With over 20 years of experience in the recycling industry, Pellenc ST supports operators and municipalities by providing intelligent and connected sorting solutions to modernise their industrial tools and meet the 4.0 industry standards.

Pellenc ST designs, produces, and sells connected sorting equipment and intelligent services for waste treatment and the recycling industry. Machines operate in more than 40 countries to sort and recover materials from various waste sectors: MRF, MSW, WEEE, ASR, C&I, C&D, textile… The technologies used to sort these materials are infrared and visible spectroscopy, induction and X-ray.

With over 2 800 machines installed worldwide, the Pellenc ST network benefits from a local team dedicated to customer satisfaction.

Bühler’s sorting solutions are helping bring an end to the “throw-away society”
Optical sorting is essential in any plastic processing operation as it helps you to achieve a purer quality of products. Bühler’s sorting equipment uses a range of technologies including cameras, lighting and machine learning software. It can sort and remove product defects and foreign materials by color, shape and texture.
Bühler’s sorting equipment can be used in a range of applications and a variety of commodities including; PET sorting, HDPE sorting, uPVC sorting and Pellet sorting.
Our optical sorting solutions maximize your processing capacities and the purity of recycled PET flakes. Our sorters are equipped to remove unwanted colors, metals and foreign materials as well as same-in-color polymer contaminants.
The Sortex range or optical sorters is equipped to remove typical defects in HDPE such as colored PE and PP, packaging labels, aluminum and wood to help obtain near-pure resin streams.
uPVC presents many challenges in sorting, including the removal of black rubber seal fragments, white silicone, nylon and rubber from white uPVC regrind. Bühler’s range of optical sorters is equipped with the latest in technological advances to efficiently detect and remove defects.
During the manufacturing of plastic resin, the product often develops various defects. The Sortex range removes these challenging defects and foreign materials too. Typical and challenging defects such as minute spot defects, discoloration, misshapen pellets, and clumps can be effectively removed.