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Vinglabs Noesis installation at PRT Wöllersdorf,Austria

Input stream moving at 2.5m/s

Realtime inference ~ 80 bottles/sec

About ALPLA

ALPLA, otherwise ALPLA Group is an Austrian, international acting plastics manufacturer and plastics recycler headquartered in Hard, specialising in blow-moulded bottles and caps, injection-moulded parts, preforms and tubes. It is one of the largest producers of rigid plastic packaging solutions worldwide, with a total of 177 production plants in over 45 countries worldwide, approx. 22,100 employees and annual sales of € 4.00 billion in 2021. The annual production capacity of ALPLA’s recycling companies, joint ventures and collaborations amounts to approximately 203,000 tonnes of rPET (recycled PET) and 74,000 tonnes of rHDPE (recycled HDPE).

Vinglabs installation @PRT Wöllersdorf

Pet Recycling Team(PRT), a subsidiary of ALPLA, is a PET recycler in Europe. Vinglabs installed their system at PRT Wöllersdorf, Austria on October 1st 2022.Through real time monitoring using Vinglabs proprietary AI Noesis and a highly interactive dashboard Athena, the installation achieved following goals successfully -

Utilization factor of plant - Through Noesis’s real time bottle detection, it is now possible for stakeholders to monitor the plant throughput in real time, thus enabling them to detect the least productive times of the day to take corrective action.
Noesis realtime bottle detection
Opaque impurity detection - For PRT team, opaque bottles in input stream were a big concern because even a tiny percentage could negatively affect the output.Through Noesis’s real time color detection, PRT is able to monitor and get notified about opaque percentage in input stream.Along with opaque bottle detection Noesis also detects bottles of different colors like green,blue etc. to give real time insights to the plant.
Noesis realtime color detection
Non food detection - As the output of PRT recycling plant is food grade PET flakes, it is imperative for them to know the amount of non food material in their input stream.Noesis uses many visual markers like shape of the bottle, transparency, brands etc. to detect non food bottles in input stream.
Noesis realtime food/non food detection
Visualizing analytics on Athena - To visualize all the analytics and insights, Vinglabs has provided PRT with a highly interactive dashboard “Athena” which gives them live as well as historical view of insights generated by Noesis.