EconCore (Leuven / Belgium) is furthering development of rPET-based sheet extrusion (Click Here). The company has announced that it installed a Meaf Machines (Yerseke / The Netherlands) extruder for testing purposes.
Following successful tests, the process is to be scaled up for commercial production at Econcore’s subsidiary ThermHex Waben (Halle / Germany). The Dutch company is targeting usage in the automotive industry as well as large-scale applications in the furniture industry.
Econcore says the PET recyclate of up to 95% content comes from used PET bottles. In a series of steps, the material is first extruded into sheets, then vacuum formed and made into a honeycomb core.
SOURCE: K-online
EconCore provides core technologies for most economic honeycomb sandwich panels and parts
EconCore aims to provide technologies enabling our clients to produce honeycomb core material, panels and parts at lower cost than any competitor.
EconCore offers technologies for continuous production of most economic honeycomb cores thermoplastic materials (ThermHex) which allow an in-line further processing to lightweight, cost efficient and high quality sandwich panels and parts.
EconCore supports customers and licensees in their application development and integration of the EconCore technologies in existing production lines.
The company produces PP honeycomb core for most economic sandwich panels and parts.
ThermHex Waben GmbH aims to provide quality Polypropylene honeycomb products which help our clients to produce better and, at the same time, more economic sandwich panels and parts for lightweight applications.
We launched our company to actively support customers in their pursuit to ever better meet requirements of weight reduction and a more efficient usage of natural resources. We firmly believe that thru weight reduction in structural parts of many products we can help to reduce our environmental impact and contribute to sustainability while maintaining a high standard of living.
Based on the most efficient Thermhex production process we actively promote the usage of Polypropylene honeycomb core in new applications where honeycomb, mostly for cost reason, has not bee considered an option to date.
