In plastics industry, filtering post-consumer waste is becoming increasingly strategic. In the circular economy era, using clean raw materials for plastic extrusion is getting less accessible and more expensive.

Recycling post-consumer plastics

When your business is plastic production, raw material procurement is a key issue. The best solution is to use recycled post-consumer plastics, which have been processed in compliance with the strictest standards. Virtually, post-consumer plastic is an inexhaustible resource to recycle, besides being environment friendly, and cost efficient. At the same time, post-consumer plastic recycling can significantly improve your plastic business, besides preventing environmentally unfriendly waste depots.

Filtering plastics is a complex challenge

Including post-consumer plastic recycling and filtering in your systems to get clean application from a plastic extrusion process is undoubtedly a complex challenge. It often happens that cheaper raw materials are highly contaminated and mixed with other materials, becoming the most difficult to process. So, the real challenge is to improve your filtering technology to remove the largest part of contaminants. Considering the overall plan, plastic recycling systems using post-consumer waste prove to be the most forward-thinking, cost-effective, and flexible plastic extrusion systems. In such a scenario, screen filtering becomes the key technology, and screen changers the key devices.

An automatic melt filtration system for highly contaminated post-consumer waste

GorillaBelt is an automatic melt filtration system for highly contaminated post-consumer plastics. It handles contamination up to 10% by weight, including hard contaminants such as metal, glass, paper and aluminium foil.

A low polymer loss solution

Equipping an extrusion line with standard screen changers to filter impurities implies that a certain amount of plastic material is necessarily wasted, due to filtering mode. GorillaBelt keeps polymer loss low, with no line stops for screen changes.

Getting top clean products from recycled plastics

If you apply a low-loss filtering process, you can deliver extremely clean polymers to manufacture top quality and enhanced value applications and materials. From a technical point of view, one of the most important key factors to final product quality and value is screen changer filtering level. Find out more about GorillaBelt Cofit International is at the forefront of filtering in plastic extrusion system, manufacturing automatic and continuous screen filters for plastics recycling, and post-consumer plastic recycling – GorillaBelt is an automatic melt filtration system with low polymer loss. We are ready to support your plastic extrusion business in choosing the right solution.

COFIT International

Cofit deals with research, engineering, manufacturing and distributing automatic and continuous screen changers for post-consumer and post-industrial recycling materials. Contact us to upgrade your plastics extrusion filtering system, ask for further details about our products. Download our 3D diagrams, follow us on LinkedIn.