Efficiency in post-consumer recycling

Post-consumer material, especially household packaging waste, used to be difficult to recycle due to the fluctuations in the quality of the materials, including for example the type of contaminant and the respective different degree of contamination. To overcome the difficulty, EREMA developed the INTAREMA TVEplus wesystem especially for this type of plastics processing which, with now has a market share of over 80% in Europe.  

EREMA will have an INTAREMA TVEplus 1108 with Laserfilter live in action in Hall 9.2, Booth A41 at the Chinaplas exhibition from 16 to 19 May. This unique combination enables the highly efficient recycling of heavily contaminated materials with different bulk densities. These range from film to regrind with cellulose contaminants such as paper, rubber or silicones which is processed to make high-quality recyclates. 

Film with paper labels will be processed live on the INTAREMA TVEplus to make high-quality recyclates. 

Manfred Hackl, CEO of the EREMA Group, explains the benefits of the interplay of the TVEplus with the Laserfilter: "This unique combination is particularly suitable for material with a high degree of contamination when conventional melt filters are no longer able to deliver the necessary cleaning efficiency. The INTAREMA TVEplus and Laserfilter open up new sales markets for our customers in the post-consumer sector for their high-quality recyclates and products." 

James Qiu, CEO of EREMA China, is convinced that recycling in China has great potential as the volume of unwashed scrap film with paper labels, for example from commercial waste, HDPE from household waste or WEEE waste in China is high. “Current developments in terms of increased investment in the expansion of sorting and collection systems are also encouraging. With regard to cost-effectiveness and sustainability it makes sense – parallel to this – to use high-performance recycling technologies which can make valuable secondary raw material, i.e. recyclates, even out of heavily contaminated input," according to Mr. Qiu.

The EREMA Group comprises EREMA, 3S, PURE LOOP (January 2015) and UMAC (beginning of 2016). With companies in the USA, China and Russia plus around 50 local representatives in all five continents, the EREMA Group has a reliable network to realise customised recycling solutions for international customers. Around 480 people around the world now work for the Austrian company group which is headquartered in Ansfelden near Linz.