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2007-09-30 Manufacturing News
Optical Sorting Machines Handle Fruit and Veggies Buhler Sortex optical colour sorting machines achieve outstanding quality of method technical performance for the soft fruits market.
Buhler Sortex Ltd., leading optical sorting specialists from Docklands,
London, United Kingdom forms a partnership with Diepvries Doetinchem to
complete an installation of the SORTEX K colour sorting system in their
Doetinchem, Holland plant. Hugo Westerveld, director of the company says: “We are a service industry in the true sense of the word, specializing in soft fruits. We own no products but are here to offer customers checking, processing and frozen storage. We are best able to anticipate swiftly changing market conditions to maximize their returns”. Mr. Westerveld explains: “We needed to update our optical sorting facilities. We spent several months testing alternative solutions. Our assessments were made by comparing prices and more importantly, technical performance. In our business, we need to upgrade varying qualities to the highest specification with maximum product recovery. Based on this criterion, we selected Buhler Sortex. Their new K machine performed excellently on every product we tried in their London applications department. Our only worry was would the SORTEX K perform as well under production conditions? The machine was installed in June and we were not disappointed. We have sorted blueberries, strawberries, wild strawberries, red and blackcurrants amongst other commodities. The results have exceeded our expectations”.
The SORTEX K has been designed to meet the specific needs of fruit and vegetable processors in the freezing, canning and fresh cut industries. Its ability to inspect products in a blanched, un-blanched or frozen state has allowed processors to position the sorter anywhere in their processing line. See photo at right. The SORTEX K is the most advanced sorting and quality control system
available today. Its sophisticated features allow processors of fruit
and vegetables to increase their productivity, efficiency and profitability
and is capable of high-speed removal of defects and foreign material with
exceptional accuracy. Benny Bosman, Diepvries’s maintenance manager commented: “The installation, commissioning and training went very smoothly. Local support from Buhler Sortex’s, Jan Wetser of Wetser Techno, Rosmalen, Holland was invaluable. Buhler Sortex introduced the SORTEX K into Europe in the Autumn of 2006.
They were rewarded by an opening order for 15 units from the Virto Group
of companies, Spain’s largest vegetable freezer. Virto had carried
out the Beta testing trials on the first prototype and the order was the
result of their experience with this machine. Already, sales of the SORTEX
K have been made into France, Poland, Belgium, China and the USA and full
scale production is under way. Machine Automation Jobs - Post Employment Opportunity!
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