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EPS packagingEPS  are being used in packaging and logistics solutions for the most challenging distribution environments.

Foam packaging plastics can be molded or fabricated foam,such as expanded polystyrene (EPS), expanded polypropylene (EPP),and expanded polyethylene (EPE).  Plastic foam have been used in most manufactured industry sectors, including high tech, consumer electronics, automotive, appliances, pharmaceutical/medical and many others. Whether you’re shipping computers, LCD TVs, refrigerators or HVAC equipment, delicate medical devices or temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, around the corner or around the world, you can find a solution to design the optimal protective packaging or material handling solution to get your products safely to their destination.

Here are just some of the examples.

Computer Hard Drive

Computer Hard Drive

 Large TV

Large TV

 Turbo Charger Covers

Turbo Charger Covers

Stove

Stove

Medical Device

Medical Device

 

Styrofoam Densifiers with Silo System

Expanded Polystyrene (also called Styrofoam) Recycling is not difficult at all. There are several Styrofoam densifier suppliers from Europe, USA and China that can help you reduce your polystyrene waste disposal costs drastically. Available densifiers with capacities from 15 cubic feet of un-densified polystyrene per hour up to 600 cubic feet per hour.

Polystyrene, Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) or Styrofoam is 98% air and 2% air. How much are you paying to transport it to landfill? If you are spending more than USD50 a week disposing of Styrofoam waste then it will pay you to have a Styrofoam densifier. If you are loading up a van and taking your Styrofoam to landfill think what else you could do with your time! It quickly fills skips and bins taking up large amounts of space but weighing almost nothing: pushing up waste disposal costs. Just think: you are paying your waste contractor to transport 98% air to landfill.

It is a huge problem for organisations in the food industry (hotels, restaurants, fast food), or buyers of supplies packaged in polystyrene (fisheries, hospitals, electronics industry, cruise companies, white goods suppliers). And yet polystyrene has a high price as a recycled product: anywhere between USD200 and USD400 a tonne when compacted. Many recyclers, traders, and Polywood product producers will buy your compacted polystyrene.

The smallest machine which compacts 15 cubic feet of Styrofoam per hour, up to 50:1 compaction, 95% reduction in volume. Density 25 lb per cubic foot once compacted. Huge reduction in waste disposal costs. Easily loaded by hand or via conveyor for larger installations. Variable block sizes depending on machine.

EPS Silo System For Highest Throughput

Styrofoam Densifier Silo

Styrofoam Densifier with Silo

For people need silo systems to enable higher loading capacities. The oversized pre-crush hopper can be bucket-fed or conveyor fed. The pre-crush unit is connected to a simple air-blown system to fill a silo 300 cubic feet in capacity.

 

The silo can feed one or two compactors to increase the throughput even further.

This is an ideal solution for a recycler collecting Styrofoam from multiple sources or a high volume Styrofoam waste producer who wants minimal operator time.

Timbron International actively recycles different forms of Polystyrene for Timbron International’s manufacturing of its’ premium interior molding products. Timbron International accepts Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), General Purpose Polystyrene (GPPS) and HIPs (High Impact Polystyrene) and recycle this polystyrene into quality green building materials. The process start from compaction and finally make the material into profile that used for interior and picture frames/

Polystyrene is identified by its specific recycling symbol:recycle symbol of PS


A Tour of the Process Behind Timbron Products

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How Timbron International of America use recycled Styrofoam to produce PS profiles.

[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb1.jpg]Collect Styrofoam
Timbron currently accept white Expanded Polystyrene (Styrofoam™) and any white container labeled #6 that is CLEAN.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb2.jpg]Compaction
Trays of expanded polystyrene are compacted for shipment. Timbron use many types of polystyrene, which is usually compacted at each collection source for their recycled polystyrene.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb3.jpg]Transportation
The compaction of expanded polystyrene allows for a reduction by 20 times the number of shipments needed to move the material.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb4.jpg]Shredding
The compacted blocks of expanded polystyrene are shredded into flakes in preparation for introduction into the pelletizing extruder.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb5.jpg]Extrusion pelletizing
The shredded flakes of expanded polystyrene are converted back into the polystyrene pellet that forms the base raw material for Timbron product.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb6.jpg]Compounding
The polystyrene pellets are mixed with additives and color in the compounding pelletizer line and re-pelletized prior to introduction into the profile lines for profile production.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb7.jpg]Profile extrusion
The Timbron compounded pellets are extruded through tooling to form the profiles that comprise the Timbron product line.
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb8.jpg]Shaping and packaging
The Timbron premium moulding is cooled in water baths and cut to length ready for packaging and shipment
[img src=http://www.eps-recycling.net/wp-content/flagallery/timbron/thumbs/thumbs_tb9.jpg]Final products
The waste Styrofoam become useful interior products and picture frames.

How to Recycle PS

1. Timbron accept white Expanded Polystyrene (Styrofoam™) and any white container labeled #6 that is CLEAN.

2. Timbron use many types of polystyrene, which is usually compacted at each collection source for Their recycled polystyrene. Trays of expanded Styrofoam are compacted for shipment.

3. The compaction of expanded polystyrene allows for a reduction by 20 times the number of shipments needed to move the material.

4. Using a single shaft shredder, the compacted blocks of expanded polystyrene are shredded into flakes in preparation for introduction into the pelletizing extruder.

5. The shredded flakes of expanded polystyrene are converted back into the polystyrene pellet that forms the base raw material for Timbron product.

6. The polystyrene pellets are mixed with additives and color in the compounding pelletizer line and re-pelletized prior to introduction into the profile lines for profile production.

7. The Timbron compounded pellets are extruded through tooling to form the profiles that comprise the Timbron product line.

8. The Timbron premium moulding is cooled in water baths and cut to length ready for packaging and shipment.

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