Inline Applications Food Contact Approved
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There is a way which takes you to your target faster. Without detours. A way which enables you to save energy and space, increase your productivity and reduce your costs. It is the direct way: the VACUREMA® Inline solution. With this solution you go from post-consumer PET flakes directly to finished thermoforming sheet or bottle preforms, to finished strapping or monofilaments. In a single process step. We achieve these direct benefits for you by combining the highly efficient VACUREMA® system with the appropriate downstream production line. Leading technologies which merge seamlessly. For...

VACUREMA® Inline Applications In line with your objectives: • High profitability and production efficiency: end products directly from post-consumer PET flakes, in a single process step, without the detour via pellet production • Extremely clean, top products, approved for direct food contact • Flexible on input, stable on output: Broad range of PET input materials possible: bottle flakes, ground amorphous skeleton waste, edge trim, strapping production waste, virgin material, bulk densities from 250 to 850 kg/m³ Output: consistent end products in terms of IV value and colour despite...

PET flakes (feeding system not shown) Vacuum sluice Zone 2: Temperature increase to 190°C VACUREMA® removes migration substances and moisture already BEFORE extrusion Vacuum pump Zone 1: Removal of external moisture Zone 3: Removal of internal moisture and decontamination Vacuum reactor Patented combination of vacuum reactor and single-screw extruder 32 μm high-performance filter with large active filter area INLINE SHEET INLINE PREFORM Melt One of the key benefits of the patented VACUREMA technology is that decontamination and the removal of moisturealready takes place BEFORE extrusion....

Safe and sound. No compromises when it comes to direct food contact. Trust in the most proven technology. Trust in: VACUREMA®. With regard to food contact compliance it is once again the basic VACUREMA® principle which ensures reliability because, as the flakes are already decontaminated, any undesired migration substances are removed before extrusion. This means that the materials removed cannot make their way into the polymer either. As a result, you have extremely clean products which are approved for direct food contact. Plus: these products fulfil the criteria of the FDA, EFSA and...

High IV values, superior stability This means, therefore, that the PET recycling system has to reach the exact IV value which is required for the respective bottle application. And: also keep this value constant at the defined level. In other words: maximum process stability. VACUREMA : stable IV values like virgin material VACUREMA® technology fulfils this requirement to perfection. And gives you rPET melt with outstanding IV stability. The intrinsic viscosity is so stable here that the values even lie within the tolerance thresholds for virgin PET material. Besides high product stability,...

Looking good! Safe to say. Bottles and thermoforming products which are produced using rPET melt from a VACUREMA® stand out through their flawless appearance. The key to success here is: highly efficient ultrafine filtration. Even if the material has been thoroughly washed, post-consumer PET flakes contain approx. 20 ppm aluminium and steel particles. In the case of a plant with output at 1,000 kg/h (24 tonnes/day) this already corresponds to 480 grams of aluminium and steel a day! THE PROBLEM: if such impurities are not removed from the melt, surface defects may occur in the preforms and...

Flexibility wins. Flexibility is the ability to adapt perfectly to changing conditions. Flexibility is: VACUREMA®. Because, unlike all other PET recycling systems, VACUREMA® turns widely varying input into a very stable, exactly defined output. Flexibility with the input material means for you: with VACUREMA® it is possible to combine an extremely wide variety of PET material types/ shapes with each other. The mixing ratio of the materials can vary. The input material can likewise vary enormously in terms of moisture, degree of contamination and IV values. VACUREMA® evens out these...

ACUREMA® Sustainably better. SAVE ENER Conserving resources. This central idea is one of the key driving forces in PET recycling. This is because both the environment and the public benefit equally when waste is avoided and used PET products are transformed into new ones. Conserving resources. This also has to be a guiding principle for the technical process of rPET sheet or strapping production. Because if you bear in mind that electrical energy accounts for roughly 30 per cent of the costs in this area, those technologies which address this specific issue have a clear edge. Conserving...

With conventional systems, on the other hand, energy consumption is considerably higher because separate and energy-intensive predrying and crystallisation units are required and the extruder is also longer and features degassing. Saving energy means saving costs. No additional predrying necessary Thanks to the multifunctionality of the vacuum reactors the PET input material is not only decontaminated, compacted, buffered and dosed inside them, it is also automatically heated and predried. The benefit: additional predrying is not necessary. With the standard design, materials with input...

INLINE SHEET ACUREMA® Inline Sheet Fully food contact compliant. Energy efficiency included. Benefits 100% food contact compliant. Through and through. rPET sheet which comes out of a VACUREMA® Inline Sheet system is ready for direct food contact. It fulfils the high requirements placed on it by the subsequent thermoforming process. In other words: top mechanical properties. The sheet also stands out through its flawless appearance. Because it achieves top colour results and, thanks to large-area ultrafine filtration, is free from contaminants. Decisive arguments in direct food contact. So...