Veridis team meets with investors.
Dutch startup Veridis has secured funding from two investors to help bring its plastic recycling technology to market.
Veridis plans to use this financial support to launch customer pilots in the Netherlands and Germany over the next two years. At the heart of these is Madscan technology, which provides detailed information on large samples of recycled plastic.
plastic fingerprint
This innovative approach is based on thermal analysis techniques. This basically measures the different ways in which different types of plastic melt and crystallize again.
Nigel Visser, the company's founder, explains that every type of plastic has a unique thermal 'fingerprint'. Madscan precisely measures these fingerprints by tracking the thermal changes as samples of recycled plastic are heated and cooled. This way, recyclers know exactly what type of plastic is in each batch.
scale up
Veridis says its technology can analyze up to 30 grams per sample (10,000 times the sample size). The results will be scaled up to 50-500 grams per sample “soon” (sample size will increase by a factor of 100,000).
According to Visser, this represents a “huge leap in scalability.” Even better, it allows thorough configuration and quality analysis at large, representative scales.
In the medium term, Veridis envisions rolling out its solution across Europe. The technology company believes this will help standardize quality control for plastic recycling in the EU.
