TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Solutions
Under the theme of “Testing is believing,” TOMRA representatives welcomed approximately 100 participants to its opening event and guided tour of the new flake sorting facility, located next to its office in Parma, Italy.
Portfolio of Sensor-based Sorters
Fabrizio Radice, VP and head of global sales and marketing at TOMRA recycling said, “
We have observed an increasing demand for flake sorting tests and a strong market push for high-quality recycled plastics.”
“This requires the purest material fractions across all plastics applications, and the respective technologies and solutions need to be identified, developed, and optimized. This will happen in our new facility, while closely collaborating with our customers and partners.”
Radice, detailed about a vast portfolio of sensor-based sorters for various applications with AUTOSORT® and its application-specific complementary products at its core. In the plastics segment, AUTOSORT offers technologies for both presorting and flake sorting that work in unison with each other and allow greater operational and financial benefits.
Following Radice, Alberto Piovesan, segment manager plastics EMEA & Americas, presented TOMRA’s flake sorting strategy and position in the plastics segment.
Trends in Plastic Recycling
Strong emphasis was also put on the new trends in
plastics recycling and the implication these trends have on the industry. One of the trends is seen in a discrepancy of input and output qualities. Whereas input materials are expected to come with lower qualities, the required output must feature the highest qualities possible.
Facing and solving these new challenges makes the application of the latest sorting technologies critical. Currently, TOMRA offers two flake sorting units.
Ida Semb, product manager at TOMRA recycling, offered more detail and presented the key features of AUTOSORT® FLAKE and INNOSORT FLAKE, both of which are used for the recovery of plastic flakes as small as 2mm and deliver the purity rates demanded by the market, brand owners and converters.
Source: TOMRA
