Overview: Interviews 2025
"Artificial intelligence is a decisive competitive factor and helps alleviate the shortage of skilled workers"
07.10.2025
"In Central Europe, sustainability continues to be a driver of innovation. However, the issue has taken a back seat because of political and economic developments."
"It is still important for humans to operate machines"
02.09.2025
"Innovation is extremely important – especially in the current climate – for our customers as well as for ENGEL. Our customers need innovative solutions to launch new plastic products in a competitive and sustainable manner."
"Sustainability and circular economy are absolutely essential"
29.08.2025
"Other topics are coming back into focus alongside sustainability: technological innovations, digitalisation and increasing productivity. Behind this is the need to arm ourselves against increasingly tough competition from Asia, but the issue of sustainability or the circular economy is absolutely essential."
"Good solutions require bringing together every player"
22.08.2025
"The new EU Packaging Regulation PPWR is certainly an accelerator, but there are other constraints as well, such as the replacement of PFAS substances for example. In the end, you have to convert your entire raw material base and use different additives. In addition, there are supply chain issues."
"AI delivers great benefits for plastics recycling"
12.08.2025
"Planning certainty is extremely important for the success of the circular economy. It can only be achieved if reliable material flows are produced, standardised recyclate quality is obtained, and stable legal framework conditions are in place."
"The twin-screw extruder enables high recyclate qualities"
12.08.2025
"Germany produces around 5.7 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, of which around 35 percent is recycled. There is definitely room for improvement here. However, the demand for recycled materials is currently higher than the availability of raw materials."
"Solution provider Kampf – focusing on people and technology"
06.08.2025
"We no longer solely offer customers machines but also look at their tasks and goals from their perspective, and then offer the optimal overall solution, including peripherals, and take into account the specialist staff available to the customer."
"The use of AI is meant to improve user-friendliness"
25.07.2025
"No extruder currently exists that has the ability to control itself and make adjustments independently in the event of deviations. Nevertheless, I am convinced that we will be able to effectively integrate technologies in the field of machine learning in the near future."
"The pressure is on to recycle post-production waste"
10.07.2025
"Post-consumer recycling has been under severe pressure in Europe for around two years. Many of our customers in this sector are relocating production to more cost-effective foreign countries or closing their operations completely after 20 or even 30 years."
"The circular economy will only succeed if we develop collectively across the entire value chain"
07.07.2025
"If you look back over these 40 years, you will realise that an incredible amount has been achieved in plastics recycling. Today it is technologically possible to do things that we could not have imagined 40 years ago, 20 years ago or even 5 years ago."