At a time when environmental protection concepts are deeply rooted in people's hearts, Germany is actively seeking innovative solutions in the field of building materials and waste treatment. The wood-plastic building materials production line launched by Yongte Plastic Machinery is expected to inject new vitality into the German market with its excellent performance and environmental protection characteristics. For a long time, Germany has faced many challenges in plastic waste treatment. In 2023, Germany will produce about 5.6 million tons of plastic packaging waste. Although the recycling rate of plastic packaging has reached 68.9% through a series of systems and measures such as improving the extended producer responsibility system and establishing a binary recycling system, there is still a gap from the ideal recycling target. In terms of total volume, the total amount of plastic waste generated in Germany each year continues to rise, which puts great pressure on the environment, and the overall recycling rate of plastic waste is slowly increasing, and innovative treatment methods are urgently needed.
At the same time, Germany has a large and rapidly growing market for wood-plastic building materials. From 2017 to 2023, the German wood-plastic composite material market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.1%. From 2024 to 2029, the global WPC flooring market is expected to maintain an average annual compound growth rate of 7.0%. However, as an important demand market, Germany's local production capacity is limited by rising labor costs and environmental factors. From January to May 2024, China's exports of WPC flooring to Germany increased by 41.0%, which directly reflects the strong demand for WPC building materials in Germany and the shortage of local supply. Yongte Plastic Machinery's WPC building materials production line came into being under such a background. The production line was built by Yongte Plastic Machinery with rich experience and mature technical team accumulated by years of focus on plastic machinery research and development and manufacturing, and has a series of advanced equipment composition and production processes. The extruder system of the production line adopts a high-performance screw design, such as the KDPS-130 flat twin extruder. The screw structure is in line with the process characteristics of WPC materials, which can achieve large-volume extrusion, ensure uniform material shearing, and greatly improve extrusion efficiency. The mold system uses a special flow channel structure for crust foaming board, which can make the material more uniform during the extrusion and foaming process, laying the foundation for product quality. The cooling and shaping system uses a pressure plate structure and uses a hydraulic system for precise control, making it easy to adjust the size accuracy of the board. The carefully designed pipeline layout of the cooling system can ensure that the board is cooled evenly and quickly shaped. The traction and cutting system uses a roller-type combined traction machine, which makes it easy to measure and adjust the traction force. The roller traction machine and the wide-width cutting machine are electrically synchronized to ensure that the board cuts are straight and neat.
In terms of the production process, the batching process is first carried out to configure the waste plastics, wood fibers and other necessary additives in precise proportions. Then it enters the high-cold mixing stage to fully mix the raw materials to ensure that the components are evenly distributed. Then the material enters the extrusion stage, and under the push of the screw, it is formed through the mold and the foaming process is completed. The formed board then enters the cooling and shaping area, where it is quickly cooled and fixed in shape by spraying and other methods. After that, the traction cutting system will accurately cut the products according to the preset length. The cut products will be stacked and sorted, and then after a strict inspection process, qualified products will be stored for sale. In terms of technical advantages, taking the screw design as an example, by optimizing the shear force, the deviation of the material's residence time in the machine can be controlled within a very small range. Compared with the traditional design, the product defective rate is reduced by 20% - 30%, which greatly improves the product quality. Yongte Plastic Machinery's wood-plastic building materials production line has significant environmental advantages and perfectly meets Germany's environmental protection demands. It can efficiently recycle waste plastics and wood fibers. According to tests, every ton of wood-plastic building materials produced can consume about 0.7 tons of waste plastics and 0.3 tons of wood fibers, effectively reducing waste emissions. This not only helps to alleviate the environmental pressure brought by plastic waste and wood waste in Germany, but also opens up new economic growth points for enterprises. In addition, the produced wood-plastic building materials have the advantages of being waterproof, moisture-proof, insect-proof, ant-proof, fire-proof, highly plastic, and not easy to rot, which fully meets the strict requirements of the German construction industry for high-quality building materials.
In terms of production efficiency and cost control, Yongte Plastic Machinery's production line also performs well. It uses advanced automatic control systems, and the production cycle is shortened by 30% - 40% compared with traditional production lines. At the same time, by optimizing equipment configuration and process flow, energy consumption is reduced by 25% - 35%, and raw material waste is reduced by 20% - 25%, helping companies to effectively control production costs and enhance market competitiveness. At present, Yongte Plastic Machinery has successfully promoted this production line in many parts of the world and has gained high recognition from customers. In the projects that have been cooperated, customers have reported that the equipment operation stability is as high as 98%. With its outstanding advantages in technology, environmental protection, efficiency, etc., Yongte Plastic Machinery's wood-plastic building materials production line has shown great development potential in the German market. It is not only expected to help Germany deal with plastic waste more effectively, but also to promote the German wood-plastic building materials industry to a new height and bring new vitality to the German construction industry.
