Recycling
Recycling activities
For years HP-chemie Pelzer GmbH, a worldwide supplier to the automotive industry, has been creating the conditions for environmentally and recycling friendly solutions by implementing innovative product ideas.
 
Philosophy
To ensure that the strategy of improving the environmental impact of our products, we must look at the complete product design cycle.

Our philosophy is therefore: Design for Recycling
 
Design for Recycling involves the following subjects shown in the diagram.
Design for Recycling
Method and implementation
    Material selection
  • dispensing with pollutants following EU-Directive 2000/53/EG
  • use of recyclable materials (thermoplasts)
  • reduction of material variety
  • use of recyclates while complying with specifications
  • combination of mutually compatible materials ("single-material systems")

    Product development and product use
  • environment-friendly product design
  • recycling-oriented design
  • dismantling-appropriate product design
  • planning use of recyclates (recyclate components)
  • resources conservation by development of material cycles

    Recycling
  • material recycling
  • pure-grade return of product waste (in-line recycling)
  • closing of material cycles
  • minimisation of preparation procedures (short cycle = least effort)
  • on-the-spot preparation ("no abandonment of quality")
  • material preservation, possibly only change of form
  • grouping of waste and recognising feature potential "residual potential" or combining materials in controlled fashion (expert systems)

    Environmental management
  • certification to DIN EN ISO 14 001
  • creation and maintenance of Öko-*** balance sheets (environmental controlling)
  • structural presentation of process and product balance sheets

 
Specific recycling technologies
    Applied process technologies:
  • size reduction systems
  • regranulation, recompounding, on-line recycling
  • co-extrudieren

 
Collaboration with our partners
With the EU directive on used vehicles the entire automotive industry is faced with new challenges. Major investment will be necessary in the technical and organisational domains. The Pelzer Group is working on a continuous improvement of its products using ecological principles, in collaboration with our partners.
 
Recycling cycle:
Recycling-Schema