From 2010 to 2012, the founder, Hiking Zhang (Zhang Haiqing) continued to make effort on the high value recycling of WEEE, and made many first disassembly lines in WEEE field in China. During this time, Mr. Zhang visited Europe and Japan, he realized that a company cannot be in the competitive advantage without core technology in the recycling industry. Therefore, the idea of developing a separation line grew in him and he started lot of theoretic research and accumulation.
Visit in Sweden
Visit in Japan
In 2012, the founder, Hiking Zhang (Zhang Haiqing) led his technical team to complete the design and production of a WEEE plastic washing line with CE standards, with the project landing in Beijing.
Attending the Ringier Innovation Award
In April 2013, Mr. Zhang led his team to begin a start-up, developing the equipment needed for high-purity and high-value recovery of WEEE mixed plastic. After discussion and selection by the start-up team, Armost, an acronym for "Advanced Recycling Mission, Outstanding Separation Technology" was decided to be the company's name and logo. The Chinese name is "阿莫斯特".
The slogan of "Advanced Recycling Mission, Outstanding Separation Technology" represents the vision and the goal Armost strives to reach.
On May 1 2013, Armost Recycling-Tech. Co., LTD., was formally established. We formally started our design and manufacturing of plastic separation system at an abandoned boiler room.
In June 2013, Armost impurity sorting machine AIS-1000 was completed and tested successfully.
In July 2013, the initial design of AES-500, Armost's first Electrostatic Separator, is completed.
On August 15 2013, Armost's first Silicone & Rubber Separator ARS-500 was put into operation in Dongguan, Guangdong. The era of automatic and industrial separation of silicone and rubber from plastic officially came.
On October 26 2013, Armost's second generation Silicone & Rubber Separator ARS-1000-V0 was officially put into operation in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. The production efficiency of this equipment is three times that of ARS-500.
In March 2014, the modified ARS-1000-V3 entered the market, and 8 more models and 4 more specifications were improved and derived on its base. The Silicone & Rubber Separator became the standard configuration in the Chinese plastic recycling industry.
In October 2014, the improved Electrostatic Separator AES-500 entered the market for testing.
In November 2014, Armost's core sorting equipment officially entered the Korean market, and we began to explore the international market.
On December 19 2014, Dongguan Armost Recycling-Tech. Co., LTD. was officially established.
In January 2015, AES-1000, the Electrostatic Separator that overturns the industry's productivity efficiency, was officially born, and its capacity, efficiency, product purity and other performance indicators comprehensively surpassed the similar electrostatic separation equipment in the market.
In February 2015, Armost successfully tested the full solution of ASR (Automotive Shredder Residues) recycling.
In May 2015, the high-efficiency Pretreatment (dust removal system), PS-600 was successfully tested and officially incorporated into Armost's other systems.
In August 2015, the official test of the AVP-4500 Vibrating Pipe Conveyor was successful, which greatly improved the efficiency of material unloading. The Vibrating Pipe Conveyor will go on to become a standard conveying device in many plastic recycling scenarios.
In January 2016, IPS-1500, an Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System, was exported to Europe for the first time and passed CE certification.
In March 2016, the Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System IPS-1500 was awarded Ringier Technology Innovation Awards.
In March 2017, the Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System IPS-1000 passed the CE certification and was awarded the Ringier Technology Innovation Awards.
In July 2017, Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System IPS-1000, was put into operation at FIRAT, Turkey's largest plastic products company, for their PVC window profile recycling project. A side-by-side comparison with our competitor's separation quality at our customer's site demonstrated our equipment and system design's superiority in separation quality.
In December 2017, the Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System was exported to Japan for the first time.
In 2019, the 1st Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System was installed at SKYTECH in France for WEEE/ELV plastic recycling.
In 2020, Armost was chosen by Veolia and Toyota Tsusho to be the supplier of their electrostatic separation system for their new WEEE/ELV recycling factory Planic in Japan.
In December 2020, Armost Recycling-Tech. (Dingzhou) Co., Ltd. was established.
In 2022, the 2nd the 3rd Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System was installed at SKYTECH in France.
In 2022, the 2nd Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System was installed at FIRAT. After 5 years, a side-by-side comparison with our 2017 system shows our 2022 system significantly surpasses our 2017 system.
In 2023, Armost Recycling-Tech. (Dingzhou) Co., Ltd. was recognized as a National High-Tech Enterprise.
In 2024, our newest generation of the Intelligent Mixed Plastic Sorting System was installed at DS E&E in Korea, processing refrigerator waste plastic. The newest system broke our past capacity records of processing refrigerator waste plastic (~1500 kg/h), reaching 2200-2700 kg/h.
Since its establishment, Armost has received more than 15 patents, and has a number of patents pending every year.
