BEST Sorting, based in Belgium, launched its new Slidex sorter at IFAT ENTSORGA 2012 in Munich.
The Slidex sorter is a 1,000-millimeter-wide machine that inspects products in free fall, the company says. According to BEST, the Slidex recognizes different types of material and is used to sort various streams, such as plastics, WEEE, auto shredder residue (ASR) and others. The machine uses hyperspectral imaging to identify a unique fingerprint for each type of material, forming the basis of the sorting process, BEST....
