Recycling Conference 2025 at Warsaw

Interview: Georg Klein about Herbold Meckesheim and Coperion, Germany.

Herbold: sukces na K 2025

Rozszerzenie partnerstwa Coperion i Brückner

Brückner Maschinenbau, wiodący na świecie producent linii do rozciągania folii, po raz kolejny przyznał firmie Coperion kontrakt na produkcję wielkoseryjną wytłaczarek dwuślimakowych ZSK serii ZSK Mc¹⁸.

Innovative Interplay of Plastics Recycling Technologies

Coperion, together with Herbold Meckesheim, will present their expertise in various plastics recycling applications at this year’s K show in Dusseldorf, Germany (8-15 October 2025).

Wydajność wytłaczania w produkcji koncentratów

Producent koncentratów barwiących cpc zwiększa wydajność operacyjną swoich wytłaczarek Coperion ZSK za pomocą C-BEYOND.

Coperion at K 2025

At K 2025 in Dusseldorf (8-15 October 2025) at Booth 14B19 in Hall 14, Coperion is presenting its trailblazing technologies for high-efficiency plastics compounding.

Bottle-to-bottle recycling plant

For Indian preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt Ltd, Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating technologies in construction of an entire plant for bottle-to-bottle recycling from a single source. In addition to mechanical processing of used PET bottles, the recycling system encompasses all process steps leading up to extrusion with a ZSK twin screw extruder, including pelletizing and an SSP (Solid State Polycondensation) reactor.

Schenck Process FPM is Becoming Coperion

Following its September 2023 acquisition by Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI), Schenck Process Food and Performance Materials (FPM) is transitioning its name and brand to Coperion. The full legal change to Coperion will be completed by August 1, 2024.

Specialists in the recycling of plastics

At IFAT 2024 (13-17 May, Munich, Germany) Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim will present innovative product and process solutions that make the recycling of plastics markedly more efficient and increase the product quality achieved.

Cable Compounds Production

At wire 2024 (April 15-19, 2024, Düsseldorf/Germany) Coperion will present flexible solutions for the efficient production of high-quality compounds for a wide variety of cable applications at booth 13A44 in hall 13. Coperion’s extrusion technology, such as the ZSK twin screw extruder and the KP Kombiplast Compounder, has proven ideal for producing a broad variety of cable compounds for different applications, for example HFFR, XLPE Silan cross-linkable PE or PVC. Coperion also offers trusted solutions for the manufacturing of high-voltage cable compounds. Together with Coperion K-Tron feeders for high accuracy feeding of all ingredients as well as gentle conveying and material handling technology, manufacturers benefit from integrated turnkey solutions from one source.

Plastics Compounding and Recycling

At this year’s Chinaplas (23-26 April 2024, National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), Hongqiao, Shanghai, PR China) Coperion will present key technologies for processing plastics at Booth F 106 in Hall 2.1. The centerpiece of the exhibits will be the STS 75 Mc PLUS twin screw extruder with its increased specific torque of 13.6 Nm/cm³ which allows the STS extruder to achieve up to 20% more throughput with markedly higher product quality.

Coperion Optimizes ZSK 18 MEGAlab Extruder

Coperion has equipped its ZSK 18 MEGAlab laboratory extruder with numerous new functions that provide significantly greater flexibility and safety in handling. Pluggable cartridge heaters instead of hard wired ones now allow for rapid barrel reconfiguration as well as straightforward cartridge heater exchange. An electrically securable maintenance door on the gearbox lantern increases operational safety and at the same time provides quick access, reducing downtimes for screw changes and system maintenance. Moreover, feeders for this laboratory machine can now be placed on a newly developed patent-pending feeding platform which allows up to four feeders to be arranged with maximum flexibility for adding ingredients in myriad ways.

New ZSK FilCo Filtration Compounder

For recycling of post-consumer recyclate (PCR) or any highly contaminated polymer, Coperion has developed the innovative ZSK FilCo filtration compounder that allows filtration and compounding in a single production step.

Recykling chemiczny jest w powijakach

Rozmowa z Jochenem Schoferem, dyrektorem sprzedaży jednostki biznesowej Recykling w Coperion GmbH.

Recycling Innovation Center is Up and Running

Coperion has successfully launched operation of its new Recycling Innovation Center. In this high-tech test center for plastics recycling applications, every recycling process step – from material handling and feeding to extrusion, compounding, pelletizing, material postprocessing and deodorization – can be tested. Extensively equipped recycling systems are available that can be modified in myriad ways, depending upon the specific requirements of the recyclate to be produced.

Indaver Chooses Coperion in Chemical Recycling Plant

Coperion will deliver a ZSK Mc18 twin screw extruder and corresponding peripherals for a Plastics2chemicals (P2C) plant that Belgian waste management company Indaver is building to chemically recycle plastic waste. The P2C plant is currently under construction in Antwerp, Belgium and is expected to annually transform 30,000 tons of so-called end-of-life plastics into high-quality basic chemicals.

Schenck Process Food Materials to Join Coperion

FPM’s premier, high value brands, deep domain expertise and comprehensive end-to-end systems will support Coperion’s strategic growth opportunities in food, plastics, and chemicals

Pioneering Technologies of Battery Compounds

At this year’s Battery Show Europe (23-25 May, Messe Stuttgart/Germany), Coperion and Coperion K-Tron will present their effective total solutions for continuous manufacturing of battery materials. At Booth 10-C45 in Hall 10, visitors can learn about the advantages of this efficient manufacturing process using twin screw extrusion. Solutions from Coperion and Coperion K-Tron span the entire process of anode and cathode slurry production, from intake, conveying and preparation of the active materials, to feeding and mixing in the extruder, to material handling of the finished masses to further processing. Every step in Coperion’s entire system is synchronized with every other one. Plant design, development and realization of the entire system with a complete containment concept come from a single source.

Preconfigured Feeders for Plastics Industry

Coperion K-Tron Expands ProRate PLUS Feeder Line with twin screw feeder for powder additives.

Pioneering technologies for recycling of plastics

At this year's Chinaplas (April 17-20, 2023, Shenzhen, P.R. China) Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart/Germany will be presenting itself as a technology provider for a wide range of forward-looking applications in the processing of plastics. With an extensive installed base, Coperion is considered an expert in the recycling of plastics as well as in the production of bioplastics. Coperion will bring its expertise in plastics recycling to life at its Booth 10K31 in Hall 10 with a virtual complete system for recycling PET. This plant allows a look inside numerous key components from Coperion and recently acquired partner Herbold Meckesheim, with whom Coperion now offers complete systems for plastics recycling.

Coperion Acquires Gabler Engineering

Coperion has recently acquired food and pharmaceutical specialist Gabler Engineering GmbH, enhancing Coperion’s food and pharmaceutical portfolio. Gabler Engineering, based in Malsch, Germany, specializes in the design, engineering, manufacturing, and implementation of plants and equipment for the confectionery and pharmaceutical industries.

Coperion and Coperion K-Tron at K 2022

High-Efficiency Technologies for Processing and Recycling Plastics

Coperion Recycling Innovation Center

Coperion GmbH has initiated the construction of a state-of-the-art recycling test lab at its Niederbiegen/Weingarten, Germany, production facility. The new Coperion Recycling Innovation Center will be built in the immediate vicinity of Coperion’s existing Test Center for Bulk Solids Handling. Driven by rising demands worldwide for a circular plastics economy, a clear trend has taken shape over the last years toward more recycling. Coperion is meeting this trend, not only with its equipment and processes designed for recycling applications, but also with its new Recycling Innovation Center. At the facility, customers will be able to develop and test new, sustainable products and recycling processes together with Coperion’s experts. All essential recycling process stages will be covered within the facility including materials conveying, feeding, extrusion, pelletizing, and materials postprocessing. In addition, Coperion will conduct its own research activities on plastics recycling in this new Recycling Innovation Center.

Coating Manufacturing Using Twin Screw Extruders

KANSAI HELIOS Group has just expanded its production of coatings at two locations – Helios Coatings Italia and Helios Coatings Deutschland – using a Coperion twin screw extruder at each site. Two ZSK Mv PLUS extruders with 43 mm screw diameters for powder coating production were installed practically concurrently, one at the Riese Pio X location in the Venice region of Italy and the other at the Buchholz, Germany site. KANSAI HELIOS specifically decided upon Coperion's twin screw extruder technology, due to its very high dispersion performance, and its suitability to a very broad range of recipes. KANSAI HELIOS values how Coperion ZSK extruders fulfill very high quality requirements, as well as their efficient operation and flexible options when manufacturing powder coatings.

All-New ProRate PLUS Feeder Line

Coperion K-Tron is proud to announce the expansion of the original ProRate™ feeder portfolio with a completely new and cost-effective feeder line called ProRate PLUS. Answering the call from the marketplace for a robust and reliable feeder for simple feeding applications in the plastics industry, Coperion K-Tron developed a completely new feeder line built on 100 years of feeding experience. The ProRate PLUS continuous gravimetric feeder line is an economical solution and offers a quick return on investment due to its good price-performance ratio and fast delivery times. It was designed with the specific requirements of the plastics processing industry in mind. These single screw feeders are ideal for the feeding of pellets, granules and other free-flowing bulk materials in secondary plastics applications. ProRate PLUS feeders are available in three sizes and can be installed as individual units or easily arranged in cluster of up to six feeders around a process inlet, depending on the recipe formulation.