Erema Engineering hosted a Discovery Day event in late October 2014, inviting more than130 existing and potential international customers and guests to the company’s headquarters in Ansfelden, Austria.
The event included presentations from several companies, including Borealis, SML, Polifilm Extrusion and Erema. There were also live demonstrations of several types of Intarema processing systems, particularly for flexible packaging materials. According to Erema, the demonstrations showed how processors can use in-house recycling solutions to return up to 100 percent of their plastic scrap to the production process and thus save production and labor costs. The live demonstrations took place in Erema’s Customer Centre.
The company says in-house recycling solutions for flexible plastic packaging are a core competency at Erema, with half of the Erema systems sold around the world operating in this application. The company says its newest generation Intarema plant offers users an additional boost in efficiency thanks to its new, patented Counter Current technology, Smart Start system and enhanced EcoSave technology.
The Counter Current technology is designed to ensure recycling process stability despite varying characteristics and conditions of the input material, while the Smart Start system is intended to make operation easy with a high degree of automation. The enhanced EcoSave technology reduces energy costs, according to Erema.
Both inline and offline systems were presented at Discovery Day 2014, and Erema says the recycling systems can be integrated not only in production lines but also can be installed externally.
For offline applications Erema presented its new EFS Crocodile system with a technical conveyor belt for the dosing of endless edge trim. This Crocodile enables the constant feeding of tangled edge trim without pre-cutting for the first time, Erema says.