PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2015

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 12 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 09/15 www.petpla.net Shipping multi-purpose reactors Inspec t ion al l around. The Labe lWatcher 360. See i t l i ve at the Pack Expo, Las Vegas . W W W . I N T R A V I S . C O M V I S I T U S A T B O O T H S - 7 9 5 0 Vacurema MPR is easy to retrofil on existing PET extrusion sytem Erema is shipping three of the Multi-Purpose Reactors (MPR) at the beginning of summer 2015 to Latin America and Europe. Two MPR 1700s with a capacity of up to 1350kg/hr went to Latin America and Europe for the retrofitting of existing extrusion plants. Both customers already have an inline sheet system at their dis- posal which enables them to process washed post-consumer PET flakes directly to make 100% rPET flat sheet. Another MPR 2000 for throughputs of 1500-2000kg/hr as a stand-alone design for the production of decon- taminated flakes likewise went to a customer in Europe. MPR enables to produce end products which meet the requirements for direct food contact in accordance with categories A-H/J of the FDA and EFSA. A total of 165 Vacurema systems are in operation throughout the world. The Multi-Purpose Reactor MPR uses high vacuum and high tempera- ture for the effective decontamination, drying, dust removal and crystallisa- tion of a variety of PET input materi- als in a single step. With the patented MPR technology Erema counts on crystallisation dryers which have proven their merits time and time again as components of the Vacurema PET extrusion systems, achieving a pre-drying level of under 100ppm moisture. The IV can be increased slightly. As a stand-alone solution the Multi-Purpose Reactor can pro- duce food-contact grade and dust- free flakes – plus processing in high vacuum achieves better flake colour results, too. Washed PET bottle flakes, ground PET flat sheet waste and virgin PET material (plus mixtures of them) can all be used as input material. The bulk density of PET flakes and flat sheet waste can be increased by up to 80% at the same time, thus achieving con- stantly high throughput. It is also pos- sible to process input materials with fluctuating residual moisture and bulk density. Additionally, the machine han- dles a wide variety of polymer types such as G-PET, PET/PE, multilayer and even PLA. www.erema.at RECYCLING S P E C I A L