Recycling of Textile Fabrics Coated with TPU or PVC

Recycling of Textile Fabrics Coated with TPU or PVC

Each year thousands of square meters of general and coated fabric materials are brought to market for the automobiles, buildings, footwear and fixture industry for use in trucks and waterproofed canvas, material treatment and conveyer belts, flexible tubes and coated films. Technical disposed material comes during production and after-use is around more than 10,000 tons per year. It is a much larger quantity of scrap material can be uses again after processing if related TPU recycle system is involved or installed.

The target of this job is the recycling of scrap textile fabric material (TPU laminated or coated) produced during production and after-use material. This process involves bring the material into an improved condition and separating all types of materials with chemical or physical treatment.

The processes developed for this task has brought a lot of possibilities to recycle TPU coated textile material on a large scale. The processes of recycling can be as given bellow:

  1. The all available scrap material is chopped and metal type material is separated.
  2. The chopped material is treated with chemical in a container and is mashed in hot water.
  3. The mashing process is kept continues up to a time that the coated material is set apart from the fabric material.
  4. Following the process of removing the moisture from the fabric material is sent for an extra processing container, e.g. Glycolysis.
  5. The separated coat material is washed by quite a few steps and condensation processes.
  6. The plastic material is separated from the chemical stuff with dissolution process it’s cleaned and remained in the processing cycle.
  7. The final refined plastic material can be got out of unit either in form of powder or pellet according to the future application.

Rather than spending for scrap disposal methods, the recycling process provides several environmental and economical benefits to industry.