Erema Introduces TVEplus for Printed Plastic Scrap

Erema, an Austrian plastics recycling equipment manufacturer with North American headquarters in Ipswich, Mass., has introduced its TVEplus, which the company says broadens the reach of profitable plastics recycling by increasing the amount of print and other contamination that can be removed from plastics scrap.

Erema says it developed the TVEplus, an upgrade of the company’s TVE series, to facilitate recycling of heavily-inked and additive-laden plastics packaging, allowing transformation of these scrap materials into near-virgin-quality pellets.

According to the company, in the Erema TVE series melt filters are placed ahead of a degassing system. The company says its TVE, has proven over more than a decade of use to be a capable handler of large amounts of contaminants at higher production rates and quality than other vented extruders. The TVEplus is the result of modifications of the TVE in design and process engineering that allow an increase in degassing efficiency and an improved homogenisation process.

Tests of the TVEplus with heavily printed packaging film indicate an increase of about three times the efficiency of removing gases from ink, binding agents, other additives and incidental contaminating materials, Erema says.

The Erema TVEplus series features a number of configurations able to handle throughputs from 250 to around 2,500 kilograms per hour.

More information is available at www.erema.net/us/.