The repellets/end products produced with VACUREMA® technology for direct food contact fulfil the purity requirements of major brand owners and, besides country-specific approvals, also has internationally recognised certification from the North American FDA and efsa, the European Food Safety Authority. "Some 347,000 tonnes of rPET for direct food contact are produced every year with VACUREMA® systems. And in doing so, our customers use up to 100% of the recycled pellets for the production of bottles and food contact grade thermoforming sheet in accordance with efsa guidelines," explains Christoph Wöss, VACUREMA® Product Manager.
Users can rely on a stable process at all times thanks to the automatic operating mode with FCC – Food Contact Control. The parameters for direct food contact compliance are monitored and archived continuously in the recycling process on all VACUREMA® systems. The Food Contact Control (FCC) feature supervises the stored recipe data which enables you to switch to the process parameters required for the production of the respective recyclate simply by pressing a button. If levels go beyond defined limits an alarm is triggered automatically and (optionally) material flow is diverted away from the production line. This guarantees traceability
A total of eight different PET recycling technologies available on the market were tested for electrical and thermal performance. VACUREMA® technology proved to be 40% more energy efficient than other systems also in the bottle-to-bottle field with a rating of 0.295 kWh/kg. This is due on the one hand to the decontamination BEFORE extrusion which – unlike other systems on the market – requires only a single energy input for processing. Plus, on the other hand, no additional pre-drying is required as materials with input moisture of up to around 1.5% can be processed.
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