KLAW Industries has been awarded $400,000 for a robotic sorting system.

Senator Schumer made the announcement Friday. The money comes from the Environmental Protection Agency's Small Business Innovation Research Program. 

The sorting system in question will improve recycling facilities in disadvantaged communities. Earlier this year, KLAW was awarded $100,000 for "proof of concept" for their technology that re-purposes contaminated glass, not suitable for recycling, into a replacement for cement called Pantheon. That was a Phase I award, and now this recent $400,000 is part of Phase II.

It will help KLAW expand operations to develop technology to create an autonomous robotic sorting system for recycling facilities and find contaminated glass to be used to make Pantheon and create more efficient recycling sorting methods in disadvantaged communities in Binghamton and beyond.