Extrusion International 3-2018

22 Extrusion International 3/2018 INDUSTRY NEWS Four New NGR Recycling Lines added Film industry giant, Sigma Plastics Group, is dramatically in- creasing their recycling capacity with the addition of four new NGR high output recycling lines. Delivering in May 2018, the four S:GRAN 125 machines will reprocess over 4 million pounds per month of film scrap from their in-house filmproduction. The Sigma Plastics Group was founded in 1978 by Alfred Teo and is the largest privately-owned film extrusion group in North America. Based in Pompano Beach, Florida, the company has 42 manufacturing facilities producing an annual throughput of over 2 billion pounds of resin and employs over 4,700 people. Sigma manufactures a variety of flexible packaging products servicing the industrial, agricultural, food, medical, retail, and converter filmmarkets. The new recycling lines represent an investment of nearly $3 mil- lionandwill be installedat Sigma Plants in Pompano Beach, FL, Spartanburg, SC, Jacksonville, FL andNashville, TN.With the new NGR lines, these Sigma plants will be able to get the highest possible value from their film scrap by using the reprocessed material directly into newfilmproduction. As the largest single customer of NGR, the Sigma Group has over 40 NGR recycling machines operating at plants in the US and Canada. Headquartered in Feldkirchen, Austria and with the US sales and support office in Atlanta, GA, NGR is a leading supplier of recycling lines for the reprocessing of all forms of plastic scrap materials. Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR) www.ngr.at FromPET Bottles Bales to Egg Packs GLOBAL PLASTICS is a well-known Californian manufac- turer of PET packaging made entirely from post-consumer bottles. GLOBAL PLASTICS recycles approximately four million bottles a day, which are sort- ed by colour, ground and washed. The company then pelletizes the flakes and extrudes the sheet for final use in thermoforming. The entire process is performed by AMUT GROUPmachines and complies with FDA certification regulations for packaging suitable for direct food contact applica- tions. Hickman’s Family Farms is involved in eggs extensive production and has launched into the market an egg container made entirely from post-consumer PET soda and water bottles. The partner for this project is GLOBAL PLASTICS. This eco-friendly container takes about five bottles to make an 18-count eggpackandabout threebottles tomakeoneof 12-count egg. A 24-egg carton will be coming to shelves very soon. Hickman’s Family Farms is also starting its own in-house thermo- forming business with ACF920 model branded AMUT-COMI. The newly developed software named EASY extremely simplifies machine running, also for companies that begin to produce. ACF is the AMUT-COMI series firstly presented during K 2016: in two years several machines are already been installed worldwide. ACF model has now penetrated also the Northern American mar- ket. AMUT Group www.amutgroup.com S:GRAN Recycling Line (Image: NGR)