TCG Machines, a Canadian company specializing in robotics, recently launched the PhyzBatch-9000. The machine is designed to help retailers sort and catalog large quantities of trading card collections.
The PhyzBatch-9000 has already catalogued half a billion trading cards, or more than 1,000 tons of cardboard, according to Graeme Gordon, the company’s founder and CEO. To put the quantity into perspective, the same number of cards stacked vertically would surpass the height of Earth’s atmosphere at 100 miles high.
Gordon notes that the company aims to keep up with the sheer volume of trading cards produced each year: “Each day, our machines are processing more than one million cards, which seems impressive, but it’s barely a drop in the bucket compared with the tens of billions of new trading cards which are produced each year by Hasbro, The Pokémon Company, and others. Our company has doubled, or better, our revenues for five consecutive years, and 2025 will be our sixth year fitting that pattern. We have card sorting robots operating in 10 countries, and we are in the midst of tripling our production capacity to keep up with demand. This just goes to show you the size, health, and growth of the global trading card industry.”
To learn more about TCG Machines and the PhyzBatch-9000, visit tcgmachines.com.
