The Intarema TVEplus DuaFil Compact is one of the highlights
Erema, a recycling machine manufacturer, has introduced the Intarema TVEplus DuaFil Compact, a double filtration machine for post-consumer recycling. The company is presenting this product and new recycling systems and new services for the circular economy at K 2022 in Düsseldorf.
With Intarema, the company is aiming to redefine the quality of recycling with significantly reduced energy consumption.
A key feature of the innovative double filtration machine is the consistently gentle treatment of the melt throughout the entire process. This is the result of combining the patented TVEplus technology with the new DuaFil Compact technology.
“Because there is no discharge metering zone and the melt pump is custom designed to the application, the pressure build-up required for the second filtration unit is especially efficient and only needs a much lower temperature,” explains Sebastian Sochor, R&D Engineer at Erema.
The extruder does not need to build up pressure and can be built much shorter, 10 L/D shorter compared to the previous Erema double filtration solution. The lower melt temperature of the DuaFil Compact in this area has a positive effect on the melt quality and significantly reduces energy consumption,” says Sochor.
The Intarema achieves a melt temperature upstream of the second filter unit, which is 18.5 degrees Celsius lower than the previous Erema double filtration solution, and consumes 10 percent less energy overall (specific energy consumption kWh/kg).
“Ultimately, the high quality of the recycled pellets that we achieve with this system creates the opportunity to increasingly replace virgin material with recycled material in end products, meeting the current market trend and sustainability requirements,” says Michael Heitzinger, managing director, Erema.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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