Starlinger

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Starlinger Group
Headquarters	Vienna, Austria
Brands	recoSTAR
Website	www.recycling.starlinger.com

Starlinger Group, Austria, is an industrial company for mechanical engineering and process technology with focus on application-oriented solutions.

Starlinger’s Recycling Division, the business unit Starlinger recycling technology, specialises in machinery for the recycling and refinement of a wide scope of plastics such as PE, PP, PA, PS, BOPP and PET. With the well-known product line recoSTAR, Starlinger has become a global and leading player in the field of plastics recycling, and particularly so in the area of PET recycling systems.

Products/Technology

Starlinger recycling technology offers a wide range of innovative recycling machinery solutions for a variety of applications such as film, sheet, fibres, non-woven, raffia, tapes, bottles, preforms, and post-consumer waste.

Starlinger PET recycling systems produce food-safe r-PET in a process that has been approved for use in food applications by many brand owners as well as various national and international authorities such as the FDA (Food and Drug Administration, USA) and EFSA (European Food Safety Authority). The business unit Starlinger viscotec specialises in PET and HDPE decontamination technology and provides equipment for the decontamination and IV increase of PCR flakes and pellets. The technology guarantees food-grade material that meets FDA and EFSA standards and can be used directly in the production of food packaging.

Starlinger’s viscoSHEET PET sheet lines process virgin PET, PIR (post-industrial regrind) and up to 100 % recycled PET, resulting in r-PET sheet with guaranteed IV levels that meet FDA/EFSA requirements for food-grade applications.

For material that suffers from a strong smell (e.g. in the case of car tanks or containers for food or cleaners), Starlinger offers an odour reduction technology for optimised regranulate fit for use in a variety of applications.

History

The family-owned company was founded in 1835 and started its export activities in the 1970s with machinery for woven plastic sacks made out of polypropylene fabric. Starlinger has been providing recycling machinery solutions for more than 30 years; the business unit Starlinger recycling technology was founded in 2000. Today, Starlinger delivers high-level technology to customers in over 130 countries; many of them are regular customers that have been doing business with Starlinger for years. Starlinger sales and service centres are located in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Uzbekistan and the United States; in other countries the company is represented by agencies.

References

PETplanet Insider Articles

Issue 10 / 2018: PET recycling all-in-one
Issue 11 / 2017: Prepared for the future
Issue 07 / 2017: Starlinger line with Nordson Flex Disc melt filter: Bottle-to-bottle recycling results
Issue 10 / 2016: Bundled expertise on PET recycling
Issue 03 / 2016: Meeting a growing demand
Issue 11 / 2015: American Starlinger-Sahm, Inc. Opens its USA headquarters
Issue 11 / 2015: From PET-to-PET to bottle-to-bottle in Austria
Issue 07 / 2015: Starlinger supplies South Africa's first B2B recycling plant
Issue 06 / 2015: PET bottle-to-bottle recycling in the Andes
Issue 04 / 2015: Recycling of film and fiber productions scrap, melt fine filtration, and bottle-to-bottle recycling – Starilinger at Chinaplas
Issue 03 / 2015: PET recycling line requires less maintenanec and improved quality
Issue 10 / 2014: American Starlinger-Sahm: ground breaking for North American headquarters
Issue 06 / 2014: Bottle recycling hits a high note
Issue 04 / 2014: Masterbatch production from in-house waste
Issue 10 / 2013: Recycling heavily contaminated waste
Issue 09 / 2013: Bottle-to-bottle recycling
Issue 06 / 2013: The challenges of PET recycling
Issue 03 / 2013: Starlinger & Co. GmbH opens office in Indonesia
Issue 01 / 2013: Starlinger delivers first PET recycling line to Uzbekistan
Issue 09 / 2012: Starlinger has opened representative office in Uzbekistan
Issue 07 / 2012: 100% purified
Issue 05 / 2012: Dry, decontaminate and recycle
Issue 03 / 2012: Unifi using Starlinger for Repreve yarn
Issue 03 / 2011: Recycling: maximizing use
Issue 11 / 2010: 175 years of Starlinger
Issue 10 / 2010: Recycling technology

External links

Starlinger Website