As the first company to use high capacity near infrared (NIR) technology in waste and metal sorting applications, TOMRA Recycling Sorting has long-standing experience in material recovery and reprocessing. To date, around 10,000 systems have been installed in over 100 countries worldwide.
TOMRA Recycling Sorting is a division of TOMRA Group. TOMRA was founded on an innovation in 1972 that began with the design, manufacturing and sale of reverse vending machines (RVMs) for automated collection of used beverage containers.
Today, TOMRA is leading the resource revolution to transform how the planet’s resources are obtained, used and reused to enable a world without waste. The company’s other business divisions are TOMRA Food and TOMRA Collection.
TOMRA has approximately 105,000 installations in over 100 markets worldwide and had total revenues of about 14.8 billion NOK in 2023 (around £1 billion). The Group employs 5,000 globally and is publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company headquarters are in Asker, Norway.
For more information on TOMRA visit www.tomra.com/recycling or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook. Alternatively, you can contact the TOMRA UK team on 0116 218 1430 or email info-uk@tomrasorting.com.
Transforming Resource Recovery – TOMRA is proud to be a leader in transforming resource recovery. With around 10,000 systems in over 100 countries, our cutting-edge technology is driving the global resource revolution. For more than 30 years, TOMRA has been using AI to solve some of the most complex sorting challenges in recycling. Today, by delivering unprecedented throughput and purity levels, our advanced technology is turning every gram of material into value for our customers. Our goal? Achieving true circularity – together with you
• How AI Sorting Algorithms Work in Recycling – Artificial intelligence and sorting algorithms are revolutionizing material recovery for recycling. Learn how TOMRA’s deep learning technology works.
• AUTOSORT PULSE – New dynamic LIBS technology for sorting 5xxx, 6xxx and other alloy series reclaimed from aluminum scrap https://www.tomra.com/autosort-pulse. Seeing is believing: The all-new AUTOSORT™ PULSE enables high throughput sorting of aluminum alloys from post-production and post-consumer scrap metal.
• TOMRA X-TRACT – High purity and high recovery sorting of aluminum with the new TOMRA X-TRACT featuring high-speed x-ray transmission (XRT) technology. Meet the future of aluminum recycling. Discover the new generation X-TRACT for metal sorting: www.tomra.com/xtract
• Case study – TOMRA and Greenpath Enterprises teamed up to develop a solution for cap-to-cap recycling of post-consumer polyolefin (PO) bottlecaps with smart flake sorting technology.
• Case study – The third largest panelboard producer in Europe relies on TOMRA’s advanced x-ray and deep learning-based wood sorting technology to remove MDF and create high-quality recycled content.
Equipped with the latest X-ray and deep learning-based wood sorting technology, our customer purifies wood chips and creates high-purity fractions of non-processed wood.
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New INNOSORT™ FLAKE, the world’s most flexible color and polymer sorter
With a powerful sensor combination that enables simultaneous detection of polymers and colors, the next generation INNOSORT™ FLAKE is an evolutionary and cost-effective design for plastic recyclers worldwide. Its flexible sorting setup enables easy configuration for multiple plastic applications, so you can adapt to market dynamics and access new material streams. The high-throughput flake sorting system features our advanced near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer and dual-sided imaging with high resolution cameras. Its high contrast imaging also makes sorting white opaque, natural, transparent and translucent flakes possible. What’s more, the new machine’s enhanced illumination intensity and changeable color background provide unrivaled color sorting.
