Case Studies

Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority (CCRRA) in Pennsylvania One of the projects we're most proud of right now is on the other side of the world from our Auckland base — a curbside recycling automation upgrade we delivered for Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority (CCRRA) in Pennsylvania, together with our North American partner, Sparta Manufacturing. Who is CCRRA? CCRRA runs a genuinely impressive curbside collection program. In 2024 alone they processed over

SureSort lanes with auger-based hopper system, installed at a Wellington MRF When a Wellington Material Recovery Facility decided it was time to move beyond manual container sorting, they turned to Alchemy for a turnkey retrofit — and the result is one of our clearest demonstrations yet of what SureSort can do. The challenge The facility was relying on manual sorters to pick containers off the line by hand — labour-intensive, inconsistent on busy days, and a ceiling on how mu