At the end of 2022, POLYSTAR attended Plast Eurasia and cherished once again meeting many of its customers and visitors from Türkiye and neighboring markets.

Global polymer price increase and the obstacles to reach out the resources, push many manufacturers to find alternative solutions. One of the most effective methods is in-house recycling of factory production wastes.

Plastic packaging production and demand, as well as recycling, have increased in Latin America. As a result, having machinery that produces high-quality and long-lasting finished goods is critical.

In-house recycling of stretch wrap, pallet wrap and shrink wrap waste significantly reduces the cost

One of the leading PP (polypropylene) packaging producers in Nigeria has recently acquired a 85mm Polystar PP woven sack recycling machine. The company focuses on the production of PP woven bags and jumbo bags. On average, the production lines generate 2~3% waste and has been costing too much for the company to send the scraps outside for recycling.

Managing director of the Tennessee-based recycler, Mr. Irvin Payne, shares his own experience with Polystar recycling extruder:

Post-industrial recycling of PP raffia, woven sacks, tapes, non-woven/woven could be challenging at times for some producers due to the following reasons: 

The air-cooled pelletizing recycling machine Repro-Air has proven to be a big cost-saver for two of the largest PE bag producers located in Solo, Indonesia – Cahaya Kharisma and Djerapah Plastindo.

Multiple sets of recycling pelletizing extruders Repro-Flex have been installed in South Africa in the year of 2020, mainly for film producers and bag converters of LDPE, HDPE, PP and BOPP who process their post-industrial (factory) waste in-house.

The Sweden reputed recycler, which is the professional recycler and collects plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and other products from the automotive sector such as bumpers, battery packs, engine piping, etc.

With the effect of POLYSTAR’s recycling machine running in Japanese market successfully , the reputed recycler who is located at Ibaraki Japan decide to go with POLYSTAR . Established in 1963, the customer devote himself as the professional recycler. They purchased the post-industrial and post-consumer grade waste from all sectors of economy, including the blown film extrusion industry, food packaging film industry, injection molding and blown molding industry. That is made possible by consisting of five recycling line in their facilities and should be able to expand their business scale in the near future.

The POLYSTAR extruder pelletizer and FIMIC filtration system combination provide simple solution for post-consumer recycling.