Starlinger's packaging and recycling solutions receive positive reviews at K Fair

At K 2025, Starlinger’s production of woven plastic packaging and plastics recycling reported a very positive trade fair.

Harald Neumüller, CSO of Starlinger.

“Circular economy and sustainable use of plastic packaging have been a concern of ours for years. In woven bag production, we consider everything, from the manufacture of a bag to its reuse. With our plastics recycling plants we create closed packaging loops such as for PET bottles or big bags; this know-how is an advantage that benefits our customers,” said Harald Neumüller, CSO of Starlinger.

At Starlinger’s booth in Hall 16, the Austrian machine manufacturer featured a conversion line for Starlinger’s patented AD*STAR block bottom valve bags. They can be produced with high proportions of recycled post-consumer polypropylene from used AD*STAR cement bags, achieving the same quality as bags made from virgin material.

“This does not only result in significant reduction of CO2, but enables a closed packaging loop without downcycling and meets possible mandatory recycling quotas. AD*STAR sacks are designed for recycling and thus represent the future of dry bulk packaging,” explained Neumüller.

In Hall 9, Starlinger showed its latest plastic recycling systems – a recoSTAR PET art for PET bottle-to-bottle recycling and a recoSTAR dynamic art for processing post-consumer polyolefins such as PE and PP.

Responding market requirements, the company also offers an extruder capacity of up to 4.5 tons per hour in the PET bottle-to-bottle sector. For the processing of post-consumer plastic waste, the new recoSTAR dynamic art systems, compared to the previous model, offer 20% more output on average as well as greater efficiency while reducing energy consumption.