As the world’s leading supplier of machinery for woven plastic bag production and PET recycling, Starlinger at this year’s K, will be presenting its solutions for PET treatment and the processing of rPET.
PET, stands out as being the only plastic material that can be recycled into high-quality for reuse. Taking that fact into account, Austria’s Starlinger & Co.Ges.m.b.H, at this year’s K, will be focusing on PET treatment and the processing of rPET in innovative packaging solutions.
From PET Bottle to High-Performance Fabric
Hermann Adrigan, Sales Director at Starlinger, with respect to his explanation on PET solutions, stated as follows: “Over the last two decades, Starlinger has acquired a great deal of know-how relating to PET. Now we are able to draw on this, with new packaging applications that benefit from the outstanding properties of PET and rPET.”
Since the presentation at K 2013 of the first FIBC made of 100% woven PET, and based on many years of company experience in PET recycling, Starlinger, for textile packaging, has developed proprietary technology for the production of wove tape fabric from up to 100% rPET flakes. Since the properties of rPET match those of virgin material, fabric woven from rPET, has exceptionally high tensile strength coupled with a high creep modulus. It is extremely resistant and retains shape stability over a long period of time even under the effects of load and temperature exposure – advantages which make PET fabric the material of choice for a wide range of new applications.
Suitable for attractive designs, PET fabrics are also favoured for packaging food products and consumer goods. Thus, Starlinger will be showing for the first time a “PET, pet food sack” at K. Also in keeping with the focus on PET are the viscoSTAR SSP reactor and the viscoSHEET line from Starlinger viscotec. With the viscoSTAR SSP reactor, PET pellets or flakes are decontaminated and rendered suitable for the use in applications with food contact while increasing the intrinsic viscosity of the material. Viscosheet lines produce sheet from up to 100 % Rpet – out of flakes from production waste, skeleton waste, or edge trims. Along with the viscoSTAR SSP reactor, individual components of the viscoSHEET line such as calender and winder will be on display at K.
A Sack For Every Purpose
A milestone in Starlinger’s history will enjoy a prominent place at K 2016: the AD*STAR sack. The all-rounder, first launched in 1995, now serves the building, chemical agricultural and food product industries with over 7.5 billion sacks per year. The block bottom valve sacks made of coated PP tape fabric are safe and very environment-friendly means of packaging for dry bulk goods such as cement, gypsum, chemicals, as well as flour, rice or sugar. The latest technological developments in the fields of woven sack production and plastics reprocessing will be available for viewing at the in-house exhibition, to be held in October on Starlinger’s own premises.
