PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2015

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 13 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 10/15 www.petpla.net MATERIAL / RECYCLING 13 Every day, people come into contact with Bühler technologies to cover their basic needs for foods, mobility, or communica- tion. With industrial process technologies and solutions, Bühler contributes feeding the world’s population, setting the focus on food security and safety. Bühler flour mills process around 65% of the wheat harvested worldwide into flour. Its contribution to pro- cessing rice and producing pasta, chocolate, or breakfast cereals is similarly important. Moreover, Bühler is a leading solution pro- vider of die casting, wet grinding, and surface coating technologies, with an emphasis on automotive, optics, electronics, printing & packaging inks, and glass applications. The solutions provided to these industries are known for high energy efficiency and sustain- able mobility. Bühler invests up to 5% of its sales in research and development. In 2014, around 10,600 employees at some 140 sites generated a turnover of CHF 2.3 billion. The family-owned company is proud of its Swiss roots and feels particularly committed to sus- tainability. Save RAW MATERIALS reduced plastic volumes Save ENERGY less energy consumption Save TROUBLE more quality and higher performance, guaranteed by a sole supplier Full INSPECTED online quality control / stand alone With Sacmi, the beverage specialists are always at your side. With our unbeatable technological know-how and continuous research we are creating new containers and closures designed to ensure outstanding performance. The new IPS injection system for preforms, the CCM compression press for caps and the quality control systems fully designed and built by Sacmi, allows for large-scale production with considerable advantages in terms of efficiency and flexibility. The outcome? Reduced plastic volumes, less energy consumption and lower running costs.All in a bottle: the one you’ll soon be making. Preform & Closure technologically together Save RAW MATERIALS VITEFF, 13/16.10.15 - Epernay FRANCE SCANPACK, 20/23.10.15 - B02:09 - Goteborg SWEDEN GULFOOD, 27/29.10.15 - Z-B82 - Dubai UAE SIMEI, 3/6.11.15- Hall 15 E11/13 - Milan ITALY CBST, 4/6.11.15 - 1D02 - Shanghai CHINA BRAU BEVIALE, 10/12.11.15 - 7A-7A523 - Nürnberg GERMANY PLASTIC & RUBBER, 18/21.11.15 - B451 - Jakarta INDONESIA MAFEX, 9/11.12.15 - Casablanca MAROC Dungen, Managing Director of Poly Recycling GmbH and Vice President of Plastics Recy- clers Europe (PRE), said: “Since the installa- tion, there have been no issues with our Bühler optical sorting line. The equipment has been running 24 hours a day and seven days a week with no breakdowns. We’ve not only been able to improve the quality of our plastic flakes but have reduced the wastage of good product during pro- cessing, resulting in a return on our investment in just six months.” Bernhard Gabauer, Segment Develop- ment Manager for Plastics at Bühler, said: “The partnership with Poly Recycling demonstrates Bühler’s commitment to develop state of the art, innovative optical sorting solutions for the plas- tics industry and is an acknowledgement of our global capabilities to supply complete process engineering solutions, driven by industry research and technical excellence. By choosing Bühler for its fully integrated optical sorting solution, Poly Recycling is well positioned to further expand its industrial processing of rPET beverage contain- ers to high-quality Poly rPET flakes. Since the installation, we’ve been working closely with a number of leading plastic processors across Europe to install our optical sorting station and look forward to extending our solutions further to the wider plastics recycling sector.” The crea- tion of the fully integrated optical sorting station marks an important step for the Bühler team, as it extends its reach to plastics processors, looking to achieve greater recycling rates. www.buhlergroup.com