United States / Germany | US optical sorting systems developer Innov-X Systems and BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH have entered into an agreement to develop and market a new high volume sorting system that will separate heat resistant and leaded glass from clean glass cullet. Under the agreement, BT-Wolfgang Binder will not only participate in the development, but will also provide sales and marketing support for the new glass sorter. Don Sackett, President & CEO of Innov-X Systems: 'Our XRF expertise combined with BT-Wolfgang Binder's extensive experience in optical glass sorting and their proven mechanical equipment will allow us to bring this much needed technology to market in a time-frame that we could not achieve on our own.’
According to the Woburn, Massachusetts based company, this new technology will be a welcome solution for glass recyclers worldwide who have long been challenged by co-mingled contaminants, such as glass ceramic and lead. ’This joint development represents an effective solution to the problem of glass ceramics separation and the limited allowed percentage of lead in recycled glass,’ says Gerhard Glawitsch, Sales Manager of BT-Wolfgang Binder, which is based in Gleisdorf, Austria. The company is a specialist in glass sorting systems.
The new sorting system will combine Innov-X’s QXR-G – a high volume X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) system that sorts glass by highly specific material chemistry, and BT-Wolfgang Binder’s novel REDWAVE technology – a high volume system offering optical sorting capabilities. The marriage will result in a high speed system that differentiates glass on the basis of chemical composition to identify and extract specific cullet contaminants.
