Gauss Magneti will be among the exhibitors at Packaging & Recycling 2026, Italy’s leading event dedicated to the future of plastic packaging, from design to post-consumer recycling. The event will take place on October 1 at the Alfa Romeo Historical Museum in Arese (MI): a day of discussion among companies, recyclers, institutions, and research centres on the regulatory, technological, and market developments that are reshaping the world of packaging.

In a sector where raw material quality and recycling process efficiency are increasingly decisive factors, the separation of ferrous and non-ferrous metals is an often underestimated yet crucial step to ensure the purity of recovered material and protect processing lines.

Post-consumer plastic streams are inherently heterogeneous and may contain metallic contaminants capable of compromising the quality of the recyclate and damaging plants. In this context, precise separation makes it possible to address several key objectives:

• increase the purity of recovered plastic fractions;

• protect extruders, mills, and production lines from metallic intrusions;

• reduce losses of valuable material;

• ensure operational continuity and process stability.

Among the technologies developed by Gauss, the high-frequency eddy current separator ECSE HF achieves high levels of precision in non-ferrous metal separation, even on difficult fractions and fine materials.

Thanks to the rotor configuration, the system is particularly effective on:

• mixed plastics (PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS);

• flakes and fractions from post-consumer recycling;

• fine materials or those with high metallic contamination.

The goal is to increase the quality and value of the recovered material, contributing to cleaner recycling processes, in line with European circular economy policies and with the requirements introduced by the PPWR regulation.

The event will be an opportunity to explore the role of magnetic separation within plastics recycling chains and to discuss the most suitable solutions for improving process efficiency and quality.

An occasion to join forces and build together a more sustainable and competitive packaging model.