Recycling Customer Stories

Our flexible sorting systems perform an extensive range of sorting tasks and can be found at numerous recycling sites around the world. Discover what TOMRA Recycling clients have been able to accomplish thanks to our partnership in planning, implementing, and optimizing automatic sorting machines to suit their specific needs.

Latest Customer Stories

NPP leverages TOMRA’s deep learning technology to enhance the purification process of rPET production

Nord Pal Plast (NPP), a France-based subsidiary of the European group Dentis that specializes in producing recycled PET flakes derived from post-consumer plastic bottles, was the first to test TOMRA’s PET Cleaner application.

TOMRA's technology enables Sackers to achieve 99% recovery of non-ferrous metal

Suffolk-based scrap metal recycling specialists, Sackers, has invested in one of TOMRA’s advanced sensor-based metals sorting solutions for its 40 tonnes per hour (tph) metal recycling site in Great Blakenham, near Ipswich. The site is one of two owned and operated by the company.

Wyllie Recycling chooses TOMRA as its technology partner

Wyllie Recycling Ltd, one of Scotland's leading family-owned recycling businesses, has invested in three of TOMRA’s world-renowned AUTOSORT™ optical sorters as part of a £3 million upgrade at the company’s mixed containers MRF in Perth, central Scotland.

MDF removal wood recycling

TOMRA’s wood sorting technology enables Europe’s third-largest panelboard producer to manufacture premium panelboards with increased recycled content.

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Quick-change mixed waste processing

Santa Barbara County’s Resource Center efficiently sorts both MSW and single stream using the same circuit with TOMRA AUTOSORT™ units to successfully reduce landfilling

Argentinian recycler Reciclar S.A. processes up to 600 million plastic bottles per year thanks to TOMRA

TOMRA and Reciclar S.A. collaborate to advance a circular economy for plastics in Latin America. The Argentinian plant, with a surface area of more than 22,000 m2, features the latest generation of TOMRA Recycling Sorting equipment.

Alutrade Ltd recovers 99% pure aluminum thanks to TOMRA’s sophisticated new X-TRACT™ unit

Alutrade, the UK’s largest independent aluminum recycling company and extrusion specialist, is the first company in the world to reap the benefits of the sophisticated new sensor-based sorting solution.

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The fully automated plant ROAF maximizes recovery rates thanks to TOMRA’s optical sorters

TOMRA’s optical sorters maximizes recovery rates for ROAF, a fully automated Municipal Solid Waste sorting plant.

This is the first UK application of optical sorting technology in an AD facility

Swancote and TOMRA partnership marks first UK application of optical sorting in an AD facility

A partnership between TOMRA and Swancote Energy has resulted in the first application of optical sorting technology in an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) facility in the UK.

TOMRA Recycling chosen as equipment provider of DGrade's new sorting plant in Abu Dhabi

DGrade opened its first sorting facility situated in Abu Dhabi to produce high-quality recycled plastic content for the industries with the help of TOMRA’s AUTOSORT™ and AUTOSORT™ FLAKE.

TOMRA Recycling’s new AUTOSORT® boosts sorting accuracy of plastic contained and food packaging

Asahi Koseki, the first company in Japan to introduce the new AUTOSORT® unit, now reaping the benefits of increased productivity and improved operations.

PENYAPSAN keeps packaging waste sorting operations uninterrupted thanks to TOMRA

PENYAPSAN, a packaging waste sorting facility situated in Pendik Municipality, continues its operations with high efficiency thanks to TOMRA's after-sales services.

The largest rPET producer in the MENA region chose TOMRA’s bottle-to-bottle sorting solutions

BariQ for Techno and Advanced Industries celebrates the signing for constructing a new PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant that will feature the latest plastic sorting systems from TOMRA Recycling in Giza Governorate, Egypt.

Blue Group chooses sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA as part of Cireco’s MRF upgrade

A multimillion-pound plant refurb and investment in new equipment from TOMRA Recycling has helped boost material recovery rates and more than doubled capacity at Cireco’s state-of-the-art MRF in Dunfermline, Fife, on Scotland’s east coast.

RELUX installs TOMRA's X-TRACT for efficient battery sorting

RELUX uses TOMRA's X-TRACT equipped with the latest battery sorting technology, enabling a successful recovery and recycling of different battery types.

Mixed waste sorting changing the game at IVAR IKS in Norway

TOMRA and a Norwegian waste sorting plant have demonstrated that mixed waste sorting prior to disposal is a superior solution to separate collection.

MTB and TOMRA join forces in metal recycling

MTB, a well-known recycler of non-ferrous metals, has recently expanded its plant with a Zero Waste Metal sorting line equipped with two TOMRA machines.

Biffa upgrades its Aldridge MRF with the latest sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Recycling

Leading waste management company, Biffa, has invested in the very latest in sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA as part of an equipment upgrade.

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New life for recycled aluminium: Centro Rottami, Indinvest and TOMRA

Centro Rottami supplies Indivest with recycled aluminium that has been sorted by TOMRA machines to produce an ecological billet with 85% recycled content.

Interecycling Sociedade de Reciclagem relies on TOMRA’s FINDER with NIR sensor for WEEE separation

Interecycling, S.A., a Portuguese company associated to the Marcovil - Metalomecânica de Viseu, S.A. Group, relies on TOMRA Recycling for its new line of separation of metals and plastics.

TOMRA Recycling’s X-TRACT dramatically improves productivity of industrial waste management

Contributing to the circular economy by enabling the recycling of high-quality woodchips and other valuable secondary resources from industrial waste

la charente public waste recycling facility

La Charente relies on TOMRA technologies for sorting cardboard and packaging waste from its region

TOMRA Recycling has supplied Calitom, the public waste management body in Charente, with optical sorting machines and ongoing support since 2015.

TOMRA Recycling and MASOTINA: highly targeted plastic sorting boosts recycling volumes and purity

Thanks to the latest generation of TOMRA’s technology, MASOTINA is today reaping the benefits of ‘tailor-made’ plastic sorting solutions.

A collaboration for shaping the future of recycling in Mexico: TOMRA Recycling & Indorama Ventures

Supported by TOMRA’s advanced sorting machines the expansion of line 2 in Indorama Ventures EcoMex was concluded this year.

Quality product at a higher quantity

PNW Metal Recycling Inc. makes new products, quadruples Zorba product offering with new WENDT-TOMRA ASR processing plant

Premier Surplus

Premier Surplus automates E-waste processing with TOMRA AUTOSORT® FINES to take efficiencies to the next level.

TOMRA and STADLER deliver the world’s first fully automated textile sorting plant in Malmö, Sweden

TOMRA and STADLER delivered the fully automated sorting plant for Sysav Industri AB, which sorts pre- and post-consumer mixed textile waste, in Sweden.

TOMRA and STADLER UK Limited chosen as technology providers VIRIDOR'S £15.4M Masons MRF transformation

STADLER and TOMRA worked in close collaboration from the earliest stages of the tender enquiry to ensure plant and equipment met Viridor’s requirements.

TOMRA’s sensor-based technology enables high-volume, high-quality sorting for Ecoparque Pernambuco

TOMRA innovative sensor-based sorting solutions are operating in the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Treatment Center at EcoParque Pernambuco.

TOMRA’s latest generation AUTOSORT® boosts plant capacity and purity levels of recovered paper fractions

Having worked together for more than 20 years, the partnership between TOMRA Sorting Recycling and leading German recycling company, Koppitz Entsorgungs-GmbH, has reached a new milestone.

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Wellman International

In the Netherlands, on the banks of the river Rhine, Wellman International uses digital sorting data from our TOMRA Insight dashboard to optimize their sorting process and to improve the recyclability of packaging.

TOMRA Sorting Technology helps Tokzin in the production of high-quality PET Flakes

Some leading recycling companies in China are already seizing new opportunities and upgrading their recycling facility to embrace these new opportunities. Tokzin, a sorting plant producing high-quality PET flakes, proves that investment pays off.

Luhai builds national resource recycling base with TOMRA's sensor based-sorting technology

Luhai, an integrated waste management company located in Xiamen, China, turns waste into high-value products since 2000.

Burkasan has chosen TOMRA’s sorting technology to recycle HDPE bottles in its new plant

Burkasan uses TOMRA in its new plastic recycling plant: equipped with AUTOSORT® and AUTOSORT® FLAKE is capable of sorting 5 tons of waste per hour.

TOMRA sorting boosts paper recovery at Ireland's largest household recycling facility

Cutting-edge sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA has been deployed to boost paper recovery at Ireland’s largest household recycling facility.

Automation of URBASER-managed Las Dehesas Waste Treatment Centre with TOMRA Technology

URBASER, the environmental management company with 128 plants in different Spanish cities, has automated two lines at the Las Dehesas Waste Treatment Centre through the incorporation of six AUTOSORT units.

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TOMRA helps China's Jinlijia achieve high efficiency in its scrap-metal sorting operation

The efficiency of Jinlijia's sorting and recovery of non-ferrous metals, including stainless steel, was significantly enhanced by installing the FINDER.

Montello S.P.A. and TOMRA: when excellence chooses excellence.

Montello S.p.A. uses the latest sensor-based technology of 40 TOMRA machines to give a new lease of life to tonnes of post-consumer plastic.

Aurubis AG

In 2008, Aurubis AG, headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, became the first company to implement TOMRA Sorting’s comprehensive electronic scrap process – a recycling solution which has since been deployed in a variety of custom formats by a number of other recycling plants.

Household waste sorting in Chania, Greece

Dedisa

The DEDISA waste management plant is located in the prefecture of Chania, of the island of Crete, in the south of Greece and serves a population of 155 000 inhabitants, which represents around 25% of the island’s total population.

One of the advanced MSW sorting plants in Europe

DAREH-Ep

New system, equipped with 10 AUTOSORT units and one X-TRACT unit, enables Békéscsaba to process 120,000 tonnes of MSW waste a year.

SUEZ Regene Atlantique, France

SUEZ Regene Atlantique is a French plant owned by the SUEZ group which specializes in the recovery and recycling of PET bottles.

Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park: putting Circular Economy thinking into practice

Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park is a world-class waste treatment facility, which aims to deal with black bag waste in a sustainable way.

Granada Eco-center: technology at the service of efficient material recovery

Granada Eco-Center, in Alhendin (Granada), with a nominal capacity of 450,000 tons per annum, is totally automated and is one of the leading facilities in waste recycling at the national level, and had a 10.8% waste recovery rate on inputs last year.

MERC - Metropolitan Electronics Recycling Center, South Korea

A better value product by replacing DMS by sensor-based sorting – Separating WEEE in South Korea

Sorting and recycling municipal solid waste (MSW) in Xiamen city, China

TOMRA Sorting Recycling is playing a pivotal role in the implementation of automatic sorting at the MSW plant in Xiamen

Ecopark 4, Spain, trusts AUTOSORT for the efficient automation of its separation processes

Ecopark 4 in Hostalets de Pierola (Barcelona), part of the infrastructure of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), uses ten of TOMRA Sorting Recycling's AUTOSORT optical separators, which currently recover 90% of sortable material.

Atelier Fouesnantais

TOMRA’s unique application for sorting graphic paper within the recovery of fibrous or flat material fractions for selective collections has now become a hot topic in France.

Upgrading of plastics with AUTOSORT at Balsamo Reciclagem, Brazil

Balsamo Reciclagem upgraded its plant with the installation of the innovative AUTOSORT optical sorter.

Jin Yi Polyester Fiber, a polymer fiber specialist, Hebei, China

Polymer fiber specialist Jin Yi Polyester Fiber installed nine TITECH autosort units to sort PET bottles and remove impurities in 2011 and 2013.

Evolve Polymers, UK

Even to the trained eye it is impossible to tell the difference between a clear PVC and PET flake, so when Evolve Polymers challenged TOMRA to sort the 'impossible' to a new level of purity, the foundations were laid for a partnership that would result in a world first for plastics sorting.

MSW Sorting at Tratamiento de Residuos La Rioja, Spain

X-TRACT waste sorting system delivers benefits at La Rioja Eco-Park, Spain. It enables the Eco-Park to guarantee the minimum quality required in the product obtained and thereby increase the overall performance of the process.

Re-Gen Waste chooses TOMRA’s innovative sensor-based technology to transform sorting processes

TOMRA Recycling’s sensor-based sorting solutions have been chosen to upgrade the processing and quantity of recycled fractions at one of Europe’s most advanced materials recycling facilities (MRFs) in Northern Ireland.