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"Foil shred recycling using Thermo Scientific twin-screw extruders"

Innovative Twin-Screw Extrusion Technology for Efficient Foil Shred Recycling

Effective strategies for managing challenging recycling materials

Recycling plastic through melting and re-extrusion is an established approach usually done on an industrial scale. Using scaled-down extruders for polymer recycling research in laboratories or pilot plants also works with hard-to-handle materials like shredded plastic foils and low-density plastic fibers. This helps save time and money and in addition, the process parameters found at the lab scale can be used for scale-up to production throughput.

This application note describes how small-scale twin-screw extruders, with their excellent dispersive and distributive mixing, can be used to investigate recycling solutions economically.

Flexible scaled-down extruders benefits:

• Process also hard-to-handle materials like shredded plastic foils and low-density plastic fibers or textile fabrics
• Require only small amount of materials starting with m 200 g/h up to 30 kg/h
• Reaching faster steady state that saves time for each experiment
• Flexible screw-design, feeders and down-stream equipment

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