US Patent Issued to saperatec on June 2 for "Separation fluid, method and apparatus for recycling multilayer material using a passivation agent" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,265, issued on June 2, was assigned to saperatec GmbH (Bielefeld, Germany).

"Separation fluid, method and apparatus for recycling multilayer material using a passivation agent" was invented by Marcus Schulze (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling of multilayer material is disclosed. The multilayer material (10) comprises a metal layer (30) and at least one further layer (20, 40). The method comprises placing the packaging material in a vat (310) comprising a separation fluid (330) to produce a mixture of metal shreds from the metal layer (30), plastic shreds from the polymer layer (20, 40) and residu...