News from suppliers to the waste industry from our May/June 2026 issue.
Fleetworthy, an Albany, New York-based fleet technology company, has added accident tracking to its safety and compliance solution.
According to Fleetworthy, the new capability aims to provide fleets with a structured way to document, manage and analyze all accidents through a standardized workflow.
Accident tracking centralizes both Department of Transportation- (DOT-) reportable and non-DOT incidents, the firm says, enabling fleet management to turn incident records into actions that improve safety.
The platform also links each accident to the associated driver, vehicle and compliance records, capturing consistent data across locations to help fleets evaluate preventability. Incident files include supporting materials, such as photos and reports, stored in a searchable format that preserves compliance context at the time of the event.
By consolidating documentation into one system, Fleetworthy says the tracking is designed to streamline audit preparation and claims processes while supporting Occupational Safety and Health Administration, DOT and insurance review requirements.
According to David Long, vice president of product at Fleetworthy, fleets often only track DOT-reported accidents while overlooking non-DOT incidents.
“That creates a serious visibility gap,” Long says. “Incomplete data limits a safety team’s ability to answer critical questions about why accidents happen and what needs to change. Without a consistent framework for preventability, fleets are left reacting instead of improving. Accident tracking changes that by turning every accident, DOT and non-DOT, into structured, defensible safety data that supports coaching, policy improvement and proactive risk management.”
Megan Dorroh, director of safety and compliance at San Francisco-based transportation solutions company WeDriveU Inc., says the operational impact of implementing structured accident tracking within a compliance system is strong.
“We needed a structured, defensible way to document and review every incident. This was not just for compliance, but to truly improve safety performance,” according to Dorroh. “Fleetworthy’s new accident tracking capability centralizes our records and standardizes preventability analysis, giving us stronger audit readiness and clearer insight into where we can reduce future risk.”
San Diego-based CP Group (CPG), a provider of recycling and sorting equipment, has acquired a majority stake in Recycleye, a London-based provider of waste and recycling technologies.
CPG says this acquisition expands its artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven sorting capabilities while further enabling material recovery facility (MRF) operators to increase recovery, improve purity and generate valuable operational data.
Recycleye specializes in AI-vision systems used across robotic and belt-based sorting applications. This acquisition unlocks technical synergies that align products and technologies across the two companies.
“This acquisition brings together the industry’s leading MRF integrator with Europe’s most established AI-based sorting company,” CPG CEO Terry Schneider says. “The combined organization accelerates AI-enabled sorting and plant control across the full MRF.”
The integrated AI platform enables facilities to process materials to a higher purity, reduce reliance on manual sorting positions and achieve real-time analysis of material composition. Additionally, it reinforces last-chance AI sorting capabilities—deployed at the tail end of sorting lines to recover residual material value and drive measurable improvements in end-to-end plant purity, CPG says.
The transaction unlocks next-generation AI-based capabilities that transform system operations, offering real-time alerts, performance and material insights. Customers will gain access to extended technical support enabled by Recycleye’s U.K.-based engineering team. CP Group and Recycleye began collaborating in 2023, deploying the Vivid-AI optical sorter through CPG’s Optical Sorting Division, MSS. CPG says Vivid AI is the industry’s first AI system paired with air ejection, which enables higher volume sorting and less maintenance than an AI-enabled mechanical arm. MSS and Recycleye have completed more than 23 live installations together in the U.S. and Europe.
“This acquisition creates a significant opportunity for both companies and our customers,” Recycleye CEO Victor Dewulf says. “By combining near-infrared technology with advanced AI, we can deliver higher-quality sorting solutions to the market.”
With Recycleye’s installations across Europe, CPG says it operates the largest deployed fleet of AI-only optical sorters in Europe.
Recycleye’s entire team and leadership will remain in place, continuing to serve customers internationally. CPG, MSS and Recycleye will collaborate to expand sales across the U.S. and Europe while maintaining independent divisional operations to support each regional market.
The CBI business unit of Connecticut-based Terex Corp. says it has appointed Glomak Polska sp. z o.o. as its authorized distributor for Poland, a move it says will strengthen local support for customers in the recycling, construction and industrial sectors in that country.
CBI, a New Hampshire-based maker of industrial wood processing and grinding equipment, says Glomak Polska is headquartered in Złotkowo, Poland (near Poznań) and serves customers in the construction, mining, quarrying, recycling and industrial sectors.
Glomak Polska offers and supports new and existing equipment through service, repair and rental services, according to CBI. The firm has more than 25 years of experience, a multilocation service and logistics structure and consists of a team of more than 86 people, adds CBI.
“Glomak Polska brings the experience, infrastructure and market understanding needed to support Polish customers effectively,” says Erik Tigelaar, regional sales manager at CBI Europe. “Their technical strength and service-led approach make them well positioned to represent the CBI brand and support a wide range of applications across the region.”
Effective immediately, Glomak Polska will represent the CBI portfolio of horizontal grinders and recycling equipment suited to the demands of the forestry, waste reduction and biomass energy industries, says CBI. The Glomak Polska team also will provide customers with access to local technical expertise, maintenance capability and parts.
“CBI equipment is well-recognized for its performance in challenging recycling and material processing applications,” according to Piotr Nowak, managing director of Glomak Polska. “Adding CBI to our portfolio allows us to offer customers proven solutions supported by local expertise, service capability and parts availability across Poland.”
Founded in 2001, Glomak Polska is described by CBI as a privately owned business with an established nationwide coverage network.
Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH, based in Altshausen, Germany, has announced its delivery of equipment to what it calls one of Europe’s most advanced household battery sorting facilities.
The new facility was commissioned in April for German waste and recycling firm Saubermacher and Meinhardt Städtereinigung GmbH & Co. KG and is located in Ginsheim-Gustavsburg, Germany.
The project involved equipment and effort from Stadler and its WeeeSwiss Technology AG subsidiary, which focuses on deploying sorting technology in the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sector. Stadler also worked with German mechanical engineering firm Metzen Industries GmbH on the installation of the equipment.
Stadler says it worked with Metzen from the early design phase through commissioning to address challenges. “The communication was always professional, open and efficient, which made it possible to address challenges quickly and effectively,” according to Andrea Zirkl, a process engineer and project manager at Saubermacher.
The sorting technology provider refers to the new plant as its first dedicated battery sorting line, adding that it has the capacity to sort up to 100 metric tons of household batteries per day.
“This project represents an important step for Stadler in entering the battery recycling sector,” says Jochen Apfel, CEO of WeeeSwiss Technology. “It demonstrates how combining process expertise with mechanical engineering can deliver integrated solutions for highly demanding applications.”
Stadler says a European Union battery regulation has set targets that include collection rates of 63 percent by next year and 73 percent by 2030 for portable batteries. The regulation also sets material recovery targets for secondary raw materials deemed critical, including lithium, cobalt and nickel.
At the new German plant, Stadler says the input stream ranges from very small button cells to larger batteries from devices such as cordless tools or e-bikes, consisting of batteries of different shapes, chemistries and safety requirements.
The plant was designed with fire prevention and safety in mind, according to Stadler. The primary material stream of the sorting plant consists of alkaline-manganese (AlMn), zinc-carbon (ZnC), nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and lithium-based batteries.
The technology installed has been designed to create “clearly defined fractions,” according to Stadler, including AA and AAA batteries, button cells, C, D and block batteries, lithium-based batteries, NiCd and NiMH fractions and battery packs and secondary materials such as vermiculite.
For Saubermacher, the plant represents an important step toward advancing large-scale battery sorting and establishing robust, industrial-scale pretreatment processes for increasingly heterogeneous material streams, says Stadler.
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