All-new sorting platform for frozen produce

THE Bühler Group recently announced its latest innovations in the area of sorting. Its SORTEX® F, a new hygienically-designed sorting platform, together with SORTEX PolarVision™ technology, can remove the broadest range of foreign materials (FM) from frozen fruit and vegetables.

From single products, such as peas or raspberries, to more complex vegetable mixes that may contain seafood and spices, the system operates from one simple set-up, with a substantial sorting improvement on the difficult-to-detect defects.  It works by combining two dedicated FM detection technologies – the SORTEX PolarCam™ and high definition InGaAsHD™, both developed in response to industry demand for cutting-edge technology to foreign materials tackle difficult-to-detect, defects,  including snails, dark and light plastics, wood, cardboard, cigarette ends, glass and stones.

The SORTEX PolarCam™ is an advanced FM camera that has been designed to see the difference between vegetable and non-vegetable matter, regardless of its color. It is therefore possible to process different products or mixes, with little or no change to settings and still detect non-vegetable material such as dark FM,  black plastic, stones, snails and insects.

High definition InGaAsHD™ technology has double the resolution of standard InGaAs and can recognise smaller pieces of hazardous material, half the size previously detectable. 

This solution, combining new technologies, as well as enhancing ease of use, raises  the reliability of optical sorting for produce.