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PET tapes produced by Consent. Photo: Gneuss

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GNEUSS and CONSENT Plastic: Innovative production of PET strapping tapes made of bottle flakes, without pre-drying or crystallisation


CONSENT Plastic, a company of the Arabian CONSENT GROUP which was founded in 1975, is the leading producer of strapping tapes and PET flakes in the Middle East. Consent Plastic produces his own flakes out of collected PET bottles and uses these flakes to manufacture polyester strapping tapes with a high tensile strength. These tapes are sold also to countries beyond the Middle East. A wide range of high-quality polyester tapes are offered under the trademark PETBAND®. 

In the course of further capacity expansion, the Arabian company purchased a new production line for the manufacture of PET strapping tapes made of 100 % non-dried post-consumer bottle flakes. Further, the line can process shredded preforms and shredded straps or a mixture out of these materials.

It was the avoidance of the time and energy intensive drying and crystallisation of the PET flakes which convinced Consent Plastic of the Gneuss MRS extruder. Compared to Consent’s previous production line including a single-screw extruder, crystallisation and drying processing steps, the footprint of the line could be reduced by 12 % and the energy requirement by 20-25 %. Further, the strapping tape produced with the MRS extrusion line is of much better quality in terms of tensile strength, stretch and splitting. This is a result of the intensive mixing effect of the MRS in the degassing section and the high degassing efficiency. Further, there is no need for work-intensive maintenance of the drying and/or crystallisation system, which was necessary with Consent’s previous line, so that the resulting machine downtimes are avoided, too. Last but not least, the line reacts to the greatest possible extent automatically to quality fluctuations in the input material without causing production interruptions.

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