Big bags, also called FIBCs, are omnipresent in logistics as a lightweight and economical type of packaging for free-flowing bulk goods. Made predominantly from polypropylene (PP), they show a CO2 balance per 1,000 litres of transported goods that is far below that of rigid containers such as drums or octabins. Turkish big bag producer Prof Sentetik is making them even more sustainable by adding post-industrial and post-consumer PP waste in the production of various types of big bags. The company has recently installed Starlinger equipment for woven PP bag and big bag production, including a Starlinger PP tape production line equipped with the new eqoCLEAN filter system for processing recycled granulate. With this new tape extrusion line, Prof Sentetik produces PP tapes for FIBC fabric with recycled polypropylene (rPP) that meet all the specifications required for heavy-duty packaging applications.
“Plastic waste is a valuable resource, and instead of depositing it in landfills or incinerating it, it should be used in the best possible way”, said Fahri Sengül, General Manager of Prof Sentetik. “For us, Starlinger’s holistic approach to packaging production is very helpful. Being a supplier of both production machinery for woven plastic packaging and plastics recycling equipment, they understand the product cycle of plastic packaging from the beginning right to the end. They know how to produce high-quality recycled plastics, and their woven packaging production equipment is designed for processing virgin as well as recycled input materials, even if they stem from post-consumer plastic waste.”
https://www.worldcement.com/africa-middle-east/19092023/recycled-big-bags-made-in-trkiye-with-starlinger-technology/