The main material used in thermal insulation in Europe, second behind glass wool in France, expanded polystyrene is 100% and infinitely recyclable. An important step in the process of manufacturing EPS is to pour EPS beads into a professional container for foaming, allowing the EPS beads to expand and become larger. This is also a basic raw material. The beads are poured into a collector and transported to an autoclave, where they will expand under the influence of steam. After expansion, the beads are stored in silos so that air completely replaces the pentane in the beads, before being introduced into a vertical mold to form a block. The pearls only clump together under the effect of heat.

Have you ever thought about what else can be done with the waste EPS when we generate it besides being compressed? Can the foam beads that make up EPS be recycled directly? In fact, this idea can already be realized! GREENMAX not only designs and manufactures equipment with crushing and compression functions. The main function of the GREENMAX EPS recycling system is to recycle discarded EPS boards. However, the recycling method is not compression, but separates and screens the EPS beads that make up the EPS boards, leaving EPS beads with better quality are used as valuable raw materials. The poor quality EPS beads are separated from the higher quality beads for hot melt recycling. EPS beads with better quality are screened by the EPS recycling system, mixed with new beads and put into new production here.

The EPS recycling system is different from other types of recycling equipment of GREENMAX. This equipment first mixes high-quality EPS beads with new materials, and then hot-melts and compresses the beads that cannot be recycled. This greatly saves the cost in the production process and also It saves the exploitation of resources, which is a double-edged sword, and realizes the circulation of resources and economy at the same time.