
Industry 4.0 for the Upcycling of Automotive Aluminum Scrap
The aluminum industry requires a drastic shift in business as usual to meet rapidly growing demand while significantly reducing emissions.
VALI-Sort takes out the uncertainty of scrap metal sorting. By integrating directly with sorting equipment and critical data sources, VALI-Sort delivers insight into material composition and value directly to plant and sales managers.
Using machine learning models to determine mass-based composition, VALI-Sort provides real-time quality monitoring capabilities to track scrap stream, product and reject content.
Unique optimization models that consider costs unique to each processing plant and market trends enable the identification of sorting criteria that maximizes profitability. VALI-Sort displays sort recommendations and all insights through a sleek user interface.
In 2019, Solvus Global launched business enterprise VALIS to address challenges facing sustainable material management, specifically metal recycling. Born out of research carried out at the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3) and further developed at Solvus Global, VALIS is now commercialized to deliver impactful technology to the recycling industry.
Emission reduction and resource preservation are essential across all industries. The stability and profitability of recycling is core to reaching critical sustainability goals. VALIS aims reduce waste and promote a circular economy by fully integrating and optimizing scrap metal recycling through its full product suite.
VALIS’ flagship product, VALI-Sort integrates directly with sorting technology, such as XRF and LIBS systems, and market data to:
Identify and recommend sorting criteria that yields maximum profitability
Monitor scrap stream and product composition in real time
Enable data-driven decision making centered on material recovery and value capture
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