The Dutch company Myne, formerly Reukema,with Delft University of Technology ​ is launching the world's first digital recycling plant. ​ With the patented Xorter, as the digital factory is called, aluminium waste is sorted into alloys using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots. This enables the post-consumed materials to be used for high-quality products, contributing to a circular economy.

Iron waste consists of different alloys. The Xorter machine sorts aluminium, e-waste and copper waste by alloy.​.

. The first Xorter is located in The Netherlands and focuses on supplying prescription aluminium alloys from mixed waste streams. There are more than a thousand different aluminium alloys, each with its own application. The Xorter ensures that all types of aluminium can be used and re-used in a high-quality circular manner, without end. In the coming years, Xorter technology will be applied to sorting copper, brass, and zinc alloys from waste.​.

. First, ​ mixed post-consumer aluminium waste are collected. Then it are reduced the mixed waste into hand sized particles of 5-30cm. The scrap particles are positioned in a line. Each particle is scanned using AI, X-ray, and laser induces beam sensing (Libs). 64 robots are used to sort each particle on recipe and by alloy into a specific compartment/box..

Myne and TU Delft have worked on a prototype line, based on a new patented process, to recover raw materials from electronic waste. A full-scale production plant is expected to be launched in 2024. ​