The cooperation between the two companies has led to the founding of Bluestone Solutions in August last year. This brought together the expertise and experience of Erema in manufacturing extruders and filtration solutions for plastics recycling with the know-how of Lindner Washtech in shredding, sorting and washing plastic feed materials. 

“Together, we have developed a platform that allows data to be exchanged between the extruder and the washing system,” says Manfred Hackl, CEO of the Erema Group. “This enables us to analyse the data more precisely so that effective improvement measures can be deduced.” All key parameters are taken into account and monitored via a digital interface. “To ensure sustainable recycling, it is necessary to find the right process for each application and to make sure that the individual process steps are perfectly coordinated,” said Michael Lackner, managing director of Lindner. 

Coordinating the process steps has already achieved initial success in energy management, and a clear example of this is heat recovery. “We use the latent heat generated during the extrusion process as an energy source for the washing and drying process,” explains Lackner. “This enables our customers to sustainably reduce their energy costs and carbon emissions.”

The joint venture offers companies from the waste and recycling industry with an additional special service and improves the end to end process. “We want to encourage our customers to come to us with their feed material so that we can discuss the options that are open to them. With the combined expertise of Lindner Washtech and Erema, we can find the optimum solution for every scenario,” concludes Manfred Hackl, CEO of the Erema Group.