This year´s Erema Discovery Day was held at the Erema headquarters in Ansfelden, Austria, on 1 June 2016. Over 250 international customers and interested guests participated. The event was organized by the Austrian recycling plant manufacturer in collaboration with Sipa, the Italian PET packaging solutions’ company with 30 years of experience in the field of preform/bottle production and filling plants, presented the recycling system “Xtreme Renew. This achievement enables direct and flexible processing of washed PET flakes to produce preforms.
From sorters and washing plant manufacturers to downstream producers, fillers and brand owners, representatives from the entire PET recycling value chain were present at the Erema headquarters.
“In my experience with customers, the reason why a producer decides in favour of a major investment in a recycling solution is based on a broad-sighted, entrepreneurial approach. Only those companies which are willing and able to adapt will remain in the constantly fluctuating plastics industry in the long term. Thanks to the collaboration with SIPA we make it possible for plastics producers to show the necessary flexibility,” says Christoph Wöss, Business Development Manager for Bottle Applications at Erema.
The food contact compliant melt produced by “Vacurema runs when hot and thus without the otherwise common, intermediate cooling stage in pellet production directly into the “Xtreme production process developed by Sipa to make preforms in a single step. The benefit of this direct processing, therefore, is an enormous boost in energy efficiency plus considerably lower thermal damage to the PET material, says Erema.
