News on Optical Sorters from France

Antarctic Foods takes product quality seriously. Selling frozen vegetables to baby food processors and others throughout Europe, Antarctic has grown 25 percent annually over the last few years.

For two years, SCEA HERMANT carefully considered acquiring a new optical sorter to sort and grade potato and onion crops prior to storage. The launch of the new TOMRA 3A convinced Loïc and Alain Hermant to make the investment.

DOWNS introduces CropVision®: an Optical Sorter for Unwashed Potatoes, evaluates and categorizes potatoes using HD cameras combined with AI and splits them into three streams, at a capacity of up to 100 tons per hour.

After several years of research, the team of Eurocelp has developed an algorithm capable of continuously detecting potato diseases.

BEST (Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology) uses the IPA fair in Paris to unveil a series of upgrades and innovations to their optical sorters.