News on Optical Sorters

Heat and Control, global food processing and packaging systems equipment manufacturer and solutions provider, continues to ask their customers, “What do you want to create today?”

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, announces the appointment of the company Juan Neustadtel S.A.S. as its exclusive sales representative in Colombia.

Haith is set to innovate the transfer of delicate produce in pack houses and factories with the introduction of its patent-pending Pro-Flow Transfer Chute.

The world is currently wasting 1.3 billion tonnes of the food produced
for human consumption every year, which amounts to a third of all food produced for that purpose.

One of the three most cultivated and eaten food products in the world, the demand for potatoes continues to increase despite heightened uncertainty within the sector. Last year European potato production was hit by the worst drought in more than 40 years.

Growers, suppliers, grubbing demonstrations - everything to do with potatoes. That is what the latest edition of Potato Europe was all about. This year, this trade show was held in Doornik/Tournai, Belgium on 4 and 5 September.

TOMRA Sorting Food has introduced the TOMRA 3A sensor-based sorting machine for freshly harvested root crops, offering potato growers unrivalled sorting capabilities, dependability, and affordability.

Key Technology has promoted Shayla Wentz to Marketing Communications Manager as Anita Funk retires.

Heat and Control®, a world-leading equipment manufacturer and supplier, will showcase the latest technologies from FastBack®, Spray Dynamics®, Ishida, and CEIA® at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019.

TOMRA Food will be demonstrating its newest sorting features live at Pack Expo 2019 for four selected industries: vegetables, potatoes, confectionery and petfood.

Processing equipment manufacturer Key Technology has appointed Jeff Nielsen as Area Sales Manager. He will offer Key’s digital sorting, conveying and automation systems to food processors in the Southeast and South Central United States.

Sensor-based sorter manufacturer TOMRA offers their insights on the impact of sorting technology on food safety in the Potato Processing Industry

Key Technology presents their most versatile VERYX® belt-fed digital sorters, with specific design elements that benefit vegetable processors producing multiple products.

Tong Engineering, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of vegetable grading and handling equipment, is looking forward to a new era as it starts work on a brand-new production facility in Lincolnshire.

TOMRA Food has opened a new customer service center in Bengaluru, India as
part of its efforts to improve the organizations’ responsiveness to all its stakeholders.

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

Key Technology announces the promotion of Karel Van Velthoven to Advanced Inspection Systems Product Marketing Manager.

Since the humble precursor to modern potato first domesticated in Peru 10,000 years ago, the tuber has branched off into thousands of different varieties.