Recycloaid: Indian Additive Aiding Global Recycling

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Recycling polymers is the buzzword in today's environment conscious plastic industry. Recyclable polymer scrap comes from two sources: domestic or post user and industrial scrap.

In order to successfully recycle this scrap, a recycler usually takes a few pre-processing steps such as washing the scrap and shredding it down to a more uniform size.

Then the washed and shredded scrap is extruded and cut into pellets of recycled plastic which are then packed and reused for making useful objects.

However, this process affects the quality of the polymer in two ways. First, a high quantity of moisture gets entrapped in the polymer during the washing and cleaning process and second, heterogeneous mixing of different polymers reduces the mechanical strength of end product.

Due to moisture, the pellets often lack good surface finish and the reduced strength results in poor physical properties of the products made from such pellets.

Generally, the recyclers use desiccants either while recycling scrap or while making products from pellets but the results are not consistent.

Vin Industries' RecycloAid ...
... is a high performance additive specially designed to tackle this problem and just like other desiccants, can be used at either levels but its benefits are not limited to moisture removal.

“Not only does RecycloAid remove moisture related surface defects, it also homogenizes the polymer mix, enhancing the physical properties of the end product,” said Rohit Mahajan, technical director at Vin Industries.

These twin benefits have ensured a global customer base for the additive and has become one of the flagship brands of the company, which is India's leading manufacturer of niche