After the first Erema TVE recycling system Erema (www.erema.at) he purchased in 2006, Jean-Paul Dumond has now doubled his production capacity with Erema technology. Based in Saint-Romain-Lachalm in the Auvergne region of France, the recycler has commissioned a second large-scale facility with the same design as the first: an Erema 1721 TVE, configured for throughputs up to around 2,000 kg/h with intensive degassing of the melt processed. The two plants now process clean production waste (primarily high-quality PE-LD) from film producers in the region. Dumond decided in favour of an LF 4/350 Erema laser filter system as the melt filter for this, the largest TVE in the range, with the filter unit upstream of the melt degassing, plus an Erema HG 342 hot die face water ring pelletiser for pelletising. Of the six large-scale Erema 1721 TVE systems currently in operation throughout Europe, three of them are now in production in France – and two of those alone for Dumond recycling.
Photo: Erema LF 4/350 laser filters – with two working in parallel on each of the Dumond systems – enable constant-pressure and continuous separation, in particular of soft residual impurities, of up to around 3% of the plastic melt. (Photo: Erema/Dumond) |
