Recycling

  • 09 November 2022

    Water control in washing plants

    At the Ecomondo fair, running in Rimini from 8 to 11 November, Sorema is showcasing its technologies for plastic waste recycling along with the water treatment plants by Teknodepurazioni Aquae, a company of the Previero group based in Rivarolo Canavese (near Turin), specifically developed for this use. Teknodepurazioni Aquae specializes in...
  • 26 October 2022

    Grinders for special productions

    Among the latest developments for rubber and plastics grinding applications, Previero presented at K 2022 the new MU 500 M range of grinders for special productions. For seventy years, the grinders of the M series have represented one of the best products of the company in terms of sturdiness, reliability, cutting efficiency and easy maintenance...
  • 12 October 2022

    Stirrer unit for high-capacity recycling

    Installed in hot washing modules, the STR stirrer units improve the chemical washing performance thanks to their mechanical action and guarantee an optimal separation of contaminants such as glue and organic materials while minimising the consumption of energy, chemicals and water...
  • 14 September 2022

    At K, Icma recycling and compounding technologies turn green and orange

    Green and orange, the corporate colours of Icma San Giorgio, will identify the solutions that the company will be exhibiting at K 2022 for recycling and compounding, respectively. In the green space Icma will unveil the innovative One-Step upcycling line for flexible packaging in its latest patented version where...
  • 29 June 2022

    CMG took part at PRS Europe 2022

    On June 22 and 23, 2022, CMG Granulators took part at Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2022 in Amsterdam, an event for plastics recycling. On this occasion, the manufacturer from Budrio (Bologna) presented the new Evoluzione series, in particular the EV916 and EV616 models, solutions suitable for the most critical operating conditions...
  • 01 June 2022

    Previero-Sorema plant for the Mexican bottle-to-bottle

    A turnkey plant manufactured by Previero-Sorema was recently delivered to the Mexican recycler Envases Universales México in order to increase its production capacity of rPET flakes for food use. This plant produces up to 9,000 kg per hour of washed and reground PET flakes obtained from the...
  • 11 May 2022

    Starlinger recycling technology for Australia largest PET recycling plant

    The recently opened Circular Plastics Australia PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, is equipped with a recoStar PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line from Starlinger that produces 2.5 tons of rPET per hour. Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is a joint venture partnership between...
  • 27 April 2022

    CMG brings the efficiency in recycling at Greenplast

    CMG will exhibit its most recent innovations for the recycling at the Greenplast 2022 exhibition-conference, scheduled at Fiera Milano from May 3 to 6, where its general manager, Giorgio Santella, will also take part at Tech Talks on May 4, organized as part of the Packaging Speaks Green conference, which...
  • 20 April 2022

    Piovan Group brings recycling and circular economy solutions to Greenplast

    From May 3 to 6, 2022, Greenplast, the first edition of the fair dedicated to environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and circular economy in plastics and rubber industry, will take place at Fiera Milano in Milan. Piovan Group, with its brands Piovan and Energys, will be there to present its complete range of innovative systems for...
  • 30 March 2022

    The largest plastic recycling plant in the UK is made by Amut

    In 2020 Amut was selected by UK-based Viridor as the supplier of a new-generation polymer recycling facility. Viridor is actively committed to increasing recycling and achieving net zero emissions. The new UK’s largest multi-polymer plastic recycling plant in Avonmouth, reflects the company’s continuous drive to build a...
  • 23 March 2022

    Doors open to recycling at Plasmac

    Joint venture between the Italian Syncro and the Austrian Erema, Plasmac manufactures machinery and equipment for the recovery of industrial plastic waste. The company is opening its doors to recycling technology at its headquarters in Busto Arsizio (Varese, Italy) from March 22 to 24...
  • 16 February 2022

    Deodorizing recycled granules

    “Recycled plastic is not waste for your nose” reads the corporate slogan of Main Tech. The company recently added a new system to its product portfolio for the deodorisation of materials leaving the dies of post-consumer plastics recycling lines. The new device (patent pending) not only reduces odours, but also...
  • 09 February 2022

    Turning polyurethane waste into useful products

    Based on a chemical and mechanical process, with zero pollution impact, Repur is a technology to transform powders deriving from the processing of polyurethane, chipboard MDF and other recycled materials into a workable material with remarkable properties. Thanks to customized formulations of binders...
  • 26 January 2022

    Australian largest PE and PP recycling plant chooses Amut

    The Ecotech division of Amut has been awarded a contract to design and manufacture a plant destined to the largest Australian centre for post-consumer plastics recycling. The turnkey project includes two washing lines and a post-consumer polyethylene and polypropylene recovery facility within the framework of the...
  • 19 January 2022

    Shredder for household waste and mixed plastics

    The Polish company FBSerwis needed a reliable shredder to crush municipal solid waste with particle sizes greater than 80 mm and process mixtures of plastics. Vecoplan replaced an old machine in the company’s existing line with an energy-efficient VVZ 2500 pre-shredder, which is designed for a throughput of roughly 42 tonnes per hour...
  • 15 December 2021

    From post-consumer PET bottles directly to rPET food packaging

    Recently, the strategic partnership between Amut and Erema has led to the installation and commissioning at the Alto Plastic Packaging site in Albany, New Zealand, of an extrusion line to process 100% washed post-consumer flakes into food-grade PET sheets. This is the first line ever installed in New Zealand for this special application...
  • 24 November 2021

    Efficient and clean grinding in blow moulding

    Many are the innovative and unique attributes of the new series of grinding system solutions by CMG Granulators for application with blow molding machines, and all of them contribute to obtaining the highest degree of productivity, regrind quality (homogeneous particle dimensions and absence of dust), efficiency of operation...
  • 17 November 2021

    The flexibility in granulation on display

    At ArabPlast 2021 (Dubai, November 15-18) CMG Granulators proposes the new G17 range of granulators for the use beside the machines. They feature innovative characteristics that allow to obtain high productivity, regrind quality (dimensional homogeneity of the particles and absence of dust), operating...
  • 20 October 2021

    Two new granulators exhibited by CMG at two trade fairs in a few days

    At Plastics Recycling Technology 2021 (Vienna, October 20-21) and Ecomondo 2021 (Rimini, Italy, October 26-29), CMG Granulators will be exhibiting the EV916 and EV616 granulator models from the new Evoluzione range. These solutions are suitable for the most critical operating conditions, for wet or...
  • 29 September 2021

    Tomra celebrates opening a new flake sorting Test Center in Italy

    On September 22, 2021, Tomra Recycling officially opened its new flake sorting Test Center in Italy, where the company will develop new applications and solutions in the fields of PO and PET flake sorting while simultaneously expanding its service offering. Under the theme of “Testing is believing”...