In order to improve the purity of recycled PET and increase the recycling efficiency, a South African customer engaged in plastic bottle recycling recently inquired and purchased a plastic bottle de-labeling machine from our company to achieve good recycling results.
The customer’s main challenges in PET bottle Recycling
Difficulty removing labels: PVC labels with glue are often attached to the surface of collected plastic bottles, which affects the purity of the final rPET. However, it is difficult to remove them directly by traditional methods—it is a huge amount of work!
Insufficient equipment stability: Local plastic recycling equipment in South Africa is relatively basic, unsuitable for continuous operation over long periods, and prone to breakdowns that affect recycling efficiency.
Environmental pressure: The South African government requires PET recyclers to achieve a label removal rate of over 90% to meet export standards. Customers have only been able to achieve a 78% removal rate.
Suffering from the above plastic bottle recycling challenges, the customer searched for a suitable label removal solution and left us a message on Google.
Shuliy’s solution
After receiving the message, our sales manager contacted the customer to understand his production situation. Based on the actual needs he provided, the sales manager recommended our 1t/h plastic bottle label remover, which is suitable for small scale PET recycling scenarios. The features of this de-labeling machine are as follows:
- Adopting precise mechanical friction structure to realize efficient removal of sticky residue from plastic bottles, with a label removal rate of more than 98%.
- Equipped with flexible and adjustable blade design, it can sort plastic bottles of different shapes (e.g. round bottles, flat bottles, etc.) to maximize production efficiency.
- The body is made of high quality stainless steel and the cutter head is made of high hardness tungsten carbide, which ensures the plastic bottle label remover is durable, corrosion resistant and has a long service life.
- Equipped with low energy consumption motor, saving energy consumption and reducing operation cost.
- Adopting reasonable structure design, the plastic bottle label remover machine is easy to operate and maintain.
Collaboration Implementation Process
The South African customer was satisfied after receiving and testing the recommended plastic bottle decal, but still had some concerns about long-distance transportation of the equipment and the convenience of after-sales service. We shared our previous successful cases and promised:
- Reinforced design for the machine body and key components to ensure the machine can work continuously for a long time.
- We will provide customized packing service according to the size of the equipment, and do a good job of multi-layer protection against collision and moisture to avoid damage during transportation.
- We provide door-to-door installation and technical guidance to ensure that the equipment is quickly put into production.
- Timely response to after-sales service, can provide one year free warranty and lifelong supply of parts!
Through the above commitment and the implementation of specific processes, now our PET bottle label removal machine has been successfully put into production, and to help customers realize the efficient removal of PVC and other materials label.
The customer’s plastic bottle recycling efficiency has increased dramatically, with a monthly processing capacity of about 240 tons +, reducing labor cost by 75%. In addition, the label residue has been reduced from 20%+ to less than 2%, which is much lower than the government standard, realizing high-quality recycling of plastic bottles and expanding the high-end rPET market!
Conclusion
This successful collaboration demonstrates Shuliy’s technical expertise in PET recycling and its ability to serve the international market, and Shuliy will continue to work with its customers in South Africa and around the world to promote recycling! If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact us.
