FIMIC supplies filter to Indonesian recycler

Filtration is an important part of plastic recycling procedure. A good filtration increases the efficiency of recycling plastics and enables the production of better quality plastic pellets. Trends indicate that more recyclers choose to use self-cleaning type filtration system to increase the efficiency of their production line. This trend of using automatic filtration system has been working in Europe for the past decade. 

 

Due to the complexity of waste materials coupled with higher labor cost and demand for high quality recycled plastic pellets, recent years saw more recyclers in Asia moving to upgrade conventional manual changing filter to automatic self-cleaning filter to increase the efficiency of their production line and enhance the quality of pellets.

 

In Surabaya, Indonesia, a recycling center upgraded the conventional manual filter to FIMIC automatic self-cleaning filter to increase the output and reduce the required manpower. The processed waste is HDPE and PP regrinds from PET washing line and bottle sorting before PET washing line. The waste content is mainly PET regrinds, paper, wood and metal particles. 

 

With conventional filter, the screen has to be changed often, on average every 3~5 minutes. The high frequency of filter changing needs more operators to work with the filter and it consumes more screens. To solve this problem, the customer decided to install a FIMIC RAS400 filter to their recycling extruder. RAS400 has the output of 500~550 kg/hr for PP material, 400~450 kg/hr for HDPE material. 

 

FIMIC filter, RAS400 helped the customer to decrease the frequency of screen changing, from once every 3 minutes to once every 7 days. It helps to increase the output for pellets, to produce better quality plastic pellets with its laser screen, and to save manpower cost from hiring less number of operators.  The FIMIC filter, RAS series is flexible and can  be installed on any type of recycling extruder. Both punched screen and laser screen can be used in the filter for different filtration requirements.