Recycled Plastics

Range of services

• Separation of plastic mixtures and separation of contaminants from waste plastics on a laboratory and pilot-plant scale

• Analysis of the properties of the recycled plastics and evaluation of applications

• Process analysis regarding commercial scale-up to industrial production

• Manufacture of standardized test samples and pilot-plant quantities for introduction to the marketplace

• Plastic processing industry

• Chemical industry

• Waste management sector

• Plant engineering and construction for recycling

• FiltraSolv – Filtration of swollen plastics from electroplated plastic waste in order to recover electroplating metals and to produce high-quality secondary plastics for use in injection molding

• Poly-Ressource – High-quality injection plastic moldings from shredder residues

• SpectroDense – Recycled plastic from waste electrical and electronic equipment

• Improved energy and resource efficiency by recycling abrasive grit and polyamide from abrasive filament production using the CreaSolv ® process

• Pure recyclates from flame-proof plastics

• Process development for recycling soft PVC

• High quality recycling of plastics using the CreaSolv® process

• Reduction of hazardous materials during the recycling of plastics

• PET-recyclate from post-consumer waste

• Product safety for polymer recyclates

• Analytical methods for product quality assurance in PET recycling

• Recycling of EPS waste to re-expandable polystyrene (EPS-Loop)

• Recycling of plastics under the WEEE directive

Dr. Andreas Mäurer
Phone +49 8161 491-330
andreas.maeurer@ivv.fraunhofer.de