Recycling unusual scrap.Waste Exchange Services Ltd., a recycling firm in Red Car, Middlesboro, U.K., specializes in handling difficult plastic scrap. With three Erema single-screw recycling lines, it reclaims heavily printed OPP OPP Opposite OPP Opportunity/Opportunities OPP Office of Pesticide Programs OPP Ontario Provincial Police (Ontario, Canada) OPP Office of Polar Programs (National Science Foundation) packaging, PP raffia raffia (răf`ēə) or raphia (rā`fēə), fiber obtained from the raffia palm of Madagascar, exported for various uses, such as tying up plants that require support, binding together vegetables from gaylord bags, and mixed PP automotive scrap into black injection molding compounds. It also recycles EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. scrap (including smelly fish boxes) and PP/EVA/PET fiber shoemaking scrap from China. In December, Waste Exchange will get a new Erema model TVE TVE Televisión Española (Spanish national broadcasting television) TVE Television Trust for the Environment TVE Technical Validation Experiment TVE Time-Varying Encoder TVE transvaginal echography TVE Tid Verify 1700 customized with three vents (two of them with vacuum) to degas printing ink. Waste Exchange controls melt flow with a melt viscometer on the extruder, whose data are used automatically to adjust a feeder for a peroxide "visc-breaking" additive. The new line will raise Waste Exchange's output of reclaimed plastics to 26 million lb/yr from 15 million lb now. Erema: (978) 356-3771/PT Direct: 325QP * Waste Exchange: +44 (1642) 442 080/www.wasteexchange.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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