Issue 261 2024-04-10 Author : FIMIC SRL. Suscríbete

FIMIC Innovations in Automatic Filtration

Recycling is a game where size matters. Nowadays recyclers need to reach a higher hourly production capacity with efficiency and simplicity, they required right applications for high-throughput recycling lines. FIMIC has been working many years now on improving its filtration technologies in order to meet and satisfy the needs (quality, characteristics) of recyclers, and at the same time facing the challenges of recycling post-consumer and post-industrial plastics. And knows that to reach high quality recycled plastics from contaminated waste needs automatic technologies to filter out impurities and contaminations from the plastic flow. Today, FIMIC is the only company in the plastic recycling industry with a range of 5 different automatic melt filters and screw pumps, offering all possible filtrations and covering the many different existing applications.

FIMIC historic RAS melt filter has reached so far over 530 units installed world-wide. Versatile melt filter, sold all over the world, allows you to handle the ever-increasing contaminations on the market, allowing at the same time continuous operation at full outputs at the lowest operational costs in the market of continuous filters.

But the research for innovation and passion for improvement didn't stop there, FIMIC is constantly growing and developing innovative technologies and tailored solutions. This is how in 2023, the company developed two new products. With a 30% more filtering surface than a RAS 700, the new RAS 800 allows to increase a 40% the production capacity being the biggest model of the RAS series. This new addition to the automatic self-cleaning melt filters models produced by FIMIC, thanks to its increased filtration surface (4775cm2) allows recyclers to reach a higher hourly production capacity with the efficiency and simplicity characteristic of FIMIC's filtration technology.

RAS 800 not only has changed the technical aspects of its predecessors, like the filtration surface capacity and the new radial discharge valve, but also its aspect. The body of RAS is heavier than any other melt filter of this series, for this reason has two support arms to assist the mobile lid, a new characteristic that differentiates it from the classic RAS.

The new SPA 190, the biggest screw pump in the market allows to increase the hourly production transporting the melted plastic material from the extruder to the filter without using any gears, that recyclers know are sensitive to contaminations and that usually get damaged very easily by the many different contaminants. Screw operated, SPA 190 is the ideal solution for those seeking to achieve the highest possible quality.

With the knowledge and experience of more than 890 machines installed world-wide, the support of dedicated sales managers in every region, agents and representatives world-wide, and a clear vision of its mission, FIMIC orient its strategy towards a true commitment to provide solutions to accomplish what is really needed for efficient plastics recycling as part of a circular economy.