8 NEWS PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 05/22 www.petpla.net Plastics Industry Association announces top leadership appointments The Plastics Industry Association Board of Directors appointed Matt Seaholm to the position of Chief Executive Officer and Glenn Anderson to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Matt Seaholm has served as Plastics’ Vice President of Government Affairs for the past two years and prior to that was the Executive Director of the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance at Plastics. Before joining the association, Matt was Vice-President of Public Affairs at Edelman. He is a veteran of political and policy campaigns, having worked on everything from local ordinance fights to state-wide political campaigns to national issue advocacy initiatives. He has been a public voice on behalf of the plastics industry for more than five years, testifying before more than thirty legislative bodies and being interviewed by more than one hundred media outlets. Glenn Anderson is currently the Vice President, Member Engagement for Plastics and has been in that role since April of 2020. Glenn has been an industry leader for nearly 40 years. Prior to joining Plastics, Glenn worked for member company and NPE exhibitor, Milacron LLC (now a division of Hillenbrand) for over 30 years. During his time at Milacron, Glenn held numerous roles and responsibilities including Vice-President & General Manager for both their injection & extrusion businesses for the America’s and most recently, as Senior Vice-President – Global/Strategic Accounts working with key global customers for all Milacron branded companies including Mold Masters and DME. www.plasticsindustry.org Erema Group: Growing revenues, plant sizes and production capacities The Erema Group, which comprises Erema Group GmbH and its subsidiaries Erema, Pure Loop, Umac, 3S, Keycycle and Plasmac, closed the 2021/22 financial year with a 17 per cent increase in revenue. Consolidated Group revenue amounted to EUR 295 million, and the number of employees increased to over 840. The Erema Group remains on course for continued growth. A total of 220 extruders manufactured in Ansfelden were supplied to customers all over the world. If one includes individual components and modules such as filter systems and ReFresher anti-odour technology in that figure, the total was around 320. Then there are another 53 extruders from Plasmac, the Italian subsidiary. The recycled pellet production capacity of all extrusion systems de l i vered i n f i nanc i a l year 2021/22 adds up to around 1.34 million tonnes per year. A closer look at the post-consumer segment clear ly shows a t rend towards larger plants, both for PET recycling and for processing polyolefins. For example, the first Vacurema Basic 2628 T machine with an annual capacity of up to 40,000 t was recently commissioned at a customer’s site in Brazil. This plant features a ten-metre-long special geometry screw with a diameter of 280mm and a weight of 3.5 t. The screw was developed and manufactured by 3S, a subsidiary of Erema GmbH. Demand for prev i ous l y-owned machines at Umac also remained high during the past financial year. In addition to the general trend towards plastics recycling, the decisive factor here is that customers are more frequently opting for previously-owned systems available at short notice due to the tense situation on the procurement markets. At the same time, businesses that have so far had little contact with recycling are also becoming increasingly interested in this topic. Their need for feasibility studies, consulting and engineering services, project management and turnkey projects are now also very successfully catered for by Keycycle, an Erema Group company. www.erema-group.com F.l.t.r.: Matt Seaholm, CEO & Glenn Anderson, COO Herbold Meckesheim GmbH Your partner for plastics recycling www.herbold.com As a specialist for plastics recycling we are your contact for complex applications. We have the long lasting expertise in washing, separation and drying – to recycle new, used and contaminated plastic waste. Thanks to our modular technology, we are able to develop customized overall concepts or to optimize your already-existing plant. Herbold Hydrocyclone Ten times higher separation effect compared to a swim-sink tank for higher purity Higher washing effect due to additional intensive friction Continuous water cleaning circuit Compact design
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