AI intelligent sorting breaks the deadlock, low-carbon closed-loop carbon reduction by 50%, and the rise of domestic high-end substitution... The winner of the "Golden Apple Award" defines a new benchmark for recycled plastics!

On March 19, 2025, the "Golden Apple Award" for 2024-2025 was announced at the ChinaReplas2025 banquet of Zhangjiagang Huafang Jinling Hotel. Innovative enterprises and influential figures in the field of recycled plastics were crowned with glory, becoming the most dazzling focus of the night!

01 Heroine "Golden Apple Award"

Participation criteria: Outstanding contributions or significant performance in the recycling and regeneration industry, personal achievements indicating the trend of industry development, leading the trend of industry development, becoming a model for industry development, and a reference for other enterprises. It has attracted the attention and recognition of the whole society, triggered social thinking, and made outstanding contributions to the human living environment with personal strength.

Winner: Wu Yingqin, General Manager of Shantou Tongyi Weaving Industry Co., Ltd

Reason for award: General Manager Wu Yingqin actively responded to the national circular economy policy and promoted efficient utilization of resources through practical actions.  She not only created significant economic benefits for the company, but also provided a large number of job opportunities, cared about employee welfare, and demonstrated a strong sense of social responsibility.  She fully embodies the spirit of "self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement" of women in the new era, and has won widespread praise from all sectors of society.

02 "Golden Apple Award" Product Award 

This year's "Golden Apple Award" product award has a total of two awards: the "Golden Apple Award" for innovative recycling and regeneration equipment, and the "Golden Apple Award" for innovative recycling models. The selection criteria for the "Golden Apple Award" for innovative recycling and regeneration equipment from 2024 to 2025 include equipment, technology, and processes that significantly improve recycling and regeneration efficiency, enhance the quality of recycled materials, and reduce recycling and regeneration costs throughout the entire process of recycling and regeneration, including volume reduction, packaging, unpacking, sorting, crushing, cleaning, melt filtration, granulation, homogenization, granulation, and thickening; Application of new plastic recycling technologies.  

Jiangsu Hanyue Plastic Equipment Co., Ltd.'s environmentally friendly dry crushing and recycling system won the award for innovative dry crushing and recycling technology, efficient consumption reduction and emission reduction, and improved resource recycling efficiency.

Guangzhou Jiuzhuo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.'s ultra high speed AI light sorting robot ULTRASORT 
won the award for its innovative multiple industry-leading technologies that enable color/material sorting, multi-channel sorting, and cross size sorting of 128 recyclable materials, reducing costs and increasing efficiency to empower green circular economy. 

Hefei Meiya Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
Meiya KC series intelligent sorting equipment won the award for achieving fine sorting of plastics through deep learning, assisting in the high-value utilization of waste plastics, and upgrading technology to make sorting more stable and intelligent. 

Anhui Zhongke Optoelectronic Color Sorting Machinery Co., Ltd.'s LZ Pro series high-end particle sorting equipment 
won the award for its comprehensive technological upgrade, which accurately solves the micro problems of regenerated particles, fills the gap of domestic high-end sorting equipment, reduces consumption and improves efficiency, and empowers industrial upgrading. 

2024-2025 Innovative Recycling Model "Golden Apple Award" Selection Criteria: Innovative Recycling Methods; Innovative recycling systems for difficult to recycle items in society;  Recycling plan for low value recyclables;  Make outstanding contributions in investment, management, resource integration, and comprehensive business models to address plastic pollutants.  

Guangdong Linuo New Material Technology Co., Ltd.
Linuo Zero Carbon Campus Innovative Recycling Model Award Reason: Innovative "science popularization+recycling" closed-loop model, deeply cultivating low-carbon habits on campus, driving the development of waste free cities and green supply chains. 

Shantou Longyue Textile Technology Co., Ltd.'s Road to Rebirth of Waste Chemical Fiber Clothing was
awarded for its innovative polyester recycling technology, which can process 100000 tons of textiles annually and reduce carbon emissions by over 50%, leading the industry's green transformation and closed-loop economy. The
reason for the award of

Fuzhou Chengtou New Infrastructure Group Co., Ltd.'s full category plastic recycling resource sorting plant and digital recycling system is: relying on the "point station field" three-level circulation system, empowering the full chain closed-loop recycling system through AI and digitalization, leading the construction of a "waste free city" by reducing carbon emissions and increasing efficiency, and setting a benchmark for the integration of the two networks in the industry.