Extrusion International USA 6-2019

REVIEW 50 Extrusion International 6/2019 The EREMA Group’s assessment of K 2019, the world’s largest plas- tics trade fair, is positive all round. All seven companies and business units were at the show in Düssel- dorf and the group of companies presented its entire range of prod- ucts and services more comprehen- sively than ever before. They also made recycling and recycling man- agement a tangible experience for visitors to the Circonomic Centre together with partners from the plastics industry. The circular economy and plastics recycling were the top themes at this year’s K, and EREMA created a display platform in their Circonomic Centre where visitors to the trade fair were able to experience both themes live every day. With the recy- cling demonstrations and the large variety of products made of recycled plastic - which the plastics recycling machine manufacturer was able to exhibit thanks to their cooperation with 30 partner companies from the entire recyclates chain - the outdoor Circonomic Centre became one of the most popular visitor attractions made solutions for a wide band of re- cycling requirements. “K 2019 has been a great success for the entire team at the trade fair and at home. And with technological highlights such as VACUNITE ® in the bottle-to-bottle segment, the new INTAREMA ® ZeroWastePro in-house recycling system, our digital custom- er platform BluPort, ReFresher tech- nology and QualityOn: Polyscan, we have once again been able to demon- strate our innovative strength,” says EREMA Managing Director Michael Heitzinger in summing up. Another topic highlighted at the K-show: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved the food contact compliance of post consumer recycled HDPE (PCR-HDPE) produced with the patented INTAREMA ® TVE- plus ® RegrindPro ® extrusion system in combination with the ReFresher module. Back at company headquarters in Ansfelden, however, work on ex- panding the site - including doubling the manufacturing space - is in full swing. Completion and start-up are scheduled for spring 2020. EREMA Group www.erema.com Successful K 2019 at the whole trade fair. For Manfred Hackl, CEO of the EREMA Group, this was confirmation of what they wanted to achieve with the Circo- nomic Centre: “Our goal was to work with our partners to draw attention to what is technologically possible in terms of recycling and the circu- lar economy and what has already been implemented successfully and cost effectively. With this we wanted to provide a strong impetus to get new recycling projects on the road even faster in the future. The visitor interest and the high level of posi- tive feedback we have received show that we have succeeded very well to- gether with our customers and part- ners,” he says, drawing a positive balance. The huge interest in the recycling technologies from EREMA Group companies is indicated not only by the high number of visitors to the Circonomic Centre and our trade fair stands, but also the very pleasing number of sales. This shows that the group of companies and its range of innovative products are ideally po- sitioned to offer customers tailor- At K 2019, EREMA presented technological solutions for a wide range of recycling requirements (Photo credit: EREMA)