PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 07+08/22 www.petpla.net 43 TRADE SHOW REVIEW capacity of the recycling plant needs to be increased, a significantly higher rate of plastic melt can be filtered while maintaining the other parameters thanks to the larger surface area of the screen. Up to 9,000kg of melt can be filtered per hour with the Quattro version of the new LF 406 laserfilter. “Plastic recycling has become a must-have, even for input streams with higher levels of contamination. Efficient filtration systems are therefore indispensable for achieving the specified melt quality using existing extrusion systems,” says Obermayr. That is why Powerfil also offers the proven Erema melt filters as individual components for existing Erema machines and third-party extrusion systems. The product range includes the SW RTF partial area backflush system and the laserfilter. The range is aimed at manufacturers as well as recyclers, because the high-performance filters can be used to process post consumer plastics as well as post industrial films with paper labels and clean PET material. Both types of filter are particularly easy to integrate into an existing recycling plant and both are available in numerous sizes and variations. Whether the customer uses the robust backflush filter or the continuous high-performance laserfilter depends on the throughput and level of contamination of the material. The laserfilter is intended for heavy contamination. It handles impurity levels up to 5 per cent and filtration as fine as 70μm while continuously cleaning the screen with a scraper. Manfred Hackl, CEO Erema Group announced Erema’s acquisition of 19.8 per cent of Plasticpreneur GmbH. Plasticpreneur is an Austrian start-up company founded two years ago that manufactures at its production site in Klagenfurt recycling solutions for plastic waste that are mobile and can be operated without prior knowledge. The machine portfolio covers the recycling process and the production of new end-products. Due to it´s wide range of applications, it is in demand both in the Global South and in industrialised countries. In the two years since the company was founded, Plasticpreneur has already sold 330 machines to customers in over 70 countries on all continents. In addition, they have made over 750 application-specific moulds, many of them custom-built to comply with individual customer specifications. An achievement that impressed Manfred Hackl from the moment he first met them: “The young founders and their dedicated team exude pioneering spirit, want to shape the future with their work and put their heart and soul into the circular economy and plastics recycling. Just like we do in the Erema Group!” While plastics recycling has gained enormous momentum in the industrialised countries, more remote and poorer regions of the world have hardly benefited from high-tech solutions for industrial recycling processes so far. They are held back by a lack of infrastructure and know-how. That is why waste is often incinerated or disposed of in landfills, rivers and the surrounding environment. “Our mission - Another life for plastic, because we care - is also aimed at supporting these regions with solutions for plastic recycling, and with Plasticpreneur we have found the ideal partner for this,” says Hackl. The start-up company’s machines can process HDPE, PP, PS, LDPE, PLA, AB and TPU separately. Their product range includes a shredder, injection moulding unit, extruder unit for the production of end products, air filters as well as custom-built moulds. The demand for Plasticpreneur machines is also increasing in industrialised countries. On the one hand by educational institutions and organisations that use them to raise awareness of the need for a circular economy in workshops and to give pupils as well as adults a better understanding of plastic recycling. On the other hand by customers who are developing new end-products for plastic waste together with Plasticpreneur. Because the machines are so easy to operate they enable a low-theshold use of recycled plastics in product development processes, starting from generating prototypes to launch in small series production. Small companies, product designers and developers therefore are another steadily growing customer segment. www.erema.com www.prseventeurope.com F.l.t.r.: Robert Obermayer, Head of Business Unit Powerfil, Michael Heitzinger, CEO Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen, Heike Fischer, PETplanet, Christoph Wöss, Erema Group Business Development Manager, Application Bottle and Manfred Hackl, CEO Erema Group
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