Plastics processors represented more than half of the manufacturers surveyed, and their priorities differed from the general manufacturing population. For instance, 38% of all manufacturers use real-time monitoring to improve quality control. For plastics manufacturers, that figure jumps to 61%.

There is always an issue of contamination with recycling. Contaminants can be removed by filtration (screening), and the technology is well ahead of most of our needs. The hard part is estimating the commercial significance of the contamination to justify the cost of finer screening.

The new facility in Münster, Germany, more than triples the company’s amount of manufacturing, R&D and office space, and combines operations that previously were spread across four separate sites.

The MCHigh Output 2500R from Movacolor (Sneek, Netherlands) was developed to allow processors to use a high percentage of low-bulk-density regrind without compromising consistency in the end product.