
High-tech robots for the waste and recycling industry
Tandberg Engineering AS has entered into a significant contract with PolymerTrade AS.
24.01.2025: The contract involves the construction of a new sorting facility of nearly 4,000m2 for sorting plastic waste. This will be the first facility in Norway where sorting of plastic resources with both AI-based robot technology and NIR technology (Near Infrared) will be done together.
-The facility will handle and process plastic waste from all over Norway instead of plastic waste being sent out of the country, says CEO of PolymerTrade AS, Per Haakonsen. CEO of Tandberg Engineering AS, Jørn Tandberg, also emphasizes that this will provide PolymerTrade with the very best in plastic sorting technology. He is pleased to be selected by an experienced and well-reputed company in the plastic recycling industry.
The sorting plant will process up to 30,000 tons of plastic waste per year and is planned to be completed in the Bjorstaddalen industrial area, Skien in 2025/2026.
New MRF facility installed in Skien
2024-12-12: The world's first AI-based robot sorting facility for sorting of household waste is now up and running in Skien. In the first test runs we have already sorted out over 30% ! Far more than initially expected.
Now another step towards the green shift has been taken! More precise results will come.
Agreement
between JSC "Motecha" and Tandberg Engineering AS
2024-09-04: Tandberg
Engineering AS has entered into a dealer agreement with Lithuanian Motecha, a
technical engineering company that develops innovative technical and structural
solutions for waste management, secondary raw material sorting and recycling of
plastics etc. The agreement gives Tandberg Engineering the right to distribute
Motecha's products in the Norwegian market and thus expand the competitive
opportunity in this field. - We look forward to this in the future, and we have
faith in many good solutions, says CEO, Tandberg Engineering, Jørn Tandberg.
Now robots controlled by artificial intelligence can sort out plastic from discarded cars
2024-04-05: AUTORETUR - the car industry's own recycling company - writes this on their website:
"Everyone is talking about the plastic. The car recycling industry can do and already does something about the raw material. The EU's requirements for plastic recycling, reuse of plastic parts and handling of plastic waste are changing.
In short: In the future we will have to sort and reuse plastic waste."
In the videos, Sindre Hauen, Executive Director of Bjorstaddalen Næring AS and Jørn Tandberg from Tandberg Engineerig AS talk about how robots can be trained to recognize and sort plastics using AI (Artificial Intelligence/AI). In cooperation with the Finnish company ZenRobotics, a Terex brand, they believe they have solved the plastic challenge.
In late summer 2024, Tandberg Engineering is well underway with the installation of Norway's first and largest MRF plant to be set up in Skien.

AI robots in new and cost-effective technology
2023-09-06: We and ZenRobotics are naturally very proud to have entered into a contract with Bjorstaddalen Næring AS for a specially adapted factory for sorting residual waste from households. The facility will be delivered and completed in Bjorstaddalen, Skien municipality by the end of 2024.
This new and cost-effective technology with the use of AI robots solves many challenges with sorting different waste fractions.
We wish Bjorstaddalen Næring the best of luck with their project.