What exactly is an extruder?

The extruder is at the very heart of plastic regranulation – the process cannot function without it. In a nutshell, it works like this: raw materials go in the front and plastic strands come out at the back, much like a meat grinder. These are then cut into granulate size. 

The extruder hums – at a considerable volume! – and has tremendous power, sorting plastics into homogeneous high-quality recycled materials for the plastics processing industry at a rate of 8 to 10 tonnes per shift. 

For this reason, Interzero has extruders at our three recycling plants in Eisenhüttenstadt, Liebenau and Aschersleben. The extruder at Liebenau primarily processes LDPE (low-density polyethylene) plastics. A PET extrusion system ensuring closed-loop manufacturing of PET granulate for the food retail industry is also planned for 2023. 

Vladimir Bazylyuk is a line manager at Interzero Plastics Processing GmbH in Liebenau and has been part of the Interzero team since 2008. Among other things, he is responsible for running the two extruders at the IPP plant. When Vladimir Bazylyuk is not keeping the two extruders in Liebenau running, he enjoys table tennis and cycling.