
Stadler has reportedly completed the commissioning of a new beverage packaging sorting plant, designed and built for Dansk Retursystem in Taastrup, Denmark. Full handover is scheduled in April after the final one-month trial period.

The plant will process polyethylene terephthalate bottles and aluminium cans collected from all over the country, and produce bales of PET bottles and aluminium cans for recycling. With a capacity of 110 cubic metres per hour, it is expected to process almost 55 per cent of the country’s recycled cans and PET bottles.
Dansk Retursystem is a non-profit company that collects bottles and cans from reverse vending machines installed at 3,000 stores across Denmark or from the pantstation deposit return banks located in 12 cities. After collecting, the organisation sorts the products into glass, plastic bottles, and aluminium cans and then recycles them into new packaging. Sorting is done using magnetic separation for ferrous materials and Near Infrared (NIR) technology for the PET bottles. The result of this system is 9 out of 10 bottles marked for deposit are returned and recycled, with very little waste in the process.
Stadler designed the plant and started assembly in November 2019. Being very satisfied with their work, Dansk Retursystem CEO Lars Krejberg Petersen explained, “In Stadler, the company found a dedicated professional integrator capable of providing an end-to-end solution for material streams. Stadler also performed very well on the soft parameters.”
The inauguration ceremony of the plant had taken place on March 10, hosted by Lars Krejberg Petersen and attended by guests of honour Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark, and Lea Wermelin, Minister of the Environment.
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