Star performer Starlinger Recycling is a global leader in the design and production of machinery for the recycling and refining of an infinite range of modern plastics. The company’s advanced Reco-Star systems are unique, world-class products. Starlinger is also a global leader in the manufacture of woven plastic sacks. Philip Yorke reports.
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tarlinger was founded in Austria over 25 years ago and from the outset has been a globally orientated company. Today, plastics are recycled worldwide and many countries operate collection and re-use programmes for production and post-consumer waste. The company’s dedicated customer orientation helps it to develop innovative, tailor-made production facilities, which are designed to meet the needs of widely varying regional requirements. These can include broad differences in the recipes of polymers, additives and production processes, as well as in throughput quantities and the many types of individual manufacturing industries. The company’s worldwide sales and service-support network and technical consulting services help its customers to achieve optimum results throughout many different manufacturing processes. In addition, as a truly multinational company, Starlinger employs multi-lingual teams that are able to communicate directly with customers in their own language.
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Innovation by design Innovation has been at the heart of Starlinger’s culture from the outset and today, at a time when raw material prices are soaring, high quality granulate has become a significant cost-saving alternative to that of virgin plastic material. Developing solutions to meet the ongoing challenges involved in the recycling of production and postconsumer waste means that the company is constantly adapting its technologies in order to meet continuous changes in the nature of incoming materials. Starlinger must also take into account the potential uses of the final recycled product. This means not only providing solutions for the optimisation of precision engineered recycling lines, but also for the big consumer brand manufacturers that rely on Starlinger for high levels of recycled product purity and flexibility. For example, Starlinger’s well-known RecoSTAR direct series has been specifically designed for the recycling of medium and large quantities of heavy ‘regrind’ materials such as PE, PS, PA and PC. With the Reco-Star
