A Beyond company/Est. 2020/Engineering layer

VERTO.

Machines for the material age. Verto designs and manufactures the recycling systems, automation and intelligent hardware that turn recovered material back into industry.

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Intake
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Shred
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Sense
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Sort
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Recover
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Deploy
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01The thesis

Circularity fails without hardware.

Every recovery ambition ends at a machine. Collection can be organised, policy can be written, materials can be traced — but nothing gets separated, shredded, cleaned or rebuilt without physical equipment doing the work.

Most of the circular economy is sold as software and intent. Verto exists for the part nobody wants to build: the shredders, the sorting lines, the vision systems that tell plastic from metal in a fraction of a second.

Deep technology for physical infrastructure — not a slide, a machine on a factory floor.

“A recovery target is a mechanical problem. Somewhere at the end of every one of them, a rotor has to turn and a sensor has to decide.”
Verto — engineering doctrine
02What we build

Six systems. One material journey.

01SIZE REDUCTION

Shredders & Balers

Primary size-reduction and compaction equipment built for continuous industrial duty cycles.

Duty
24/7
Rotor
Twin-shaft
02MATERIAL FLOW

Conveyors & Sortation

Material handling infrastructure that links every stage of a recovery line without manual transfer.

Transfer
Zero-touch
Config
Modular
03FULL LINE

Recycling Systems

End-to-end processing lines engineered around a specific material stream — plastics, metals, textiles, e-waste.

Streams
50+
Build
Bespoke
04PERCEPTION

AI Vision Systems

Computer-vision sorting that identifies material composition and colour at line speed.

Decision
<40ms
Classes
Polymer + colour
05CONTROL

Automation & IoT

Sensors and controls that turn a mechanical line into a monitored, data-generating asset.

Telemetry
Live
Interface
PLC + cloud
06MANUFACTURE

Fabrication

In-house design and manufacturing, built to be deployed, maintained and iterated in the field.

Origin
In-house
Service
Field-first
03Integrated systems

A machine is a part. A plant is the product.

Most of our work is not a single unit — it is dozens of machines sequenced, balanced and controlled as one system. Composition study first, then the line that suits it.

Municipal waste processing — Verto engineered processing line
L-01 / Municipal waste processing

A full mixed-municipal-solid-waste plant: tipping floor to baled commodity, with organics and RDF taken off the same line. Designed around one city's waste composition, not a catalogue layout.

Throughput
20–60 t/h
Recovery
Up to 92%
Footprint
6,000–14,000 m²
Crew
6–12 per shift
  1. 01

    Tipping & pre-shred

    Walking-floor infeed, bag opener, slow-speed pre-shredder

  2. 02

    Trommel screening

    Three-fraction split — fines, 2D, 3D

  3. 03

    Ballistic separation

    2D film and paper lifted off heavies

  4. 04

    Magnetic + eddy current

    Ferrous drum, then non-ferrous ejection

  5. 05

    NIR + AI optical sorting

    Polymer-class and colour ejection at belt speed

  6. 06

    Robotic quality control

    Delta pickers finishing each commodity stream

  7. 07

    Baling & logistics

    Channel baler, weighbridge and mass-balance record

Output streams
PETHDPEFilmFerrousAluminiumPaper / cardRDFOrganic fines
04The technology

Sensing, models, mechanics — one engineering stack.

Optical sorting sensor bar scanning shredded plastic flake on a Verto line
Optical sort bridge / NIR + RGB scan line
Hardened twin-shaft shredder rotor cutting teeth
Twin-shaft rotor / hardened wear package
01SENSING

Seeing material, not shapes

Every sorting decision starts with a measurement. We combine spectral, visual and electromagnetic sensing so the line identifies what a fragment is made of, not just how big it is.

  • NIR hyperspectral imaging for polymer class
  • High-speed RGB line-scan for colour and print
  • XRF and inductive sensing for metal grade
  • 3D depth profiling for overlap and burden depth
  • Load cells and belt scales for live mass balance
02INTELLIGENCE

Models trained on real dirty material

Convolutional and transformer-based classifiers trained on material captured from live lines — contaminated, wet, deformed, overlapping — then compressed to run on the machine, not in a data centre.

  • Edge GPU inference under 40 ms per frame
  • Instance segmentation for overlapping objects
  • Active-learning loop from field misclassifications
  • Per-site model tuning to local waste composition
  • Offline-first — no cloud dependency to keep sorting
03ACTUATION

From decision to physical ejection

A classification is worthless without mechanics fast enough to act on it. Valve bars, robots and drives are specified around the model's decision latency and the belt's velocity.

  • High-frequency air-jet valve bars, 6mm pitch
  • Delta and articulated pickers for finishing
  • Servo-driven flap and paddle diverters
  • VFD-controlled belt and rotor drives
  • Trajectory compensation for material ballistics
04CONTROL

One plant, one control layer

Machines are commissioned as a coordinated line: upstream load governs downstream speed, and every unit reports into a single control and telemetry layer.

  • PLC and safety-rated I/O across all units
  • SCADA / HMI with recipe-based line changeover
  • OPC-UA and MQTT telemetry to the cloud
  • Interlocked cascade control and soft-start ramping
  • Remote diagnostics and over-the-air control updates
05DIGITAL TWIN

Simulated before it is welded

Lines are modelled as discrete-event and CFD simulations against real composition data, so throughput, bottlenecks and recovery are known before steel is cut.

  • Discrete-event throughput and buffer simulation
  • CFD for air classification and dust capture
  • FEA on wear parts, frames and rotor assemblies
  • Composition-driven yield and payback modelling
  • As-built twin kept live against plant telemetry
06UPTIME

Engineered for the tenth year

Recovery economics live or die on availability. Condition monitoring and wear design are part of the specification, not a service upsell.

  • Vibration and thermal condition monitoring
  • Predictive wear models on knives and liners
  • Field-swappable wear packages
  • Energy metering per unit and per tonne
  • Digital mass-balance record for traceability
05Inside Beyond

Verto is the engineering layer of Beyond.

  1. 01SOURCE

    Cercle

    Originates the enterprise relationship and the material.

    →
  2. 02COLLECT

    Modus

    Runs the physical collection and city infrastructure.

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  3. 03PROCESS

    Verto

    Builds the machines that separate, shred and recover the material.

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  4. 04MONETISE

    Zeno

    Creates the market for what Verto's machines recover.

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  5. 05POWER

    Helio

    Energises the lines Verto's machines run on.

06The scale of the vision

What we are building toward

1000s
Machines deployed
Millions
Tonnes processed annually
50+
Material streams engineered for
Global
Manufacturing & deployment

Aspirational targets, not achieved figures — they describe the system Verto intends to build.

MACHINES FOR THE MATERIAL AGEINTAKE · PROCESS · RECOVER · SORTHARDWARE IS THE BOTTLENECKBUILT FOR THE FIELD, NOT THE BROCHURETHE ENGINEERING LAYER OF BEYONDIF IT DOESN'T PASS THROUGH A MACHINE, IT ISN'T RECOVEREDMACHINES FOR THE MATERIAL AGEINTAKE · PROCESS · RECOVER · SORTHARDWARE IS THE BOTTLENECKBUILT FOR THE FIELD, NOT THE BROCHURETHE ENGINEERING LAYER OF BEYONDIF IT DOESN'T PASS THROUGH A MACHINE, IT ISN'T RECOVERED
07Positions

Four things we build against.

01

Hardware is the bottleneck of circularity.

Not policy, not intent — the physical equipment to sort and process material at scale.

02

A machine should see what it's handling.

Vision and sensing turn a mechanical line into an intelligent one.

03

Equipment should be built for the field, not the brochure.

Designed for continuous industrial duty, not a demo floor.

04

Machines are infrastructure, not a line item.

Owned, financed and deployed as long-life assets across the Beyond ecosystem.

08Company architecture

Verto, inside Beyond.

BEYOND
Holding company
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Cercle
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Modus
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Verto
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Zeno
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Helio
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Route Resources
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Further
Further

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Verto partners with manufacturers, recyclers and industrial groups who need equipment, not another platform.

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