Thanks to a 5 per cent increase in turnover the consolidated sales of the EREMA Group reached EUR 138 million in the 2016/17 financial year. The Group's two youngest sister companies PURE LOOP and UMAC recorded a strong turnover result shortly after being founded.
"A key success factor in the positive turnover result in the previous financial year is without doubt the relentless innovative spirit within the EREMA Group," says CEO Manfred Hackl with confidence. EREMA GmbH, manufacturer of plastics recycling systems and technologies, presented new technical developments in all three recycling divisions.
The highlight in PET Recycling was the new recycling system Vacurema Inline Preform which was developed together with Sipa. This accomplishment enables the direct and flexible processing of washed PET flakes to make preforms. In the field of Post Consumer Recycling, the Intarema RegrindPro for regrind material was joined by the ReFresher which was presented in autumn. The thermal-physical cleaning process of the ReFresher removes even migrated odours and thus extends the field of application for recyclates from post-consumer material. The new SW Direct Flow melt filtration for minor contaminants, on the other hand, has led to improvements in the recycling of production waste. At the K 2016 trade fair EREMA then offered the solution for the future challenges facing its customers in the form of a smart factory package. This package features the online quality monitoring of colour and MVR plus the first Manufacturing Execution System for the extrusion industry. These innovations led to a notable increase in order intake. Machine-based order intake alone between October and March increased by 50 per cent compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
