Extrusion International USA 1-2019

46 Extrusion International 1/2019 RECYCLING – CASE STUDY recognized the potential of plastic collection in 1985 as an opportunity for founding his own company. That same year, he urged his parents to drop out of school and set up his own With the Right Choice to Success Image 1: The Dutch plastics recycling company DALY Plastics processes 35,000 t of agricultural films and pallet shrink films per year into gray, black and tea-colored polyethylene re-granulates for the reuse in blowfilmproduction (All images: TECHNOKOMM) Like plastics manufacturing and processing, the recycling of plastic products requires specialization to be efficient. Accordingly, the Dutch company DALY Plastics has dedicated itself entirely to the recycling of agricultural films and packaging films from transport logistics. Currently, the processing volume rates 35,000 tons per year. DALY Plastics when processing film-flakes relies on the machine technology of the Upper Austrian company “MAS-Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Schulz GmbH”. Three extrusion lines are currently in operation, a fourth is presently beeing commissioned Image 2: The Daly Plastics collection system ensures the continuous supply of rawmaterials with agricultural films and commercial films largely separated by type and quality SThe Daalder family in Zutphen in the Dutch province of Gelderland is already in the second generation in the collection of recyclables. It all started with Simon Daalder B.V., who professionally collected waste paper and cardboard boxes and sold them to paper mills. At the age of sixteen, Peter Daalder, the practical oriented son of the founders of the company, Image 3: The filmbales are dissolved at DALY Plastics. They then go through a sorting process that eliminates foreignmaterial and separates the films into color classes or material quality. This is used to produce unmixed bales, which are processed into granules in the recycle plant