German recycling and waste management firm Interseroh and the Austria-based equipment company EREMA will be jointly marketing a cascade extrusion system called Corema, designed to allow users to produce what the firms call “tailor-made recycling compounds for high-quality applications in one step.”
According to Interseroh, in the one-extrusion process, additives, modifiers and inorganic fillers in various forms in the range of 0.25 to 40 percent can be added as needed, comparable to the compounding of virgin material.
Interseroh, which is part of the ALBA Group, started using the technology as part of its internally developed recycling process Recycled-Resource.
Using the cascade extrusion system brings several additional environmental benefits, including the ability to produce Procyclen recycled plastics while saving up to 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions compared to the use of virgin plastic from crude oil, according to Interseroh.