PICVISA Receives ACCIÓ Funding to Drive International Expansion

PICVISA has received funding support from ACCIÓ, the Catalan government's agency for business competitiveness, as part of a broader push to accelerate the company's expansion into international markets. The support recognises PICVISA's track record of innovation in optical sorting and robotics for the recycling industry, and its growing footprint of installations across Europe and beyond.

For PICVISA, international growth means bringing the same technology that has transformed recovery rates at recycling plants across Spain and Portugal – from glass and plastic packaging sorters to robotic picking systems – to new markets where demand for advanced sorting infrastructure is growing fast. Stricter recycling targets, extended producer responsibility schemes and rising public expectations around the circular economy are driving recycling operators worldwide to invest in technology that can recover more material, more accurately, from increasingly complex waste streams.

This kind of institutional support is part of a wider trend: governments across Europe are increasingly backing companies that develop the technology needed to meet ambitious recycling and circular economy targets. For PICVISA, it means additional resources to scale up commercial operations, strengthen its presence at international trade fairs, and continue investing in the research and development that keeps its ECOPACK, ECOGLASS, ECOSORT TEXTIL, ECOFLAKE and ECOPICK product lines at the leading edge of optical sorting and robotic recovery technology.

"Innovation has always been at the core of what we do," said a PICVISA spokesperson. "This support helps us bring our technology to more recycling plants, in more countries, faster – which ultimately means more material recovered and kept in the circular economy."

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