Erema Discovery Day 2016: Over 250 attendees - Global premiere of “Xtreme Renew” - Direct processing of PET flakes for food contact compliant inline preforms in just one processing step

Presentation of “Xtreme Renew”: Gianfranco Zoppas, Chairman Sipa/Zoppas Industries; Manfred Hackl, CEO Erema; Klaus Feichtinger, CEO Erema; Marc Jacobs, CEO marcjacobsconsulting; Christoph Wöss, Business Development Manager Application Bottle Erema; Enrico Gribaudo, General Manager Sipa - (All Photos: Erema).

This year´s Erema Discovery Day was held at the Erema headquarters in Ansfelden, Austria, on 1 June 2016. Over 250 international customers and interested guests participated. The event was organized by the Austrian recycling plant manufacturer in collaboration with Sipa, the Italian PET packaging solutions’ company with 30 years of experience in the field of preform/bottle production and filling plants, presented the recycling system "Xtreme Renew”. This achievement enables direct and flexible processing of washed PET flakes to produce preforms.

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From sorters and washing plant manufacturers to downstream producers, fillers and brand owners, representatives from the entire PET recycling value chain were present at the Erema headquarters.

"In my experience with customers, the reason why a producer decides in favour of a major investment in a recycling solution is based on a broad-sighted, entrepreneurial approach. Only those companies which are willing and able to adapt will remain in the constantly fluctuating plastics industry in the long term. Thanks to the collaboration with SIPA we make it possible for plastics producers to show the necessary flexibility," says Christoph Wöss, Business Development Manager for Bottle Applications at Erema.

The food contact compliant melt produced by "Vacurema” runs when hot and thus without the otherwise common, intermediate cooling stage in pellet production directly into the "Xtreme” production process developed by Sipa to make preforms in a single step. The benefit of this direct processing, therefore, is an enormous boost in energy efficiency plus considerably lower thermal damage to the PET material, says Erema.

More information: www.engelglobal.com, www.sipa.it

Erema - Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H., Ansfelden, Austria

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