AI, advanced sensors and digital solutions are transforming recycling operations. In this exclusive interview, our SVP and Head of Solutions, Gudbrand Arnesen, explains how TOMRA is helping recyclers gain unprecedented transparency, control and performance through our latest technologies.
As recycled-content requirements become reality, value is shifting from volume to quality. Across the circular value chain, new opportunities are emerging for organizations that invest early in quality, traceability, and material performance.
TOMRA Recycling, a global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions, continues to strengthen its Americas organization with the addition of Chase Bullock and Joel Andujo to the field sales team. Bullock serves as the area sales manager, southeast, while Andujo covers the west sales region for the company. The new team members allow TOMRA Recycling to bring deep applications experience and resources to support the recycling community and evolving market needs.
TOMRA Recycling, a global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions, will mark 30 years of its AUTOSORT™ platform and showcase its latest AI developments at RWM Expo 2026, taking place at NEC Birmingham on 16-17 September. At stand (ME-E274), visitors can learn about new deep learning applications for GAINnext™ and a recently launched AI platform from PolyPerception, which TOMRA is using to help UK customers improve sorting performance and support their Environment Agency compliance reporting.
CWM Environmental Ltd has invested in seven of TOMRA’s advanced AUTOSORT™ units for its redeveloped £15 million Nantycaws Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). The new facility, one of Wales’s most advanced developments in circular economy infrastructure, entered full operation in July 2026 following the successful completion of its commissioning programme. This marks a significant shift to fully automated sorting at the Carmarthenshire site following the 2021 fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery that destroyed the original plant.
Recyclers, MRF and PRF operators are dealing with changing regulations, unpredictable waste streams and too much data. To help sorting plants handle these challenges, PolyPerception recently launched a new AI-native platform. This is the first major release since TOMRA took a 51% majority stake in the company.
How artificial intelligence has become the key enabler in transforming complex scrap into high value feedstock for the circular economy. By Tom Jansen, VP and Head of Segments for TOMRA Recycling.
TOMRA Recycling has unveiled a breakthrough AI-native platform from PolyPerception and introduced three new deep learning applications for its award-winning GAINnext™ technology. The innovations were presented at IFAT 2026 in Munich and PRSE in Amsterdam, highlighting the company’s continued focus on advancing AI driven sorting solutions. The announcement coincides with TOMRA increasing its investment in PolyPerception to a 51% majority stake, closing the loop between real-time stream data and physical sorting action.
30 years ago, something ground‑breaking began – an innovation that would become the trendsetter for an entire industry: AUTOSORT™ was born. Or rather, the very first version of what has since evolved into today’s most powerful sorting system. Since 1996, AUTOSORT™ has been continuously optimized and strengthened. Today, it is widely recognized as the industry’s ultimate all‑rounder, trusted for its reliability, performance, and unmatched versatility. But the AUTOSORT™ story is also the story of our industry: AI has always been at the core of TOMRA’s technology, shaping the evolution of intelligent sorting from the very beginning, and powering what’s next.
Global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions, TOMRA Recycling, has marked a new era of customer support for recyclers in the Americas with the opening of its new Americas Test & Training Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The facility features a testing circuit equipped with the latest sorting technologies, a dedicated warehouse for critical parts storage and extensive training facilities.
Building on decades of metal recycling experience, TOMRA Recycling, the global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions, launches the new FINDER™, a flexible metals sorting platform with built-in AI features for meeting today and tomorrow’s infeed challenges. Whether it is shredded end-of-life vehicles or E-scrap, FINDER™ consistently upgrades mixed non-ferrous fractions like copper and brass, recovers insulated wire, cleans stainless steel, separates metals from non-metals, and sorts printed circuit boards (PCBs) from E-scrap.
Global sensor-based sorting technology provider TOMRA Recycling will strengthen its position as the leader in AI solutions for recycling when the company reveals its latest technology portfolio at IFAT 2026 (May 4 – 7 in Munich, Germany). TOMRA experts will be in Hall B6, stand 339 to highlight the 30th anniversary of its AUTOSORT™ system. Under the theme "30 years of AI sorting," TOMRA will demonstrate the technical progression from early optical AI sorting to today’s fully integrated systems, while also unveiling new deep learning and AI-enabled solutions at the show.
TOMRA Sorting GmbH, the German legal entity and headquarters of TOMRA Recycling, has been awarded the prestigious Platinum medal from EcoVadis, one of the world’s most trusted and widely used platforms for assessing corporate sustainability performance. With an overall score of 87 out of 100 points, TOMRA Recycling is in the top 1% of all rated companies in the EcoVadis network globally over the past 12 months.
Showing 13 of 14