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Fiber to Fiber Recycling
As sustainability gains importance, more fibre producers are looking to recycle materials, whether by turning post-consumer PET bottle flakes into high-quality yarn or recycling PET fibre waste from production. With the powerful OMNImax recycling systems, Gneuss offers a complete, compact solution for processing waste fibres.
MorePET Waste to High Quality Fibers
For use in its technical centre, Korea Textile Development Institute KTDI decided to buy a Gneuss MRS extrusion system for processing postconsumer PET waste for yarn manufacture. For this process, the MRS extruder offers the opportunity to adjust the viscosity of the PET by means of the vacuum.
MoreNinth Rotary Filtration System at MP3 s.r.l., Italy
ABS/PMMA and PS sheet manufacturer MP3 s.r.l. in Italy is converting its lines for the use of thermoplastic regrind and successively replacing the existing filters with SFXmagnus melt filtration systems. Thanks to the changes, production now runs trouble-free even with over 50% regrind.
MorePE-Inhouse Recycling
Oldenburg is a manufacturer of PE packaging film such as bubble film, stretch and foam sheet. The film waste which occurs during start up, shut down, product changes etc. is collected and repelletised on a central recycling extruder. Retrofitting its melt filter enables Oldenburg to process its PE production waste.
MoreEfficiency Improvements through Retrofitting
Spanish PET bottle-to-bottle recycler Nososplas is achieving significant efficiency improvements by replacing its melt filter with the Gneuss RSFgenius back flushing filter. Nosoplas decided in favour of the Gneuss Rotary Filtration System due to the high efficiency and the fast return on investment which it offers.
MorePET Fiber Recycling
Several customers, including large fiber manufacturers in China and Belarus, have decided to use key components from Gneuss. With these they were able to convert existing fiber lines with low investment costs, so that the complete fiber waste can be processed into high quality fibers. And this is even possible for the production of drawn yarns.
MoreRetrofit for PET Sheet Lines
The call for waste reduction and reasonable recycling of plastic packaging is becoming ever louder. The European Union has drawn up legal directives which stipulate that by December 31, 2025 50 % of plastic packaging placed on the market in an EU member state must be recycled. By the end of 2030 it should be 55 %, from 2040 onwards 100 %.
MoreEnergy-efficient and compact Gneuss strapping tape line in operation in Dubai
CONSENT Plastic, a company of the Arabian CONSENT GROUP, is the leading producer of strapping tapes and PET flakes in the Middle East. Due to the avoidance of the time and energy intensive drying and crystallisation of the PET flakes they chose our Gneuss MRS extruder.
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