The PET bottle-to-bottle line is the second plastics recycling system from Starlinger that Tanrıkulu has installed. It is in operation at Tanrıkulu’s post-consumer PET processing plant in Akyazı, Sakarya Province, in Türkiye’s Marmara Region. The recycling system processes post-consumer PET bottle flakes and has a production output of 2.4 tons per hour. Tanrıkulu supplies the bottle-grade rPET pellets to customers in Turkey and abroad.
The recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ recycling line is equipped with a special cartridge filter that reduces production waste, increases the production output and ensures highly purified melt. The backflush melt filter system called DPC 4000 operates continuously with two screen-bearing pistons and four screen cavities. With a total of approx. 4000 cm², the filtration area is 2.4 times larger than when using standard screens, filtering the melt with a fineness of 56 μm. Another big advantage is the high process stabilization as 75% of the filtration area is available in the filtration process during screen change and backflushing. The DPC 4000 cartridge filter significantly reduces melt loss during backflushing and generally improves system performance.
