210mm Parallel Twin-Screw Recycling Extruder Delivered to Africa
Yongte 210mm Parallel Twin-Screw Recycling Extruder Delivered to African Plastic Recycler
Africa is facing severe plastic pollution challenges while local downstream plastic manufacturers see surging demand for affordable recycled plastic pellets. Conventional recycling equipment widely available across the continent suffers from obvious drawbacks: poor feeding adaptability to light film waste, high power consumption, frequent jamming breakdowns, and insufficient hourly output. Faced with these industry pain points, a large-scale African plastic recycling enterprise partnered with Yongte Machinery to customize a dedicated 210mm parallel twin-screw recycling extruder, specially optimized for local low-bulk-density plastic film, woven bag waste and unstable power grid conditions.
This tailor-made recycling extruder realizes stable 600kg/h continuous pelletizing, enables direct feeding of whole waste plastic films and packaging bags without pre-shredding, and delivers an energy-saving, low-maintenance production solution to help the client upgrade its recycling system and advance local circular economy development.
Core Local Challenges Faced by the African Client
- Raw material characteristics: Massive lightweight, fluffy waste plastic films and woven bags that easily cause material bridging, blockages and feeding interruptions on standard extruders. Traditional devices require extra pre-shredding procedures, raising labor and production costs sharply.
- Unstable power supply: Voltage fluctuations and power surges are common in many African regions, leading to slow heating, uneven plastic melting and frequent motor overload shutdowns on ordinary recycling machines.
- Production capacity gap: The client planned medium-to-large-scale recycling operations, yet local standard extruders could not sustain high, stable hourly output for long-hour continuous production.
- High operational cost: Outdated resistance heating systems consume excessive electricity, while weak torque drive structures trigger frequent failures and costly downtime losses.
Yongte Customized Solution & Innovative Technical Advantages
Yongte’s R&D team fully optimized every core component of the 210mm parallel co-rotating twin-screw extruder based on the client’s on-site working conditions, with four standout upgrades:
1. Reinforced Heavy-Duty Forced Feeding Section
Optimized screw pitch and compression ratio are adopted on the twin-screw feeding zone. The reinforced forced feeding design supports direct feeding of intact waste plastic films and woven bags, eliminating the pre-shredding process required by traditional equipment. It completely solves material bridging and jamming issues brought by light fluffy plastic materials, simplifies the whole pre-processing workflow and cuts overall production costs for the recycling plant.
2. High-Speed Electromagnetic Rapid Energy-Saving Heating System
Replacing conventional resistance heating modules, the electromagnetic heating system achieves fast, uniform barrel heating, shortening preheating time by over 30%. It lowers overall power consumption during non-stop production and adapts perfectly to Africa’s fluctuating power supply environment. Accurate constant temperature control guarantees consistent plastic melting quality and uniform recycled pellet performance batch after batch.
3. High-Torque Durable Power Drive System
Matched with a 6-stage supporting motor and heavy-duty high-torque reducer, the power system outputs sustained stable extrusion torque. Even under long-hour heavy-load running, the equipment maintains powerful shearing and mixing capacity, effectively avoiding motor overload and unexpected shutdown failures, and greatly improving whole-line operational stability.
4. Industry-Leading Stable Production Capacity
After full-process structural optimization and precise power matching calibration, this custom twin-screw recycling extruder reaches a steady 600kg/h hourly output. It delivers efficient continuous pelletizing with outstanding plasticizing, filtering and homogenizing effects, fully satisfying the large-volume production demands of medium and large African recycling factories.
Market Value & Benefits for the African Client
Economic Benefits
- Cancel pre-shredding auxiliary equipment, lowering initial investment threshold for plastic recycling lines;
- Anti-jamming mechanical structure and robust power system reduce maintenance expenses and production downtime losses;
- Energy-saving electromagnetic heating cuts daily electricity expenditure significantly;
- Stable 600kg/h high output raises daily recycled pellet yield and boosts overall revenue.
Environmental & Industrial Value
The machine converts waste plastic films and packaging bags into high-value recycled plastic pellets, realizing full waste resource recycling. It mitigates local plastic pollution and supplies qualified recycled raw materials to downstream plastic product factories, accelerating the development of Africa’s local plastic circular economy.
Current Project Progress
All core mechanical components, electrical control cabinets and heating modules of the 210mm parallel twin-screw recycling extruder have finished manufacturing and passed strict factory inspection. Yongte’s professional engineering team is carrying out systematic assembly, joint debugging and full-load performance testing. The equipment will complete formal factory acceptance soon and be shipped to Africa as scheduled to support the client’s official mass production launch.
About Yongte Machinery
Yongte Machinery is a professional high-tech manufacturer focused on R&D, production and personalized customization of plastic recycling extrusion equipment. We accumulate abundant experience in overseas tailor-made projects covering Southeast Asia, Africa and South America.
We adjust equipment structures, screw parameters and power configurations in accordance with local raw material conditions, power supply environments and customer production targets, providing global recyclers with cost-effective, long-service-life and easy-maintenance one-stop plastic waste recycling solutions.
