expo (IRE) at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai debuted on March 20, 2024. The SR-200 HD marks a significant leap in recycling technology, demonstrating Fornnax’s dedication to engineering excellence and sustainability. | Read more »

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EXPERTS

REDWAVE

As a leading manufacturer of its own sensor-based sorting machines, REDWAVE offers sorting solutions in robust industrial design that ensure the highest performance and best recovery of recyclables. | Read more »

Jiangsu Keson Environment Technology Co., Ltd.

An Integrated Service Provider of Comprehensive Solutions for Low-carbon and Recovery of Solid Waste. | Read more »

CM Shredders

Fueling technology and innovation for today and beyond, CM Shredders has long been at the forefront of game-changing innovations. | Read more »

Starlinger & Co GmbH

Starlinger leads the world market in production machinery for sacks, packaging fabrics, and technical textiles woven from plastic tapes. The company has been in this business for 50 years and also looks back at more than 30 years’ development and production experience in recycling machinery for plastics. | Read more »

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