Recycled plastics are only of interest to the plastics processing industry if they are available in consistent quality over the long term and in sufficiently large quantities. This is precisely what mtm delivers. Our polyolefin recyclate material competes directly with virgin plastics. It doesn't always win, but is winning more and more often.

At our headquarters in Niedergebra, a town to the south of Hanover in Germany, we have been recycling plastic packaging material since 1994. After mtm had already experienced a change of ownership in 1998 and 2003, Borealis, a leading supplier of innovative solutions for polyolefins, basic chemicals and plant nutrients, finally took over the two companies mtm plastics and mtm compact in 2016. Step by step, the very latest technologies have been introduced and are being constantly refined. Today, mtm is regarded as a European technology leader in in the recycling of mixed plastics and as one of the world's biggest producers of polyolefin recyclate. With our substantial production capacities, we can turn out up to 30,000 metric tons of regranulate a year. Our branded products, Dipolen® and Purpolen®, are sold to customers in Italy, Benelux, France, Poland, USA, China, Turkey and, of course, Germany. Our sales and marketing staff look after our customers on a local basis. Technical support is a key priority for us.

compactat® replaces heavy fuel oil or coal in the blast furnace, which are normally used as reducing agent. The reduction gas sourced from them binds the oxygen contained in the iron ore. Plastic waste can also take on this function. For this purpose, it must be processed to pellets with a defined and even bulk density. For our compactat® we use die presses, which form pneumatically conveyable pellets in a defined size from household collections.

At present, we are producing about 24,000 tons compactat® from about 25,000 tons input, which are mainly used as reducing agent in steel mills. By using compactat®, a steel mill does not only save primary resources but can also significantly reduce its CO₂ and SO₂ emissions.

Your contact at mtm compact GmbH: Torsten Meyer, Managing Director

mtm holds all the necessary certificates that customers expect when they buy our regranulates.

mtm

• is certified to ISO 9001
• has joined the European certification standard EuCertPlast
• holds the current suitability certification prescribed according to the German packaging regulation
• and complies with the demands of the REACH-, ROHS- and CLP regulations and monitors them regularly.

• Incoming goods control: Our suppliers are paid according to the quality of the secondary raw materials we buy from them. The decisive criterion is the product yield we attain with the supplied material.
• Laboratory tests: Our regranulate is continuously tested and classified in the company's laboratory. Also the mechanical data are regularly monitored and quoted in our data sheets on the basis of various test series. From each homogenised production batch (1 truck load = approx. 24 metric tons), at least 5 samples are taken and analysed. After that, the batch is either released for dispatch or blocked for reprocessing. If the customer requests, we issue a plant exit certificate.

We are currently offering traineeships in the following professions:

• Machine and systems operator
• Electronics technician for industrial engineering
• Industrial mechanic

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