{"id":18,"date":"2021-06-30T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/company-history\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:04:58","slug":"company-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/company-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Company History"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/company-history\/\">Company History \/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n<h1>A brief history of Munchy<\/h1>\r\n<p>MUNCHY are one of the originators of plastics recycling technology.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Munchy method of recycling was developed in the 1970&#8217;s for the recycling of PE Film.<\/p>\r\n<p>Munchy invented the Dual-Diameter Screw for this very purpose.<\/p>\r\n<p>Today the MUNCHY Dual Diameter Screw remains at the heart of our recycling range as it&#8217;s performance and ability to produce the highest quality pellets from scrap material is unquestioned<\/p>\r\n<p>MUNCHY has over 5,000 recycling systems in over 50 countries worldwide and remains at the forefront plastics recycling technology.<\/p>\r\n<p>MUNCHY was purchased by Extrusion machinery manufacturer Boston Matthews in November 2002.<\/p>\r\n<p>Boston Matthews has over 65 years design and manufacturing experience with a history dating back to the early 1950&#8217;s.<\/p>\r\n<p>As inventors of the Caterpillar Take-Off (Boston\/Farris) Boston Matthews\u00a0are one of the most established names in plastics engineering around the world.<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"early-munchy-machine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/early-munchy-machine.jpg\" alt=\"early-munchy-machine\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Early Munchy Recycling Machine circa 1970&#8217;s<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"munchy-dual-diameter-screw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/munchy-dual-diameter-screw.jpg\" alt=\"munchy-dual-diameter-screw\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Patented Munchy Dual Diameter Screw<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"boston-matthews-hq-worcester-england-04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/boston-matthews-hq-worcester-england-04.jpg\" alt=\"boston-matthews-hq-worcester-england-04\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Munchy HQ, Worcester, England<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"munchy-at-k-2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/munchy-at-k-2019.jpg\" alt=\"munchy-at-k-2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Munchy &amp; Boston Matthews at the K Show<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Munchy 150 Air Recycling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Munchy-150-Air-Recycling.jpg\" alt=\"Munchy 150 Air Recycling\" width=\"1000\" height=\"674\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>A Munchy from toady&#8217;s range<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company History \/\u00a0 A brief history of Munchy MUNCHY are one of the originators of plastics recycling technology. The Munchy method of recycling was developed in the 1970&#8217;s for the recycling of PE Film. Munchy invented the Dual-Diameter Screw for this very purpose. Today the MUNCHY Dual Diameter Screw remains at the heart of our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"page_categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.co.uk\/munchy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_categories?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}