Development of a Recycling Process for Laminated Packaging

层压包装回收工艺的开发

• 批准号: 730097
• 金额: $ 18.14万
• 依托单位: ENVAL LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Legacy RDA Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=730097
• 关键词: Development; Recycling; Process; Laminated; Packaging

The business case for a recycling method depends crucially on prices of raw materials (the waste, including transport, and energy) and the prices that can be obtained for the resulting products. These are global commodities and prices can vary markedly over a short period of time. Despite the experience gained with the previous EEDA project, the applicants do not present an outline business case for the process that might persuade people to buy the machines, preferring to internalise the risk by owning and running the plants at producers' sites. The company believes this segment of the market is worth £30m p.a. and that Enval can intercept £10m of this, but does not state how many plants will be needed nor how much they will cost. So although the economics look favourable, the case has not been fully demonstrated.The competitive situation is complex and dealt with very briefly in the application. There are several approches to the recycling of similar materials namely brick-type drinks cartons, which unlike the laminates to be used in this work contain significant amounts (70%) of paper. Conventional mills extract and recycle the paper content, and most landfill or incinerate the residue of aluminium and plastic (it is not clear if this is a laminate or not). However some make the residue into a structural material, and one in Germany sells some (all?) of it to the cement industry for use as a fuel that leaches aluminium into the cement. A Tetra-Pak joint venture in Brasil uses plasma treatment of the residue from paper extraction to get back energy, aluminium and paraffin, albeit leaving some material for disposal. However the Enval process has been shown to be suitable for treating intact plastic-aluminium laminate such as is used for toothpaste tubes, which does not contain significant amounts of paper.Enval has a clear market entry strategy - to start by offering plastic-aluminium laminate producers an on-site service recycling off-cuts or waste laminate at the producer's factory. This has the advantage of cutting transport costs such as might apply to post-consumer waste, and it is argued this scale of plant, whilst appropriate for Enval, is too small to support a plasma treatment operation.In summary, there is an existing market based on recycling used drinks cartons which gives rise to plastic and aluminium residue; the company has an intelligent plan for entering via a specific niche - recycling waste laminate at the factory; the viability of its business model should be better demonstrated with information from this project; whilst overall the market is subject to the vagaries of global commodity prices.

回收方法的商业案例在很大程度上取决于原材料（废物，包括运输和能源）的价格以及由此产生的产品的价格。这些都是全球性的商品，价格在短时间内可能会有明显的变化。尽管从以前的EEDA项目中获得了经验，但申请人并没有提出一个可能说服人们购买机器的过程的商业案例，他们更愿意通过在生产商的场地拥有和经营工厂来内化风险。该公司认为，这部分市场每年价值3000万英镑。恩瓦尔可以拦截其中的1000万英镑，但没有说明需要多少工厂，也没有说明它们的成本。因此，虽然经济上看起来很有利，但案例并没有得到充分的证明。竞争形势是复杂的，在应用程序中处理得很简单。有几种方法来回收类似的材料，即砖型饮料纸盒，不像在这项工作中使用的层压板含有大量（70%）的纸。传统的米尔斯提取和回收纸的内容，和大多数垃圾填埋或焚烧残余的铝和塑料（这是不清楚，如果这是一个层压板或没有）。然而，有些人把残渣做成结构材料，德国的一家卖了一些（全部？）水泥工业将其用作燃料，将铝浸出到水泥中。利乐在巴西的一家合资企业使用等离子体处理造纸残留物，以回收能源、铝和石蜡，尽管留下一些材料进行处理。然而，Enval工艺已被证明适用于处理完整的铝塑复合板，例如用于牙膏管的铝塑复合板，这种材料不含大量纸张。Enval有一个明确的市场进入战略-首先为铝塑复合板生产商提供现场服务，在生产商的工厂回收边角料或废层压板。这具有降低运输成本的优点，例如可能适用于消费后废物的运输成本，并且有人认为，这种工厂规模虽然适合Enval，但太小而不能支持等离子体处理操作。该公司有一个聪明的计划，通过一个特定的利基进入-在工厂回收废物层压板;其商业模式的可行性应该通过这个项目的信息得到更好的证明;而整体市场则受全球商品价格波动的影响。