Belgian recycling company’s “new and innovative” production line now assembled, with commercial production scheduled for June.
ClozDloop has announced that it will commence the launch of a trial production at its new cartridge material recycling plant later this month as it prepares for commercial production to begin in June, with the assembly of the production line, supervised by Toshiba Dieppe’s Toner Department Manager, Mr M. Mebtoul, now complete.
The company acquired a patent exploitation license from Toshiba TEC Cooperation in March 2012, and together with Toshiba TEC Europe Imaging Systems S.A. designed and assembled a new production line for the material recovery from end-of-life printer cartridges.
The new production line will enable 6,000 tons of used products to be processed per year, with the installation audited by ISMA and a second audit scheduled before the end of June.
Gerrit Ouwens, CFO of ClozDloop, commented: “By using the Toshiba patent, we obtain clean plastic fractions of 8mm size after product processing, enabling us to re-use even a higher volume of recovered materials after further recycling. This is a unique feature for these kind of production lines.
“The effectiveness of the process has been demonstrated during lab tests at the production site of Toshiba and we look forward to continuously improve quality of services to our OEM customers. Our customers challenge us every day to offer more efficient solutions for material recovery and recycling. We work hard to meet their expectations and our desire to excel drives us to invest in further vertical integration.”