In an era of soaring raw material prices, high quality re-granulate becomes a cost-saving alternative to virgin material. If the production waste is processed in-house, a company can control the quality of the re-granulate with its materials management. The choice of recycling system has long-term implications for re-granulate quality, user-friendliness, production costs and consequently amortisation time. It determines how much re-granulate can be mixed with virgin material without jeopardizing the extrusion process and reducing the quality of the product.
Reprocessing technology has to take into account the very different chemical and physical properties of the many types of plastic now in use. The required technology and the configuration of the recycling line depend on these.