Unifi, a leading manufacturer of recycled high-performance fibre headquartered in the USA, first launched its recycled polyester fibre Repreve in 2007.
What started as a way to recycle its own waste, soon grew into a bigger initiative when the company also started collecting and recycling PET bottles. Unifi built its Repreve Bottle processing centre and Repreve recycling centre where the company transforms plastic bottles into high-quality flake, resin and fiber, which is blended into performance recycled fiber. For reasons of transparency, Unifi also introduced its U TRUST verification, with traceable FiberPrint technology, to back up all recycled claims. To date, the company has transformed 35 billion plastic bottles into its proprietary Repreve recycled fibre, a process that relies on, among others, the Micromat shredders supplied by Austria-headquartered Lindner through its hub in Statesville, North Carolina.
The shredders in the Micromat series are designed specifically to meet the requirements of post- commercial and post-consumer plastics recycling, with high-torque motors for powerful shredding and engineered to optimise uptime and streamline maintenance tasks. Unifi and Lindner have been partners since 2018. Today a total of three Lindner Micromat 2000 shredders are in operation at the plant.
Scott Trivette, Operations Manager of the Repreve® Recycling Centre and Future Innovation Centre in Yadkinville, North Carolina, called Lindner a provider who ‘is always there for us’.
“Which is essential with an average production of 1.5 million pounds of resin per week,” he added.