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and the careful utilization of resources – increasingly fibers, nonwovens and BCF endless filaments. Today,
in the textile sector as well. Leading fashion the technology is so refined that the products
companies, sports apparel and furniture achieve a quality standard that corresponds to virgin
manufacturers and the automobile industry, i.e. for material in many applications.
car seats and interior cladding components, are BBE is the exclusive supplier of extrusion filter using VarioFil systems. The development,
increasingly focusing on sustainable products and However, there are also many cases in which the technology for various manmade fiber industry construction and assembly of VacuFil and VarioFil
products made from recycled materials. Today, they material quality and/or property achieved does not polymers, particularly polyester, for its parent units are carried out exclusively in Remscheid, very
are already telling suppliers of filaments, fibers and comply with the market requirements. For numerous companies. As a result of its association with the much in line with the company’s tried-and-tested
nonwovens that they will be switching from textile applications, parameters such as viscosity and Brückner and Oerlikon Textile groups, BBE is always ‘Made in Germany’ machine construction philosophy.
exclusively virgin polyester to recycled polyester – in homogeneity are crucial and must be subject to aware of the requirements of the further-processing
some cases up to 100 percent – for the manufacture virtually no fluctuations. In other words, to enable industry in terms of granulate and melt made from VacuFil premiered at the ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, producers are able to generate the specific kind
of their textile products in the near future. recycled polyester to be used here in the first recycled polyester. It is also, and particularly, for this garnering considerable attention at the trade fair. recycled polyester they require for their applic
Consumers’ social awareness has been the trigger place necessitates its pre-treatment. And this is reason that the further development of Since then, numerous tests have been conducted on The excellent degasification performance additio
for this development. carried out by the VacuFil recycling process, a Matthias Schmitz, VacuFil Product Manager, and Dr. Klaus Schäfer, Managing Director post-consumer PET material and post-production the pilot system at the Remscheid site using relieves energy-intensive pre-drying.
BB Engineering GmbH development. The PET material is of special interest to BBE’s parent authentic waste material supplied by various
The original idea – namely to manufacture VacuFil enables the manufacture of extremely In the downstream processes, the melt can either be Siegsdorf/Germany, and Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. companies and the reason for them bundling their customers. The polyester recycled using the VacuFil With their modular structure and a performance
sub-premium goods using recycled polyester raw homogeneous, viscosity-stable rPET melt and first granulated or fed directly into the end product’s KG, one of the leading provider for systems for the recycling know-how to form the BBE joint venture. has been successfully spun into POY and FDY. spectrum of between 300 kg/h and maximum 3,000
material, i.e. for use in insulating materials – is hence a precisely definable and reproducible manufacturing process. Recycled polyester, manmade fiber industry and headquartered in Various target viscosities and starting materials are kg/h, VacuFil systems open up various possibilit
short-sighted from today’s perspective. Recycled raw material for downstream processes (i.e. produced using the BBE VacuFil process, can even Remscheid/Germany. BBE is a pioneer in the BBE is located at the same site in Remscheid as not a problem for the VacuFil thanks to the innovative for processing polyester waste. Bottle flakes,
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polyester has long been prevalent within the high-end spinning plant). As a manufacturer of be used for more challenging downstream development of processes for using recycled materials, Oerlikon Barmag. When it comes to the downstream key component, the Visco vacuum filter. A reactor is agglomerated spinning waste or a mixture of both
Sustainable handling of natural resources is a as beverage bottles, cleaning materials, etc. As a textile segment. Viewing polyester as a valuable components and systems for producing processes, including the manufacture of FDY particularly polyester flakes, and converting them into processes with the VarioFil spinning system – the not required. The VacuFil unites gentle large-scale can be processed into high-quality PET granulate

global task, something that needs to be addressed raw material that is – along with polyolefins and resource rather than as waste is an important and manmade fibers, BB Engineering (BBE) is filaments, for example. Here the material is subjected contemporary, market-appropriate products for basis for spinning high-end manmade POY and FDY filtration and swift intrinsic viscosity build-up for fed directly into downstream processes (i.e. the
now and not just in the future. This relates in polyamide – such a dominant raw material, it is proper development. familiar with the dire impact that even the to extreme loads throughout the entire manufacturing filaments, fibers and nonwovens for manmade fiber fiber filaments for textile and industrial applications consistently-outstanding melt quality. The attached spinning plant). The entire recycling process is
particular to the further development of the circular essential that polyester is also recycled. smallest viscosity deviation has on the spinning process. In the FDY single-stage process, the industry consumers. “Our decades of competence that has been tried-and-tested for decades now – vacuum unit, which is automatically regulated controlled and monitored by Oerlikon Barmag’s
economy for post-consumer or post-production Manmade fibers and filaments made from recycled plant process. With the VacuFil, the company filaments are drawn and taken up at speeds of up to kicked in while we were developing the VacuFil. What BBE is already an established manufacturer of between 1 and 30 mbar, removes volatile GUIDE system, guaranteeing the accustomed
waste. For this reason, the recyclability of PET For PET bottle material, the recycling of polyester bottle flake material require corresponding has succeeded, depending on the intended end 4,500 m/min. Oerlikon Barmag brings to the table as a technological compact and flexible systems for the manmade fiber contamination, ensures a controlled IV increase and reliability. With an optional 3DD mixer, the
products made by the manmade fiber industry is materials and the possibilities for converting the single-variety collection or pre-sorting of the bottle application, in aligning the melt with the process in leader in the field of filament yarn spinning systems, industry. VarioFil R spinning systems have been used additionally achieves an ideal melt homogeneity, market-proven mixing technology manufactured by
attributed special significance. Modern waste into new high-end products within the material being recycled and comprehensive cleaning a targeted manner. Macro- and microscopic melt BBE is headquartered in Remscheid/Germany and is BBE complements with considerable know-how in the for converting PET regranulates and – directly – PET which is vital for the downstream spinning BBE, producers can not only add additives to the
resource-friendly packaging would not be polyester filaments, fibers and nonwovens market before they are shredded into polyester flakes. It is homogeneity is achieved by means of a joint venture between Brückner Group GmbH, the area of extrusion and filtration and in systems flakes into POY/DTY for both textile and carpet performance. Comprising an inline viscosity melt, they can also easily change rPET ratios in
conceivable without manmade PET fibers and are state-of-the-art. Across the globe, consumers in then possible to spin these flakes directly into POY homogenization drying, controlled plasticizing, gentle world market leader for machines for the polyester construction and engineering!”, states Dr. Klaus applications. And spin-dyed products made from measuring unit connected to the vacuum system, the main melt from between 5 and 50 percent stream i
commodities generally made from chemicals, such the markets are demanding sustainable products filaments (DTY in the downstream process), staple filtration and controlled vacuum degassing. foil industry and headquartered in Schäfer, CEO of BBE. PET recycled granulates are also being produced IV can be continuously and reliably adjusted. Hence, order to comply with legal standards.

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