{"id":457319,"date":"2023-09-05T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=457319"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:52:07","slug":"digital-recycling-plant-launched-by-dutch-company-myne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/digital-recycling-plant-launched-by-dutch-company-myne\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital recycling plant launched by Dutch company Myne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dutch company Myne, formerly Reukema, is launching a digital recycling plant. Here, aluminium scrap is sorted by alloy by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots. This allows the raw materials to be used for high-quality products, the company said in a press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"io-block io-block__summary\"><ul><li>Dutch company Myne is launching the world&#8217;s first digital recycling plant, called Xorter, with AI and robots sorting aluminium, steel and copper waste.<\/li><li>Xorter technology will also be applied to sorting copper, brass and zinc alloys in the future<\/li><li>Myne is working with TU Delft on further innovations and the development of a prototype processing line to recover raw materials from electronic waste<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In an economy where raw material scarcity is piling up, when metals are desperately needed to keep the economy going and for the energy transition, innovations like the factory (called Xorter) offer a concrete solution. Before the digital factory, high-grade raw materials were partially and unnecessarily disappearing into low-grade products such as gearboxes and engine blocks. In other words: downcycling. In the digital factory, scrap is used in goods that are in demand, such as cars. Material from which you can make a bicycle would rather not be used for a roadside post. For that, low-grade material is a better choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Technology leads to &#8216;green&#8217; steel in future<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Xorter technology will also be applied to sorting copper, brass and zinc alloys from waste in the coming years. Van de Poll: &#8216;So there is brass for water applications (free of lead in the alloy) and brass for locks, zips, screws. The latter has a different alloy and can therefore be used for other applications.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To create the Xorter, Myne is working with TU Delft. Eventually, the aim is to also sort iron waste using the Xorter technology. Professor Dr Peter Rem, Professor of Resources &amp; Recycling at TU Delft: &#8216;Iron waste also consists of different alloys. An iron can or car door does not have the same alloy as an iron beam in a building. Europe currently exports more than 24 million tonnes of iron waste outside Europe. Making this iron waste circular would produce truly green steel. Most of Europe&#8217;s steel is still made from iron ore in blast furnaces. This involves very high CO2 emissions and is therefore a huge burden on the environment. With the Xorter technology, we expect to be able to make high-quality steel from iron waste, reducing the negative impact on the environment by almost 90%&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/ai-offers-solution-to-daily-battery-fires-in-recycling\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"AI offers solution to daily battery fires in recycling\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">AI offers solution to daily battery fires in recycling<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">&#8220;It is often possible to quickly extinguish a battery fire at a recycling plant, but it is not yet possible to prevent the fire,&#8221; says &hellip; <a href=\"\">Continued<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Scaling up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming years, development and cooperation with TU Delft will continue apace. Van de Poll: &#8216;First we will make the Xorter technology robust in Harderwijk. Then we will scale up. The market is global and the problem of how to achieve high-quality circularity is topical and big. Europe alone could have hundreds of Xorters in terms of capacity.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch company Myne, formerly Reukema, is launching a digital recycling plant. Here, aluminium scrap is sorted by alloy by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots. This allows the raw materials to be used for high-quality products, the company said in a press release In an economy where raw material scarcity is piling up, when metals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1780,"featured_media":494359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[11641,43680],"location":[6763],"article_type":[36684],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-457319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-recycling-en","tag-staal","location-netherlands","article_type-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"At the digital recycling plant, aluminium scrap is sorted by alloy by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots. 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