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Innovative solutions for ABS and PS purification

ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) and PS (Polystyrene) are the most widely used plastics in the appliance manufacturing industry.ABS is widely used in the housings and internal components of appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and televisions, and in toy materials due to its excellent toughness, impact resistance, and excellent machinability.PS has become an ideal choice for the housings of many products due to its light weight, transparency, and good moldability. PS is the ideal choice for many product housings due to its light weight, transparency and good moldability.

With their unique properties, these two plastics have become indispensable and important materials in the manufacture of home appliances, providing a strong guarantee for the durability and aesthetics of the products. At the same time, with the increasing awareness of environmental protection, the waste home appliance recycling industry is gradually exploring the recycling and reuse of these plastics to promote sustainable development.

ABS and PS sorting difficulties when these appliances are retired from service, their road to recycling is full of challenges. Similar physical properties, complex mixing state, so that the sorting has become extremely difficult, but also hinder the recycling of resources.

Similar physical properties ABS and PS are extremely similar in appearance and texture, and both have good molding and impact resistance. This similarity makes it difficult to quickly identify and accurately categorize them during manual sorting or preliminary mechanical sorting.

Recycling mixing problems In the appliance recycling process, mixed plastics of ABS and PS have insignificant differences in IR spectral recognition, increasing the complexity of sorting. Other materials mixed in the recycling process also interfere with the sorting process.

Technological limitations although advanced technologies such as optical sorting are being gradually applied, the sorting accuracy of many manufacturers' equipment is still low, which limits the popularization of the technology and makes the sorting purity in the recycling process face troubles.

Our newest polymer sorter, is another brand new addition to the GIMAX miscellaneous materials purification family, bringing together cutting-edge technology and innovative design to change the rules of the game in the recycling and purification of ABS and PS plastics! This polymer colour sorter is able to accurately identify the micro-differences between ABS and PS plastic materials. After the identification is completed, by driving the high-speed spray valve, the two materials are accurately separated, and the accuracy of the purified product is as high as 99.9%.