AMP

What AMP does

AMP applies AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP provides waste and recycling leaders with AI-powered sortation services and automation to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP’s technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling. The company designs, builds, and operates advanced, cost-competitive facilities to process single-stream recycling and municipal solid waste using artificial intelligence. AMP's AI can classify any visible material property, including food-grade, brand, color, form, wrappers, and closures, and identifies material despite contamination levels. The systems also track equipment metrics and camera data for material flow, enabling automated baling and real-time reporting.

Products

• AMP ONEA fully automated facility-scale Smart Sortation solution for MRFs, processing 10K-1M+ tons/year. It captures more material and value from virtually any commodity or mix, delivering high-performance and lower per-ton processing costs than traditional MRFs. It offers sortation as a service, transforming various waste streams into valuable bales with 0 manual sortation. It includes real-time material characterization and on-the-fly configuration, with modular design for scalability.
• AMP InsightProvides real-time material characterization to drive operational decision-making within AMP ONE facilities.
• AMP SmartTonsTags every bale produced by AMP ONE with a barcode linking to its exact composition and purity, enabling confident selling of materials.
• AMP JetHigh-volume, high-speed air-jet sortation technology used in AMP ONE facilities. It is compact, flexible, and can be re-deployed in real time to target value in material streams.
• AMP MicroJetAir-jet sortation for in-stream quality control (QC).
• AMP DeltaReliable robotic arm sortation system, designed for faster and more precise recovery of plastics and metals. It picks at twice the rate of a human sorter and prevents contamination.
• AMP VacBelt-mounted vacuum sortation system for thin film removal, operating at speeds up to 120 picks/minute and 0.2 tons/hr, replacing up to five human sorters.
• AMP Cortex-CA compact version of AMP’s AI-guided robotics system that adapts to space constraints. It is a small-footprint, easy-to-install robot providing consistent, reliable sortation for tight locations or where labor can be redistributed.
• AMP NeuronProprietary AI technology that perceives images of recyclable materials on conveyor belts, recognizing patterns based on colors, shapes, textures, logos, and more to identify material types. It continuously learns and improves through data from billions of items.

Key capabilities

• AI-powered sortation
• Automated facility-scale solutions
• Real-time and continuous material characterization
• High volume, high speed air-jet sortation
• Robotic arm sortation
• Zero manual sortation labor
• Flexible configurations for various scales (10K-1M+ tons/year)
• Deployment in under 12 months
• Sortation as a service model
• High efficiency operations
• Modular design for scalability
• 90%+ target material recovery
• Powerful neural network for material classification (food-grade, brand, color, form, wrappers, closures)
• Identification despite contamination levels
• Integration with NIR for ultra-pure resin applications
• Remote sensor updates (4-6 weeks)
• Data-rich environment with custom control
• Equipment metrics tracking (cycles, torque) for predictive maintenance
• AI-driven camera data for material flow monitoring
• Automated baling and real-time reporting on mass flow and recovery
• Smart control layer with jam detection and self-clearance
• Real-time composition and bale quality tracking
• Automated baler scheduling
• Touchless, precise sorting with air-based systems
• Self-calibration and intelligent avoidance of overlapping items
• Reconfigurable sort points for new commodities
• EPR-ready (Extended Producer Responsibility)
• Built-in composition analysis
• 90%+ uptime
• Brand packaging recognition
• Ability to identify packaging down to manufacturer or brand
• Custom organics solutions with AI+NIR organics jet (precision sorting down to 12mm)

Use cases

• Processing single-stream recycling
• Processing municipal solid waste (MSW)
• Reducing labor costs in waste and recycling operations
• Increasing resource recovery
• Delivering more reliable operations
• Extending the life of landfills
• Capturing material value from various commodities or mixes
• Transforming MRF residue, mixed plastics, and other infeeds into valuable bales
• Real-time supplier characterization and configuration
• Operational decision making based on material characterization
• Selling bales with confidence due to known composition and purity
• Targeting specific fiber types, plastics, metals, and more
• Removing thin film that clogs equipment and contaminates fiber bale purity
• Increasing recycling rates for specific packaging types (e.g., rigid paper containers)
• Monitoring material data to boost recovery and limit contamination
• Understanding flow and recovery of specific containers and packaging for CPG companies and manufacturers
• Creating new value streams for recycled content goals
• Maximizing recovery of UBCs (Used Beverage Cans) and other metals
• Quality control on fiber and last-chance lines without additional infrastructure
• Diverting MSW to meet sustainability goals
• Optimizing full waste programs from infrastructure to operations
• Organics recovery and processing
• Processing mixed waste
• Addressing labor shortages in recycling facilities
• Improving material quality and bale purity
• Stabilizing staffing and improving productivity in recycling operations

AI approach

AMP uses proprietary AI, specifically neural networks, to classify and identify various materials in waste streams for sorting. Their AI can classify visible material properties like food-grade, brand, color, form, wrappers, and closures, even with contamination. The AI systems continuously learn and improve through data collected from deployments, with sensors updating remotely every 4-6 weeks. They also pair AI with NIR for ultra-pure resin applications and custom organics solutions. The AI is designed to handle physical deformations of objects in the recycling stream and can identify packaging down to the manufacturer or brand.

Tech named: AI, neural network, NIR, machine learning

Industries served

• Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
• Waste Management
• Recycling
• Municipalities
• Packaging Solutions
• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
• Manufacturing

What it says sets it apart

• AI-powered sortation at scale
• Modernizes recycling infrastructure
• Maximizes value in waste
• Reduces labor costs
• Increases resource recovery
• Delivers more reliable operations
• Hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe
• Transforms the fundamental economics of recycling
• Best-in-class cost for performance
• Increases diversion and extends landfill life
• Fully automated facility-scale solutions (AMP ONE)
• 0 manual sortation
• Unparalleled sortation at any scale with flexible configurations
• Real-time material characterization and on-the-fly configuration
• Modular design for easy scalability
• Recovers 90%+ of target materials without human contact
• Pioneering AI that transforms facilities, classifying any visible material property
• Identifies material despite contamination levels
• Pairs with NIR for ultra-pure resin applications
• Sensors update remotely, improving through data from billions of items
• Comprehensive data harnessing for predictive maintenance and material flow monitoring
• Smart control layer with jam detection, self-clearance, and automated baler scheduling
• Touchless, precise sorting relying almost entirely on air-based systems
• Self-calibrating and reconfigurable, providing unmatched flexibility and redundancy
• EPR-ready and future-proof with built-in composition analysis
• Compact, cost-efficient systems for MSW with 90%+ uptime
• Finances, develops, builds, and operates solutions with guaranteed performance
• Industry-first AI+NIR organics jet for precision sorting down to 12mm
• Ability to identify packaging down to the manufacturer or brand
• Unprecedented visibility into the material stream
• Robots pick at twice the rate of a human sorter
• Offers a pay-per-ton contract with guaranteed capabilities

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.