PRESS RELEASE

Suc­cess­ful Trade Fair Appear­ance: MAS Presents Rev­o­lu­tion­ary iQon­icTwin Series with Hyper­PET and Pre­Den­si­fi­er at K 2025

Puck­ing, Octo­ber 15, 2025 – MAS cel­e­brat­ed a high­ly suc­cess­ful pres­ence at K 2025 in Düs­sel­dorf. With the launch of the new iQon­icTwin series, fea­tur­ing the inno­va­tions Hyper­PET, Pre­Den­si­fi­er, and the Regrind Solu­tion, the Aus­tri­an recy­cling machin­ery spe­cial­ist sets new bench­marks in plas­tic and PET recy­cling. The response at the MAS booth was over­whelm­ing – numer­ous expert dis­cus­sions, new project inquiries, and con­crete fol­low-up meet­ings under­scored the iQ series as a for­ward-look­ing tech­nol­o­gy plat­form for sus­tain­able plas­tic recy­cling.

iQonicTwin HyperPET: A New Benchmark in Food-Grade PET Recycling

With the iQon­icTwin Hyper­PET, MAS intro­duces a rev­o­lu­tion­ary plat­form for food-grade PET recy­cling. The solu­tion com­bines MAS’s proven con­i­cal co-rotat­ing twin-screw extrud­er with an inte­grat­ed pre-extru­sion Sol­id-State Poly­mer­iza­tion (SSP) process using infrared radi­a­tion and vac­u­um – com­plete­ly with­out nitro­gen.

The result: out­stand­ing intrin­sic vis­cos­i­ty (IV), sta­ble col­or qual­i­ty, min­i­mal acetalde­hyde (AA) for­ma­tion, and sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced ener­gy con­sump­tion.

The Hyper­PET tech­nol­o­gy enables, for the first time, a shift from tra­di­tion­al “bot­tle-to-bot­tle” recy­cling to “tray-to-bot­tle” appli­ca­tions, there­by expand­ing the raw mate­r­i­al base beyond used bot­tles.

Key Benefits

• Very short SSP res­i­dence time with sta­ble IV val­ues
• Nitro­gen-free, ener­gy-effi­cient process
• Easy oper­a­tion and com­pact design
• High-qual­i­ty pel­lets with con­sis­tent IV, col­or, and low AA val­ues
• Greater flex­i­bil­i­ty and improved ROI

The Hyper­PET solu­tion was devel­oped in col­lab­o­ra­tion with PET recy­cling spe­cial­ist Chris­t­ian Schi­avolin, who played a key role in shap­ing the tech­nol­o­gy.

iQonicTwin PreDensifier: Advancing Film and Lightweight Recycling

Anoth­er high­light of the fair was the intro­duc­tion of the iQon­icTwin Pre­Den­si­fi­er, a joint devel­op­ment between MAS and Siem­pelkamp Size Reduc­tion (for­mer­ly Pall­mann). This tech­nol­o­gy alliance com­bines the strengths of the Siem­pelkamp Pre­Den­si­fi­er with MAS’s ener­gy-effi­cient con­i­cal co-rotat­ing twin-screw extrud­er.

The solu­tion was specif­i­cal­ly designed for chal­leng­ing post-con­sumer films and light­weight streams that were pre­vi­ous­ly dif­fi­cult to recy­cle.

Key Benefits

• Sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced gel for­ma­tion and black spots
• Repro­ducible, sta­ble mate­r­i­al qual­i­ty even with fluc­tu­at­ing feed­stock
• High ener­gy effi­cien­cy (~0.22 kWh/kg)
• No dust emis­sions, no water injec­tion required
• Com­pact design, easy main­te­nance, and quick clean­ing
• Full process con­trol with auto­mat­ed oper­a­tion

The iQon­icTwin Pre­Den­si­fi­er sets new stan­dards in sta­bil­i­ty, effi­cien­cy, and prod­uct qual­i­ty for film and light­weight recy­cling.