Sortera uses its patented artificial intelligence technology for production of low-cost high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing.

Sortera's vision is to enable 100% reuse of metals recovered from end-of-life products for manufacturing of similar products.

Currently, almost 25 million tons (~50 billion lbs) of automotive shredder metal scrap is produced in US each year from end-of-life automobiles and other products, and a large fraction of this is shipped overseas to be hand sorted into aluminum, copper, brass, zinc and stainless steel, and manufactured into parts. Sortera’s highly automated sorting facilities perform highly accurate sortation of metal alloys at much lower cost making these valuable feedstocks for domestic manufacturing.

Sortera’s innovations and products offer cost, quality and performance advantages to domestic industry while ensuring a safer & better environment for the future.

Sortera brings state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, image/data analytics, and advanced sensors to the industrial scrap metal recycling and re-use industry. This disruptive technology drives new paradigms by generating new high purity recycling products through advanced industrial scale sortation methods. Creating novel high purity recycled (and up-cycled) metal feedstocks from existing scrap streams enables the domestic supply of metals and alloys ready for use for high-quality domestic manufacturing, boosting the strength of the circular economy.

The core artificial intelligence recycling technologies were developed from federal grants awarded from The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Association (ARPA-E) to UHV Technologies, Inc.