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    EREMA wins European Invention Award 2019 to reshape plastic recycling technology

    • Last Update: 2022-08-17
    • Source: Internet
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    The European Patent Office has announced the 2019 European Invention Award, in recognition of the innovative high-performance plastic recycling technology developed by Klaus Feichtinger and Manfred Hackl of Austria-based EREMA Group Gm.


    Feichtinger and Hackl, inventors at EREMA, developed Counter Current (countercurrent technology) , in which plastic waste is fed into an extruder and rotated in the opposite direction of the extruder screw, so that the extruder can be Lower temperatures and higher throughput process more materi.


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    Originally based on a rough idea from Feichtinger, countercurrent technology has now become a core part of the recycling equipment invented by Feichtinger and Hackl and has been successfully applied for several European patents


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    The EPO said in a statement that the technology increases the supply of new plastic used in production while reducing plastic was.


    According to the European Patent Office, the global plastic recycling market totaled 32 billion euros in 2017 and is expected to reach around 50 billion euros by 2024 at a growth rate of


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