Tomra Systems ASA

Tomra Systems ASA company's reverse vending machines (RVMs) are used in retail locations to identify returned beverage containers (glass, plastic, aluminum, or steel) and refund customer deposits. RVMs are used to process refillable and non-refillable beverage containers: refillables are identified by shape, sorted, and crated for transport back to the bottler; non-refillables are sorted, crushed, and shredded or compacted so they can be melted down to make new containers. Tomra's accumulation tables, sorting gates, and bottle-to-crate systems are intended to completely automate retailer recycling needs.