PICVISA PROVIDES SOLUTIONS TO THE PAPER INDUSTRY WITH THE OPTICAL SORTER ECOPACK

Recovered paper for recycling rarely arrives perfectly clean – mixed collection means paper and cardboard often come bundled with plastic films, metal fasteners, and other contaminants that need to be removed before the paper can be reprocessed. For paper mills, the quality of this separation directly affects the quality of the recycled pulp they can produce.

ECOPACK FOR EFFICIENT MATERIAL SEPARATION

While ECOPACK is best known as a solution for sorting plastic packaging, the same optical sorting principles apply to removing non-paper contaminants from recovered paper streams – identifying and ejecting plastics, films and other materials that would otherwise degrade the quality of recycled paper pulp.

A NEW PICVISA ECOPACK SUCCESS STORY

Installing ECOPACK in a paper industry context follows the same pattern as other PICVISA installations – configuring the system's sensors and ejectors to the specific contamination profile of the facility's incoming material, then validating performance against the facility's actual recovered paper stream rather than generic samples.

MACHINE VISION FOR MATERIAL SEPARATION

The machine vision technology at the core of ECOPACK – identifying materials by their optical and spectral properties – is what makes this cross-industry application possible. The same underlying capability that sorts plastic packaging by polymer type can identify and remove plastic contaminants from a paper stream, demonstrating how PICVISA's core sorting technology extends naturally beyond the material streams it's most commonly associated with.

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