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May 02, 2018 07:00 AM

Amut, Erema open house to display 'bottle-to-packaging' process

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    Michael Buchberger, Sales Manager, and Christoph Wöss, business development manager for the application Bottle, in front of the Vacurema in the production hall at Erema. The system is scheduled to be commissioned at Amut at the beginning of May.

    Recycling giants, Italy's Amut Group and Austria's Erema, are holding an open house event to present a "bottle-to-packaging" process to visitors during 28-31 May at Amut's headquarters in Novara, Italy.

    As part of the display, washed post-consumer PET bottle flakes will be recycled live at the facility to make food contact grade thermoforming sheet in a direct process. 

    The rPET sheet will be used at the Plast Milan exhibition – which is being held at the same time – to make thermoformed trays for the food sector, the companies have announced. 

    This, said the two recycling line suppliers, “show that the desired closed material loop in the PET sector is already reality.”

    The post-consumer flakes are processed in a new demonstration facility –  a direct combination of Vacurema technology and the Amut Inline Sheet plant – in a single process to make food contact grade thermoforming sheet.

    "Energy savings, IV preservation, lower logistics and process costs lead to higher profitability  and are unbeatable arguments which are driving the trend towards direct food grade PET processing," commented Amut president Piergianni Milani.

    The direct combination of recycling and production technology cuts out a process stage, as the melt goes directly from the Vacurema to the Amut plant without the detour of pelletising.

    "The Open House visitors will hold food contact grade thermoforming sheet produced from 100% consumer PET bottle flakes in their hands –  without  even  the  slightest  amount  of  virgin  material  added,"  also commented Michael  Buchberger,  sales manager for the bottle sector at Erema. 

    A free shuttle service between the trade fair in Milan and the AMUT headquarters in Novara will be available for attendees.

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