Extrusion International 3-2024

39 Extrusion International 3/2024 Turkish Plastics Recycler Enters PET Bottle-to-Bottle Market The plastics recycling company Tanrıkulu based near Istanbul, Türkiye, commissioned its new Starlinger recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling system in the last quarter of 2023. T he PET bottle-to-bottle line is the second plastics recycling system from Starlinger that Tanrıkulu has installed. It is in operation at Tanrıkulu’s post-consumer PET processing plant in Akyazı, Sakarya Province, in Tür - kiye’s Marmara Region. The recycling system processes post-consumer PET bottle flakes and has a production output of 2.4 tons per hour. Tanrıkulu supplies the bottle-grade rPET pellets to customers in Turkey and abroad. The recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ recycling line is equipped with a special cartridge filter that reduces production waste, increases the production output and ensures highly purified melt. The backflush melt filter system called DPC 4000 operates continuously with two screen- bearing pistons and four screen cavities. With a total of approx. 4000 cm², the filtration area is 2.4 times larger than when using standard screens, filtering the melt with a fineness of 56 μm. Another big advantage is the high process stabilization as 75% of the filtration area is available in the filtration process during screen change and backflushing. The DPC 4000 cartridge filter signifi - cantly reduces melt loss during backflushing and gener - ally improves system performance. “With our ongoing investments in PET recycling we aim to protect our social, cultural and natural environ - ment for future generations by closing the packaging loop. Every discarded PET bottle should become a new PET bottle again,” said İzzet Tanrıkulu, General Manag - er of Tanrıkulu Group of Companies. “Starlinger is one of the leading technology suppliers in the field of PET bottle-to-bottle recycling. The Starlinger PET recycling process has been approved by international brand own- ers in the food and beverage sector as well as by impor- tant legal authorities such as FDA and EFSA. We strive to improve the environmental impact of plastic packaging by combining the latest technology with our vast expe- rience in the field of recycling, thereby reducing both plastic waste and resource consumption.” Starlinger recycling technology Furtherstr. 47a, 2564 Weissenbach, Austria www.recycling.starlinger.com Tanrıkulu Group www.tanrikulu.com.tr/en/ Starlinger’s recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling line installed at Tanrıkulu’s Akyazı plant in Sakarya Province, Türkiye, produces 2.4 tons of food-grade rPET pellets per hour (©Starlinger) www.smart-extrusion.com