Extrusion International 1-2018

19 Extrusion International 1/2018 isfied with quality, punctuality and technology. Among the many OEM we had in this project AMUT is the one that pleased us best”. This 250.000-square-foot bottle-to- bottle PET recycling plant process- es more than 100 million pounds plastic bottles annually and the AMUT washing section is capable of reaching six metric tons per hour (the Dallas facility will double the company’s annual capacity of food- grade PET) and permits the trans- formation of old plastic bottles into PET resins, flakes and pellets that can then be used to produce new beverage bottles and other sustain- able products. Closing the LOOP ON RECYCLING and increasing the sustainability of the PET containers. “CarbonLITE management has over a decade of experience in PET wash lines and selected the AMUT solution to face the new challeng- es in the market conditions for their Dallas operations. Consider- ing that AMUT is one of the major OEM supplier for their system, we integrated our De-Labeller AMUT’s patent technology and as well the wet whole bottle pre-wash”, stat- ed Anthony Georges, President of AMUT NORTH AMERICA. De-Labeller therefore improving efficiency and the functionality of the following automatic sorting equipment so that the non-PET and colour PET can be easier re- moved from the clear PET bottle stream. The clear PET bottles will be washed directly in the AMUT wash flake system. AMUT scope of machinery & tech- nology supplied includes as well, the wet grinding system to turn bottles into flakes, along with two of the AMUT patented Flake Fric- tion Washers, and two of their newest advance technology ‘Sink- Float’ separation machines, which are able to capture the polyolefin caps so that these cleaned caps can also be valued. The whole pro- cess is engineered to increase the grade quality of the clear PET flakes which comply with the most de- manding bottle-to-bottle applica- tions, optimizing the value of every bale, while minimizing operational costs, fresh water usage, energy and cleaning agents. AMUT GROUP Via Cameri, 16, 28100 Novara - Italy www.amutgroup.com Georges further discussed how the AMUT De-Labeller won the pres- tigious PLASTIC RECYCLING IN- NOVATION AWARD from the APR (Association of Plastic Recyclers) in 2017. “When you are dealing with co- mingled MRF bottle bales you need to be able to detect and remove all non-PET and colour PET containers prior to entering the final washing process. Georges continued – “by utilizing our double stage we per- form with the first De-Labeller the dry cleaning action able to detach most of the shrink sleeve labels, while the second unit is a wet De- Labeller process to pre-wash the whole bottles and reduce wear ef- fect on grinders blades. This wet bottle washing technology utilizes the filtered recycled flake wash- ing water therefore it does not increase the consumption of fresh water used in the complete clean- ing process, and contributes to the elimination of outside dirt as well as remaining labels on the whole bottles”. Critical to the AMUT technology is that the bottles stay intact through these two machines and are not damaged during the actions of