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The description of every machine is at its relative section.

In most plastic extruder die recycling lines, sorting of scraps may be the very first step.

Following the link you will discover some description of what manual and automatic sorting means, the bad and good aspects of each one.

Equipment useful for sorting are Bales Breaker, mainly used for bottles washing, Conveyor Belts with different setup, Metal Detectors and Separators, with different Trommels and configurations.

After separation plastic scraps should go to size reduction; in this section we are discussing Shredders and Granulators.

A good separation is why is the final product pure therefore there exists a description of Dry Separators and wet separation with Sink-Float Tanks and Hydrocyclones.

There is also some description of various ways of washing using Washing Machines with some little explanation about Pre-Washing systems, according with the scarps you will be dealing with, together with rinsing methods with Rinse-Dryers and drying finally, that is just about the most difficult what to achieve in plastic recycling, by way of mechanical Centrifuges.

Other equipment use are as well Classifiers, Dosing Units, and Mixing Silo.

When your scrap is dry and clean, you may want to upgrade your final product according with what it is; for this you really should go with an Agglomerator (densifier) especially in the event of thin film cleansing, a Pelletizing Lines together with Polymer Filtration and talking about PET and any Crystal Polymer, an IV upgrade through Stable State Polycondensation.

And do not forget dirt doesn't disappear but switches into Water; few terms in regards to a very important subject.

To see how to put everything along, please follow the hyperlink where there's a detailed explanation about how and why you should, or shouldn't, use each individual device.