Technology provider Saperatec GmbH has commissioned an industrial pilot plant for the recycling of composite materials at its headquarters in Germany. The company has developed the patented process especially for the processing of plastic-plastic and plastic-aluminium laminates. In addition to processing packaging materials and beverage cartons, the plant is also able to recycle automobile glass or photovoltaic modules.
Due to sophisticated micro-emulsions, Saperatec offers a completely new and unique possibility to separate composite materials and, thus, to recover the individual components as clean secondary raw materials. The entire separation process is realized inside the plant: from treating the composite material in the micro-emulsion, via the washing of the separated materials all the way to the recirculation of the micro-emulsion and sorting of the individual fractions thus obtained.
Shortly, the company will begin working on customer-tailored projects. For this, Saperatec will license the process for industrial plants at the customer and provide the appropriate micro-emulsions.
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A shredded beverage carton (on the left) is separated into its component parts aluminium and polyethylene (on the right) in the pilot plant (photo: Saperatec)
