Herbold Meckesheim, based in Meckesheim, Germany, will at K 2016 (Stand 9B 42 in Hall 9) be featuring five stages of recycling plastic waste, for all of which it is able to offer specialist equipment characterised by low operating costs and enhanced efficiency:

 

- Pre-size-reduction: for this purpose shredders, granulators, guillotines and hammer mills can be used.

- Size-reduction: the company’s patented SB Type granulators with forced feeding ensure a continuous and even flow by means of feeding screws.

- Fine grinding: this is defined as pulverising below 1mm; for this purpose, depending on the product, granulators or impact disc pulverizers are used.

- Washing, separating and drying: a high-quality end product can be obtained by separating undesirable plastics with the hydrocyclone separation step.

- Agglomerating/densifying: with extreme materials such as stretch film or foams, adequate mechanical or thermal drying is not possible without high energy consumption; a solution to this problem is the Herbold Plastcompactor (pictured). www.herbold.com

 

 

Herbold HGM 60/200 wet shredder, showing swivel-type screen support and (below) HV series Plastcompactor