TITECH Lands its First PET Sorting System Order in South America

Cabelma, a Buenos Aires, Argentina bottling and plastic container manufacturer, has installed a sensor-based PET plastic sorting system from TITECH Germany at its new $23.5 million recycling facility, currently being built in Buenos Aires.

The company says that when installed, Cabelma will be the first company in South America to have a TITECH sorting system, which uses infrared sensors to quickly grade the purity of the fractions, while ensuring all fractions recovered are high quality.

According to TITECH Germany, the PET waste sorting system will allow Cabelma to recover transparent PET fractions quicker and more efficiently than ever before. The sorting system will have a throughput of 5.2 metric tons per year.

Pedro Barandiaran, Cabelma’s project manager, says, “We are totally committed to recycling as much of our PET products as possible, and TITECH's waste sorting system will play a significant role in helping us achieve that objective. When we designed the new plant we were clear in wanting it to utilize the very latest and best technologies available. That led us to specifying a TITECH system.

"The machine's ability to operate quickly and accurately will improve the overall efficiency of our recycling process and ensure that our new plant sets the standards for PET recycling throughout South America," Barandiaran continues.
Carlos Manchado, TITECH's sales and marketing manager for South America, says, "The management team at Cabelma have a specific vision about recycling, and we are working closely with them to ensure that our system allows them to achieve.