Tomra hoping smaller machine lifts US role

Dec 18, 2008 | 10:42 AM | Paul Schaffer

Tomra Systems ASA, Asker, Norway, pushing for a larger role in U.S. beverage container recycling, is marketing a smaller intake machine in the United States for use at convenience stores, campuses and malls.

Tomra also might ease its leasing arrangements for older machines in the United States to soothe customers who normally sell the machines' defunct cans and bottles to recyclers, it said. The prices paid for aluminum, glass and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have fallen drastically during the past six months.....





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