Guess the Briquette Weight Competition Has High Empack At Packaging Innovations Show

Whilst people were still mulling over the Oscars we were delighted to be showing off our own statues in the form of three briquettes made from PET bottles, aluminium cans and polystyrene waste at the Empack Exhibition on 25th-26th February at the NEC Birmingham. As well as marvelling at the compaction ratio achieved on such materials visitors got the chance to guess the combined weight for the chance to win £50 in Amazon.co.uk vouchers. The competition got people thinking about waste materials that can effectively be compacted to dramatic ratios and this provoked many discussions with visitors on what machines could condense materials down to such a degree. We were happy to discuss the Strautmann’s ‘Automate to Save’ range which has revolutionised manufacturing, distribution centres, household waste recycling sites, waste contractors and other sites with EPS waste globally. The Strautmann AutoLoadBaler as an example is the world’s only self-loading vertical baler, this machine’s ability to massively reduce labour costs and time ensures that staff may always be front facing, with no time wasted filling a baling press and waiting for the cycle to end. Also popular with visitors was the LiquiDrainer which offers automatic, quick and profitable emptying of filled liquid containers, taking over the job automatically by using a rotor to perforate filled PET bottles, TetraPak® and beverage cans. And for polystyrene waste, the StyroPress eliminates the common issues of screw type systems which overheat material, jam and result in costly downtime and the problems that come with storing large amounts of loose EPS until the screw has cooled down again – some visitors found it hard to believe that a briquette so compact could be produced with no heat. The show proved to be a busy one and there were many entries for the Guess the Weight competition but the final congratulations goes to Barry Dunne of Thamesdown Recycling who made the closest guess at 5.5kg, just 0.212kg from the correct answer! If you don’t want to miss out on our new innovative intelligent labour saving equipment that offers massive labour savings and are outstanding value for money please contact us via email at info@compactandbale.com or phone 01732 85 22 44. Alternatively, to see our machines in action take a look at our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcHlQONeIFAZc6B6QXwy5Hg/videos

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