Sonoco, a global packaging solutions leader, partnered with Epson & Baker Technologies to create a new material category within Epson & Baker’s neural network specific to rigid paper containers. The Sustainable Packaging Coalition recognized the partnership between Epson & Baker and Sonoco with a 2022 Innovator Award for Innovation in Recovery.

Along with a robot sorting polypropylene funded by a grant from The Recycling Partnership, Fresno-based Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station (CARTS), a Caglia Environmental company, has a tandem robot on its last-chance line picking HDPE natural and color, PET, and film, and another robot on its aluminum can line for quality control.

Napa Recycling & Waste Services operates three Epson & Baker Cortex™ intelligent robotics systems targeting PET, HDPE, aseptic cartons, and polypropylene at its California facility.

FCC Medio Ambiente/Environment applies AI-powered automation to enhance quality control, operational efficiency in a facility in Madrid.

RDS of Virginia uses Epson & Baker Cortex intelligent robotics systems to sort PET, HDPE, plastic film, cups, and metals at one of its Roanoke facilities.

Evergreen, one of the nation's leading plastics reclaimers, uses Epson & Baker Cortex intelligent robotics systems to sort green and clear PET bottles.

Single Stream Recyclers (SSR), a Balcones Resources company, operates 14 Epson & Baker Cortex intelligent robotics systems at its 100,000-square-foot facility in Sarasota, Florida.

Waste Connections installed Epson & Baker Cortex intelligent robotics systems in several MRFs across the country on its fiber, container, and residue lines.

Emmet County Michigan MRF installed three Epson & Baker Cortex intelligent robotics systems to sort PET, HDPE, cartons, aluminium, and mixed plastics on its container lines.