Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a product from a starting material. At least one material batch is collected onto a conveyor or into a conveyor from material portions, the mate-rial batch is heated to a desired temperature and/or a desired temperature is maintained in the material batch on the conveyor or in the conveyor, the conveyor is moved to transfer the material batch to a product manufacturing device in which the product is manufactured from the material batch by a shape-giving tool, and the mate-rial batch is measured or weighed, and the material portions are adjusted based on the measurement results. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the method.

Abstract: A system for processing material, for example recycled material, comprises a compacting device (101) for compacting the material and a treatment device (102) for agglomerating, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding the compacted material. The compacting device comprises a compacting chamber (103) and a compacting element (104) that is moveable in the compacting chamber to reduce the volume of the compacting chamber so as to compact the material to be delivered to the treatment device. As the material is compacted prior to being agglomerated, pelletized, or nozzle-extruded, supply of the material to the treatment device can be more reliable especially when the material is chopped waste plastic or other fluffy material including much air. Furthermore, efficiency of the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding is improved because the compacting increases density of the material prior to the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for treating a starting material, wherein the starting material (1) that contains at least organic material is mixed and agglomerated in a mixing stage (4) in the presence of heat to form agglomerated mixture material (5), the mixture material is mechanically pressed in a pressing stage (8) where the temperature of the mixture material rises due to the pressing, and a predetermined product (9) is formed in the pressing stage. Further, the invention relates to the use of the method.

Abstract: A system for processing material, for example recycled material, comprises a compacting device (101) for compacting the material and a treatment device (102) for agglomerating, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding the compacted material. The compacting device comprises a compacting chamber (103) and a compacting element (104) that is moveable in the compacting chamber to reduce the volume of the compacting chamber so as to compact the material to be delivered to the treatment device. As the material is compacted prior to being agglomerated, pelletized, or nozzle-extruded, supply of the material to the treatment device can be more reliable especially when the material is chopped waste plastic or other fluffy material including much air. Furthermore, efficiency of the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding is improved because the compacting increases density of the material prior to the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding process.

Abstract: A method and a device to fabricate a composite product, where an intermediate product is formed from raw material including fibre containing material and polymer based material with the help of extrusion and a composite product is shaped from the intermediate product with at least one shaping tool wherein the cross sectional profile of the intermediate product is shaped with at least one extrusion tool during the extrusion and the temperature of the intermediate product is controlled after the extrusion tool so that in different parts of the cross sectional profile of the intermediate product different temperature zones are arranged according to the predetermined target values of the temperature ranges.