EVENT REVIEW PETplanet Insider Vol. 25 No. 0/24 www.petpla.net 39 The series is also equipped with the company’s own Auto-Pilot control unit, which automatically adapts to material properties such as density or moisture and automatically regulates the feed pusher, cutter-compactor-extruder and pelletising speed without external intervention, which is particularly beneficial for unplanned downtimes, especially during melting processes. The supplier has also upped the ante in terms of service, advertising its new 360° service at the trade fair, which is specially tailored to the American market. The service is said to cover all aspects of the recycling process and ensure optimum machine performance and uptime through various support services, including reactive maintenance, wear and spare parts management, pre-installation support, installation, commissioning training, preventative maintenance, process and machine assessment and customised retrofit solutions. In addition to installations and maintenance, key features of the 360° service include ‘Rapid Response Support’, a 24/7 technician to respond to phone enquiries within one hour and remote access to machines for fast and effective problem resolution, a comprehensive parts inventory managed from the Atlanta location with over US$500,000 worth of parts available, and the offering of customised retrofit solutions of existing components. www.ngr-world.com Cutter-compactorextruder combination Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR) not only celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Liquid State Polycondensation (LSP) recycling technology, known under the P:React brand and with currently 60 systems installed worldwide, but also presented its further developed, modular cutter-compactor-extruder combination, ‘C:Gran’, for the production of pellets from plastic waste. The machine series is available in eight different sizes for different material throughputs from 300kg to 3t/h. According to the manufacturer, the system processes both dry, clean industrial waste as well as moist and heavily contaminated waste equally reliably, from BOPP and BOPET films, which are produced as production waste, to materials from washing plants and heavily printed films with high degassing requirements. Stefan Lehner, Product Manager for Post Consumer Recycling at NGR, explained: “The series has two independent extruder drives, which enable an optimum speed setting for both the melt and the degassing extruder. This configuration optimises the degassing and melting performance at lower melt temperatures due to the short processing unit. In addition, a clean separation between extruder and cascade with melt filtration in between ensures that no impurities get past the melt filter, resulting in a very stable process and preventing the production of off-specification pellets. Recycling and compounding is also possible in a single step when twin screw technology is part of the system.” The modular design also allows the retrofitting of additional degassing zones or the integration of a cascade with a second filtration stage. The enlarged cutter compactors of the C:Gran series are claimed to ensure high throughput values and high process stability with different input qualities. The cutter-compactor can also be equipped with a special dry boost for high input moisture levels, which increases the drying performance of the material. Another feature cited by NGR is the cascade configuration with the Power Venting Section, which was developed for more complex degassing challenges. This device is crucial for processing materials with high impurity and moisture content, as it removes volatile impurities from the polymer melt for good pellet quality, according to NGR. SB Wet Granulator Step Dryer Hydrocyclone density separation Hot Wash Step Pre-wash Drum Pre-sorting Your reliable partner for high-quality plastic recycling Modern PET washing systems from Herbold Meckesheim Herbold Meckesheim GmbH I Industriestrasse 33 I D-74909 Meckesheim I Tel: +49 6226 932-0 I [email protected] I www.herbold.com Visit us in Brussels, Belgium, at the Plastics Recycling World Expo, Booth 3.R430
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