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How a Swiss Factory Is Making Printer Ink from Trash
Swiss startup Xpress Ink has built a factory near Zurich that turns unrecyclable mixed-waste plastic into high-quality printer ink. The process uses pyrolysis to vaporize the plastic, then condenses the vapor into a carbon-rich oil that is refined into pigment-grade carbon black — the same material that gives ink its deep black color. The factory processes about 10 tons of waste per day, yielding around 3 tons of ink-grade carbon black. That's enough to fill roughly 30 million printer cartridges per year. The company's main challenge: matching the particle-size consistency that…
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