PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2017

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 04/17 www.petpla.net 51 industrial waste can be quickly and efficiently reprocessed in one process- ing step to a high quality polymer melt which can be directly processed to a finished product. With the MRS Extruder, Gneuss has developed an extruder specifically designed not only with the material PET in mind, but with the reprocess- ing of PET. Thereby Gneuss offers a processing unit which enables PET to be extruded without any pre-drying or crystallisation. This applies both to the processing of both virgin and post- consumer bottle flake with a residual moisture level of 1% and in some cases more. The extruder will easily handle PET / PE scrap (laminated sheet) and mix- tures of PET and PETG. Thanks to the high polymer surface exchange rate under vacuum in the MRS section, a vacuum level of only 25 bar is required in order to achieve 100% moisture extraction. Another effect of the high polymer surface area exchange rate under vacuum is the extraction of vola- tile contaminants. The system achieves the require- ments of the FDA, EFSA and Invima without restrictions. PET sheet made on the MRS extruder is therefore suitable for food contact applications whatever input material is used and without any pre-treatment of the input material. The Gneuss Processing Unit includes also the unique Gneuss Rotary Melt Filtra- tion System for the efficient removal of solid contaminants with fine filter ele- ments even on post-consumer bottle flake. The Gneuss Online Viscometer ensures a consistent, defined IV value of the polymer thanks to the intelligent control system and is a useful tool for quality monitoring and control. Gneuss offers complete lines including the up- and downstream components from the material dosing system to the die, roller stack and to the winder, which are all tailored to the exact requirements of the individual customer. www.genuß.com W W W . I N T R A V I S . C O M LDPE, PET, HDPE, PE and PP bottle inspection L I V E A T B O O T H 5 . 1 J 1 1 SpotWatcher ® Bottle Inspection Today. Non-destructive layer inspection Label inspection at up to 50 objects per second OptoSonix ® LabelWatcher ® Gneuss Sheet-Line