AMUT and EREMA are holding an Open House to present its bottle to packaging process and display its closed material loop in the PET sector.
Processed in its new demonstration facility, the post-consumer flakes are a direct combination of VACUREMA technology and the AMUT Inline Sheet plant is a single process to make food contact grade thermoforming sheets.
Piergianni Milani, AMUT President, said: "Energy savings, IV preservation, lower logistics and process costs lead to higher profitability and are unbeatable arguments which are driving the trend towards direct food grade PET processing."
Michael Buchberger, Sales Manager, and Christoph Wöss, Business Development Manager for the application Bottle, in front of the VACUREMA in the production hall at EREMA. The system is scheduled to be commissioned at AMUT at the beginning of May.
Michael Buchberger, Sales Manager for the Bottle sector at EREMA, explained: "The Open House visitors will hold food contact grade thermoforming sheet produced from 100 per cent post-consumer PET bottle flakes in their hands without even the slightest amount of virgin material added.”
The post-consumer PET material is already decontaminated and pre-dried prior to extrusion in the vacuum reactor of the VACUREMA Basic, with a throughput of up to 1,000 kg per hour.
The newly developed EREMA PET Laserfilter processes input material with a degree of contamination of over 1 per cent and due to its pressure consistency, the filter system is suitable for inline production.
The integrated online viscometer shows the user the precise viscosity of the melt and the high-stiffness cooling rolls give precise material planarity.
The monolayer thermoforming sheet produced from pure rPET is 100 per cent food contact compliant, fulfilling the FDA regulations and EFSA guidelines.
The 100 per cent rPET sheet will be used to make thermoformed trays for the food sector at the AMUT booth 111/112 in Hall 13 during the Plast Milan show.
