Hong Kong reproducers open a door on the hedge
Hong Kong reproducers open a door on the hedge
In a humble building in the suburbs of Hong Kong under a palm tree, you can see the future of the plastic recycling industry.
In this place, away from the downtown skyscrapers bligh qualcomm beauty co., LTD., became the vertical integration of plastic recycling enterprise, at the same time perfectly to cope with the increasingly strict environmental regulation in mainland China.
In the reinforced concrete building, the staff in the film "wal-mart", who is the industry term for packaging products of LDPE bag and film) into Austria Lindner Recyclingtech GmbH in the most advanced crusher. After smashing, the plastic comes to the top of a conveyor belt with powerful magnets that are sucked out of the metal.
Two employees scooped the pieces into the extruder of the Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges. The $2,000 filter can remove wood chips, dust and even water. Its waste is used for asphalt pavement. The purified plastic is extruded and cooled, cut into granules, bagged and transported to the nearby highly industrialized pearl river delta region.
Udo Wong, the head of the company that sells the mainland, says its processing machines can handle any type of plastic, but the main use is to process LDPE particles.
Until a few years ago, Mr. Wong said, the company had sold the waste directly to Chinese buyers, mainly in the pearl river delta region, or sold it directly to Chinese buyers. But since 2013, the Chinese government has imposed strict new controls on imports of mixed and unsanitary waste, known as "green fence operations."
"In the long run, [the hedge] is good for the country as well as the enterprise," Wong said. In the short term, it is a serious challenge. That's part of our solution."
The high cost of doing business in Hong Kong (even in yuen long) has prompted Mr B to invest in expensive European imports. Its filters, in spite of high prices, only need to be cleaned three or four times a year to save Labour.
One big challenge is the variety of waste products that may contain dust, paint, compound layers and even falling tools.
Udo's brother, Uwe Wong, the factory manager, oversaw the careful dismantling and inspection of materials. "We hate bags," he said, pointing to an unused drip of a drip buried beneath the membrane. You never know what's inside."
The brothers' father was Steve Wong, the company's general manager, who founded the company in 1984, a small recycling company that collected scrap sales. The brothers initially worked in the workshop, shoveling scraps and driving forklifts.
"It used to be much simpler," says Udo Wong. We can get [waste] from foreign companies. Now we are facing competition from Chinese companies directly to the European and American companies."
The company's response is to create value added and enhance quality control and extend the upstream and downstream of the plastic regenerative ecological chain. In terms of supply, the company has established a network of buyers in countries such as Europe and the us. In terms of production, shantou qualcomm, a subsidiary company, designed and produced molds, modified PET, PLA and ABS, and also produced pallets, cups and food packaging. In yantai fushan, shandong province, we also set up a company to produce the mechanical equipment, mould, cutting and adding flame retardant to styrene.
"We started out as a trading company and we have always been flexible," says Udo Wong.
He cited other challenges facing the industry: "the price drop is putting pressure on our raw materials."
Green, on the other hand, is also a selling point. Companies such as Canon and nikon, which promote "corporate social responsibility", want to mix recycled plastic with new materials.
The firm is confident that China will continue to enforce stricter environmental regulations, and the company has begun construction of a larger 80,000 square meter plant in the New Territories of tseung kwan o, which will begin production next year.
"We are confident that our strategy is right," said Udo Wong.
