PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2019

PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 11/19 www.petpla.net 51 TRADE SHOW REVIEW environmental issues, reduce CO 2 footprint and harmful emissions as well as raw material consumption. Zhang Feipeng , President Fujian Baichuan Resources Recycling Sci- ence & Technology Co., Ltd. intro- duced the audience to “Customisation and Green Development of Recycled Coloured Yarn”. To reduce the high water consumption during the wet dyeing of polyester yarn and fibre the application of colour masterbatch and spin-dyeing is the method of choice. Spin-dyeing of recycled fibre material is, compared to virgin polyester, more complicated because of the fluctuating discolouration of rPET. The way out is to increase colour lots by customer bundling and the availability of a large number of reproducible colours and colour shade recipes stored and organised in by a data base. Wolfgang Hermann , Business Development Manager Fibres & Tex- tiles Erema Group GmbH discussed “Future requirements of the Circular Economy and Erema’s smart and flexible solutions”. Erema recognised the raw material producers as drivers of the plastic/polyester recycling and optimised its product portfolio accord- ingly. In this respect Erema is about to improve especially the uninterrupted running time of their recycling units from 12 to 24 months which is signifi- cant for the plant economy. Lin Jun , analyst of CHTC Land- view Network (former CCFEI): The title of her contribution “Researches of rPET Industry Development in Cur- rent Macro-cycle” X-rayed in detail the economic development of PET recy- cling industry over the past ten years. Wang Zhijun , General Manager of Hebei Jinyi Polyester Fiber Co., Ltd. summarised with his contribution “Status quo and perspectives for the recycling industry” the tough situation of the Chinese PET recycling industry in all correlations like plant relocation to the Far East, low utilisation rates 50 -60%, US trade war and price erosion. Possible solutions include an increase of plant capacity and productivity as well as cooperation with important brand owners. David Hehenberger , Manager of Market and Business Development Department NGR Plastic Recycling Technologies updated the audience by talking about “Liquid State Poly- condensation - Effectivity and Applica- tion Opportunities”. NGR’s LSP-unit to increase molecular weight of PET by melt phase polycondensation has now arrived in the recycling market with 16 units in film and fibre applications. A welcome side effect of the process is the decontamination during vacuum processing. Masanobu Ishikawa , PhD, Professor Emeritus Kobe University Councillor of The Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association: His contribution “PET bottle recycling in Japan: the history from the view- point of structural change to get future prospects” dealt with the scientific and social background of the consumption and recycling of plastic in Japan and worldwide. He explained the change from the linear to the circular economy and the underlying driving forces. Very important for the change to the circu- lar economy are, according to Prof. Ishikawa policy and government as the leading forces of this process. Aldo Previero , General Manager of Sorema div. of Previero Srl presented the paper entitled “The State of the Art Sorema PET Washing Lines in China”. By producing PET flakes of superior quality using Sorema technology A. Previero claimed their pure rPET as unique and a product on its own, not as a replacement of virgin PET. Sun Yajun , General Manager Zhongxing Environmental Protec- tion Technology Co., Ltd spoke about “Flake Recycling Leading Green Fashion” as an introduction and advertisement for his company. Zhang Lei , General Manager, Jiangyin Desel Environmental Protec- tion Equipment Co., Ltd. His contri- bution was called “Cold Thinking on the Transfer and Development of the rPET Industry” and dealt with the gen- eral development of the PET recycling industry of China in comparison with other regions of the world, especially with problems of production relocation to Africa and the Far East. Qiu Binhong , Manager of Green Environment Department of Intertec Green Initiatives; the paper “GRS V4 Certificate - New Opportunities for Recycling Enterprises” advertised the application of the GRS V4 certificate as important tool to improve product quality of textiles based on rPET. Stewart Hardy , Global Manager Petrochemical Market Dynamics of Nexant Inc. analysed the rPET prod- ucts and rPET raw material markets by its contribution “From Discount-to- Premium: rPET Fibre in the Era of Sus- tainable Fashion”. Highly interesting is his prediction that the demand for recycled products will increase drasti- cally in the near future. He analysed which market participants will grow and which will suffer during the area of conversion. The entrance of a sub- stantial number of large brand owners and discounters in the recycling market will trigger a massive increase of rPET based products. The hitherto negative price gap between virgin and rPET will turn to positive in the near future. Ji Hui , Analyst CHTC Landview Network (CCFEI) closed the confer- ence with her summary about “SWOT Analysis of rPET Industry against the Backdrop of Policy Change”. The analy- sis contains data of the Chinese rPET market and price development from 2017 till today and is providing a data- based view of the drastic impact of the plastic waste import ban since 12/18. The conference book which con- tains most of the presentations is available on: www.polyester-technology.com or at www.ccfei.net