Plastiblow considers post-consumer recycled plastic as a resource to complement virgin plastic

PCR , that is Post-Consumer Resin (recycled plastic).
From separate collection a resource to produce in a more sustainable way and lower the environmental impact.

Through the use of a consistent percentage of post-consumer recycled plastic material, it is now possible to obtain “greener” containers, i.e. with a lower environmental impact than in the past. This percentage can even reach 80% of the total weight of the container. This is good news for all sectors that need to produce more sustainably.

Through the use of a consistent percentage of post-consumer recycled plastic material, it is now possible to obtain “greener” containers, i.e. with a lower environmental impact than in the past. This percentage can even reach 80% of the total weight of the container. This is good news for all sectors that need to produce more sustainably. Plastiblow, as a manufacturer of extrusion blow molding machines, has for many years considered itself at the forefront of experimentation and technological innovation in this sense. So much so that today it can offer blowing machines and complete systems not only with low energy consumption (among the lowest in the sector https://www.plastiblow.it/en/machines), but also able to create lighter and more eco-sustainable multilayer co-extruded containers, thanks to an ad hoc design (https://www.plastiblow.it/en/competences/design), because they use an important percentage of recycled plastic polymers (https://www.plastiblow.it/en/focus-on/tech-news/plastiblow-and-sustainable-plastic-containers).

Recycled PCR plastics maintain more or less the same physical/chemical and process characteristics of virgin plastics. The main difference is basically attributed to an aesthetic factor, but in our case the percentage of use (which can even reach 80% of its total weight) is limited to the central layer, not visible while for the internal safety layer, because in contact with the product it must contain, and the external one, of aesthetic value, virgin material is used, but in a very modest percentage compared to the total weight of the container. Basically, there is no quality and safety problem to obtain containers that are completely similar to those produced with the conventional technique.

The experiments and tests we developed for some time on our electric machines, in co-operation with well-known European and world producers of eco-sustainable materials for the plastics sector, have confirmed the versatility of this production technology. (https://www.plastiblow.it/en/focus-on/tech-news/ Circular economy and sustainable packaging. Plastiblow's commitment.)

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