TOMRA Recycling officially opened its new flake sorting Test Center, where the company will develop new applications and solutions in the fields of PO and PET flake sorting while simultaneously expanding its service offering.

TOMRA Recycling, the leading global sensor-based sorting system manufacturer, has announced the installation of its new AUTOSORT® in the Yachiyo Technical Center of EarthTechnica Co. Ltd, an authorized dealer of TOMRA Recycling.

French recycling company Altem of Schroll Group has partnered with ZenRobotics to use AI-based sorting in coloured PET quality control at its household waste recycling center in France. The task of the ZenRobotics Fast Picker is to remove contaminants from a flow of coloured PET bottles to ensure…

With increasing demand for bottle-to-bottle and food-packaging applications, the global plastics market can now get the superior quality and purity levels it needs thanks to the pioneering SORTEX A GlowVision, launched recently in London. This one-machine solution and its host of intricate features…

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a high-value material that is on course to take over a key function in the plastics industry’s path toward a circular economy. PET flakes can now be processed without pre-drying into pellets using Coperion ZSK twin screw extruders. Next they are condensed in the…

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2016 have been concretised by the European Commission: The new EU climate law increases the emission reduction target from 40% to at least 55% by 2030 to meet the expectations of the November World Climate Summit in Glasgow. As an innovation…

Based in Corsico in the Lombardy Region of Italy, MASOTINA operates one of Europe’s largest materials recovery facilities (MRFs) for the separation and recovery of plastic from municipal waste. The company uses 32 AUTOSORT® machines supplied by global sensor-based sorting specialist, TOMRA…

SIA Depozīta Iepakojuma Operators, the future central system administrator for the deposit return system (DRS) in Latvia, announced that TOMRA has won the tender to provide the reverse vending technology for the upcoming bottle and can recycling program. A negotiation period will follow with the…

Multi-Color Corporation, a global leader in label solutions, and Digimarc Corporation, creator of the Digimarc Platform for digital identification and detection, announced a partnership to serialize product packaging and labels with Digimarc Barcode in support of food safety and traceability…

STADLER and TOMRA delivered the fully automated sorting plant for Sysav Industri AB, which sorts pre- and post-consumer mixed textile waste in southern Skåne, in Sweden. STADLER designed and built the plant, while TOMRA provided the NIR sorters. The plant is part of the Swedish Innovation Platform…

Following a construction period of just over one year and right on schedule, PreZero Recycling Belgium has begun operations at its sorting plant for light packaging in Evergem, Belgium. Every year, the fully automated plant will separate around 80,000 tons of material collected in the capital,…