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Recycling Machine Sales Doubled For Polystar In 2021

High demand of plastic recycling machines for post-industrial and post-consumer
applications worldwide marked a new milestone for POLYSTAR in 2021.

t may be a good time to be in plastic bigger. Recyclers are now buying larger-
Irecycling business for everyone. capacity machines and more machines.
New regulations in many countries now The 800-1,000 kg/hour pelletizing ex-
require producers to use a higher per- truders has become a standard for post-
centage of recycled content in flexible consumer and even some post-industrial
and rigid packaging products. Instabil- recyclers.
ity of raw material prices and supplies A Japanese post-consumer recycling
also forces plastic producers to better re- company located in Kanagawa just In India, the requirement of more ad-
cycle their own production waste. placed an order of four 800-1,000 kg/ vanced recycling machines is rising, es-
The growing demand for plastic recy- hour machines from POLYSTAR all at pecially for PP raffia, woven bags and
cling directly reflects the machine sales once in December 2021. In the same FIBC producers who need to process
for POLYSTAR. By the end of April month, several recyclers in Australia, their internal waste. 75 Repro-One re-
2022, a total of over 110 recycling ma- Colombia, Mexico, Russia and the US cycling machines have been installed in
chines will have been shipped within 12 have also repeated their orders with this sector alone in India.
months – twice as many compared to multiple higher-capacity machines to be The Repro-One recycling technology is
last year. able to comply with the increasing re- a combination of shredder, extruder and
cycling demand of washed PE film and
Bigger Recycling Machines in Need bottle waste. pelletizer into one machine. This one-
Plastic recycling machines are getting Post-industrial Recycling – Higher step, powerful (shredder) yet gentle (low
processing temperature) process pro-
Quality Requirement duce the best possible pellets quality at
eusability of the recycled pellets has the lowest operation cost, enabling the
Rbecome more important than ever producers to reuse all of the pellets back
for plastic producers who recycle and re- in PP tape extrusion lines.
process their in-house waste. Packaging New Regulations for High Recycled
film and woven bag producers now re- Content
quire higher quality recycling (minimal
material degradation) in order to reduce The packaging film sector (stretch film,
production cost as much as possible. CPP film and etc.) and plastic bag pro-

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