Integrated optical sorting unit for lightweight materials
Optimize your processing of lightweight materials by achieving precise and high-speed separation, ensuring superior purity of recyclables such as plastic foils and paper sheets.

Precisely Sorts and Separates Lightweight Materials
The Opti-Sort Integrated Optical Sorting Unit from Bollegraaf stands out for its innovative approach to handling lightweight materials like flexible plastic packaging and single sheets of paper. This unit utilizes a patented curved ejection hood design, ensuring precise control of materials within its high-speed operation capability of up to 6.5 m/s. By combining the Bollegraaf Speed conveyor with a laminar air flow displacement unit, the Opti-Sort achieves seamless material separation, enhancing the purity and recovery of processed waste materials. Ideal for recycling and waste management applications, it efficiently processes plastic, paper, and cardboard waste into end products such as recycled plastic foils and de-inked paper. Designed for continuous operation, this equipment minimizes installation time, integrates easily into existing lines, and offers modularity for future upgrades. The Opti-Sort aligns with the needs of waste management companies and recycling facilities focused on maximizing operational performance and material recovery rates.
Benefits
- Enhances material purity by reducing contamination in recycled streams.
- Improves recovery rates of lightweight packaging materials by precise trajectory control.
- Minimizes installation time with a fully integrated and modular design.
- Supports high-speed operations up to 6.5 m/s without balance issues.
- Offers flexibility to adapt to specific processing needs with customizable ejection valve configurations.
- Applications
- Cardboard waste,Single sheets of paper,Plastic waste,Flexible plastic packaging,Lightweight materials,Paper waste
- End products
- De-inked paper,Plastic wrap,Plastic foils,Recycled cardboard,Recycled plastic pellets,Recycled paper sheets,Packaging films
- Steps before
- Feeding,Screening
- Steps after
- Separation,Recovery,Balers
- Input ingredients
- lightweight materials,flexible plastic packaging,single sheets of paper,contaminated paper streams
- Output ingredients
- recovered flexible plastic packaging,purified paper from de-inking installations,separated lightweight packaging materials
- Market info
- Bollegraaf is known for manufacturing advanced recycling equipment and systems. With a strong reputation for innovation and quality, they specialize in engineered-to-order solutions, optimizing waste processing efficiency and sustainability for diverse industries globally.
- Speed
- Up to 6.5 m/s
- Ejection Hood Design
- Patented Curved Design
- Material Handling
- Precise Lightweight Material Processing
- Automation
- Integrated Optical Sorting Unit
- Recovery Rate Improvement
- Increase by 2% for Flexible Plastic Packaging
- Ejection Valve Configuration
- Top/Bottom vs Bottom/Bottom
- Airflow Control
- Laminar Air Flow Displacement
- Installation Time
- Minimized
- Performance Guarantee
- Maximized Optical Unit Performance
- Flexibility and Modularity
- Centralized in Design
- Conveyor Belt Type
- Bollegraaf Speed Conveyor
- Universal Scanner Support
- Included in Design
- Automation level
- PLC
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Changeover time
- Minimized due to integrated design
- Speed
- Up to 6.5 m/s
- Material handling precision
- High precision for lightweight materials
- Installation time
- Minimized
- Material trajectory control
- Curved ejection hood design
- Modularity
- Flexible with universal scanner support
- Lightweight materials
- Plastic foils,paper sheets
- Density/particle size
- Lightweight,flexible
- Discharge method
- Precision ejection hood
- Machine speed
- Up to 6.5 m/s
- Modular design
- Yes
- Ejection hood design
- Curved
- Footprint type
- Integrated Unit
- Modularity
- Universal scanner support
- Integration possibilities
- Bollegraaf Speed conveyor integration
- Ejection valve configuration
- Top/Bottom vs Bottom/Bottom