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Plastic pelletizing machine from China

A pelletizing line's kilograms per hour are measured on clean, dry, easy scrap, and printed, wet or mixed feed can halve what comes out while the screen changer clogs.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Feeding: cutter-compactor, force feeder or hopper

Film is light and bridges in a hopper, so it needs a cutter-compactor or force feeder. Rigid flakes can drop straight in. Ask which feed the quoted output was measured with.

One stage or two

A two-stage line passes the melt through a second extruder with its own filter. Heavily printed or dirty film often needs it; clean factory scrap usually does not.

Degassing vents

Ink, moisture and volatiles leave through vents on the barrel. Ask how many vents, and whether vacuum is applied. Too few and the pellets come out full of bubbles.

Melt filter

A manual screen changer stops the line to change screens. A continuous or backflush changer does not. On dirty feed this decides how many hours a day the line produces.

Cutting method

Strand cutting pulls strands through a water bath to a cutter. Water-ring and underwater cutters cut at the die face. Strand cutting is simple but breaks on some melts; die-face cutting costs more.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Feed material: film, rigid flakes, fibers or production scrap, with polymer type.
Print coverage, moisture after washing, and contamination such as paper labels.
Output wanted in kilograms per hour on that feed.
Pellet use: back into your own product, or sold as recycled resin with a quality specification.
Whether shredding and washing are in scope or already done.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run a sample of your own scrap, sent in advance, for at least one timed hour at steady state.	Pellet output weighed over that hour meets the figure in the offer for your feed.
Cut pellets open and inspect them.	No visible bubbles or voids beyond the level agreed before the test.
Record melt pressure ahead of the screen changer through the run.	Screen changes needed no more often than the interval stated in the offer.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 for delivery from 20 January 2027, plus 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU.
Risk assessment covering cutter, feeder and hot die; ask whether the EN 12012 series for size reduction and pelletizing equipment was applied.
Screen changer drawings and a spare screen list.

The one people forget. The test record on your own scrap. Without it, the offer's output figure has nothing behind it.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You only need to reduce rejects to regrind and feed it back into your molding machines.

A plastic granulator. Regrind goes straight back into the hopper; melting and pelletizing is an extra step you may not need.

Your scrap arrives in bales, drums or large lumps.

An industrial plastic shredder ahead of the line, sized for the lumps, before any pelletizing.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 9Nine marketplace listings for plastic pelletizing machines, checked September 2026, advertised FOB asking prices from US$6,800 to US$160,000. A rigid flake line sat at US$85,000 to US$125,000. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 2Two listings, checked September 2026, stated output: one 500 kg/h, one 320 to 2,100 kg/h. Neither said what print level or moisture the figure assumed.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Plastic granulator. Choose it when regrind, not pellets, is enough for your own production.
Industrial plastic shredder. Add it ahead of the line when scrap arrives as bales or lumps.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Plastics & molding page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

What is the best plastic pelletizing machine from China?+

The one tested on your scrap with pellets that suit their next use. Feed system, vents and filter matter more than the extruder size on the nameplate.

Chinese vs European plastic pelletizing machine: where is the gap?+

Mostly in feeding, degassing and continuous filtration on difficult film. On clean production scrap the gap is smaller. Compare on measured output from your own material.

What goes on a pelletizing machine inspection checklist?+

Feeder and cutter guarding, vent vacuum, screen changer seal, cutter blade setting, and a timed run on your scrap with pellets weighed and cut open.

Does the EU need a permit for a plastic pelletizing machine?+

The machine needs its Declaration of Conformity. Processing waste plastic is usually a separate matter for the operator under local waste permits.

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