EREMA subsidiary obtains trademark rights for Cadel deinking technology

        Erema subsidiary Keycycle has acquired the trademark rights for the deinking technology of the Spanish company Cadel Deinking. The process removes printing ink from the surface of plastics, making them more suitable for recycling. The two companies have been working closely together for two years and have several deinking lines running at customer sites for processing in-house printing and post-industrial film waste.

        The process developed by Cadel is an environmentally friendly one: a water-based chemical composition dissolves the ink from the surface of the shredded film or recycled material before feeding the material into the recycling extruder.

         “Since January 2021, we have been responsible for the global distribution rights of this patented technology, including operating a pilot plant in Sant Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, together with Cadel,” said Michal Prochazka, General Manager of Keycycle. “Now, we have taken a step further and combined the process technology into a product. He proposed that the product not only provides "top quality" but also meets industrial standards. The deinking line on the K2022 has a capacity of 1,200 kilograms per hour. Such a large-scale capacity makes the process suitable for the post-consumer recycling sector, where the removal of printing inks represents another major quality upgrade for recycled pellets.

        Following the acquisition of the Cadel Deinking brand, Keycycle will continue to develop deinking technology, which will be sold under the Keycycle Deinking brand. Cadel will continue to operate as Cadel Recycling Labs, focusing on its core competency in developing innovative technologies for plastic recycling, as well as lab and software technologies for purification evaluation.