Herbold Meckesheim at the FAKUMA 2017 (17/10/ – 21/10/2017) Hall A6 Stand 6511

HERBOLD’s main emphasis in recycling Herbold Meckesheim’s scope of supply includes machines and plants for size reduction and agglomeration of clean plastics waste as well as for size reducing, washing, separating, drying, and agglomerating contaminated, mixed post-consumer plastics. Special emphasis is on high-performance plants, i.e. over 3 t/h for rigid plastics or over 1 t/h…

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Herbold Meckesheim at IFAT Munich

The hot washing system for polyolefins is one of the product innovations presented by Herbold Meckesheim at IFAT Munich. Hot washing results in qualities of recyclates that are suitable for use in the food sector. At booth 153 in hall B5, IFAT trade fair visitors can become familiar with the machine builder’s modular systems from Monday, May 30, to Friday, June 3.

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Herbold High Speed Shredder – A New Solution for Recycling Plastic Waste

Washing and size reduction of highly contaminated PE and PP bottles
The applications of plastic waste recycling become more and more complicated: the feeding material is characterised by a steadily growing contamination and an increasing percentage of foreign bodies. One reason for this are the new sorting procedures; another reason is the fact that more and more frequently, streams of waste materials that in the past could not be recycled at all, or only after a preceding time-consuming and costly manual preparation, are nowadays treated fully-automatically…

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Herbold Circular Shredder Series ZSR 230

For shredding of large-diameter, reject pipes: a completely new solution! The HERBOLD circular shredder of the ZSR serie

Dickwandige PE-Rohre erreichen immer größere Dimensionen: waren bisher 1600 mm ein geläufiger Standard, sind heute bereits Abmessungen über 2000 mm keine Ausnahme mehr. Natürlich entsteht auch bei der Herstellung dieser Rohre mit Wandstärken teilweise über 100 mm und Anfahrklumpen mit mehreren 100 kg Stückgewicht…

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Growing markets, higher throughputs

Herbold Meckesheim is reporting an excellent order situation for PET and film washing lines towards the end of the current fiscal year. Towards the end of the US fiscal year, because since last summer Herbold belongs to the US group Hillenbrand Inc. Last October, a separate Recycling Business Unit was set up under the umbrella of Hillenbrand with the machinery building company Coperion to cover the entire process chain of plastics processing. This gives the Meckesheim-based plant manufacturer an even stronger basis and more impetus for its steady growth.

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First the mechanics, then the chemistry

The agreement is rightly called historic: Recently, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) passed a resolution providing a global agreement to curb plastic waste. By the end of 2024, a legally binding convention is to regulate the entire life cycle of plastics. Bitterly necessary, after all, according to UN figures, around 400 million tons of plastic waste are generated worldwide every year, of which only about nine percent is recycled.

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