BritAS Recycling-Anlagen

Name

BritAS Recycling-Anlagen

Legal name

BritAS Recycling-Anlagen GmbH

Website

https://britas.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hanau

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Equipment Sales (Filters and Screen Changers): Sale of plastic melt filtration equipment including ABMF Automatic Belt Melt Filters, CMF and DMF Piston Screen Changers, and GC Gas Control systems. Products range from standard models to specialized configurations (PET, high-temperature, high-pressure variants).
2. Spare Parts: Sale of spare and wear parts with 10-year availability guarantee. Retrofit kits, screen belts, wedges, support plates, and mechanical components. High in-house production rate enables supply beyond standard 10-year period.
3. After-Sales Services: Consulting, technical support, repairs, maintenance, training, on-site service, remote maintenance, retrofits, and upgrades. Services provided through After Sales & Service team with country-specific divisions.
4. Test Center Services: Customer material testing at in-house technical center with complete extrusion line. Preliminary tests, trials with customer materials, and evaluation services for system design optimization.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

BritAS Recycling-Anlagen GmbH develops and manufactures industrial machines for plastic melt filtration and quality control, including Automatic Belt Melt Filters (ABMF family), Continuous and Discontinuous Piston Screen Changers (CMF/DMF), and Gas Control (GC) systems. Its equipment is used by plastic recycling and compounding companies to remove contaminants from post-consumer, agricultural, and post-industrial plastic waste streams with continuous operation and ultra-fine filtration (down to 20μm).

Product overview

BritAS Recycling-Anlagen is an industrial equipment manufacturer specializing in plastic filtration and quality control solutions. The product portfolio consists of four core product lines: ABMF (Automatic Belt Melt Filter) series for continuous melt filtration; CMF (Continuous Piston Screen Changer) for automated screen changing; DMF (Discontinuous Piston Screen Changer) for manual screen changes; and GC (Gas Control) for quality monitoring. The ABMF series includes specialized variants for PET applications (PET-C) and high-capacity twin-head configurations (TH). The CMF/DMF piston screen changers offer continuous and discontinuous operation modes. All products are designed for plastic recycling and compounding operations, with the ABMF handling heavily contaminated materials and the CMF/DMF suited for cleaner industrial waste streams.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ABMF (Automatic Belt Melt Filter) Automatic belt melt filter for continuous filtration of plastic waste. Filters contaminations from plastic melts in post-consumer, agricultural film, and post-industrial recycling applications without intermediate melt storage, enabling continuous production.
• ABMF PET-C Continuous Specialized automatic belt melt filter for PET filtration with double-cavity technology, designed for post-consumer PET plastic waste. Delivers filtration fineness down to 20μm with melt loss below 0.5% for bottle-to-bottle recycling and food-grade applications.
• ABMF-TH Twin Head Automatic belt melt filter with two filter heads for extremely powerful, ultra-fine filtration at high contamination levels. Screen area up to 3,200 cm² and throughput up to 8,000 kg/h for the highest-capacity recycling and compounding lines.
• CMF (Continuous Piston Screen Changer) Continuous piston screen changer for automatic screen changing during production of less contaminated industrial and production plastic waste. Available with backflush function (CMF-BF) for automatic self-cleaning of filter elements.
• DMF (Discontinuous Piston Screen Changer) Discontinuous piston screen changer requiring short production interruption for filter changes, available in round (DMF-rd) and square (DMF-sq) housing variants. The DMF-sq variant supports up to 350°C and 500 bar for engineering plastics and melt adhesives.
• GC (Gas Control) Gas control system for in-line quality control of plastic products during production, performing permanent measurements to assure the quality of rPellets (recycled pellets) as part of the broader quality assurance product family.

Quantifiable outcome

• Throughput up to 8,000 kg/h with ABMF-TH Twin Head
• +6 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NGR Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH: Austrian manufacturer of plastics recycling machinery (shredders, extruders, filtration). NGR was BritAS's former parent (2013 acquisition) and remains a directly comparable recycling-equipment peer.
• Nordson BKG (Xaloy): Supplies continuous and discontinuous screen changers, melt filtration equipment and pelletizing components used by plastic recyclers and compounders — directly comparable to BritAS's CMF and DMF product families.
• Maag (Dover Corporation): Swiss-headquartered division of Dover that makes melt filtration, gear pumps, and pelletizing systems for plastics extrusion — competing head-to-head with BritAS in screen changers and downstream quality control for recycling and compounding.
• Gneuss Filtration Technology GmbH: German manufacturer of continuous melt filtration systems (rotary filters, screen changers) for plastic recycling and processing — the closest direct competitor to BritAS's ABMF belt filter and CMF/DMF piston screen changer product lines.

Emerging players

• Vecoplan AG: German manufacturer of shredding, conveying and processing technology for plastics recycling. Complementary rather than directly competing in melt filtration, but addresses the same plastics-recycler buyer.

Broad incumbents

• Starlinger & Co. Gesellschaft m.b.H. Austrian producer of plastics recycling and woven packaging machinery. Adjacent competitor in the recycling-equipment category serving overlapping end customers.
• Coperion GmbH: Global manufacturer of compounding and extrusion systems, including melt filtration for polymer processing — overlaps with BritAS at the filtration subassembly of larger compounding lines.
• Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen GmbH: Austrian market leader in complete plastics recycling systems. Operates broadly in the same end market as BritAS but sells integrated lines rather than specializing in melt filtration components.
• Hosokawa Alpine AG: German manufacturer of plastics processing, size reduction and film recycling systems. Provides overlapping capabilities to recyclers/compounders that also purchase BritAS filtration equipment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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