Thursday, February 3, 2022
TOMRA Recycling improves its position in the wood segment by developing a dedicated team. TOMRA Recycling sets out to drive the development of waste wood recycling through technology and process improvement consulting for the industry.
Advancing the recycling industry with its state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting technologies and well-established partnerships with manufacturers of wood-based panels, TOMRA again taps into new opportunities by maximizing the use and recycling of waste wood. After its most recent market launch of a new deep-learning-based sorting application capable of separating wood by type, the company now announces the establishment of an entire team focused on the wood segment. With a newly appointed segment manager, industry-savvy experts, waste wood application specialists, and service key account managers, TOMRA is strategically investing in rapidly enabling the material recycling of waste wood and thus bolstering recycled content for the wood-based panel industry.
New opportunities in waste wood recycling
The primary use of recycled waste wood is currently in particleboard manufacturing. The wood-based panel industry aims to meet very strong market demand and improve product quality by increasing recycled content, resulting in a twofold benefit for the manufacturer. Recycled wood is up to 40% cheaper than fresh wood and generally dryer, which results in a significant decrease in energy consumption during the drying stage of the panel production.
Jose Matas, Segment Manager Wood at TOMRA Recycling, comments: “The current market development offers a huge opportunity to wood-based panelsmanufacturers.Using high-quality recycled materials allows them to produce superior qualitywood-based panels, achieve higher yieldsand outputs while profiting from considerable cost reductions, preserving natural resources, and decreasing CO2 emissions.”
Unleashing the power of sensor-based sorting
The particleboard manufacturer’s quest to increase recycled content and promote sustainable wood management requires optimised processes and advanced technologies to recover pure material fractions from a waste wood in feed stream.
Thus, recyclers and particleboard manufacturers are advised to invest in the respective sorting technology to keep pace with industry demands and evolve with the market. New sorting technology quickly adapts to changing waste compositions, increasing purity demands, and recovering single fractions. Integrating a wood sorting solution in recycling and production plants enables them to separate non-processed wood and processed wood from complex mixed waste stream and use the purest materials to produce high-quality particleboard on an industrial scale.
Fabrizio Radice, Vice President and Head of Global Sales and Marketing at TOMRA Recycling, concludes: “TOMRA is strongly committed to circular waste management. Thus, I am delightedthat we extend our focus to the wood segment with a dedicated team that brings a wealth of experience and profound knowledge. The team’s expertise combined with our latest technologies will help recyclers and particleboard manufacturers meet both market demands and exploit the full potential of their operation while minimizing environmental impacts. In the following years, we are going to invest a lot in this promising segment and aim to see that the waste of one company becomes a valuable resource for another – a scenario we support to become commonplace.”
TOMRA Recycling
TOMRA Recycling designs and manufactures sensor-based sorting technologies for the recycling and waste management industry. More than 7,400 systems are installed in 100 countries around the world.
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