Extrusion International 5-2026

59 Extrusion International 5/2026 standing, trusting partnership with Lindner. Thanks to close coordination and fast decision-making on both sides, the new line was realised within a short time- frame: ordered in November 2024, commissioned in December 2025. For Plastika Kosovo, this meant signi - cantly reduced downtime – customer relationships were maintained and jobs were secured. A powerful fresh start The new Lindner washing plant is designed for dou- ble the recycling capacity while delivering consistently high output quality. This allows larger volumes of plastic streams to be processed that had previously gone un- used in the region. Equally important is the exibility gained: the plant now handles a wider range of input materials, including more heavily contaminated frac- tions. This broadens Plastika's sourcing base and makes the company less dependent on the availability of indi- vidual supply sources. The line delivered covers the entire process end to end, from shredding through washing and drying to ex- trusion. The stationary single-shaft shredder Micromat 2000 ensures consistently sized material and thus pro- vides a stable basis for every downstream step. All com- ponents come from a single source and are matched to one another: one point of contact, no interface losses, faster commissioning. "The customised plant has signi cantly accelerated our reconstruction phase while at the same time creat- ing a solid basis for our further development. Our close cooperation with Lindner Washtech shows what is pos- sible when partnership goes beyond day-to-day busi- ness," say Ardit and Arian Shabani, Managing Directors of Plastika Sh.p.k. "We don't see this project as simply the installation of a new washing line. It is a commitment to standing by our partner at a dif cult moment," says Tomas Kepka, Sales Manager at Lindner Washtech. "Plastika is the rst recycler in this region and has built something up over decades. The fact that this business continues is about more than one company's history – and that is exactly what we stand for as a family business." * Source: Kosovo Investment and Enterprise Support Agency (KIESA), report on the re at the Drenas Indus - trial Park, kiesa.rks-gov.net Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH www.solids-recycling-technik.de The stationary single-shaft shredder Micromat 2000 reliably shreds the input material, creating the basis for stable downstream recycling processes Thanks to its long-standing partnership with Lindner Washtech, Plastika Kosovo achieved a technologically sound restart of its recycling operations in a remarkably short time following the major re. The new plant is designed for double the recycling capacity – at consistently high output quality 24,000 Tons of Recycled Bottle-Grade PET Per Year Installed at the Novatex facility in the Quaid-e-Azam Business Park near Lahore, Pakistan, the recoSTAR PET 215 art bottle-to-bottle recycling system supplied by Austrian recycling technology specialist Starlinger has been commissioned in November 2025. PET producer Novatex Ltd. has ex- panded its product portfolio by in- vesting in bottle-to-bottle recycling of collected post-consumer PET bottles. “By producing bottle-grade recycled PET we want to support our partners PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and others to meet their circularity targets. The produced rPET has all the necessary food-contact certi - cations and is being used by all ma- jor brands. In addition, the govern-