Page 32 - Plastics News November 2016

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The latest recycling technology on display at K

Equipment makers display their latest plastics recycling technologies every three years at the K

trade show

Equipment makers display their latest plastics recycling colored plastics, including black ones.
technologies every three years at the K trade show.
Erema Group unveiled what it calls its Careformance Targeted at processing shredder fractions with a high
Recycling Center, which it demonstrated live in a percentage of black plastics, including those from
5,160-square-foot space at the show. electronics, electrical appliances and vehicles, the
Powersort 360 can separate material into fractions of

The pop-up facility used Erema's Intarema TVEplus 1108 ABS, PS, PC-ABS, PP and more. Or it can remove unwanted

system with

an integrated

Laserfilter to

recycle roughly

30 metric tons

of plastics

generated at

the trade show,

according to a plastics, such as PVC, wood, rubber, glass, rocks or metal

press release. contaminants from streams.

The quality and Capable of sorting items between 15 millimeters and
process data from the recycling was relayed in real time 75 millimeters, the equipment is an advancement on
to the company's booth. the Powersort 200 system. It uses laser spectroscopy to

Multiple companies -- Borealis, Hosokawa Alpine, Bobst, analyze material.

GEA and Erema -- worked together to produce and recycle "The black materials do not need to be separated from
all-PE stand-up pouches live at the show. The pouches the colored materials and the material stream does not
were produced on site, recycled and the recycled content need to be presorted in any other way," according to a
WAS