EREMA has concluded its Discovery Days, which took place from 27th to 29th June in Ansfelden, Austria.
More than 1,000 guests attended the event, among companies from the plastics sector, including Borealis, Engel, Greiner, Haidlmair and Henkel.
Besides the technical and strategic answers presented by EREMA with regard to plastics recycling, the topic of circular economy presented an extensive array of perspectives.
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At the beginning of the conference Manfred Hackl, EREMA Group CEO, summed up the challenges facing the industry.
"To reach the new European recycling goal of 55 per cent by 2030, more than 10 million tonnes of recyclate has to be used in the end markets. Compared to 2014, this corresponds to more than double the amount of recycled material. To achieve this, we as raw material manufacturers, producers, processors and recyclers together have to identify new markets, make use of previously untapped sources of plastic and foreground and implement even stronger design for recycling in the long term.”
The discussion between raw material producers confirmed that sustainability is playing an increasing role in company visions.
To drive uniform quality standards in the use of plastic materials and design for recycling, remarks of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) focused on European initiatives such as EuCertPlast and RecyClass.
Speakers from SML or Brückner confirmed that more packaging manufacturers count on a combined production and recycling solution when investing in new equipment.
EREMA says the conference concluded that only more intensive collaboration within the industry can collectively develop the required technologies which will meet the recycling targets and thus see more recycled pellets used in end products.
