Production
A story that goes back to 1997. Environnement Massif Central, founded in 1997 by Olivier Dalle, integrates the entire plastics recycling value chain.
The site includes the three units needed to regenerate polyolefins: a sorting centre entirely dedicated to mixed household packaging and equipped with the latest generation of optical sorting machines, a shredding-sorting-washing plant for this sorted waste and, finally, several extrusion lines to supply ready-to-use pellets to plastics manufacturers.
These activities enable the company to regenerate more than 20,000 tonnes a year of HDPE and PP in the form of flakes and granules. Increased investment in production facilities over the past decade has enabled the company to reach this capacity, which is set to rise sharply over the next few years in response to market pressure.
100% French waste supplied exclusively with post-consumer waste
We have been working closely for over 10 years with our long-standing partners CITEO and VALORPLAST for packaging, and ADIVALOR for agricultural waste.
These structures guarantee the traceability and 100% French origin of the waste from which all the pellets offered by the company come.
Sorting household plastic packaging: from PET to PEPP
The historic sorting centre can identify and sort up to 5 different materials PET, PS, PE, PP and PVC and more than 10 sub-categories depending on the type of multilayer, colour and transparency of the objects.
The unit can be adapted to all the different incoming plastic waste streams from the municipal sorting centres that manage the selective collection of French household packaging (the yellow bin).
Our over-sorting centre enables us to maintain control over the purity of the sorted waste, ensuring consistent quality for the regenerated material.
In addition, detailed knowledge of the type of waste that is recycled, combined with increasingly strict quality control, considerably reduces variations in the properties of the PRMs produced around the target values, particularly for the fluidity index.
The choice was made to sort all the waste more and more finely in order to achieve MFI (Melt Flow Index) stability that could rival that of virgin polymers.
Plastics regeneration: bales sorted with HDPE-R and PP-R to replace virgin materials
The regeneration unit transforms PE and PP bales from the above-mentioned sorting process into 12 mm flakes.
Some of these flakes are sent directly to the compounding customer, while the rest are used to feed the extruders owned by Environnement Massif Central, transforming the plastic flakes on site into pellets ready for use by plastics manufacturers.
