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Looking back at a year of installations is also a way of looking forward – each success story points to where the technology is heading next, and 2021 builds directly on what these projects demonstrated.
The previous year brought a series of installations across different waste streams, each showing a different facet of what PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics technology can do when applied to a real operating plant.
ECOPACK 3000 installations demonstrated reliable separation of PET and HDPE plastic containers – two of the most common and most valuable plastic streams in packaging recycling, where accurate separation directly affects the resale value of the recovered material.
Pharmaceutical waste presents a particular sorting challenge, given the mix of packaging types and materials involved – ECOPICK's robotic sorting proved capable of handling this stream, recovering plastics that would otherwise be difficult to separate manually at the required throughput.
On the glass side, ECOGLASS installations continued to improve sorting accuracy by colour and contamination removal – incremental gains that, across the volumes a glass recycling plant processes, translate into significantly more material reaching furnace-ready quality.
Get in touch with our team to discover how PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics solutions can fit your recycling operation.