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Innovation In Recycling Technology

GMS XPS / EPS Recycling Plants technology as reprocessed material provide higher output
as against Granules produced from traditional machines.
MS Plastic Machinery Pvt. Ltd., has developed many We have conducted a case study on cost effectiveness to
Gmodels of Compact Fully Automatic Recycling Machine a processor:
especially for EPS / XPS waste wherein one must feed the
scrap material and collect the finished granules from the • A moulder using Injection Moulding Machine producing
other end of the machine. Buckets, can achieve 3 Cycles a minute or 180 cycles
per hour.
GMS is aware how to feed EPS/XPS waste to our
extrusion equipment without degrading the waste. GMS • The same machine when using recycled granules
offers special design Screw and barrels which permit made from our technological advanced equipment
homogeneous mixing, consistency of colours, etc. The GMS in Ratio of 20:80 (20 being recycled, 80 being Virgin)
Online Olio Dynamic Screen Changer permits reduction can achieve 220 cycles per hour.
of downtime of plant and can be changed with a flick of • But when using recycled granules made from
a button within seconds. This permits increase in output traditional recycling equipment with cylindrical
and reduction in wastage, downtime, power consumption shaped and uneven granules mixed with virgin
and increase in output. material in the same Ratio of 20:80 can achieve only
150 Cycles per hour.
The Water Ring Hot Die Face Cutter Unit reduces wastage
due to thread breakage which is more than 5% in strand • This means a clear savings of 10 to 12% in energy
pelletising equipment. It permits Compact Dry granules, consumption only. Over and above there is additional
Consistent size, Virgin alike round pellets shape. The savings in terms of time and labour.
finished granules can be easily compared to virgin alike Another advantage of GMS advanced technology over
material because it has the same feel and look like any traditional technology is when you recycle Light Weight
natural granules.
waste. With Traditional Technology you first need to
Recycling as everyone knows is a great boon to the produce lumps, grind them, and then recycle them again
environment. Advanced Technology as compared to to achieve final granules or use a mother baby (Double
traditional recycling has many advantages: Stage recycling) machine which depletes the quality. GMS
recycling Machines are Single stage machines which give
• Requires lesser labour and operators,
higher output using a single extruder with lower power
• Fully Automatic Plants with clean room features, requirements and higher quality Granules.
• Granules can be directly bagged, EPS / XPS recycling were a huge problem especially with
• No manual contact during processing, the very low (0.2 to 0.6) density waste. Thermoformed
Article producers and Insulation Sheet producers were
• Reduced scrap generation during processing, selling of their waste edge trims at very low prices and
• Even round pellets, loosing on expensive polymer. On the other hand, with the
surge in polymer prices, processors decided to adopt in
• Lot of Waste during strand breakage, house recycling because it would not only benefit them in
• Lot of waste during Filter Change in terms and time, saving cost of raw material but prevent them from selling
energy and production, of the scraps at extremely low rates.
• Lot of gases remain trapped in the granules due to Haren Sanghavi
un-vented Extruders, GMS Plastic Machinery Pvt. Ltd.,
• Colour Variation due to degradation during Filter 2-A2, Court Chambers, 35, New Marine Lines,
change. Mumbai - 400 020.
• Reduced MFI as compared to advanced GMS Tel. No.: +91 22 22006556, +91 22 22007883
Technologies,
E-mail: satellite.gms@gmail.com, info@recycleplastics.in
The lines are energy efficient because power consumption Web-site: www.recycleplastics.in
is very less as compared to any traditional Recycling STALL NO H6A12 Plastindia 2018
Lines. There is also indirect Energy efficiency using GMS STALL NO 166 IPF Bangladesh

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