Provided are a recycling method which can easily separate a plastic film laminate into individual single layers and recover the layers, a recycled plastic processing material which can be processed into a high-quality recycled plastic from a plastic film laminate, and a method for producing the recycled plastic processing material. A recycling method for a laminate, winch includes crushing a plastic film laminate having at least two layers in water or a cleaning agent simultaneously with conducting pumping so that the crushed material obtained by crushing the laminate has a surface roughness of 0.7 μm or more.

A method of separating constituent layers from a paper-plastic laminate material includes disposing a sheet of a paper-plastic laminate material on a first surface. The paper-plastic laminate material includes a paper layer on a first side and a plastic layer on a second side. The method also includes moving an abrasive second surface over the paper layer on the first side to contact the paper layer and separate portions of the paper layer from the plastic layer. The method further includes collecting the separated portions of the paper layer and providing the separated portions of the paper layer as input to a paper recycling process, and collecting the plastic layer and providing the plastic layer as input to a plastic recycling process. The method may help increase recycling rates of paper and plastic, reduce raw material harvesting, reduce pollution and habitat destruction, and improve the quality of recycled material.

A pipe coating removal apparatus (1) for removing all or some of the coating on a pipe, the pipe coating removal apparatus (1) having a pipe support means (2) for supporting a length of pipe. and further having a tool carriage (3). The tool carriage (3) being capable of supporting two or more different types of pipe coating removal tools (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (80), (81), (82) and/or (70). The pipe coating removal apparatus (1) being capable of causing relative movement between the tool carriage (3) and the pipe support means (2) to remove all or some of the coating on the pipe that is supportable by the pipe support means (2).

Provided herein is a method of separating spandex from textile blends using biosolvents. The recovered material is of high purity while the chemical structure and molecular weight remain substantially unaffected by the treatment.

The invention relates to a refiner (1) for treating composite products made from thermoplastic material(s), comprising an enclosure (3) with a cylindrical wall, defining a treatment chamber provided with at least one feed opening (5) for products to be treated and at least one outlet opening (5′) for treated products, and a cylindrical drum (6), mounted so as to be able to move in the cylindrical enclosure (3) and having a diameter smaller than that of the latter, the longitudinal axes of symmetry of the outer enclosure (3) and the inner drum (6) respectively being parallel to each other,

the refiner (1) being characterized in that it comprises a means for heating the treatment chamber (4) and in that the drum (6) is mounted in the outer enclosure (3) so that it is able to move in rotation about its longitudinal axis (A2) and so that its longitudinal axis (A2) is able to move along a circular path around the longitudinal axis of said enclosure (3), the two types of possible movements mentioned above being controlled by separate drive and/or actuation means allowing them to be effected selectively or in combination.

Methods and equipment for the recycling of carpet are disclosed that produce a clean fiber product suitable for industrial use. The methods allow the recovery of face fiber material, for example a polyester, polyolefin, or a polyamide, from carpets that includes a face fiber material, a polypropylene backing material, and an adhesive, and include the steps of mechanically impacting the carpet to break the bonds between the adhesive and the fibrous components, treating the fibrous components to remove adhesive granules from the fibrous components, and optionally separating the polypropylene backing from the face fiber. A clean adhesive/calcium carbonate product can also be produced from this process.

A method for separating glass from a laminate of glass and binder by breaking sheets of laminated glass into pieces; placing the pieces into a chamber with water; and then pressurizing the chamber, whereby the glass separates from binder; and removing the separated glass from the chamber. The separation can be enhanced by agitating and alternately pressurizing the chamber and freezing the water in the chamber.

The present disclosure provides methods and systems for manufacturing a composite component. User input indicative of component parameters for fabrication of the composite component are obtained, the component parameters including a prepreg offcut material parameter indicative of a prepreg offcut to be recycled. At least one staging parameter for a staging process of the prepreg offcut is determined based on the prepreg offcut material parameter. A compression moulding process map for the fabrication is determined based on the component parameters A manufacturing parameters for the fabrication is determined based on the compression moulding process map. At least one signal indicative of the staging parameters, the compression moulding process map, and the manufacturing parameters is issued.

The present invention is based upon the discovery that the level of adhesion between steel reinforcing elements and rubber products, such as conveyor belts, in which they are embedded can be significantly reduced by heating the steel reinforcing elements by induction heating to break down the level of bonding between the steel reinforcing elements and the rubber in the article. The present invention more specifically discloses a method for recovering steel reinforcements from a conveyor belt carcass having steel reinforcements which are bonded to the carcass of the conveyor belt, said method comprising (1) heating the steel reinforcements in the conveyor belt by induction heating to a temperature which is sufficient to substantially breakdown bonding between the steel reinforcements and the carcass of the conveyor belt and (2) applying a mechanical force to the steel reinforcements which is sufficient to separate the steel reinforcements from the conveyor belt carcass.

The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for reducing the size of fiber composite materials, characterized in that means (6) for mechanically abrading an embedding matrix from fibers is provided, the mechanical abrasion of the embedding matrix from the fibers being performed using a rotational movement. In the method of the invention, an embedding matrix is mechanically abraded from the fibers by the means (6) using a rotational movement of the means (6) that are put in place.