Austrian plastics technologies specialist Erema expands with more trial centres and technical support facilities. With seven systems in the Erema customer centre and three more in the R&D centre at the company's headquarters in Austria; two at the Erema North America (ENA) Trial Centre in Ipswich; and a plant at the trial centre in the Middle East, totalling to 13 facilities for trial runs with the test materials clients choose to provide.

Additionally, the trial centres feature the world's very latest technology via the installation of the new plant generation INTAREMA with patented Counter Current technology (which had been presented for the first time at K 2013). The test runs on these systems are carried out in realistic production conditions and thus provide the results with which, the customer's machine configuration is optimised on an individual basis, says Erema.

CEO Manfred Hackl explains: "Our customers benefit from the fact that the systems can be configured exactly in line with their concrete application." He adds that some 400 tests are already carried out every year with a wide variety of customer materials. This number of test runs will continue to increase with the expansion of the trial centres.

Erema says that it recognised years ago the trend of being able to produce recycled pellets with a property profile customised to the specific end application, to continuously increase on the one hand not only the recyclate share in innovative products but also on the other hand the general market value of plastics recycling. In order to be able to realise such specific recycled pellet grades it is necessary to analyse the problems in the recycling processes in detail. For this reason that it decided to invest in its own R&D Centre with dedicated plastics analysis laboratory featuring a wide range of equipment with state-of-the-art engineering.

Erema enables its new offering with teams of qualified service engineers who are stationed in the respective regions (Europe, North and South America, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea and the rest of Asia, Africa and the Middle East) for technical support and on-site visits.