23 Mar 2022 --- GEA is developing a technological solution with its customer Saperatec to mechanically recycle valuable raw materials found in composite packaging waste and used beverage cartons. GEA explains in this recycling process, multilayer composite materials made of plastic, aluminum and paper are treated in a special separation process. The process will be used at the new Saperatec site in Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. From 2023, up to 18,000 metric tons of packaging waste will be processed at the facility annually. To delaminate and dissolve the to-be-recycled material into the respective components, Saperatec uses a specialized separating method. The different layers are thereby divided from each other and sorted by material in further processes.
