Recycling

Although mechanical recycling is a well-established technology and remains the first choice for plastics recyclers due to its high efficiency, chemical recycling is now emerging as a key step in closing the plastics recycling loop, particularly for handling heterogeneous plastic fractions that pose a challenge for mechanical recycling...

The demand for recycled plastics is increasing rapidly worldwide: consumer awareness is growing, companies are setting themselves ever more ambitious sustainability targets and recycling requirements from international governments are also increasing. As a company with almost 30 years of experience in plastics processing and almost...

A company operating in the circular economy and environmental sustainability sector for over thirty years and listed on the Euronext Growth Milan market (EGM), RES (Recupero Etico Sostenibile) recently started up a post-consumer rigid plastic packaging washing and granulation plant at its industrial site in...

CMG Granulators renews its presence at European Thermoforming Conference 2024, in Amsterdam from 10 to 12 April. On April 12 CMG will held a presentation about granulators for thermoforming scrap, featuring high capacity and reduced energy consumption...

Ganesha Ecopet, a division of the largest Indian PET recycler, Ganesha Group, entrusted Sorema, the division of Previero Srl specialized in the construction of plastic recycling plants, with the realization of a PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in India. It is a pioneering project, the first of its kind in the...

Amut recently installed the first of three post-consumer PET bottle recycling lines at a food and beverage company's plant in Lima, Peru. The line has a capacity of 6,000 kg per hour and is designed to recover rPET for the production of new bottles. The second and third lines, both 3,000 kg per hour, will be built at...

The post-consumer PET bottle washing and recycling plant supplied by Sorema (the recycling systems division of Previero) running at Commercial Plastics (CPC) in Yangon, Myanmar, achieved the expected quality and quantity parameters, and will provide the basis for a second plant destined for...

For recycling of post-consumer recyclate (PCR) or any highly contaminated polymer, Coperion has developed the innovative ZSK FilCo filtration compounder that allows filtration and compounding in a single production step. With the new ZSK FilCo system, waste plastic is fed into a ZSK twin screw extruder, where it is melted, homogenized and…

A leading company operating in the field of integrated recycling process solutions, Amut was recently assigned a major order from A2A, a big multi-utility Italian group and a leader in the field of energy and the environment. Recognising the value of the innovative technological solutions offered by...

Coperion has successfully launched operation of its new Recycling Innovation Center. In this high-tech test centre for plastics recycling applications, every recycling process step - from material handling and feeding to extrusion, compounding, pelletizing, material postprocessing and deodorization - can be tested...

CMG Granulators is currently exhibiting the SL Series without screen at MSV International Engineering (Brno, 10-13 October), ALLpacK Indonesia (Jakarta, 11-14 October) and Fakuma (Friedrichshafen, 17-21 October). The SL granulators are designed to produce regrind with a homogeneous shape and...

Designed to wash and grind post-consumer film in commercial, post-logistics and agricultural applications, presorted by color and polymer, with more than 80 % stretch film, Sorema lines can reach an output of more than 10,000 tons/year. Merit for these results can be also attributed to the PR 2800 shredder by Previero, a solution that...

With two Starlinger recoSTAR PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines, Piedmont-based Dentis Recycling Italy expanded its product portfolio and now offers food-grade rPET pellets in addition to hot-washed PET bottle flakes. In 2021, one of the Italy’s biggest recyclers of post-consumer PET bottles initiated a...

At Plast 2023, Previero will present the restyling of its plastics and rubber granulation lines, while its Sorema division will showcase the latest developments in turnkey plants for recycling post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste. In particular, Sorema will be exhibiting a WCE2500L washing centrifuge designed to...

Greek renewable energy company Terna Energy, a subsidiary of GEK Terna Group, is a leading player in clean energy production and storage, and the largest investor in Renewable Energy Sources in Greece. It further consolidates its role in sustainable development and circular economy through its...

After carrying out a washing and recycling test on bottles collected by CPC (Commercial Plastics Company), a PET bottle recycler based in Yangon (Myanmar), Sorema, an Italian company that is one of the main international reference points for its recycling plants, has designed a 2,200 kg/h flake production plant to...

Among the products exhibited by CMG Granulators at Equiplast (Barcelona 30 May-2 June), at the stand of Luiso, the local distributor, the ET2 configuration of the ET series of extrusion scrap solutions is suitable for the in-line recycling of edge trims. CMG granulators for edge trim and film recycling are available...

For the injection moulding of plastic waste and scrap, in particular WEEE waste, without any pre-treatment process, the Venetian manufacturer Wintech decided to incorporate the twin-screw extruders from Bausano into its rotary presses. The extruders feature the degassing system, also developed by the Piedmontese manufacturer...

At Plastpol 2023, which is taking place in Kielce (Poland) from 23 to 26 May, CMG Granulators is exhibiting two granulators, a G17-22 and a low-speed SL-2C. The G17 series is designed to achieve a regrind with very small and homogenous size free of dust. Thanks to its small size, the regrind...

In the last six months Icma San Giorgio has successfully completed four installations, with a fifth due to come shortly, of recycling lines dedicated to re-compounding of post-consumer plastic waste, all equipped with high-performance co-rotating twin-screw extruders model Icma MCM 110 and MCM 140 High Torque. Lines are...