Extrusion International 1-2022

18 Extrusion International 1/2022 INDUSTRY NEWS MEWARAward “Plastics RecyclingCompany of the Year 2021” „ A jury of international waste recycling experts has named CONSENT FZCO as Plastics Recycling Company of the Year 2021. CONSENT, based in Dubai collects over 6.000 tonnes of PET bottles from waste sites annually and processes these to high quality PET bottle fl akes, using a state-of-the-art recy- cling unit developed and integrated by themselves. Along with PET bottles, PET strapping tape from post- industrial units are also processed by having best practices in the envi- ronmental business and sustainability in the region. In a second process, CONSENT uses Gneuss MRS extrusion technology to produce high quality and high tensile Poly- ester (PET) strapping by adding recycled PET bottle fl akes along with chopped post-industrial PET strap. The Gneuss MRS extruders remove the need for pre-drying or crystallisation of the PET fl akes. Additionally, the Gneuss multiple screwMRS extruder and the Gneuss Rotary Melt Fil- tration System ensure the optimum product quality. Since 2019, the “Waste & Recycling Middle East and Africa” magazine gives awards to innovative and sustainability- Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH www.gneuss.com oriented plastics recycling companies in the Middle East. As part of an annual gala event, individuals and organisations from the plastics recycling world are honoured who and which have made an exceptional contribution to ecological and economic sustainability. “We are extremely proud, to have received this renowned prize” commented a delighted Alan Sakr (CEOof CONSENT). “Since 2013, we have collected 56.000 tonnes of PET from land fi ll sites in the United Arab Emirates and reprocessed it. If you use the investigations by Stanford University as a basis, whereby one tonne of recycled plastic saves approximately 16 barrels of crude oil, 5,5 m³ land fi ll and 5.774 kWh of en- ergy” explained Alan Sakr, “then with our efforts we have in the meantime saved nearly 913.000 barrels of crude oil, 323 kWh of energy and saved of 308.000 m³ of landscape from land fi ll”. GneussMRS ExtrusionLine PrizeGivingCeremonywithCONSENTFZCO Record Year Reported „ In a year blighted by travel restrictions and lockdowns, the leading manufacturer of surface treatment technology beats all previous sales records. The period since the fi rst lockdown began in April 2020 has had a major impact on world trade and the way com- panies do business, so Vetaphone is more than happy to report a huge boost in orders across the board that saw it return a year-end total that will not only surpass expecta- tions but exceed all previous years in the company’s long history. Speaking for the company, VP Sales & Marketing Kevin McKell explained: “We were quick to assess the situation and adapt our sales and marketing approach to suit the new trading conditions. With travel either impossible or se- verely limited we had to fi nd alternative ways for face-to- face contact with customers, and the actions we took have clearly worked well!” With trade fairs being cancelled on a rolling basis, Veta- phone took the bold decision to withdraw from exhibiting at all future events, whether large or small. Instead, the company of fi cially opened its new Showroom and Demo facility in May that is fully equipped with working corona and plasma technology and offers both in-person and on- line appointments via a video link. Allied to the adjacent Test Lab facility that it opened in 2020, Vetaphone now has a permanent trade fair stand of its own that is available 24/7, if necessary. “We’ve had great customer response to the new show- room and the fact that we can actually demonstrate the equipment – something we could never do at Drupa or La- belexpo – and it’s really started to pay dividends in terms of orders secured. We know that many of our customers are unlikely to ever visit us in Denmark – now we can take