Coperion has launched the operation of its new “Recycling Innovation Center”. In this high-tech test centre for plastics recycling applications, every recycling process step – from material handling and feeding to extrusion, compounding, pelletizing, material postprocessing and deodorization – can be tested.

The new facility complements the Herbold Meckesheim Test Center, where customers can simulate and test the mechanical pretreatment of plastic, allowing customers to experience first-hand the significant reduction in organic impurities by using Herbold Meckesheim’s hot washing system, as an example. Herbold Meckesheim has been part of Coperion’s Recycling Business Unit since 2022.

The Recycling Innovation Center is located in Niederbiegen near Weingarten, Germany, directly adjacent to Coperion’s existing Test Center for Bulk Solids Handling. Along with proprietary research and development projects, first tests have been performed for customers, in which new, sustainable products and recycling processes have been developed and tested. Coperion process engineers can modify the available recycling technologies such that the recompounds are manufactured with the highest efficiency possible while maintaining a consistently high level of product quality. The results achieved can then be effortlessly scaled up to production level thanks to the constant base parameters of all Coperion technologies.

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The ultramodern Coperion Recycling Innovation Center in Niederbiegen near Weingarten, Germany has successfully launched operation.

 

Coperion has equipped its new Recycling Innovation Center with the latest technology for every essential recycling process step – from material handling, feeding, extrusion, compounding and pelletizing to material postprocessing and deodorization.
 

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