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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Tore Planke
- Tore Planke (born 25 January 1943) is a Norwegian engineer, inventor and businessperson. He was born in Oslo to Sverre Martens Planke and Vivien Brath, and is a brother of Petter Planke.
- He was married to Grete Lind from 1970 to 1991, and to Ingrid Elisabeth Planke from 1994.Planke graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1969, specializing in cybernetics.
- He co-founded the industry company Tomra in 1972, along with his brother.
- The company produced reverse vending machines based on his inventions using electronics and optics for recognizing the bottles.
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