Recycling sorter SORTEX A GlowVision

for the food industryfor plastic recyclingoptical

Overview SORTEX A GlowVision is a 4-in-1 optical sorter designed for bottle-to-bottle PET recycling and food-grade sorting. It performs high-precision color sorting, polymer identification, foreign-matter removal and reduction of loose labels to maximize material quality for closed-loop recycling.

Key benefits

• Simultaneous resorting: integrated resorting channel increases reject concentration (up to 40%) to improve downstream processing efficiency.
• Versatile 4-in-1 solution: combines color sorting, contaminant detection, polymer sorting and loose-label reduction in one machine for bottle-to-bottle and food applications.
• Operational visibility: standard SORTEX monitoring system powered by Bühler Insights provides dashboard overview and configurable alarms for quick anomaly detection.

Key features

• Lighting — Broadband LED: solid-state LED illumination ensures consistent lighting and improved defect recognition.
• Connectivity — Digital services: remote monitoring, analytics and digital tools to improve efficiency, quality control and traceability.
• Capacity — High throughput: configurable with up to five chutes for flexible sorting layouts and high-volume processing.

Services and training Comprehensive services and training packages available, including installation support, preventive maintenance contracts, software upgrades and spare parts supply to maximize uptime and ROI.

Applications

• Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling and food-grade plastic sorting.

Downloads

• SORTEX A GlowVision brochure (PDF).

Technical specifications

• Functionality: 4-in-1 sorting — color sorting, contaminant removal, polymer sorting, loose-label reduction.
• Resorting: simultaneous resorting function enabling up to ~40% reject concentration when using the resorting channel.
• Lighting: broadband solid-state LED illumination for improved defect recognition.
• Monitoring: integrated SORTEX monitoring with Bühler Insights dashboard and configurable alarms.
• Capacity / chutes: configurable, available with up to five chutes.
• Throughput: engineered for high-throughput industrial sorting.
• Target markets: bottle-to-bottle PET recycling and food-grade sorting applications.