News items February 2019

in Neuseelands erstem PET-Recyclingwerk Schönberg, February 2019 20,000 tons of virgin PET is imported to New Zealand annually. New Zealand government’s Waste Minimization Fund supports the project to reduce that environmental harm. A grant enables the parent company Flight Group Ltd. to open New Zealand’s first PET recycling plant in Wellington and spend NZ$ 12 million (US$ 8.8 million) on a full upgrade at its facility including a wash plant for PET bottles. Flight Group was established in 1907 and initially made leather luggage. It is still privately held by members of the original Osborne family owners. Flight moved into plastic production in the 1970s. It also has PET product manufacturing plants in Adelaide, Australia, and Romsey, England. Keith Smith, CEO of Flight Plastics Ltd in Wellington said the wash plant and other work at the facility enables Flight Plastic to produce thermoformed packaging from recycled PET bottles. The company installed extrusion equipment to use recycled PET

Special GKM Screening Machine KTS-VS2 2000 The GKM Control Screening Machine KTS-VS2 2000/1 has been specially developed for the screening of cement before silo-truck loading. The machine has a central inlet and outlet. This and the additionally enlarged inlet allows a throughput of 200 t/h with a mesh size of 2.0 mm. The screening process removes contaminants and oversize particles maintaining the high quality of your products before loading the truck. The machine is treated with ViwateQ® surface finish to prevent and reduce adhesions of the product. The conical lower part and the screen frame are equipped with a newly developed vibrating cleaning system for cleaning the mesh cloth and to increase the performance of the machine. The KTS-VS2 2000/1 1 is already well established at well-known manufacturers in the building materials industry.

Contaminated agricultural and packaging film are lead back into the cycle Daly Plastics is one of the largest plastics waste processing companies in the Netherlands. At the Zutphen site, the subsidiary Caroda Polymer Recovery recycles agricultural and packaging films. The aim is to produce regranulates of the same quality as virgin material. That requires innovative solutions. Two Jupiter 2200 and four Micromat 2000 shredders from Lindner Recyclingtech provide the recovery facility with the ideal particle size. The agricultural film is collected from over 2,500 farmers in the Benelux countries and northern Germany. Approximately 64,000 metric tons of used film arrive for processing each year, the majority of which is recycled as reusable polyethylene recyclate (regranulate). Lindner Jupiter – the perfect primary shredder for agricultural and packaging film Daly Plastics relies on Lindner’s technological expertise for film shredding. Two Jupiter 2200 and four Micromat 2000 shredders are in continuous operation – four shifts,

Car parts and accessories retail specialist, MotorNuts supplies customers through an extensive online store which has a huge range of quality products from leading brands and suppliers. MotorNuts are a leading retailer of car parts and accessories. Their extensive online store has a huge range of quality products from bulbs to brake pads, wiper blades to wheel nuts. They have built a successful business selling everything for the modern day motorist; from garage essentials such as oils and tools; leisure accessories including all the necessities for camping and caravanning, cycle carriers, roof bars and boxes through to car care, cleaning and valeting products. MotorNuts operate as a family business and are fully supported with their team of experts, who together have over 100 years combined experience of car parts and accessories retailing. During this time they have developed excellent relationships with their product suppliers, which in turn allows them to get