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PICVISA returns to IFAT Munich with two disruptive additions to its line-up – REUSER and ECOFLAKE – demonstrated through real plant footage rather than just brochures.
IFAT Munich is the world's largest trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, and PICVISA is once again exhibiting – this time with a stand built around a simple idea: showing visitors how its technology performs in real, operating plants rather than relying solely on demonstrations at the booth.
Visitors to Hall B6, Booth 301 will find PICVISA presenting two disruptive additions to its technology range – REUSER and ECOFLAKE – alongside updates to its established optical sorting and robotics lines. The stand is designed around the company's "new technology, real plants" theme, with footage and data drawn directly from operating installations.
The centrepiece of the stand is PICVISA LIVE PLANTS — Sort & See, a live video feed showing PICVISA equipment sorting real material streams in active recycling facilities. Rather than a controlled demo with curated samples, visitors can see how the technology performs on the mixed, imperfect waste streams that facilities actually process day to day.
This year's edition introduces several new capabilities across PICVISA's product range, spanning plastics, glass, textiles and metals.
Black plastics have long been one of the hardest materials to sort optically, because traditional near-infrared sensors struggle to read black pigments. New sensor technology integrated into PICVISA's plastics sorting lines addresses this gap directly, allowing black plastic packaging – previously destined for landfill or incineration in most facilities – to be identified and recovered alongside other polymers.
Updates to the ECOGLASS line focus on efficiency: maintaining the same sorting output and purity levels while reducing the energy consumption of the system, a change that translates directly into lower operating costs and a smaller carbon footprint per tonne of cullet produced.
Building on PICVISA's work in textile recycling, the stand showcases how ECOSORT TEXTIL technology is scaling from pilot installations to industrial-scale sorting lines capable of processing the volumes that large textile recovery facilities require.
PICVISA is also presenting its expansion into metals sorting – a new vertical for the company that applies its sensor-based sorting expertise to separating different metal fractions from mixed waste streams, complementing the metal recovery already achieved through traditional methods like eddy current separators.
PICVISA invites visitors to Hall B6, Booth 301 to see these developments first-hand, speak with the team about specific applications, and watch the live plant footage that forms the centrepiece of this year's stand.
Get in touch with our team to discover how PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics solutions can fit your recycling operation.