Erema opened its UpCentre 20 November, 2015, in Gunskirchen, Austria, near the company’s headquarters in Ansfelden, Austria, generating interest throughout the international plastics industry supply chain, from collecting and sorting companies to producers of washing plants to recyclers and plastics processors to polymer producers and research institutes. With its UpCentre, Erema customers now have access to Corema technology for the sampling of recycling compounds.
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Robert Obermayr, Corema product manager, explaining the upcycling service of the new UpCentre. |
The Corema system unites recycling and compounding in a single process step, Erema says.
Robert Obermayr, Corema product manager, says, "On the way from recyclates to made-to-measure recycling compounds, you need a lot of fine-tuning in practice.”
Customers can now take advantage of the UpCentre to produce tonnes of samples quickly and flexibly, Erema says. They also can benefit from the process engineering know-how of EREMA and Coperion—two global market leaders in their fields.
The UpCentre features a Corema 1108 T for a maximum monthly production of 500 tonnes, Erema says.
The company invested roughly 2 million euro in the UpCentre, saying that to enable these recyclates to be used 1:1 as a substitute for virgin material they have to have exactly specified, customised property profiles. Processors are interested above all in the trouble-free further processing of recycled pellets and the assurance of the functional characteristics of the end products produced from them.
With its Corema product line, Erema says it combined all of the benefits of recycling and compounding in a single processing step for the first time in 2012.