Technology - Recycling - Plastics Machinery Magazine

Textile firm Unifi builds capacity to make recycled yarn

Issue: April 2017

North Carolina-based Unifi has built the vertically integrated capacity to produce 50 million pounds of recycled synthetic fiber each year. [more]
Color-sorting equipment is going high-tech

Issue: March 2017

Being able to make products using the whole spectrum of color is one of the advantages of plastics. But sorting those colorful products for recycling when [more]
Firms implement quality-enhancing strategies, systems

Issue: March 2017

Plastics recycling is not a glamorous process, but it is becoming smarter, using electronic and online tools to improve machine performance and pellet [more]
Firms take on tough scrap, smells

Issue: February 2017

At the K show, Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH, Feldkirchen, Austria, and Kuhne GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany, introduced the P:Sheet system, which [more]

Equipment suppliers showcase advances at K show

Issue: December 2016

Recycling equipment suppliers introduced significant technological improvements at October's K show in Düsseldorf, Germany, amid signs that [more]
Erema recycles waste at K show

Issue: December 2016

Erema was a show stopper at K2016. The Intarema recycling system at K. Using its Intarema recycling system, the Ansfelden, Austria, company recycled plastic [more]
Extruder makers bringing innovations to recycling

Issue: October 2016

Compounders of recycled plastics are looking to extruder makers for innovations that will help their products compete with low-priced virgin resin. KraussMaffei [more]

Good Works invests in tools to meet reduction challenges

Issue: August 2016

Inside the facilities of Good Works Reprocessing LLC (GWR) in eastern Pennsylvania, an array of carefully selected equipment does the gritty work of reducing [more]
Una-Dyn offering comprehensive granulator line

Issue: June 2016

Universal Dynamics Inc., the U.S. arm of Piovan SpA, Venice, Italy, has introduced a comprehensive line of granulators to the U.S. market, which will be [more]
Sorticanter sorts plastics by density

Issue: June 2016

Flottweg SE, Vilsbiburg, Germany, is bringing its trademarked Sorticanter technology to the North American market. Sorticanter separates plastics by density [more]