PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2017

TRADE SHOW REVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 06/17 www.petpla.net 44 Plastics Recycling Show Europe, Amsterdam, NL 2017, part 2 Creating a sustainable recycling society by Heike Fischer The Plastics Recycling Show (PRS) featured a pan-European exhibition and conference sessions designed specifically for the plastics recycling industry. The event in Amsterdam held in March 2017 brought together key players from the plastics and recycling sectors to network and capitalise on the business opportunities plastic recycling offers. The two-day conference pro- gramme was divided into three parts: sessions focusing on materials, challenges for the plastics recy- cling industry and the plastic recy- cling process. The PET session was opened by Casper van den Dungen, Vice President and PET WG Chair- man at Plastics Recyclers Europe. Read about his presentation in PET- planet 5/2017. On the second day there were two focus topics during the conference: challenges for the recycling industry and the plastics recycling process. The first session was chaired by Clarissa Morawski, Managing Director of Reloop. Roger Bayham discussed the problematic image of plastic. Lucie Charbonel, Marketing Leader of DuPont Per- formance Materials, Recycling and Industrial Segments explained the DuPont view of using the difficult- to-recycling streams and their new series of Entira EP copolymers. These high performance compatibilis- ers, based on ethylene copolymers, are able to boost the performance of recycled polyolefins to a similar level as virgin resins. In the second ses- sion Jim Armstrong, Managing Director of Kermadec chaired the topic of the Plastics Recycling Process. On this panel there were presentations from NRT Next Generation Group on the topic of Inline melt characterisa- tion of rPellets, from Interseroh with a pres- entation on finding new markets for recycling materials and a con- cluding presentation from KraussMaffei Ber- storff explaining their EdelweissCompounding for producing high- quality compounds from plastic waste. Jan Meyer, Busi- ness Development Manager of Unisen- sor Sensorensysteme GmbH, discussed the purification of PET flake streams with laser spec- troscopy. After the show PETplanet took the opportunity of discussing this technology with Jan Meyer. PETplanet: What were the rea- sons for the participation of Unisensor at this conference? Meyer: Principally, because it was the first PRS. We were one of the companies that has supported the conference from the outset, determined to push through this format and committing ourselves at an early stage to taking part. It is important that there is also an open, central event for the plastics recy- cling industry in Europe - similar to the very successful format of the “Plastic Recycling Conference” in the USA. PETplanet: Did you meet many customers here? Meyer: As an established and highly innovative manufacturer of high-performance sorting systems, we also met experienced customers who would like to further optimise their pro- cesses using our technology. PETplanet: Is it a conference where views can be exchanged? Mr Jan Meyer, Business Development Manager at Unisensor The new generation of the Unisensor Powersort 200