EPE Foam is widely used in all walks of life because of its thermal insulation, anti-seismic, and anti-fall characteristics. The material often appears in our life in the form of furniture packaging, construction material, EPE leftover, and so on. EPE foam is no-biodegradable. No studying can tell how long it takes for EPE foam to break down. The biggest problem with Styrofoam- light in weight, and huge in size. Scattered EPE has difficulty in transportation. Recycling waste EPE can avoid the pollution of the environment, save resources, and offer convenience for EPE material transportation.

Best Way to Recycle EPE Foam

According to a survey on the recycling of EPE Foam in the United Kingdom, the overall recovery data of EPE Foam in the United Kingdom is on the rise in recent years, and there are more than 5,000 points recycled in 2020. More and more people begin to pay attention to EPE recycling.

GREENMAX compactor specializes in compressing all kinds of EPE material and can help you to reduce the volume of EPE waste up to 50:1. Its operation process consists of four parts: putting EPE, crushing, cold-pressing, and discharging, which is automatic and not complicated. It is not only easy to operate but also can reduce the volume of EPE by up to 2% and foam pressed ingots, which can be sold to recyclers or be purchased back by GREENMAX.

Recycling Steps of GREENMAX EPE Compactor:

1. Throw the EPE Foam to be processed into the hopper—Feed EPE Foam into the hopper for Crushing.
2. The large EPE Foam is Crushed into small pieces.
3. Compaction of crushed EPE Foam by pressing technology—Compressing EPE Foam by pressing and hydraulic technology.
4. Pressed ingots compacted by screw extrusion.

Benefits of Using GREENMAX EPE Compactor:

1. Crushing the waste EPE foam and compact into the tight block with 50:1 compression ratio, which saves storage space.
2. After compressing, EPE Foam can be sold for reusing and making frame products and construction moldings, such as crown molding, wall panels, etc.
3. Avoiding more waste EPE foam being landfilled or burned.
4. Protect the environment, improve environmental conditions, and save raw materials to reduce the energy crisis pressure.

Service Advantages of GREENMAX:

1. GREENMAX are manufacturing many models with different outputs.
2. The EPE Compactor is customized and can be designed to your requirement.
3. GREENMAX provides after-service in time, there are local engineers ready for support.

GREENMAX Successful Cases:

Below are some successful cases of GREENMAX, our EPE Compactor has really helped customers solve the problems encountered in recycling EPE.

As a global packaging solutions leader, SONOCO is manufacturing all kinds of packaging to improve customer’s life, EPE foam is a necessary packaging, SONOCO are running several manufacturing plants to make EPE foam coolers and other molded products. Their production line is equipped with high-level equipment, not generating that much EPE foam scrap, they used to landfill this scrap, while SONOCO has a very professional recycling team is taking care of all the scrap, working to find out a better solution rather than throwing it away easily.

In 2017, the recycling team started to work with the factory about waste EPE foam recycling, after comparing several different offers, they installed GREENMAX EPE Compactor in their Hayward location for their waste coolers recycling, after compression, the blocks are transported to the INTCO factory for reusing to make picture frames. Other locations also plan to study this recycling solution and improve their recycling rate.

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