VOLEX High performance degassing®
Highly effective VOC reduction in single-screw extruders - at full throughput
Volatile out. Purity in.
VOLEX technology from EREMA: degassing redefined
With its innovative VOLEX technology, EREMA is setting new standards in plastics extrusion. Thanks to the use of water stripping technology on a single-screw extruder, it achieves exceptionally high degassing performance – even at full throughput.
Made possible by proven INTAREMA® TVEplus® technology combined with a specially developed extruder screw and cylinder geometry in the degassing zone. The result is a high output system complete with exceptionally high degassing performance: up to 40% less VOCs compared to INTAREMA® TVEplus® standard degassing, and up to 75% lower VOC content compared to the input material (measured according to VDA 277), and significantly reduced fogging. The result: premium quality recycled pellets with consistently high mechanical properties.
New capabilities for premium applications
This makes total sense from a business perspective because VOLEX technology processes a wide variety of film and regrind materials where a particularly high degassing capacity is required to make premium pellets even more efficiently than before. Recycled pellets of this quality level open up new capabilities for challenging applications - from films for transport packaging, lifestyle products and furniture to high-quality automotive interior components and robust transport solutions such as shopping baskets.
Design advantage
It is only the INTAREMA® TVEplus® that has the unique Plus-Zone - a specially developed process zone that has been proven over and over again to ensure the especially homogeneous distribution of water within the melt. This design advantage makes a significant contribution to achieving maximum efficiency and an extremely reliable process. The precisely regulated water inlet in this zone enables a particularly effective stripping process, which reliably removes VOCs and condensable substances such as limonene.
Another key advantage in terms of quality is that VOLEX technology achieves its high degassing performance without additional melt lines, without melt deflection and without melt distributors. This significantly reduces the risk of black spots and deposits, which is a clear advantage over other degassing solutions on the market.
The result: the highest quality recycled pellets that are perfect for challenging applications with the highest specifications in terms of degassing performance.
