TOMRA to show latest AUTOSORT updates, debut waste analyzer at WasteExpo
The PolyPerception Analyzer provides a waste sorting solution at key points to increase performance and lower costs
Visitors to WasteExpo will be able to learn about TOMRA Recycling's AI technology, GAINnext applications, PolyPerception waste analysis, and AUTOSORT.
Powerful multifunctional sorting system
TOMRA's AUTOSORT integrates multiple sensors plus the FLYING BEAM lighting system that enables fast and reliable material detection by high-precision near-infrared sensors for high accuracy, throughput, and purity in a wide range of applications. Its compact and flexible design allows for seamless integration into both new and existing plants. Optional TOMRA Insight collects and reports data via the secure cloud-based monitoring platform and turns AUTOSORT into a strategic management tool for fact-based decision-making.
AUTOSORT can be equipped with TOMRA's Integrated Calibration Technology, a new optional feature that allows for continuous real-time calibration of sensors to restore optimum signal quality. Integrated into the scanner box, the sensor is less exposed to external influences and provides long-lasting performance. The combination of all features results in reduced maintenance and high-sorting performance that remain stable over longer periods.
GAINnext AI operations
Leveraging deep learning technology, a powerful subset of AI, GAINnext identifies previously difficult-to-classify materials without manual sorting. The true sorting power for applications comes from combining the cameras and deep-learning algorithms of GAINnext with the traditional sensors of AUTOSORT.
During WasteExpo, the TOMRA exhibit will highlight several applications from the growing GAINnext ecosystem. These include:
- PET Cleaner - combining AUTOSORT and GAINnext delivers the accurate sorting of opaque white packaging, textiles, and foils from PET bottles to create new revenue streams. The system identifies and removes over 92 percent of opaque objects with titanium dioxide protection.
- Highly flexible, GAINnext allows recyclers to select opaque colors, opaque white, PET blue, light blue, or transparent for classification streams.
- Drinking and paper cleaning - AUTOSORT with GAINnext delivers high-accuracy sorting of office paper, newspaper, and magazines for paper sorting. Multi-sensor integration leverages deep learning technology to effectively remove impurities like pizza boxes, egg cartons, and other brown boards from the paper stream.
- Aluminum UBC sorting - GAINnext instantly identifies non-UBC materials like food packaging, foil trays, and aluminum bottles from the UBC stream for high-throughput aluminum recovery. Delivering up to 2,000 ejections per minute, the deep learning software identifies overlapping objects for high-precision, 98 percent-plus purity sorting, giving the market an automated process for aluminum can-to-can recycling.
Deep waste stream insights
WasteExpo serves as the North American debut of The PolyPerception Analyzer which provides a waste analysis solution at key points in the sorting process to increase performance and lower costs through actionable data. Building operational transparency, every single object passing under the waste analyzer is examined in real-time, and the latest deep learning models quickly adapt to changes in the waste stream and are updated regularly over the air.
The Analyzer's powerful and easy-to-use platform brings more transparency into plants by continuously monitoring critical key performance indicators and providing smart alerts and automated reports. Access to images and videos enhances insights into the operation, radically boosting packaging waste sorting efficiency.
PolyPerception team members will be on hand during WasteExpo to explain the ways in which waste analyzing delivers values, including:
- Sorting efficiency - measure and optimize purity, recovery rate, yield loss, uptime, and throughput.
- Commercial decisions - assess true material quality to make data-driven purchasing and selling decisions.
- Compliance - certify material quality to a specification mandated by legislation or waste authority.
