STADLER experience
“For more than ten years now, STADLER has been planning, designing and building high-performance plants for sorting plastic bottles worldwide. Over 15 plants have been put into operation worldwide to date.”
Material properties
Pressed mixed plastics and loose mixtures of plastic bottles are processed within the framework of plastic bottle sorting.
Example process description
Both mixed plastics in bale form and loose plastic bottles are added to the process via separate material infeeds. Our ballistic separator subsequently separates fine grains and flat material. The remaining three-dimensional material is freed from any impurities (ferrous and non-ferrous metal separation), before being separated into different plastic fractions by means of optical sorting and then pressed. Thanks to cooperation with Krones AG, we are able to cover the complete recycling loop in the field of plastic bottles. Following sorting and pressing, the material is granulated. The resulting regranulate is mixed with new granulate and melted. Using injection moulding machines, so-called "preforms" are created from this product, which are blown into new PET bottles after a short heating process. These are then cleaned and labelled, filled and sold.
Main components
- Ballistic separator
- Windshifter
- Shredder
- Near infrared technology NIR
- Overbelt magnet
- Eddy current separator
- Sorting cabin
- Baler
- Conveyor
- Steel construction with walkway
- Electrical engineering
Output fractions
- Clear PE
- Clear PET
- Coloured PE
- Coloured PET
- Ferrous metal
- Non-ferrous metal
- PE granulate
- PET granulate
- PP
- PS
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