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GREENMAX EPS compactor achieves "one machine with multiple functions" to help with minority foam recycling

The 2022 Texoma Earth Day Festival and Recycling event has been held in Sherman, Texas. The festival will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Recycling will take place on North Elm Street between Kidd-Key Auditorium and Pecan Street. This recycling event accepts plastic bottles, various waste cardboards, waste foam (including EPS).

  

But it is worth noting that in this event, the organizer specifically mentioned that they do not accept soft foam. GREENMAX believes that the soft foam they are referring to is a foam that is very similar to EPS: EPE. This situation is not uncommon in the United States. Similar public welfare recycling activities organized in many regions have emphasized that they only accept hard foam. That is to say, the main types of foam we recycle are still concentrated on EPS, and soft foam like EPE is still seldom paid attention to, or even helpless.

Although this kind of EPE foam is not as common as EPS, it can also be recycled. GREENMAX Zeus series EPS compactor can complete this task. Yes, believe your eyes, the EPS compactor of the Zeus series is not only able to handle EPS material, this kind of EPS recycling machine can handle various materials such as EPS, XPS, EPE, EPP, etc. To achieve the purpose of multi-purpose, GREENMAX improves the EPS compactor of the Apolo series by adding a hot melt ring at the discharge port. Therefore, the EPS recycling machine of the Zeus series is very suitable for processing too soft or hard foam. The machine has a 50:1 compression ratio 

 

At the same time, the EPS densifier designed and manufactured by GREENMAX can also be used to recycle EPE foam, and it is not inferior to the EPS compactor of the Zeus series. The compression ratio is as high as 90:1. But different from the EPS compactor, the EPS densifier adopts completely hot melting technology, which generates a lot of heat during the recycling process. You can choose two different EPS recycling machines according to your wishes and the actual situation.

With the GREENMAX EPS recycling machines, it is possible to recycle various types of foam. Environmental protection should not be limited to recycling a single type of foam, which is not real recycling. For example, the community should pay attention to EPE, EPP foam, and even PET water bottles at the same time. GREENMAX also provides recycling equipment for PET water bottles. If you are interested in this, please feel free to contact us.

 

CASE

One of GREENMAX's customers is a car manufacturer, which produces a lot of waste EPP foam (a super-hard foam), which is difficult to handle with a conventional EPS compactor. In response to ESG policies, the company is required to produce EPP parts that must contain recycled materials. The customer has also tried many times to make plastic particles with waste EPP, but all failed due to the special properties of the foam.

Finally, they turned to GREENMAX. After careful design, the customer finally ordered the Z-C100 EPS compactor of the Zeus series. Because of the need for pelletizing, GREENMAX also helped to assemble some other necessary equipment. This shows that the EPS recycling machines of the Zeus series are ideal for recycling the tricky waste foam. In addition to professional technology, GREENMAX also meets the high customization of customers. The most worth mentioning is GREENMAX's long-term granulation, and it also provides valuable advice for customers.


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