Epson It is about to commercialize a machine to recycle the paper destined for the companies. The paper lab It is capable of producing different formats of sheets and even perfumed paper. But some questions remain regarding your energy consumption and the type of chemicals used in the recycling process.
The bin that holds the cardboard or paper that is going to be recycled, everyone has it in their workplace or office. What if the next stage was to install the factory recycling straight into the break room, spitting out fresh, new sheets of paper as useless notes from the last meeting are thrown away?
That is what Epson proposes with its paper lab. The machine is certainly impressive since it is a real factory. You have to feed him enough paper so that he can make up to 14 A4 sheets per minute. The output format can also be configured and you can play alchemist by transforming the post-its into a pretty paper stiff to make business cards.
Inside, the transformations are carried out in three stages that require practically no water, just enough to maintain the level of moisture minimum required for handling. First, the machine transforms the recycled paper into fibers, in long filaments that will later be worked in the second stage to add a particular color or property thanks to chemical substances. Finally, these augmented fibers will be pressed to be transformed into sheets.
La advantage organic farming of such a machine is not immediately perceptible. Epson He says that his machine hardly uses water, and that an office that has this type of machine can ask the city trucks that collect the paper for recycling, not to pass through the company again, thus reducing emissions of CO2. However, it is legitimate to ask how much the machine consumes, what substances it uses to create its own paper, or how it comes off the ink extracted from the sheets.
Industrial production of paper lab It should start at the beginning of 2016, and by then, a prototype will be exhibited in Tokyo from the month of December, possibly it is the occasion to ask Epson all these unanswered questions.