How can waste plastic foams be efficiently converted into recyclable pellets? This article focuses on styrofoam recycling machines and foam recycling processes to guide styrofoam recyclers.
Why Choose Us?
- Our foam recycling machines have complete specifications to meet your different needs. They are suitable for all kinds of foam recycling production on large, medium, and small scales.
- Wide range of applications: various forms of EPS, EPP, EPE, XPS, and other foam raw materials can be recycled.
- High performance, 150-300kg/h capacity, high efficiency. We can also provide customized machines if you have special needs.
- Energy saving and environment protection: Equipped with dust removal device, high-efficiency motor, etc., which can reduce energy consumption and meet the requirements of environmental protection.
- Easy Maintenance: The humanized design of the foam recycling machine is easy to operate and maintain. Meanwhile, we provide complete after-sales service and can provide technical support.
- High quality of finished products: the recycled foam particles are uniform and round, with good physical properties and high purity, which can be directly used in industrial production and processing.
Applications Of The Styrofoam Recycling Machines
Styrofoam recycling machines are commonly used to process waste foam from packaging, construction, furniture, automotive, agriculture, and many other industries, such as foam lunch boxes, courier foam packaging, mattresses, car seat padding, building insulation panels, fruit protection film, etc.
The EPS Foam Recycling Line converts large pieces of discarded foam into fine recycled pellets through the processes of shredding, compaction, and granulation. Whether it’s post-consumer recycling or industrial in-house EPS recycling, our styrofoam recycling machines can meet your production needs and the finished plastic pellets will meet high standards.
How Does Expanded Polyethylene Foam Recycling Work?
1. Crushing
Plastic foam is large, light in density, easy to break, and not easy to transport, store, and process. Therefore, use the foam crushing machine to crush the collected raw materials for pre-treatment and get smaller styrofoam blocks.
Shuliy polystyrene crusher is made of high-quality stainless steel, durable and corrosion resistant, and has a large capacity and high output.
- Capacity: 250-500kg/h
- Power: 5.5-11KW
- Material: high-quality stainless steel
- End Products: Uniform smaller foam pieces
2. Cold Pressing
If you need to further reduce the foam volume, you can use the styrofoam compactor to compress the crushed foam blocks into dense foam blocks by mechanical pressure, which facilitates subsequent transportation, storage, etc.
EPS briquetting machines do not require heating, resulting in low energy consumption; they can reduce the volume of plastic foams up to 40 times, resulting in efficient compression; in addition, cold pressing does not change the chemical properties of the material, which facilitates subsequent in-depth processing.
- Capacity: 150-250kg/h
- Power: 11-22KW
- End Products: High-density foam compression blocks
3. Hot Melting
If a higher density or molten state of the foam block is required, the EPS hot melting recycling machine is recommended. The styrofoam melter heats the foam to a molten state at a high temperature and then extrudes it to form a high-density, low-volume foam block. In addition, the melting and heating process can filter out impurities and improve the purity of recycled plastics.
Foam densifier is suitable for deep recycling processing. It is easy to operate, energy-saving, and environmentally friendly, and can efficiently obtain higher density foam blocks; equipped with a slag filter system to effectively remove impurities.
- Capacity: 100-250kg/h
- Power: 15-22KW
- End Products: High-density and high-purity styrofoam ingots
4. Pelletizing
Use an Máquina de pelotização EPS or an EPE extrusion machine to convert processed foam blocks into uniform recycled pellets through melting, extruding, cooling, and cutting. The recycled plastic granules can then be used directly in the manufacture and processing of new plastic products.
Choosing a stable styrofoam granulator is related to the quality of the finished pellets. Our foam granulators are stable and resistant to high temperatures, and equipped with a good filtration system, which can reduce the number of filter replacements and machine shutdowns. The high degree of automation, easy-to-operate.
- Capacity: 150-375kg/h
- Power: 15-22KW
- Parts: Foam extruder, cooling tank, plastic dana cutting machine
- End Products: High purity, non-polluting, stable and homogeneous foam particles
Conclusão
Converting waste foam into recycled pellets requires shredding, compression, granulation, etc. Shuliy as a professional team has been dedicated to create the right styrofoam recycling solution for our customers. If you have any questions, please contact us, welcome!
