Technology

The new Vecoplan VPC 1600 pallet crusher has been specifically designed to pre-shred voluminous articles and bulky wooden items.

APK’s Newcycling-process with its physical, solvent-based recycling technology generates plastic recyclates of close to virgin quality, which are suitable to be used in cosmetic packaging.

BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), announced today that it had signed a research collaboration agreement with ECOIBÉRIA in the field of plastic recycling by bacteria, based on research from the team of Prof. Ariel Kushmaro and Prof. Alex Sivan, both from the Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology and Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering at BGU.

‘PVC Upcycling’ is a pilot project aimed at recovering the PVC component of electrical cables coming from the decommissioning of energy plants (de-manufacturing) and at recycling it into products with a low environmental impact (re-manufacturing).

Coordinated by AIMPLAS since early 2018, the European CARMOF project is now setting up innovative CO2 capture demonstrators at two industrial facilities in Greece.

When shredders have to work long and hard, Vecoplan relies on its proven HiTorc direct drive.

Andritz has opened a new, state-of-the-art test and research center for the recycling industry in St. Michael, Upper Styria, Austria.

Vecoplan’s new VRZ shredder stands out in particular due to its rotor: Instead of conventional cutting tools, this unit is equipped with sickle-shaped ripper teeth.

EASAC’s new publication lays out the scale of the problems that face humanity to match human development with the capacity of the Earth and examines the calls for a fundamental transformation of our current economic and social systems across technological, economic and social domains.

Swiss-based circular economy pioneer Eberhard has made a major investment into a new recycling plant of 200 tons per hour that will convert mixed construction waste into valuable secondary raw materials as of fall 2021.

For its solvent-based plastic recycling process Newcycling, APK AG is relying on the ZSK extruder technology and technical process expertise from Coperion. Using the Newcycling process, multi-polymer and multi-layer plastic packaging, that previously could not be recycled, can now be separated and processed into homogeneous regrind using ZSK twin screw extruders.