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77 Extrusion International 5/2025 up its rst large-scale extruders for chemical recycling during the 2024/25 nancial year. The development of bre-to- bre recycling also looks very promising. Ini - tial pilot projects have already been carried out, and an EREMA reference system will start operation later this year. The commissioning of a recycling machine for post-consumer textiles by PURE LOOP, one of the Group's subsidiaries, at Salvation Army Trading Com- pany in spring 2024, marks a newmilestone. The project won the Plastics Industry Award. At the end of the 2024/25 nancial year, the EREMA Group completed a comprehensive investment pro- gramme spanning the last ve years with a volume of EUR 145 million. "Part of this programme involved the Group's own component manufacturing company 3S, which has been optimised with an investment of EUR 23 million to signi cantly increase the in-house pro - duction share of key components and strengthen the Group's supply chain over the long term," reports Horst Wolfsgruber, CFO of the EREMA Group. EREMA has also strengthened its international sales structure by appointing Christoph Wöss as Global Sales Director in April. In future, the strategic focus will be aligned even more closely with the speci cs of regional demand as well as market and customer requirements. Despite challenging market conditions, the EREMA Group still focuses on the ongoing development of ef - cient recycling solutions in all sectors. "We are convinced that the demand for recycling technologies will keep in- creasing in the coming years," says Manfred Hackl. "The framework conditions remain challenging, but the usage of plastic will continue to increase. The only way to meet this demand responsibly is with reliable recycling." EREMA Group GmbH www.erema.com Process Optimisation as the Key for New Process and Quality Standards in Plastics Recycling I n August 2023, the two Austrian family-run companies, Lindner Holding and the EREMA Group, founded the joint venture BLUE- ONE Solutions. Their objective is to bring the entire technological recycling process closer together –from shredding, sorting, wash- ing and drying to extrusion –and to optimise this process along the value chain. By combining their ex- pertise, the partners have created the basis for a new way of thor- oughly optimising the processes, with the aim of setting new stan- dards in plastics recycling. After their first successful quick wins, which were presented at the IFAT and PRS Europe last year, the co- operation partners will present their new developments at K 2025. These redefine the process engi- neering behind plastics recycling, especially in terms of energy effi- ciency, throughput, plant design and recycling quality – according to the motto: Innovating the stan- dards in plastics recycling. Integrated plant design for de ned throughput The capacity of individual compo- nents plays a minor role when de- signing recycling plants. The focus is on the precise interplay of the entire process chain – from shredding and sorting to washing and drying to ex- trusion and post-processing. To reli- ably produce the desired quantity of recyclate at the required quality, it’s Innovating the standards in plastics recycling – this is the declared goal of the cooperation between Lindner Washtech and EREMA. Through targeted process optimisations along the entire value chain, the partners are setting new benchmarks in ef ciency and recycling quality. In the photo (from left to right): Marcel Willberg, Sales Director at Lindner Washtech, and Clemens Kitzberger, Business Development Manager Application Post Consumer at EREMA Group (Picture: Copyright © Lindner Recyclingtech)