PCUplus Starlinger’s new downstream pellet flushing unit uses ozone-enhanced process air to flush pellets. It features an optimized air channel design that allows temperatures within a narrow process window.
What’s new? The unit, which joins the company’s portfolio of technologies for recycling post-consumer PE, PP, PS and PET. Starlinger exhibited the PCUplus at the NPE plastics show in May as part of a setup (pictured) with its RecoStar Dynamic post-consumer pelletizing line and ViscoZero melt phase decontamination reactor.
Benefits Effective cleaning and odor reduction. When used with the ViscoZero reactor, the PCUplus pellet flusher produces recycled PE, PP and PS that meets the highest standards for packaging with direct food contact.
American Starlinger-Sahm Inc., Fountain Inn, South Carolina, 864-297-1900, www.starlingersahm.com
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
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