Extrusion International 3-2018

39 Extrusion International 3/2018 An increase in sales of the INTAR- EMA ® K recycling system built by the mechanical engineers EREMA had been already clear before the end of the 2017/18 financial year at the end of March. By the end of March 2018, a total of over 40 of these process- ing systems had been shipped with- in twelve months – twice as many compared to the previous financial year. According to Andreas Dirn- berger, the fact that customers are concentrating more on the recycling of clean edge trim can be explained largely by the increasing demand for high-quality film products and the associated expansion of production capacities. The Business Develop- ment Manager at the EREMA Group says that the INTAREMA ® K’s road to success comes from its profitabil- ity: “The material alone accounts for around 80 per cent of the manu- facturing costs of flexible packag- ing. If you consider the usual edge trim figure of around 10 per cent in blown film manufacturing, recycling is a must-have in terms of cost effi- ciency.” The edge trim which accu- mulates in production can be trans- ferred directly from the blown film plant – without pre-shredding – to make high-quality recyclates. And 100 per cent of these recyclates can then be put back into the produc- The INTAREMA ® K at Coveris is in operation 24/7. 100 per cent of the recycled material is put back into the film production process. Photo credits: EREMA tion process. “Thanks to the INTAR- EMA ® K the film manufacturer re- duces both material and production costs considerably as a result,” says Dirnberger, summing up. This is also substantiated by Manfred Goellner, Head of Process Engineering at Ho- sokawa Alpine, one of the largest producers of blown film plants in the world: “We expect a recycling system to work with absolute reli- ability and fully automatically. This is why we have a machine built by ER- EMA in use in our inhouse technical centre and also recommend that our customers count on the INTAREMA ® K.” Perfect payback period The INTAREMA ® K is available to OEM customers such as Hosokawa Alpine as part of standardised sys- tem packages but there is also high demand for it among end custom- ers. The Austrian company Coveris Flexibles Austria has been regarded as a specialist in film production for over 50 years. The company runs blow and cast extrusion lines, print- ing and finishing machines and 20 recycling systems from EREMA in Kufstein, Austria. “We have been using fully automatic edge trim processing systems from EREMA for many years,” says Ferdinand Mikesch, Head of Process, Engineer- ing & Technology at Coveris: “Not least because the payback period for the compact systems is very short.” INTAREMA ® K – fully automatic and flexible The INTAREMA ® K is ideal for the processing of a wide variety of clean plastic waste. PE mono or multilayer films, PE films with PP, PA, EVOH or EVA or also breathable films such as PE with calcium carbonate can be processed. A low mass temperature ensures very gentle processing of the polymer. Thanks to the interplay with integrated control the INTAR- EMA ® K’s preconditioning unit en- ables automatic adjustment to vary- ing input quantities. In the event of brief material shortages the system switches to standby in the interest of maximum energy efficiency. EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. Unterfeldstr. 3, 4052 Ansfelden, Austria www.erema.com