Plastics and Rubber Recycling - Market Focus: September 14, 2023

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PLASTICS AND RUBBER RECYCLING – Market Focus

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Italian PET recycler launches new food-grade rPET brand REPETER

With two Starlinger recoSTAR PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines, Piedmont-based Dentis Recycling Italy S.r.l. expanded its product portfolio and now offers food-grade rPET pellets in addition to hot-washed PET bottle flakes.

In 2021, Italy’s biggest recycler of post-consumer PET bottles initiated a new project to extend its rPET production capacity and purchased two Starlinger recoSTAR PET 330 HC iV+ recycling systems.

TOMRA and Plastretur Sign Joint Venture to Create Norway’s First Dedicated Sorting Plant to Enable Circularity of Plastic Packaging

The global sustainable technology company TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian producer responsibility organization responsible for recycling plastic packaging.

The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. The 50M EUR (~600MNOK) joint venture will be split 65 percent TOMRA and 35 percent Plastretur.

Metal Separation from Plastic Flake

A UK plastic recycler has installed a Bunting Metal Separation Module to separate ferrous and non-ferrous metal from plastic flake. The Metal Separation Module features Vibratory Feeders, a Drum Magnet, and an Eddy Current Separator.

Bunting is one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of magnetic separators, eddy current separators, metal detectors and electrostatic separators. The Bunting European manufacturing facilities are in Redditch, just outside Birmingham, and Berkhamsted, both in the United Kingdom.

Smart Recycling of Polyurethane: the New Era of the Plastics Industry

Plastics store innovation in their DNA; therefore, it is no coincidence that both industry players and stakeholders are committed to improving their development, production and consumption practices. The results are promising: functional, environmental and energy improvements and a global market moving towards a circular economy. | Read more »

Packaging Manufacturer Polykar Expands Their Recycling Capacities in North America with EREMA Technology

Recycling plastics in a way that is both economically successful and makes ecological sense is something that was hardly imaginable for many just a few years ago. The recycling machine manufacturer EREMA in Austria – like the sustainable packaging manufacturer Polykar in Canada – became a pioneer in its field through its early entry into plastics recycling. | Read more »

The Biggest Tire Shredder For OTR

Tires are among the most difficult materials to treat: they are made of rubber – which is elastic by definition-, harmonic steel and synthetic fiber. Well-sharpened blades capable of cutting rather than tearing are therefore needed, combined with high structural rigidity. The Molinari project was born taking into consideration these characteristics, in order to tackle the tire shredder market. | Read more »

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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 »

STADLER® Anlagenbau GmbH

STADLER® Anlagenbau GmbH is dedicated to the planning, production and assembly of sorting systems and components for the waste disposal and recycling industry world-wide. | 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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