General features
Ramina designs and manufactures lines for washing and recycling PET bottles for the production of flakes to be used in spinning spunbond lines and in short spinning lines.
Raw materials
Clear, blued and/or multicolor PET bottles
Products and application areas
- Flat plate manufacturing
- Short spinning
- Spunbond spinning
- Strap manufacturing
- Monofilament spinning
- Molding
Technical specification
- Input capacity: max. 4000 Kg/h
- Output capacity: max. 3200 Kg/h
- Physiological scrap: ~ 17 - 20%
- Scrap in flakes and powder:3%
- Average size of flakes: 10 – 14 mm
- Type of service: continued cycle
- Total annual hours: 8000 h/y
The process
The standard washing and recycling process using PET post-consumption bottles is composed by the following steps:
- Bottles loading
- Botlles pre-washing
- Bottles manual/automatic selection
- Bottles cutting
- Bottles washing
- Floating flakes separation
- Flakes drying
- Flake de-dusting
- Finishing preselection
- Flakes bagging
