A specialist in the wood sector for over 20 years, Alexandre is tasked with developing Tomra’s market in the wood domain across Europe, working in collaboration with local sales teams. He is based at Tomra’s French office in Salon-de-Provence. Alexandre joins Tomra’s established wood team, which includes the wood segment director, waste wood application specialists and key service account managers.
Alexandre’s extensive career has provided him with a comprehensive understanding of the wood industry, spanning from raw materials to finished products. His previous roles include Sales Area Manager for Egger in France, National Director for France at Sonae Arauco and Kronospan and Sales Director for Menuiseries Combes (2023).
Tomra Recycling aims to drive the development of waste wood recycling through its state-of-the-art sorting technology and process improvement consulting for industry. Wood recycling solutions from Tomra include X-Tract and its deep learning add-on Gainnext for the Autosort machine. Introduced in 2014, X-Tract is a high throughput sorting solution which separates waste wood from complex mixed streams. Harnessing the power of dual energy x-ray transmission (XRT), the sorting system detects and separates wood from impurities like inert materials, metals, plastic and glass based on atomic density.
Tomra introduced its deep learning solution Gainnext in 2022. The advanced artificial intelligence innovation can solve exceptionally complex sorting tasks by identifying objects by their shape, size and visual characteristics, enabling the differentiation between various types of wood or wood composites. Combining X-Tract and Gainnext systems allows wood processors and recyclers to efficiently produce high quality, high purity mono-fractions of non-processed wood (Wood A), clean processed wood (Wood B) and MDF.
