Recycling systems.

ACTION INTERNATIONAL INC.

Supplies a wide range of Plasmac recycling extruders for pelletizing PE, PU, PP, PS and other thermoplastic films, bottles, and woven/nonwovens.

Cleaning and separation (density) machines from Bird for plastic film, fibers, chips, etc. with minimum space need little attention.

AEC, INC.

Specializes in inline direct-recycle filmscrap reclaim systems, repelletizing systems, and gravimetric blending systems.

AMERICAN EXTRUSION SERVICES INC.

Builds dual-diameter reclaim extruders from 6/3.5 to 12/8 in. Also offers crammer feeders.

AMERICAN KUHNE CORP.

Complete recycling systems from Kuhne Anlagenbau GmbH sort, wash, filter, and extrude 100% recycled film or sheet in a one-step process.

AMUT NORTH AMERICA

Complete systems for recycling and scrap reclaim for PET and polyolefins, including friction washing, float/sink density separation, grinders, dryers, pelletizers, size sorting, and systems for storage and water treatment.

B+B ANLAGENBAU GMBH

Dry cleaning systems for ground bottles and other rigid flake and for shredded PE film. Also complete recycling plants with grinders, cold and hot washers, separation tanks and dryers.

BARTEX RECYCLING

Lines from Sikoplast GmbH are custom-built for most plastics. Use proprietary grinding and drying technology and a conical single-screw extruder connected to a polycondensation reactor, which upgrades PET's I.V. from 0.66 to 0.80. Also systems for recycling scrap into blown film, pipe, or profile.

CAROLMAC CORP.

Recycling equipment for PP, PE, PET, nylon 6 and 66, BOPP, and HPS comes from Artec Maschinenbau of Austria. Includes cutter-compactors, single-screw recycling extruders, screen changers, and water-ring and strand pelletizers.

CARTER DAY INTERNATIONAL INC. JACOBSON

Drying, agglomerating, dewatering, sizing, and dedusting equipment for plastics recycling.

COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS

Offers (from Italian maker Sorema) turnkey recycling systems for all types of plastics, including FDA-grade PET bottle-to-bottle systems.

COSTARELLI USA INC.

Complete plastics recycling system includes washing, separation, and extrusion equipment to make sewer pipe from post-consumer HDPE.

CRESSWOOD RECYCLING SYSTEMS DIV. OF DUN-RITE TOOL & MACHINE CO.

HF-6850 hopper-fed grinder features a 50-in. rotor length, a large hopper opening and an expanded cutting chamber dimension to accommodate and process heavy purgings, reject part, spent distribution packaging, sheets, bulky scrap, film, dense end trims and pipe/profile. Suitable for size reduction or for producing finished regrind to a predetermined particle size. Throughput capacity can be optimized with a choice of cutters, cutter placement and the selection of one of five standard rotor designs.

CUMBERLAND ENGINEERING CORP.

Complete recycling systems for post-consumer PE film and PET or HDPE bottles. Produce clean flake or pellets at 1000 to 3000 lb/hr. Include bale breakers, granulators, materials handling, and prewash, hot-wash and hydrocyclone separation systems.

Also complete extrusion, polymer filtration, and pelletizing systems (strand or water-ring), plus system-wide control packages.

DAVIS-STANDARD LLC 

Polycycle recycling system for bales, rolls, slabs, gaylords and purgings allows one-step size reduction without a granulator. New shredder design feeds a single-screw extruder, screenchanger and pelletizer. System is complete from infeed conveyor to size reduction unit, metal detection and sorting, holding capabilities and automated feed to extruder. Special oversize design feedthroat with ram stuffer for light bulk density materials. Extremely high rate production units for PE, PP, PET and all fibers.

Excellent with chipped and powdered reclaim processes. Extruder can be 3- to 10-in. diam., up to 2000 hp, with L/D available to 50:1, venting, demisters, side-arm additive feeders, or feedthroat additive systems can be tailored for throughputs from 400 to 10,000 lb/hr.

EAGLE GROUP LTD.

Designs and installs recycling systems. Manufactures all equipment to include and not limited to transfer piping, metals separation, fines removal, grinding and mixing.

EREMA NORTH AMERICA INC. PLASTIC RECYCLING SYSTEMS

Complete repelletizing systems and continuous densifers for in-house, post-industrial or post-consumer plastics recycling. Patented warm-feed system predensifies, size reduces and prewarms scrap before it enters the extruder. This minimizes heat history, resulting in low-material degradation. Recycling systems include automatic back-flushing screen changers or continuous laser filter systems, depending on the type and amount of contamination in the scrap.

Systems available for PE, PP, PA, PET and most other thermoplastics at rates from 50 to 5000 lb/hr.

EUROHANSA INC.

Supplies complete post-consumer recycling systems with automatic sortation, granulating, washing and drying.

GALA INDUSTRIES, INC.

Recycle systems include equipment to wash, rinse and dry recycle materials removing dirt, loose paper, and chemical solutions. Rates from 10 to 5000 lb/hr. Centrifugal dryers process up to 150,000 lb/hr of material Underwater pelletizers also available to pelletize reclaimed thermoplastic materials.

GAMMA MECCANICA SPA

Italian firm offers turnkey recycling lines for 45 to 2500 lb/hr, including systems for PE or PP film and fiber.

HOSOKAWA POLYMER SYSTEMS

Systems for post-consumer recycling include shredders, granulators, conveyors, and evacuation systems with fines classification.

ITALIAN TRADE COMMISSION

Information on Italian-built systems for scrap reclaiming and reprocessing.

KEY TECHNOLOGY

Designs/manufactures machine vision systems capable of separating plastics by resin and color. Installations include flake sorters for separating colored and clear PET, caps from NHDPE milk jugs, and mixed color HDPE color into individual color streams. Whole bottle sorting systems can create high-purity streams of clear PET, green PET, NHDPE, HDPE, and PVC from mixed streams. Flake sorters can exceed throughputs of 10,000 lb/hr with better than 98% removal efficiency and less than 1% good product loss. Bottle sorters can handle up to 12,000 lb/hr with similar efficiencies.

M.A. INDUSTRIES, INC. POLYMERS DIV.

Complete systems for post-consumer PET and HDPE containers in capacities from 1000 to 3000 lb/hr. Components can be sold individually: granulators, bale breakers, spin dryers, trommels, air conveying/classification systems, float/sink classifiers, PET crystallizers, rotary hot-air dryers, and flake washers.

MERRITT EXTRUDER CORP.

See Davis-Standard LLC.

MSS INC.

Aladdin systems for commingled post-consumer plastic containers use optical color and near-infrared sensors to segregate whole bottles of any resin and/or color: PET, HDPE, PVC, PP, PS, etc.

Sapphire system for mixed household trash use near-infrared sensor to separate plastics, drinking cartons, and/or paper items from a mixed stream of residential waste.

FiberSort uses mid-infrared spectroscopy to remove brown, printed cardboard and plastic containments from newspaper. MetalSort removes ferrous, nonferrous and stainless steel from car shredder fluff.

MUNCRY INTERNATIONAL LTD. DIV. OF BOSTON MATTHEWS

Company supplies dual-diameter recycling extruders for film and fiber scrap with outputs from 8 to 2740 lb/hr, water- or air-cooled.

NEW HERBOLD INC.

Turnkey systems for recycling PE film and PE, PET, or PVC bottles. Washing systems treat soiled, mixed waste. Hydrocyclone system separates by density. Can be added to existing Herbold recycling lines.

NGR-NEXT GENERATION RECYCLING MASCHINEN GMBH

Offers integrated shredder and extruder to reclaim plastic waste without precutting. Small sizes can process edge trim; larger models process purgings.

NRT, INC.

Offers bottle and flake sorting technologies including Multisort ES to separate bottles or other objects by color or transparency, Multisort IR to remove PVC from PET bottles, Vinylcycle to remove PVC from PET, and Flakesort to remove PVC and other impurities from plastic flake.

OSPREY CORP.

Complete inline film and sheet edge-trim recycling systems, including take-away inducers or cutter-blowers, grinders and extruder-mounted fluff refeed machines. Options available for re-introduction of roll and loose scrap. Refeed rates to 1200 lb/hr on extruders from 2.5- to 8-in. diam. Refeed machines can be mounted on extruder throat including round, square or oblong feedthroats.

Inline film-trim repelletizing systems including dual-diam, extruder/pelletizer for extrusion applications that require uniform, high-bulk-density repro or are reclaiming high percentages of scrap. Operable with materials such as LDPE, HDPE, PP, PS, ABS and coextruded blends at rates to 500 lb/hr. Scrap can be re-introduced accurately via gravimetric blenders. Other features include air- or water-cooled pelletizing, modular design with small footprint, and low noise level.

Plant scrap repelletizing systems for postindustrial scrap recovers costly roll scrap, cut-outs and other waste and reduces size of scrap to manageable inventory. Provides granules with minimum polymer degradation and no contaminants. Allows scrap to be accurately re-introduced into primary process with gravimetric blender. Can repelletize films with print levels up to 25%. Output rates to 1500 lb/hr.

PLASTICS EQUIPMENT MARKETING SERVICES INC.

Scrap-reclaim systems for film, fiber, regrinds, and powders, from washing and grinding to finished pellets.

PLA.TO GMBH

Company is formerly Systec, which emerged as a development of the German Green Dot system.

Offers dry flake cleaning equipment for both film and rigid flake. Also offers wet washers, dryers, density separators and air classifiers.

PRECISION AIRCONVEY CORP.

Offers an in-line repelletizing system that takes trim through a dual-diameter extruder, a small, air-cooled repelletizer built by PAC, and conveys pellets back to the extruder.

Represents Plasmac repelletizing extruders from the U.K.

PTI/PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

PTi Trident series IWS intensive wash system available for washing and recycling post-industrial and post-consumer materials.

Systems are available from bale breakers through materials-handling and silage systems. They may include primary size reduction, air classification and aspiration, intensive washing, float separation and/or hydrocyclone, flake drying, water treatment and solids removal, materials-handling and conveying, storage silos, and custom control systems.

RESOURCE RECYCLING SYSTEMS INC. SUB. OF HERBOLD MECKESHEIM GMBH

Complete post-consumer recycling systems include bale breakers, material handling, granulators, pulverizers, agglomerators, washers, float-sink separators, and dryers.

STARLINGER & CO. GMBH

Offers new Recostar Universal Recycling Line, which combines a shredder, agglomerator and extruder to recycle low-bulk-density materials. Recostar has crammer to prevent bridging, high-vacuum venting and back-flushing screen changer. Also offers recycling extrusion lines for carpet backing, ropes, twine and sack reclaim.

STERLING SYSTEMS DIV. OF STERLING BLOWER CO.

Systems for reclaiming post-industrial materials such as PET, HDPE and PVC bottles, carpet scrap, cable chop, tires, and auto scrap. Handle up to 10,000 lb/hr.

TECNOVA SRL 

Italian firm makes recycling lines for LDPE, HDPE, PP, PS, ABS, PET, nylon and PC. Offers extruders with multiple vents, force-feeders for film scrap, and four-section screen changers.

TITECH VISIONSORT AS

Norwegian builder of automated resin identification and separation systems for automatic sorting of post-consumer plastic containers. TiTech PolySort sorts objects by resin type; TiTech ColorSort sorts objects by color.

VISTAR MACHINERY INTERNATIONAL INC.

Offers corotating twin-screw extruders to recycle PET without drying or crystallizing from Luigi Bandera of Italy. Also offers from OMP Prealpina complete washing plants with granulating, float/sink and centrifuge separation, washing tanks, dryers, and single- and twin-screw extruders.