Extrusion International USA 6-2021

44 Extrusion International 6/2021 MEASURING TECHNOLOGY – CASE STUDY Technically demanding plastics, such as those used in the medical sector or in the aircraft and automotive indus- tries, require the highest quality stan- dards as well as reliable control and processing of raw materials. Accord- ingly, the requirements for the purity of the materials are very high. SORT- CO has been specialized in contract sorting since 2015 and professionally detection for us, an excellent analyt- ics and the proximity to the com- pany, which is not unimportant for us,” says Hilger Groß, Head of Sales & QM at SORTCO, and continues: “The PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED is typi- cally used where other sorting sys- tems have dif fi culties. Namely, in the detection of very small optical defects from a size of 50 μ m.” SORTCO uses prepares plastic pellets according to customer requirements. In the sorting service center, which was opened in spring 2021, the com- pany sorts standard plastics as well as optically demanding technical plas- tics. For this purpose, SORTCO uses two online inspection and sorting systems from SIKORA. “The decision for SIKORAwas made due to the best SORTCO relies on SIKORA’s online inspection and sorting system for highest material purity in contract sorting SORTCO GmbH & Co. KG is a specialist for optical and mechanical sorting of shape and color deviations in plastic pellets. In addition, the company offers dust removal and metal separation of plastic raw materials. Since March 2021, SORTCO has been using two PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED systems from SIKORA in its new, state-of-the-art sorting service center in Niederzissen/Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With these, the pellets to be sorted are inspected 100 % optically and impurities from a size of 50 μ m are automatically sorted out “The PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED is used where other sorting systems have difficulties” Lars Ruttmann, Managing Director at SORTCO, presents SIKORA‘s PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED for inspection and sorting of plastic pellets