Solutions for advanced extrusion and recycle

New compounding and extrusion lines, all powered by its unique twin screw corotating extruders, designed for plastic recycling and new biodegradable plastic compounds to tackle the demanding challenges of sustainability posed by modern economies, will be presented by Icma San Giorgio at the K 2019 trade show.

In advanced recycling one major advance is Icma’s “One-Step” up-cycling concept, a specifically conceived line where only one Icma extruder, selected among its extended corotating families, can perform a wide range of processing tasks from just recycling to re-compounding of different industrial or post-consumer plastic scrap (film, rigid packaging, WEEE ecc.) at the highest quality standards and output yields. These lines bring all the benefits of a corotating compounding extruder in terms of flexibility, incorporation of fillers/modifiers, process performance and are engineered to be the sole extruder instead of other systems requiring more extruders/or in-line “big cooker” in combination. In summary, one-step system delivering a simpler line with embedded a high degree of flexibility for current and future processing tasks and expected minimal energy costs.

In direct extrusion, Icma will present the huge potential of its two frontier projects in recycling/up-cycling, EcoImpatto and EcoSheet-PRO technology, an EU funded project that required more than two years of developments to complete. These lines are conceived to produce sheets or profile of different thickness and structures from plastic scrap but with significant technical performance because of the research.

Finally, with the help of various videos, the manufacturer will present its turnkey plants for the production of biocompounds and for compounding in general.