With all the group's companies together on one trade fair stand, the EREMA Group presented its entire range of products and services more comprehensively.

Together with partners from the plastics industry, they made recycling and the circular economy a tangible experience for visitors to the Circonomic Centre.

"Recycling and the circular economy have arrived 100% in the plastics industry. This year's K showed that very clearly," said Manfred Hackl, CEO of EREMA Group GmbH.

The trade fair highlights included the INTAREMA TVEplus DuaFil Compact double filtration machine, which EREMA presented for the first time, and the EcoGentle plasticising unit.

The daily live recycling demonstrations and the exhibition with around 70 products made from recyclate attracted visitors to the EREMA Circonomc Centre at K 2022.

The company stated that both extrusion innovations achieve effective benefits for the quality of melt, recycled pellets, and final product, and set the benchmark in terms of energy efficiency for their post-consumer and PET recycling applications.

"We have already received the first orders for these two technologies, which confirms that we are meeting customer needs very well," told Hackl.

This also applies to the READYMAC recycling machine made to stock by UMAC, which is a quickly-available all-rounder for standard applications, as well as to the new ALPHA XS edge trim recycling machine for the inhouse recycling segment made by PLASMAC. UMAC and PLASMAC are both EREMA Group companies.

Other trade fair début appearances included the bottle-to-bottle application for the production of food contact compliant rPET pellets and new sizes of VACUREMA technology plants, enabling throughputs of up to six tonnes per hour.

One of EREMA's recycling extrusion innovations is the INTAREMA TVEplus DuaFil Compact dual filtration machine.

On the VACUNITE system - a combination of VACUREMA Basic and VLean Solid State Polycondensation (SSP) - a larger series has also been added to the existing range. One of the new VACUNITE 2621T 2.000 plants was ordered by an rPET manufacturer at the show.

The company reported that the EREMA Circonomic Centre in the outdoor area also proved to be popular. Twice a day, a total of twelve plastics streams of different degrees of contamination and bulk density were recycled live using an INTAREMA TVEplus machine. These live demonstrations, as well as the exhibition of around 70 products made from recyclate, were very well attended.

The aim of the recycling machine manufacturer in the Circonomic Centre, together with many well-known brand partners from the value chain, was to draw attention to what is technologically possible in terms of recycling and the Circular Economy, and in many cases has already been successfully implemented in commercial terms. 

That is because plastics with 100% recycled pellet content can now be found in children's toys as well as in food packaging.