Extrusion International USA 3-2021

5 Extrusion International 3/2021 In spring 2021 viscotec, a division of the Austrianmachinery supplier Starlinger, reached amilestone: an impressive 2million tons of capacity are available for the production of PET recyclate on viscotec systems worldwide A sustainable society with climate-neutral processes requires signi fi cant adjustments in the value chains, which are only possible through innovations. Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are pooling their expertise in the lighthouse project “Waste4Future” to develop new solutions for this goal In March 2021, SORTCO opened a new, state-of- the-art sorting service center, where both optically demanding technical plastics and standard plastics are cleaned. The PURITY CONCEPT V from SIKORA, is used for fi nal sample inspection after the sorting process 46 Lindner’s new 1500 model from theMicromat series was presented at K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany. This very model was delivered to Chilean plastics recycler and circular economy pioneer Comberplast at the beginning of last year and has been successfully shredding old fi shing nets and ropes collected from the Patagonian coasts for the past year “We supply our customers with a plug & play solution immediately ready for use” is howGernot Dorn, Director Sales PVC bei der battenfeld-cincinnati Austria GmbH, Vienna describes in a nutshell the decisive advantage of the machine manufacturer’s cooperation with the Spanish company Molecor Tecnologia SL, based in Loeches-Madrid 42 38 The Germanmanufacturer of Filtration Systems, Gneuss, has seen a surge of interest among customers looking to retro fi t their extrusion lines 31 40 32