A plastic compactor compresses plastic into bales or bricks for storage or shipping. Some machines heat the plastic to melt it into shape. Recycling plants use compactors to compress plastic for the next stage of recycling or to sell as raw material. Bale wire may need to be manually added to prevent breakage.
A plastic compactor is a machine used to compress plastic materials into a large bale for storage or shipping purposes. This machine can vary in design, but will generally feature some sort of hopper or bin into which the plastic can be loaded, as well as one or more hydraulic arms that will compress that plastic into one large bale. Once the bale is created, another arm or system will be used to remove the bale from the container, as the bale is likely to be quite heavy.
Some machines don’t make bales; instead they can create plastic bricks that can be cut, either by hand or by machine, into set lengths. This allows for easy stacking or storage as well as easier handling. The plastic compactor can also heat the plastic while in the chamber to essentially melt the plastic into the desired shape. This can reduce or eliminate the need for a hydraulic arm to press the materials, although some plastic compactor designs use a combination of hydraulic arms and heating elements to create the plastic bricks. Some machines will be equipped with a conveyor on which to load the materials; the machine can then load the plastic at a constant rate into the container or hopper.
Recycling processing plants commonly use plastic compactor machines to compress various plastic materials into bricks or bales for shipping, storage or to move on to the next stage of the recycling process. In some cases, the plastic is loaded into the compactor and forced into a brick, which essentially ends the recycling process. The raw material can then be sold to producers or otherwise used for feed or other production purposes. The size of the machine usually determines how much material can be processed at one time, and a recycling facility is likely to have more than one plastic compactor to improve productivity.
While many compactors require no additional support once the materials have been baled, some compactors require the user to install bale wire onto the finished bale to prevent the materials from breaking or splitting. Some machines have automatic bale wire functions that will automatically attach the wire to the bale, but in other cases, an operator will need to perform this function manually before the bale can be removed from the plastic compactor and transported to a storage location.
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