plastics recovery

recovery of plastics

Issue 06/2018 Closed loop

Recycling plant for bottle to bottle

Ferrarelle S.p.A. is a historical Italian company bottling mineral waters. The company represents a best practice in the circular economy. It is one of the first companies in Europe involved in the...

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Issue 05/2018 Industry get-together: EREMA Discovery Days 2018

The future of the circular economy – innovative technologies, effective strategies

More than 1000 guests invited by EREMA made their way to Ansfelden/Austria, for the Discovery Days 2018 from 27 to 29 June. Well-known companies from the plastics sector, such as Borealis, Engel,...

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PET Recycling industry installed capacity reviewed

78 PET recycling facilities located all over Europe were evaluated. The results point to a PET recycling capacity in Europe of 2.1 million tonnes for 2017. Of the total installed capacity in Europe...

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Issue 04/2018 Microplastics – everywhere and in abundance

Study on the level of knowledge about micro an macro plastics

Particularly in the summer holidays, millions of holiday-makers flock to the most beautiful beaches. Unfortunately, these are the places, where despite such idyll, litter pollution by plastic waste is...

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Issue 04/2018 Clean beach

“I Love A Clean San Diego” protects summertime celebrations from litter with “Clean Beach Coalition”

“I Love A Clean San Diego” installs temporary trash and recycling bins to ensure beaches stay clean over long summer holiday weekends.One of the best ways people choose to spend their summer holidays...

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Issue 04/2018 Doubling up

New RegrindPro increases production capacity

At PLASgran in Cambridgeshire/England, there is a growing demand among customers not only for prepared regrind but also for its further processing to make high-quality recyclate in an additional...

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Issue 03/2018 Global problem

Plastic waste in the oceans – consequences and strategy solutions

What had long been considered a trivial offense has meanwhile become a very serious problem: Allowing plastic waste to enter the oceans. The following overview provides data and facts and informs...

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Issue 03/2018 230 000 times around the world

SRF Production facility saves one million tons of CO2

15 years ago ThermoTeam started producing solid recovered fuels for the cement industry. Incredibly, one million tons of energy rich SRF have already left the production line designed entirely by...

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Issue 03/2018 New lease of life

Industrial conversion towards a green economy

Montello S.p.A., based near Bergamo/Italy, uses the latest sensor-based technology of 40 TOMRA machines to give a new lease of life to tonnes of post-consumer plastic arriving from Lombardy.

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Issue 01/2018 Clean performance

New unit POWERFIL with strong stand-alone filters

With the founding of POWERFIL, EREMA has extended its portfolio and now also offers its proven melt filters as individual components for existing extrusion plants.

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