Film recycling.
 
Film is normally used for packaging purposes and it is produced and collected by millions of tons per year.
 
Types of film that can be found on the market are very many and the most common, as far as recycling concern, are LDPE, HDPE, PP and PET.
 
Films are generally pretty easy to be washed while cutting and drying represent the difficult part of any system.
 
Machinery for a film washing line can vary a lot according to average thickness, type and quantity of contamination, throughput and final application of flakes/pellets.
 
Talking about LDPE film washing, what everybody wants to get to is a material good to blow film again, and most of the time it's possible.
 
If you're looking to blow film after washing and separating film from garbage collection you'll never, ever get a pellet good for film applications. Period.
 
Let's start from the beginning:
 
First of all material should be ground to a proper dimension;
the right dimension is the one your pelletizer can accept.
The smaller the dimension, the better for any force-feeding, the worse for the granulator from energy, size and maintenance point of view.
 
Cutting film is not the easiest thing in this world, it is expensive, noisy and most of the times, this is the part of the system that let you down because of very different reasons.
 
The right choice is, most of the time, the expensive one from investment point of view but when you go to the "cost per kilo" situation, you'll find out that a good machine makes you save money in the long run.
 
99% of films are easy to wash, and washing can be done in many ways.
Also in this case, it depends by the kind and quantity of contamination you expect and the final application of the clean material.
 
Washing lines are normally equipped with one or more sink-float tanks for separation of flakes from other plastics and some kind of dirt; sink-float tanks are also used for rinsing purposes.
 
The second difficult step is drying instead.
 
The "conosseurs" know what we are talking about; specially when the raw material is thin, and for thin we mean 20 microns (of a millimeter), or less, everybody is in trouble.
 
At this point, some guys come up with a lot of damn complicated machines or systems to "improve" drying effect with the only result to improve their bank account but leaving the customer with his unresolved problem.
 
Somebody did it even worse, installing some few hundreds kW of heater bands making the cost of drying sky high.
 
Customer problem anyway.
Isn't it ?
 
We're not wizards but we can come up with something you do not expect:
a stupid mechanical centrifuge dryer that will deliver flakes with a moisture content 1/3 of whatever you get right now with your existing machinery.
 
If you fill the form with all data, we'll tell you what we can give you in terms of quantity and quality.
 
 
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