Innovation Award Winners for Laser Technology Honored in Aachen
AACHEN, Germany, April 23, 2024 — cleansort GmbH, a company using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for the sorting of recyclable materials, has won the first place prize of the 2024 Innovation Award for Laser Technology. cleansort took this year’s award — and €10,000 ($10,644) prize — for its Cleansort process, a software which uses a combination of laser ablation and laser spectroscopy to increase resource efficiency and reduce material costs, energy costs, and greenhouse gas emissions. The