Extrusion International USA 6-2021

5 Extrusion International 6/2021 The ALPLAGroup is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in TarguMures, Romania as part of a joint venturewith its partners. The plastic granulate recycled there in the futurewill come fromPET bottles collected fromhouseholdwaste andwill be used tomanufacture newPET bottles The solutions presented by KraussMaffei at the Fakuma 2021 were all under the motto “Ef fi ciency meets sustainability” and have a clear focus onmaximizing output, high product quality, reducing life cycle costs and ensuring sustainability At CHINAPLAS 2022, the highly ef fi cient machines, recycling technologies and other production techniques that will help plastics manufacturers achieve their goals of reducing their carbon emissions are among the highlights 9 In August 2021 Starlinger & Co GmbH received two Letters of No Objection (LNO) issued by the US Food and Drug Administration FDA regarding its newly developedmachine concept for processing post-consumer HDPE scrap BHS-Sonthofen has expanded its test center at the Sonthofen, Germany, site and has undergone modernization work in the areas of recycling and environmental technology 51 48 SinceMarch 2021, SORTCO has been using two PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED systems from SIKORA in its new sorting service center in Niederzissen, Germany. With these, the pellets to be sorted are inspected 100%optically and impurities from a size of 50 μ m are automatically sorted out 44 52 47

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