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Galloo’s recycling solutions are big in Japan
Galloo Group’s equipment manufacturing company Ad Rem is building the
‘largest and most advanced plastic recycling facility’ in Japan.

The new facility will be able to pro-
cess 40 000 tonnes of plastic scrap per
year as part of the battle against Japan’s
increasing plastic pollution problem. It
will be operated by Planic, a joint venture
between Toyota Tsusho, Veolia Japan
and Kojima Sangyo. The plant will be at
Omaezaki in the Shizuoka Prefecture and
will be fully operational by mid-2021.

Planic will handle automotive plastics
as well as plastics from home appliances
and packaging. At the moment, most of
Japan’s post-consumer plastics is incin-
erated, landfilled or sent overseas. The

government has recently launched a
dedicated campaign to boost domestic
recycling performance.

AD Rem will rely on Galloo’s patented
plastics separation technology. ‘Our recy-
cled plastic meets all required standards
as demanded by the car industry, auto-
matically qualifying it for a wide array
of other possible applications,’ Galloo
says. ‘This is achieved at a cost that is
lower than that of petroleum plastic pro-
duction, provided the oil price remains
higher than US$ 60 per barrel,’ the com-
pany adds.

Reftman: ‘Explosive demand for cable strippers’
Recycling equipment producer Eldan is expanding its manufacturing facility in Denmark to meet fast-growing demand. In 2018, the
company saw a 50% jump in orders for cable recycling lines while sales of tyre lines increased by 20%.

‘It has been an amazing year,’ says ceo Toni
Reftman. ‘We expected an increase but the re-
sults were far beyond expectations.’ According
to Reftman, ever-stricter regulation, import
bans and a broad and growing call for higher
quality scrap have boosted global demand for
advanced recycling technologies. To fulfill cus-
tomer needs, Eldan has upgraded its small and
medium capacity cable recycling systems. New
pre-choppers for cable and tyre recycling have
also been launched.

Among the latest pieces of technology is the
Twin Shaft Clean-Cut Shredder to process car
and truck tyres. The machine is claimed to deliv-
er up to 50% in power savings. The low capacity
Redoma Thunderhawk cable recycling system
has also been redesigned to make it ‘ideal’ for

processing harness wire.
Eldan has several projects in the pipeline.

‘The interest in tyre and cable recycling equip-
ment will continue to increase,’ says Reftman.

‘We are also seeing growing demand for e-scrap
recycling solutions.’ Eldan is currently working
on the development of small capacity e-scrap
lines.

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