Recycling machines

Low-tech machines in open source access to treat plastic waste.

Essential in the recycling process, the shredder reduces the volume of post-consumer or industrial waste. Shredding techniques are widely used in today's industry....

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The purpose of the washing tank is to separate the impurities from the plastic waste. These impurities are incompatible with recycling machines and can cause problems during the stages of...

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The so-called vertical centrifuge separates the last impurities and water from the shredded plastic or more precisely expels them through a grid. All that remains is the dried plastic chips,...

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The purpose of the extruder is to continuously process plastic granulate. This process involves heating and gradually mixing the plastic material to form a malleable paste....

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The barrel is a complementary tool to the extruder. It facilitates the shaping of the molten plastic at the end of the extrusion. It is a low-tech solution for molding...

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The hydraulic press is used to shape the plastic material by opening, closing and maintaining pressure in the molds, coming out of the Extruder or the Sheet oven....

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The Sheet oven is a simple solution for transforming plastic waste into sheets with interesting mechanical properties and in a wide range of colors, patterns and thickness. ...

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The compactor makes it possible to compress waste to reduce its volume. Waste, in the form of bales, can be sold to collection centers or to specialists in the recycling...

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Pyrolysis can process dirty and mixed plastics that would be difficult to recycle....

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