The first of its kind — innovative recycling line delivered to Hansgrohe Group

It is the first recy­cling line of its kind that process­es gal­vanised plas­tics pure­ly mechan­i­cal­ly and recov­ers a direct­ly reusable plas­tic granulate!

© Hans­gro­he SE REC.TEC

Dur­ing the first quar­ter of the year, the san­i­tary tech­nol­o­gy man­u­fac­tur­er Hans­gro­he com­mis­sioned an Impul­sTec pro­cess­ing plant for decoat­ing chrome-plat­ed plas­tic com­po­nents using inno­v­a­tive shock wave treat­ment in con­junc­tion with pre-shred­ding and mag­net­ic separation.

This allows the pro­duc­tion waste from bath­room and kitchen fit­tings to be sep­a­rat­ed into its plas­tic and met­al com­po­nents. With a mate­r­i­al puri­ty of more than 99.8 m%, the recy­cled plas­tic frac­tion can be direct­ly reused in high-qual­i­ty components.

Recov­ered plas­tic and met­al frac­tion after the Impul­sTec recy­cling process, © ImpulsTec

The suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion of the treat­ment process for gal­vanised plas­tic prod­ucts based on elec­tro-hydraulic shred­ding tech­nol­o­gy fills us with pride and marks a mile­stone in the indus­tri­al recy­cling of plastics.