puckinger plastic recyclers to grow

PUCKING. A gap in the market combined with an innovative spirit to the
Upper Austrian Young Entrepreneurs helps MAS (Maschinen und Anlagenbau
Schulz GmbH) based in Pucking to market success.

Has on plastics recycling and recycling specialist operating invented
a process (NCT extruders), which, put simply, can be simultaneously
processed very quickly and with a high quality mixing plastic waste
into new products such as beverage bottles, fleece sweater or food
packaging.

Three years ago Helmuth Schulz (63), the company. He had previously
Ansfelden the plastic recycler with Erema built. With MAS are four
employees who first tried to implement their ideas in a building
container, despite the economic crisis now become twenty. Turnover
this year will rise from 3.2 to around four million euros, says
managing director Guenther bracket (42), a former colleague of Schulz
at Erema. Since July, the tide had turned back with additional orders.

The latest invention, the MAS has just brought the "Upper Austrian
State Prize for Innovation" for small businesses have, in the
professional world, "caused an outcry," said bracket. In particular
for the production of composite materials, ie plastic mixed with wood,
glass, bottle, the procedure is optimal.

That and the expected further innovation of the "gifted designer"
Schulz (clip) - he has filed some 70 patents - to bring in three
years, annual sales of ten million euros. 40 to 50 employees will
occupy bracket then. "We need to quickly reach a critical size in
order to provide the requested service worldwide." After the puck
Inger supply almost exclusively abroad.