FarmPlas Network
FarmPlas Network hotline 0870 780 1000
In this category:
The process
- Supported by a fully integrated water treatment plant
- One: Contaminated plastic in
- Two: Inspection, grading and sorting
- Three: Plastic conveyed to a shredder
- Four: Shredded plastic conveyed to primary washing tank and agitated under-water
- Five: Plastic conveyed to under-water granulator (80% of washing done here)
- Six: Plastic conveyed under-water to second tank for final washing
- Seven: Plastic conveyed through mechanical heat dryers
- Eight: Plastic conveyed to storage silos
- Nine: Plastic enters 180mm compounding line for under-water pelletising
- Ten: Plastic packaged and fed back into UK supply chain