Extrusion International USA 2-2022

48 Extrusion International 2/2022 RECYCLING – CASE STUDY Super Recycling in Romania Countless companies are facingmaj or fi nancial tasks in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. This also applies to SuperBon, a recycling company in north-western Romania – albeit an optimistic one. Sales there have increased by al most 100% compared to 2020. And an end to this trend is not yet in sight. The consistently high demand from the injectionmolding industry is the main factor driving this sustainable trend and the industry’s appetite for recyclates currently seems to know no limits. The rapidly rising oil prices are doing the rest. The production of new plastics is as expensive as it has been for a long time. Since 2015, SuperBon has been usingWEIMA shredders and granulators as their reliable partner for its size reduction. Production has now been expanded again Since the company was founded in 2006, SuperBon has two sites where it specializes in the collection and re- cycling of waste which primarily includes plastics, but also cardboard, paper, wood, metal, electronic waste (WEEE) and textiles. In Oradea, a city close to the bor- der with Hungary, high-quality regranulate made from engineering plastics such as PS, ABS or PC is manufac- tured on a production area of 1,300 m2. This precious raw material is then sold in Romania, but also in large parts of Europe. Due to the high demand, SuperBon has even been exporting its products to China for some time now. SuperBon on expansion course – with EU funding In the majority of recycling processes, the shredding, i.e. granulation of waste material plays a central role in its processing and the subsequent quality of the regranu- late. This is the reason why in 2015 SuperBon decided to use rugged WEIMA granulation technology from Ger- many. Today, the Romanian recycling company is the proud owner of three machines, one pre-shredder (WLK 1000) and two secondary shredders (WSM 450/600 cut- ting mill, WNZ 200/600 granulator). The project was fi - nanced using funding from the European Union. When SuperBon employee next toWEIMAWSM cuttingmill Yellow regranulate from SuperBon