R&P POLYPLASTIC shares the details of its recycling project

Director General of R&P POLYPLASTIC Alexander Pavlov presented a report at the opening of “3R-Plast” Business Agenda at Interplastica Trade Fair on Friday. According to Mr. Pavlov, recent developments are a result of the new wave of the economic crisis, which started a few years ago. It was the decline in GDP growth, which gave impetus to optimizing the manufacturing process. “The idea was right in front of us. We had to find use for manufacturing waste. Taking into account our manufacturing levels we have a lot of waste”, said Mr. Pavlov.

We divided the manufacturing waste into two groups: packaging waste (30%) and hard waste (70%).

The project required sound investments. To produce regranulate (recyclat) R&P POLYPLASTIC purchased new equipment and a specialized domestically produced line using strang granulation. The speaker mentioned that when launching the extruder there were problems in the process of fragmentation, however effectively solved.  

 

Mr. Pavlov said that from the start of the project regranulate was returned to the main production unit for repeated use in compositions (for example materials for Ford underwing flaps – Armlen R PP NF 25-3-901 (black). It is also in high demand as a product of secondary procession. He added that for R&P POLYPLASTIC this is a new customer segment primarily representing small business. We can now state that the project is more than successful paying off in less than two years. For the record, degree of use of secondary procession products in Europe is very high reaching almost 25% and allowing to sufficiently decrease the end product price.

After the presentation, there were many questions from the audience about the level of stabilization and changes of qualities of the recyclats. The speaker explained that qualities can change from 10 to 20% depending on the matrix and the filler however it doesn’t sufficiently affect the quality of the end product and usually is within product specifications.