Pick the stream no fixed sorter can read.
One cell learns to pick and sort the endless variety moving down a recovery line, reconfiguring in software per stream.
The work is changing faster than you can staff it.
The dexterous, high-mix, contact-rich jobs are exactly the work classical automation was never built to hold — and the people who used to absorb it are getting harder to find.
Picking lines can't hold labor
Manual sorting is dirty, repetitive, and dangerous, and turnover on the line runs extreme. Seats sit empty, recovery rates slip, and a cell that picks every shift without churn keeps the stream moving.
Safety off the belt
Sorters reach into a stream of sharps, fluids, and unknown contents at speed. Moving people back from that hazard cuts injury exposure while holding throughput the line was sized for.
Clean streams pay
Diversion mandates rise while buyers pay for purity; a percentage point of contaminant decides a bale's price. Consistent perception-driven sort lifts grade and turns recovered material into a higher-value commodity.
The contact-rich jobs on a recycling line.
One cell, reconfigured per part — not a new machine for every job on the floor.
Positive sort
Pick target PET, HDPE, aluminum, or fiber off the belt into the correct stream.
Contaminant removal
Pull rejects and off-spec material out of an otherwise clean recovered stream.
E-waste disassembly
Separate components from devices and route boards, metals, and plastics by type.
Film and bag removal
Lift loose film, wrap, and bags that foul screens and jam downstream equipment.
Color sorting
Divide containers by resin color to lift bale grade and commodity value.
Bale quality control
Inspect outgoing bales and remove stray contaminants before they are baled.
One cell. Assembly, inspection, finishing.
Qualified off-site. Running in two weeks.
The slow, hard engineering happens on our floor — so the cell arrives tested and dialed in instead of tying up your team for months. A new part is a reconfiguration, not a rebuild.
- 01ScopePart, takt, fixturing, and safety boundary fixed upfront.
- 02Pre-buildCell built and tuned at Relling HQ, not your line.
- 03ConfigureSized and fixtured to your exact part.
- 04QualifyProven safe and capable before it ships.
- 05PilotFirst production run on your line.
- 06ProductionRunning the work, shift after shift.
- 07FleetAdd cells as the work pays for them.
Everything arrives in one qualified unit.
Arm, sensing, tooling, software, and safety, selected for your part and qualified as a set.
Manipulator & end-effector
Arm and tooling selected for your part, qualified as a set.
Closed-loop vision
Finds the part, adjusts in real time, verifies its own work.
Skill library & runtime
A new part is a reconfiguration, not a rebuild.
Safety & technician interface
Guarding sized to your floor, failures explained in plain language.
Will it fit your aisle? Yes.
Representative configuration. Final specs are issued with the proposal.
The Recycling brief.
A deeper look at the work, the integration path, and how qualification maps to your process. PDF, 2026.
Bring a Relling workcell to your floor.
We started Relling to help American manufacturers make more of what this country needs. We'll scope a single cell to your parts, qualify it before it ships, and stand behind it on your floor.
