Listening to the customer to offer more services and more internationalization

The company Gamma Meccanica S.p.A. of Reggio Emilia, Italy, specialized in smart solutions for the regeneration of plastic materials, has always focused on technological innovation, development of its recycling lines and energy saving.

GM Tandem 180 line

Gamma Meccanica's activity is oriented towards very different sectors: from the recycling of post-industrial materials to post-consumer thermoplastic waste which have very different recovery and management characteristics. One of the sectors where Gamma has very satisfying results is that of flexible film, which however differs between agricultural film, industrial packaging, shoppers, etc... In January 2025 Gamma Meccanica started up the GM Tandem 180 line specifically designed for the processing of agricultural film.

The line is equipped with conveyor belt with metal detector, cutter-compactor with Ecotronic system, water ring pelletizer TDA 6.0 with special water filtration system, laser screen changer, special vacuum degassing chamber and classifier. All controlled by a PLC with the possibility to have a real time energy consumption. During the start up the line achieved an hourly production over 1500 kg/h.

• Test 1 - Multilayer polypropylene with high percentage of printing (up to 1500 kg/h).
• Test 2 - Agricultural mulching film with organic contamination (up to 1400 kg/h).
• Test 3 - Agricultural packaging film (linear stretch, EWOH) of hay bales, with high humidity (up to 1400 kg/h).

And even if these productions could seem low compared to theoretically Tandem 180 data, it should be considered that the material had two invalidating characteristics, the presence of organic substances that require good degassing and 12% incoming humidity. So, the biggest challenge is not to obtain maximum capacities with average materials, but to achieve a satisfactory result even with the most difficult materials, sometimes “snubbed” by other machinery manufacturers.

“I believe that the main characteristic that distinguishes us from other manufacturers is the ability to customize the customer's requests, listen to the customer, become a partner that helps them grow and therefore understand their needs. The materials have changed over the years, the needs and the market have changed” - says the president of the company Andrea Burini.

For this reason, in order to be able to provide better assistance and service to its customers, Gamma Meccanica has restructured its staff by implementing the technical department. In particular, the greatest effort concerns the service part with the short-term offer of a whole series of new services to be closer to the customer.

The clients request to process the new materials: multilayer films rather than other combined materials: these are more difficult to process than the single materials. For this purpose, to ensure the precise and complete answers Gamma Meccanica S.p.A. has invested in the internal laboratory to test the customers materials and to verify the quality of the recycling process.
The companies that are interested in this service, can test different materials on pilot lines to obtain all the possible data useful for the purchase of a line, and they can discover what hourly production will be guaranteed on the the recycled material. One of the present lines is Tandem. This allows the Gamma team to provide the qualified answers on the most complicated materials to be recycled.

In mid-2024, Gamma Meccanica opened the American branch and sent a laboratory line to test materials from American and Canadian customers, as internationalization is another aspect on which the company is focusing. The goal is to obtain the same successes in new markets that Gamma always had in the "Old Continent".