EREMA Plastic Recycling Blog

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is widely used for food packaging. It comes in two forms, Amorphous and Crystalline. Except for some microwave food trays which use Crystalline PET, most of the PET packaging products that you come into contact with are APET or Amorphous PET. APET is used for packaging because it’s strong which makes for durable...

HymoPack is a leading North American manufacturer of many types of plastic shopping bags including t-shirt bags (known for the shape of the bag), merchandise bags and can liners based in Canada. Their customers include major retail, restaurant and soft goods brands as well as major cleaning and hygiene services companies and products distributors.

EREMA and Evergreen Plastics, a division of Polychem were featured in a recent Recycling Today article, Perfecting Recycled Plastic.

Many plastic packaging production processes produce some amount of plastic waste. The two primary forms of waste are product rejects, products that don’t meet technical or quality specifications and product scrap, such as the trimmings produced when sizing a plastic product by cutting away the edges.

EREMA is excited to announce that we’re on the shortlist for the the prestigious Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2020 for the new bottle-to-bottle technology VACUNITE® in the category Recycling Machinery of the Year.

Flexible plastic packaging producer Amerplast is driving the Circular Economy by investing in a new advanced plastic bag recycling machine. Amerplast has invested in an EREMA Intarema® 1108 TE plastic bag recycling machine. They have been producing consumer products plastic film packaging since the 1990s and their stock products contain a minimum...

EREMA NA was excited to be able to introduce many of our core technology partners to the plastics film recycling community via Discovery Day 2019.

Gracious Living is the largest outdoor patio furniture brand in Canada. It’s finding both marketing and manufacturing success using increasing amounts of recycled plastic in its’ products. Gracious Living products are popular with environmentally focused customers who want sustainably focused products. The company has introduced advanced plastics...

The new EREMA ZeroWastePro is a compact, efficient and energy saving in house plastic film recycling machine used to recover PolyEthylene (LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, MDPE) and PolyPropylene (BOPP, CoPP, CPP) in house plastic film waste.

Jadcore is a value added provider of post-industrial plastic recycling services. Most people are familiar with post-consumer plastics, these are all of the plastic items that we throw into the recycling bin when we’re done with them. However, in the manufacture of plastic products, there’s often waste, or ‘scrap’ - superfluous raw materials or...