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In the beginning is the shredder

For use in plastic recycling plants, the demand for powerful shredders has grown. Especially those that can process entire bales at the beginning of the reprocessing chain. Modern washing plants in particular, such as produced by Herbold Meckesheim, require sophisticated shredder technology to be able to process high throughputs and challenging feed materials. At the same time, the machines should be largely wear-resistant and as simple as possible to operate and maintain.

Impressive results with the HERBOLD plastcompactor when recycling plastic films

BOPET and BOPP films with heavily printed surface or metallized cannot be treated with traditional recycling processes, or at least only with great difficulty due to the high standards required for the degasification of extruders….

Herbold washing plant gets to the heart of PP hard plastics

The primary production of one metric ton of polypropylene – the world’s second most widely used plastic – requires some 5.2 metric tons of raw materials and releases 1.7 metric tons of greenhouse gases. By contrast, the use of one metric ton of polypropylene from secondary raw materials, such as plastic waste, results in only around 225 kilograms of resource consumption and just under one metric ton of greenhouse gases.

HERBOLD SB series granulator with force feeding device

A new development has rarely been as successful as the HERBOLD SB series granulator with force feeding device. With this granulator design the infeed material is fed by force into the grinding chamber with the help of horizontal feeding screws…

HERBOLD MECKESHEIM: new pulverizing concept with vertical pulverizer

There are mainly two fields in the plastics industry where pulverizing is required most: when recycling rigid PVC waste, pulverizing into powder creates a high-quality regenerated material that can directly be introduced into the heating mixer. In the field of rotational molding and fluidized bed coating, the virgin material is pulverized to a fineness of 500 my (35 mesh) or 300 my (60 mesh) before its treatment. …

Herbold Meckesheim will be present at the IFAT 2016 (30.05.-03.06.2016) in Munich, Hall C1/ 117

HERBOLD MECKESHEIM: Post-consumer recycling – more efficient and economic recycling.
In Munich, the manufacturer of machines and plants from Meckesheim/Germany will present new solutions for washing, separating and drying of plastic waste featuring low operating costs and higher efficiency.
In the front of the line is the HERBOLD wet shredder HGM…

HERBOLD Meckesheim has just started rebuilding the site destroyed by the devastating blaze

May 15, 2019 – After the devastating fire in September 2018, HERBOLD Meckesheim has just begun rebuilding the destroyed production halls. The whole incoming goods and shipping department, the warehouse as well as parts of the production area were devastated by the flames.

The new buildings comprise a 4000 M2-area and are supposed to be up and running in September 2019.

HERBOLD MECKESHEIM GMBH: new Solutions to save money in plastics recycling

With reduced margins it is time to cut costs. For the section “sizereduction/ washing/ separation/drying” HERBOLD MECKESHEIM has been developing quite a number of substantial improvements that we are now going to present:…

HERBOLD Meckesheim GmbH will present a new product

HERBOLD MECKESHEIM GmbH (www.herbold.com) has developed a new single-shaft shredder HR 102 P (see photo) with minimal space requirement to treat bulky hollow bodies. …

Herbold Meckesheim GmbH up and running again after the terrible blaze

On the 10th September 2018 a terrible blaze at Herbold Meckesheim GmbH destroyed the central warehouse and the dispatch department.
Hardly a fortnight after the fire, the emergency plan is already being executed. From the second half of October, Herbold Meckesheim will be producing again at almost the same level as before the blaze.