P2B Engineering named as distributor for Ettlinger’s high performance melt filters in Turkey

Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH, the manufacturer of high performance melt filters and injection molding machines for high shot weights, has further expanded its worldwide sales network. Since the fall of 2016, P2B Engineering & Consultancy of Istanbul has been responsible for marketing Ettlinger melt filters in Turkey. Established by Managing Director Mustafa Öztürk in 2016, the company is an application oriented provider of solutions for the recycling, packaging and automotive sectors. Mr. Öztürk can draw on extensive and longstanding experience in the industry. Among other things, he spent eleven years as a design engineer for plastic parts used in household appliances as well as some ten years in international business management and sales for high quality injection molding systems.

Karsten Bräunig, Ettlinger's Manager Sales: “The Turkish recycling market for plastic materials has been growing at an above-average rate for several years now. At the same time, the demand for high quality recycled polymer as a raw material for demanding applications is rising. We’re delighted to have won P2B as a new regional partner who can help us provide intensive on-the-spot support to customers specialized in this area. P2B is already well connected to the industry in Turkey as a sales partner of other leading manufacturers in various fields. Although still a young company, it has a reputation for comprehensive technical advice and competent after-sales service.” 

Ettlinger’s patented melt filters …

… are designed to operate continuously and can be incorporated into almost any extrusion line. At the heart of these filters is a rotating filter drum with perforations through which the contaminated melt flows from the outside to the inside. A scraper continuously removes the contaminants that are held back on the surface and feeds them to an exit screw or discharge shaft. This enables the filter to be used fully automatically and without any disruptions over a period of weeks and months without having to replace the screen. The advantages of this design are the constant melt pressure, extremely low melt losses, and good mixing and homogenizing of the melts.

The ERF series, for throughputs of up to 6000 kg/h, is suitable for separating contaminants such as paper, aluminum, wood, silicones or high-melting polymer composites from heavily contaminated polyolefins and polystyrenes.

The ECO series, designed for a maximum throughput of around 3000 kg/h, has been optimized by Ettlinger specifically for complex extrusion processes such as the manufacture of films, sheets and other semifinished products, and is ideal for filtering polyolefins, PET and PA as well as recycled material containing up to 1.5% contaminants.

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