While the AGEC law could require marketers to integrate an ever-increasing proportion of recycled materials into their new products, the current ecosystem can only handle less than 1% of post-consumer collection in a closed loop (McKinsey 2022).
The material preparation stage is a bottleneck between sorting and material transformation. The current context therefore calls for the development of high-efficiency machines capable of solving the key stages of post-consumer sorting and dismantling.
This webinar will focus on dismantling technologies, drawing on the two approaches discussed in the SCIRT project. Valvan will first present the Trimclean, an industrial machine based on mechanical textile cutting and on-the-fly sorting optimized by computer vision. CETIA/ESTIA will then take the floor to present their work on laser cutting technology, motivated by the desire to preserve textile integrity.
The presentation will cover:
– the Fibersort and Trimclean machines and their function
– choice of cutting technology
– design and material selection of the cell
– cutting application developed by CETIA
– SCIRT deposit presentation and preparation
– laser cutting tests and statistics