Latest / The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Danish Factory Uses AI to Sort Plastic Waste
Lucas and Luna visit a Danish factory that uses artificial intelligence and hyperspectral cameras to sort plastic waste with 95 percent purity. The episode details how the factory's AI vision system, trained on over 10 million images, can identify 12 different polymer types in milliseconds, separating food-grade PET from industrial HDPE and even black plastic that traditional optical sorters miss. The hosts walk through the economics: the factory processes 50,000 tonnes of waste per year, selling sorted plastics at a premium that makes the operation profitable without subsidies. The…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.