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Plastic Material Sorting Equipment: A Field Guide for 2024

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    Walk onto any recycling floor from Rotterdam to Riverside and you’ll see the same choke-point: a sea of shredded plastic that looks like confetti. Turning that mix into clean PET, PVC, PP, and film is the job of plastic material sorting equipment.
    Pick the right setup and margin prints itself; pick wrong and you own an expensive conveyor belt. Below is the unfiltered intel buyers actually need.

1. The Four Battle-Tested Methods

Method	Physics	Typical Feed	Clean-up Goal
NIR Spectroscopy	Polymer absorbs 1,100–2,400 nm	1–6 t/h flakes	PET vs PVC vs PP
RGB Color Sorter	Camera + air valves	0.5–3 t/h	Clear vs colored
Sink-Float Tank	Density in water	0.5–4 t/h rigid	HDPE vs PP vs ABS
Tribo-Electrostatic	Surface charge	0.1–1 t/h film	PVC vs PE

    Most plants run NIR first, sink-float second,
    then a color polish for 99 % purity.

2. 2024 Price Sheet (FOB Asia)

Condition	NIR Belt	Color 2-Chute	Float Tank	Tribo Unit
New	$48k–190k	$22k–55k	$12k–40k	$38k–110k
Used 3–5 yr	$26k–95k	$11k–28k	$6k–20k	Rare

    Add 8 % freight, 5 % duty, $1.8k commissioning. Hidden costs (compressor, platform, disks) tack on another 15 %.

3. Real Plant ROI

Site	Machine	Cost	Premium	Tonnage/yr	Payback
Texas PET	2 t/h NIR	$72k	$110/t	2,000 t	11 mo
Poland PE	Color 1.5 t/h	$24k	€75/t	1,300 t	7 wk
Spain PVC	Tribo add-on	$38k	€190/t	800 t	14 mo

    Rule of thumb: above 800 t/yr, NIR pays off inside 18 months.

4. Insider Spec Checklist

    ✅ Valve MTBF    ≥30 million cycles
 ✅ Camera pixels    ≥256 for NIR lane
 ✅ PLC protocol    open (Modbus/TCP)
 ✅ Local tech radius    <500 km

    Refuse any seller who won’t run a 3-hour FAT    on your actual flake.

5. Used vs New—Hard Numbers

NIR sensors age slowly—7 yr-old units still hit 97 % accuracy if lamps & belts swapped.
Color sorters lose 2–3 % accuracy per year after year 4.
Float tanks are stainless tubs—age irrelevant if welds pass dye-pen.

    Red flag: seller who won’t power up the machine on a live video call.

6. Emerging Tech in 2024

AI retrofit kits: $8k bolt-on GPU + camera upgrades old color sorters to PVC-grade 99 %.
Lease-to-own: 0 % interest for 24 mo on >$100k lines—treat as OpEx.
Cloud purity logs: Remote dashboards beat clipboards.

7. Quick Buy/No-Buy Matrix

Criteria	Buy	Walk Away
Missing screen test data	❌	✅
Proprietary software lock	❌	✅
Local spares stock <48 h	✅	❌
Valve log <20 M cycles	❌	✅

Bottom Line

    Plastic material sorting equipment is not magic—sensors, air valves, and a belt. Match the sensor to your polymer mix, budget 15 % for hidden costs, and insist on a live test. Do that and the mountain of plastic turns into a revenue stream instead of
    a storage headache.

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