THE ECO-OH! RECYCLING PROCESS
The plastic waste mountain:
The household plastic waste we receive is stored in a wind and rainproof hall to prevent litter, odour and visual pollution.
Reduction to fist size:
At the start of the process, the blades of a rotor shredder are used to shrink the residual plastics to fist size, which allows a fully-automatic process.
Removal of non-plastics, washing and separating:
A pre-wash drum separates all non-plastics, glass, stones and metals from the plastics. After that, a two part-process occurs in the separating tank: a floating group (PE, PP) and a sinking group (PVC, PET, PS).
Mechanical drying and further sorting:
In a mechanical drying process, water and paper are removed from the washed plastics via a centrifuge. Following which, the floating group is split into a foil group and a hard group using air.
Agglomerate and regranulate:
Finally, the foil groups are placed in the agglomerator or the regranulator to be compacted into raw plastic pellets. In this process, the density is increased tenfold. The plastic pellets are ready for processing into new products.
Processing into products:
Today, the ECO-oh! Group has four extrusion lines, an intrusion line, a robotized injection line, and an ultra-modern panel machine. During production, the plastic granules are melted and pressed into moulds, or they continue through and are cooled using water. Finally, the finishing department assembles and colors the products into finished products.
