News on Optical Sorters

Tong Engineering offered the option of integrated optical sorting within its market leading grading machine, the Caretaker, back in 2016. This has proved to be a very welcome addition.

Terrence McEachern of the Guardian spoke with Romana Roberts and Chris Hunt of PEI Potato Solutions on the Sherlock Separator they recently installed for the removal of foreign objects and defects, such as surface scabs or rot.

Mike Riley, Head of TOMRA Food is making the case for digital standards during the Fruit Logistica. TOMRA Food is initiating cross-industry working groups to accelerate development.

The Government of Canada supports the investment in a Sherlock Separator potato sorter by RWL Holdings LTD (PEI Potato Solutions), a potato washing and sorting facility to optimize potatoes for processing prior to delivery to Cavendish Farms.

TOMRA Sorting Food has appointed two highly experienced senior sales people for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to further implement its controlled growth strategy.

With a rapidly expanding global population and limited food supply, it’s vital for food businesses to work more sustainably and stay profitable. Bjorn Thumas, director business development food, TOMRA Sorting Food offers his vision

Key Technology announces the appointment of Ray Kramer to the position of Senior Director of North America Sales.

TOMRA Sorting Food today announced it has hired food industry veteran, Mark Host, as the company’s Sales Director for the Americas.

Key Technology introduces the highest capacity digital sorter in the food processing industry – the new VERYX® B210.

Oliveira Pinho & Filhos, una empresa familiar de Portugal, adquirió el pasado mes de junio el clasificador óptico de alimentos Sentinel II de TOMRA. Es un equipo que integra la última tecnología de LED pulsada para clasificar alimentos a una velocidad mayor que los modelos anteriores.

La multinacional noruega mostró el funcionamiento y las cualidades de la clasificadora óptica Sentinel II en la 9ª edición de la Feria Internacional del Sector de Frutas y Hortalizas, Fruit Attraction.

Last June, Oliveira Pinho & Filhos, a family business located in the municipality of Mira (Portugal) dedicated to the trade of bagged potatoes and onions, purchased a Sentinel II optical food sorter from TOMRA. Read about their experiences...

Tong Engineering will be promoting the latest advancements in potato grading, washing and handling equipment at this year’s British Potato event in Harrogate on 22nd and 23rd November.

TOMRA Sorting Food has launched two new websites, one in Italian and one in Turkish.

The new Aviko Snow Valley French Fry factory in China will be equipped with TOMRA's Eco steam peeler and its newest optical sorters.

With worldwide demand for potato products continuing to grow, TOMRA Sorting Food is supporting potato processors by launching an enhanced sorting solution which removes more than 98 percent of all typical foreign objects found in product streams after washing and peeling.

Global food sorting manufacturer, TOMRA Sorting, Inc., shows two of its newest innovative sorting machines at the Pack Expo in Las Vegas

Processing Equipment manufacturer Bühler celebrated the ground breaking for its Innovation Campus in Uzwil, Switzerland. Completion of the building is expected for the first quarter of 2019.