Improve your plastic recycling profit and yield with Bühler SORTEX. Sort different types of plastics such as PET, HDPE, uPVC and pellets and remove subtle color variations and any unwanted materials. We make plastic recycling simple. Get in touch to learn more.
Optical sorting is essential in any plastic processing operation as it helps you to achieve a purer quality of products. Our sorting equipment uses a range of technologies including cameras, lighting and machine learning software. It can sort and remove product defects and foreign materials by color, shape and texture.
Our optical sorting solutions maximize your processing capacities and the purity of your recycled PET flakes. Our sorters are equipped to remove unwanted colors, metals and foreign materials as well as same-in-color polymer contaminants (PVC, PP, and PE).
The SORTEX range of optical sorters is equipped to remove typical defects in HDPE (milk bottles, bottle caps, detergent and shampoo bottles) such as colored PE and PP, packaging labels, aluminum and wood to help you meet your requirements to obtain near-pure resin streams.
uPVC presents many challenges in sorting, including the removal of black rubber seal fragments, white silicone, nylon and rubber from white uPVC regrind. Our range of optical sorters is equipped with the latest in technological advances to efficiently detect and remove defects.
During the manufacturing of plastic resin, the product often develops various defects. The SORTEX range removes these challenging defects and foreign materials too. Typical and challenging defects such as minute spot defects, discoloration, misshapen pellets, and clumps can be effectively removed.
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