Kunststoffe-Plast Europe, Vol.94, No.2, 74-74, 2004
Gentle recycling
Compacting machines are conventionally used for the agglomeration of post-consumer plastics with poor flowing characteristics such as film, fibres or foam in order to improve their apparent density and free-flowing properties. Over time however, these machines have also proven useful for processing cleaned post-consumer PET bottles and for drying washed post-consumer film.