US Patent Issued to SOPREMA on March 25 for "Installation and method for treating composite materials based on thermoplastic materials" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,742, issued on March 25, was assigned to SOPREMA (Strasbourg, France).

"Installation and method for treating composite materials based on thermoplastic materials" was invented by Pierre-Etienne Bindschedler (Strasbourg, France) and Patrick Ball (Barr, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation (1) and method for treating composite products (2) based on thermoplastic material(s) for recycling purposes, the installation at least comprising means (3, 4, 4', 5, 6) for heating, for reducing size, for crushing and for separating, said means being arranged to form at least one line (1') for treating and extracting material(s) to...