Fresh 2014 will be able to find out about TOMRA Sorting Food’s extensive portfolio of sorting and processing systems.United Fresh brings together the retail and fresh produce industries, showcasing new tools and technologies in food safety, packaging and distribution for the fresh supply chain. The event takes place at the McCormick Place Convention Centre in Chicago, Illinois, June 10 - June 12. TOMRA will have representatives on hand to meet at Booth 449.
Diarmuid Meagher, VP and Sales Manager, Northwestern and Western Regions, USA and Canada, TOMRA Sorting Food, said: “We hope growers, packers and processors will visit our booth to discuss their sorting needs. We offer a wide variety of machines Halo to support a large range of applications which allows us to recommend effective and customised options.”
Combining intelligence with advanced control, the Halo is robust and compact and offers high capacity, low maintenance, flexibility and increased profitability as well as gentle handling. Additionally, Halo guarantees long-life accuracy and provides quality control and feedback through an intuitive touch screen.
The Genius is equipped with high resolution cameras and lasers. It has different inspection technologies in its various zones, with state-of-the-art air guns rejecting unwanted items within milliseconds, in two or three separate streams, and sound product proceeding in the processing line.
Karel Strubbe, Sales Manager TOMRA Sorting Food Americas and Oceania, said: “The Genius sorter is now available with a special designed infeed system, to handle high throughputs. This special designed infeed system consists out of multiple steps creating a well spread single layer of product so that the Genius unit can inspect at very high efficiency. This new unit has had great success since the introduction. The Genius sorter also features the Advanced Foreign Material Detector (AFMD), unique in its kind. The AFMD identifies defects and objects previously difficult to distinguish, because of similar structure or colour characteristics. Now, sorting on product-specific features, with an optical configuration not limited to one application, is possible.
Explaining a particularly popular AFMD application among lettuce sorting organizations, Mr. Strubbe says: ‘Organizations can now introduce even radicchio into their mixes before they enter the sorting unit.’ Prior to the AFMD application, US processors had to mix these elements in after sorting, running the risk they still contained imperfects.
The Primus Gemini sorts multiple fruit applications with defects such as discolourations, over ripe, hail and insect damage, plus foreign material. It delivers a high quality end product, meets modern consumer demands, and provides a very fast return on investment. The Primus Gemini sorter is now available with the Advanced Shrivelled Detector (ASD). The ASD laser allows TOMRA’s sorters to remove shrivelled berries for fresh pack. Compared to other optical technologies, it can detect up to 90 per cent of shrivelled blueberries and will also improve the detection of rain-split.”
