VACUREMA® – THE PET recycling technology of the future

   A unique process has become the world's most successful PET recycling technology within only a shortspace of time: the patented VACUREMA® technology from Austria's plant engineering specialistsEREMA.Since it was launched, the patented VACUREMA® process has become established as the global standardin processing not only post-consumer PET bottle flakes but also in-house PET waste. Over 140 systems arenow in use worldwide. EREMA offers VACUREMA® technology in three different systems – VACUREMA®Basic, Advanced and Prime – according to the field of application and the requirements placed on the endproduct.VACUREMA® - unceasing success and growing market shares in Europe and the USAThere are roughly five million tonnes of PET flakes available for recycling around the world. Around one million tonnes of PET flakes are recycled in Europe every year – more than a third with the help of VACUREMA® technology from EREMA. A total of four large-scale VACUREMA® Prime systems were supplied to the USA in the year 2011 alone and are now producing approx. 60,000 tonnes of melt-filtered, IV-enhanced and food-contact approved pellets.VACUREMA® Prime: EREMA reacts to price fluctuations in the rPET marketplaceOpenness and customer care have been the key to success for many years. And it was with this in mindthat EREMA developed a new system concept in close collaboration with customers.The new system concept for VACUREMA® Prime technology is a compact and space-saving all-in-onesolution – EREMA's answer to the strongly fluctuating rPET market. The user can choose between threedifferent operating modes, according to requirements:Mode 1: production of 100% rPET pelletsMode 2: production of 100% rPET flakesMode 3: simultaneous production of rPET flakes + rPET pelletsThis enables users to produce the rPET they process in different physical forms in line with current marketrequirements - and they remain flexible as a result. Thanks to this new concept, both decontaminated,pre-dried and crystallised rPET flakes and high-quality, melt-filtered rPET pellets can be produced. Bothproducts are suitable for direct food contact and surpass all minimum requirements in terms of purity andquality.ecoSAVE® design reduces energy consumption – and thus production costsEREMA customers benefit not only from the high quality of the pellets but also from the environmentally friendly ecoSAVE® design of the systems. ecoSAVE® is an overall package of engineering and process oriented measures to reduce energy consumption by up to 10 per cent. This reduces CO2 emissions, energy consumption and thus production costs considerably. Ever since it was founded EREMA has always invested in research and design to be able to react to the demands of its customers also in the future. The basic principle of protecting resources and treating them responsibly is pursued relentlessly at all times.

Gerold Breuer

Marketing Manager

Tel.: +43 (0)732 3190-391

g.breuer@erema.at