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The international plastic and rubber fair is held this year at ExpoCentre AO in Moscow from 25 to 28 January 2022 with the theme of “Recycling Solutions”.

676 exhibitors from 27 countries participated in the last Interplastica fair held in 2020, and the fair was visited by 24,950 visitors.

In 2022, secondly, a fairground has been determined at Interplastica: Recycling Solutions.

According to the press release of Messe Düsseldorf, which organizes the fair, regarding this fair theme, recycling and sustainability are becoming more popular day by day and the number of companies that keep up with this transformation is increasing.  Companies not only make plastic recycling a part of their production and business processes, but also seek the answer to the question of what more can be done to reduce waste output with the motto of zero waste, to protect natural and commercial resources, and to act responsibly towards the environment, that is, they follow the developments in plastic recycling constantly.

Russia and Recycling

In terms of these developments, the waste management and recycling practices of Russia becoming a candidate for the future environmental protection market are among the topics included in the press release. The fact that the need for modernization in this area is not ignored by the Russian government is cited as one of the most important reasons why it has become one of the candidate countries to be a pioneer in waste management. The government starts this recycling modernization from the municipalities. Russia has completed the necessary legal arrangements for municipalities to have adequate and developed recycling infrastructures in the next few years’ recycling plans. Investments are made in recycling facilities. Even manufacturers and importers have to carry out their trade and production according to their recyclability rates.

Considering all this, it is clear that Russia is a promising, growing and voluminous market for the recycling industry and its suppliers.

This is the main reason why a exhibition space for Recycling Solutions was created at Interplastica 2022. In addition, the success of participation in 2020 has been a kind of proof that the recycling theme will be even more successful.

In this fair area, besides bringing together the demanders and suppliers of recycling, a high-level conference program on recycling has also been prepared. In this conference program, not only the solutions, but also the new plastic recycling problems will be mentioned, and the reviews of the companies that are the representatives of these technologies will be included.

According to the statistics of Messe Düsseldorf, 40% of the visitors visited the recycling fairground and 96% were highly satisfied with this theme. The main product groups in the exhibition area themed Recycling Solutions include recycling raw materials, recyclers, pelletizers, separation technologies, compounding lines, shredding technologies and recycling plants.

Exhibitors will benefit from a special area reserved for recycling technology companies in Recycling Solutions. In addition, this fair area will be highlighted in press releases and online.

In Interplastica 2022, there will be around 600 participants from 26 countries. The number of visitors this year is expected to be over 25,000.

Due to the increasing production amounts, plastic wastes emerging in different industries are increasing day by day. Before the awareness of environmental awareness and, more importantly, its responsibility was a necessity, these plastic wastes were stored in an area and were not reused in any way. In fact, some companies unfortunately left these plastic wastes to nature. This posed a serious threat to the environment.

Fortunately, thanks to the legal regulations regarding the environment, the awareness of both protecting the nature and providing economic recovery has become widespread.

What is Recycling?

Recycyling is actually a reprocessing process and requires high technology, knowledge and experience. The recycling process of plastic begins with the purification of plastic from visible foreign materials. Then the plastics are separated according to their type, that is, they are categorized. Afterwards, they are shredded in crushing machines so that the shredded plastic is called bran. Bran is a semi-product of recycling and must be obtained without damaging the intrinsic quality of the plastic. The bran, which has passed through the washing and drying processes in order to increase the quality, is reprocessed after this point. In fact, this is kind of like the remanufacturing of plastic and requires precision technology.

Plastics, which are separated according to their usage areas and turned into bran, are melted and fused at the appropriate temperature in agromel machines. Filtration, which is the next step for melted plastic, is a very critical step. Because it is a stage that requires high technology, where molten plastic is separated from invisible foreign materials.

This separation is done with the Laser Filtering Machine and there is a filtering machine specially developed for this separation. As the molten plastic passes through this machine, it is compressed by two disc-shaped filters. As a result of this compression, invisible foreign substances come to the other surface of the filters. While the filtered clean plastic continues on its journey to be granulated, the waste materials are taken into another container.

Although the surfaces of laser filters appear almost flat, they are porous. In this way they can filter invisible foreign substances.

Laser filtration stage is actually the most important recycling step, as it is a kind of disinfection stage of plastic. It requires high technology and knowledge. The laser filtration machine has heat resistances to maintain the melted state of the plastic. Its two circularly moving blades can rotate 180 degrees and its rotation speeds can be adjusted. There is a water cooler installed to the output of the screw hub to get semi melted output fraction. Depending on ΔP, PLC system decides the rotational speed of sweeper blades and hub-screw dirty fraction discharge mechanism.

Considering all these features of the system, the quality of the recycled plastic output that can be used in all areas depends entirely on the laser filtration system. Otherwise, the entire recycling process will be wasted. In order for the laser filtration machine to work efficiently and without errors, laser filters must be replaced regularly with the new ones.