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Granulators for Plastics Processing and Recycling Applications
Plastcompactors for the Agglomeration of Powders, Fibers, Film and Foam
Wash Lines - Individual Components to Complete Engineered Systems
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Granulators / Shredders

Herbold manufactures a wide range of granulators and shredders for a variety of applications. From conventional Beside the Press Granulators to Inline Granulators to Long Pipe and Profile Granulators to Heavy Duty Central Granulators, we have a solution for every application.

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Wash lines

Our recycling systems for plastic solid waste are designed on a building block principle. According to the given requirements, it is possible to extend the system stage by stage or carry out modifications to suit changes in the range of applications.

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Densifiers /
Agglomerators

Densifiers are used for the processing and preparation of plastics including the agglomeration of powders, fibers, film and foam materials; drying of powders, fibers, film and foam materials; re-crystallization of PET flakes; and compounding of thermo-plastics and fillers.

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PUlverizers / Fine Grinders

Our SMF fine granulators and PU impact disc pulverizers are used for fine grinding of plastic granulates and waste, and other soft to medium-hard materials. The final particle sizes to be achieved lie in the range of 0-1000 mm to 0-200 mm, depending on the type and configuration of the machines.

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Hillenbrand to Acquire Herbold

HILLENBRAND TO ACQUIRE HERBOLD MECKESHEIM, EXPANDING CUSTOMER OFFERING FOR COMPLETE RECYCLING SOLUTIONS

Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Herbold Meckesheim GmbH (Herbold) for an enterprise value of approximately €79 million.

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Herbold Wash System assists OEM

The summer 2022 issue of Plastics Recycling Magazine features an article
about how a Herbold wash system removes paper, adhesives and other
contaminants so the OEM can reprocess other companies’ scrap
in-house to make material for its own products.

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Herbold Granulator Increases Productivity!

The fall 2021 issue of Plastics Recycling Magazine features an interesting
story about how a new Herbold granulator with more blades and a
mechanism for force feeding has given a New York bottle recycler
an edge in its efforts to increase its capabilities.

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Bottle-to-Bottle Flake with FDA Approval

The recycling company INVEMA (www.invemagroup.com) commissioned a plant for the recycling of PET bottles in Honduras at the end of 2016 in order to produce bottle-to-bottle quality with FDA approval. In Honduras the collection rate of PET bottles amounts to 84 %. Today, 2000 tons of PET bottles per month are treated with the plant technology from Herbold Meckesheim, nevertheless, bottles have to be imported in order to use the plant to full capacity.

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Leading Reprocessor Stays on Cutting Edge with Herbold Equipment

When your motto is “Scrap everything you think you know about unusable plastic,” you had better be able to tackle the hard recycling jobs. Plastics recycler Butler-MacDonald Inc. (Indianapolis, IN) says Herbold machinery investments are helping it do just that. Its customers include plastics compounders, telecommunications companies, and producers of CDs and DVDs, aeronautical and automotive parts, vinyl siding and windows, PET bottles, and pharmaceuticals. Some customers buy back the purified polymers from their own recycled waste.

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