Extrusion International 3-2022

19 Extrusion International 3/2022  Beier is a well-known company with extensive experience in providingmachinery and engineering for plastic recycling, including the processes of crushing-grinding, washing, sepa- rating, drying and pelletizing plastic materials with all types of contamination, whether from industrial scrap or post- consumer waste. Examples of one of the successful cases is a professional re- cycler in South Africa who is dedicated to supply high qual- ity plastic packaging solutions has installed a complete pel- letizing line from an densifer and two-stage extruders & water-ring downstream equipped by double fltering for Polyethylene flm with an average production capacity of 500kg/h. Satisfactory with performance and service from Beier, the customer has placed repeated order of extra three machines to Beier in year 2022. In UK, a company dedicated to the recovery and recycling of LDPE flms has recently installed similar pelletizing line sys - temwith output capacity of 600kg/hr. While running steadi- ly and well, the customer intends to continue to expand pro- duction capacity and seek greater cooperation from Beier. And also due to the UK new tax policy upon plastic manufac- turing, related recycling machines from Beier will get more and more popular in this market. Beier also hopes to bring green and circularity to every country in the world. Beier is always committed to develop long-term relation- ships with its clients, not just the installation of an individual project, but also an all-round service for the clients. Thanks to the enormous support from the moment the machines arrive, during installation, start-up, initial adjustments, the constant supply of spare parts, and service in different lan- guages. In this sense, Beier's philosophy is to position itself as a technological partner of each client and in each project. Beier Machinery https://www.beierpm.com/english/ www.beierrecycling.com Recycling  Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packag- ing, celebrates the second year of its award winning kp Tray2Tray ® initia- tive, which works towards creating a closed loop for food packaging. With several regions of their global busi- ness now using kp Tray2Tray ® flake in their trays and rigid films, they call upon the industry to help drive the initiative further, creating separate recycling and sorting systems specifi- cally for pots, tubs and trays to turn them back into more of the same. kp has been manufacturing fresh food packaging made with post- consumer recycled PET (rPET) for almost two decades, making them one of the largest consumers of this valuable raw material. National regulations, such as plastic taxes coming into effect in some countries means there is an ever increasing de- mand for recycled PET. Alongside a post-Covid world that has seen un- precedented price increases of raw materials, energy, transportation and labour costs, it is vital for food packaging manufacturers to secure material to help keep food supply chains affordable. As all packaging producers in food and drink demand recycled material, it is now essential to separate food packaging from bottle flake to meet demand. With sites around the globe, kp is working to implement kp Tray2Tray ® in its operations at every site. Its pilot site in Pravia, Spain is already using up to 30% kp Tray2Tray ® flake in a range of its thermoformed products for protein – with qualifed certif - cation from RecyClass. Another fve sites in the UK, Portugal, Spain and Germany are producing rigid flms for form, fll and seal applications using kp Tray2Tray® as part of their extrusion processes, with sister site INFIA also incorporating it into their processes and producing fruit pun- nets. Adam Barnett, President Food Pack- aging says: “For several years, we’ve been driving multiple work streams globally, collaborating with the en- tire value chain, including recyclers, expert partners, governments and other stakeholders, to establish new ways to collect and process separate streams of rPET tray flake. Our ul- timate aim is to help build the new infrastructures and incentives to collect, sort and recycle, ensuring wherever we operate we will enable full tray to tray circularity. Now we call upon our customers, the retail- ers and extend this to the industry, pledging to help us create further demand for tray to tray material in- clusion in their products.” In 2021, kp launched “Investing in Better”, a broad and ambitious sus- tainability strategy with ten time- bound and measurable long-term targets. The strategy is built around three main objectives: Close the Loop, Work Smarter and Act Re- sponsibly. Under the Close the Loop objective one of the targets is that by the end of 2025, at least 30% of the post-consumer recycled mate- rial in their packaging will be from kp Tray2Tray ® material. kp can re- port that in their second year since the launch of the initiative, 10% of its post-consumer recycled content comes from trays. kp Tray2Tray ® gained two new pres- tigious awards in 2021 – Sustainable Supplier of the Year at the Footprint Awards, and Best Food Packaging in the Liderpack Awards, creating awareness of the initiative. Klöckner Pentaplast www.kpfilms.com/en/ Calling on the Circular Economy to Drive Closed Loop Food Packaging