How to maximize yield from every harvest?
For fruit processors, every detail matters. When working with fragile fruits like blueberries, raspberries or cherries, the challenge is clear: sorting quickly and precisely without compromising quality is essential. A drop in quality leads to a decline in market value, which ultimately affects your return on investment.
Manual sorting may have been the standard in the past, but today’s competitive market demands more: more speed, more accuracy, and more consistency. That’s where Optimum Sorting comes into play.
Our advanced sorting machines are built to meet the highest standards in modern fruit processing. Whether you’re working with fresh produce, mixed fruit or frozen varieties, our systems ensure fast, efficient and gentle sorting that preserves the integrity of every piece. This leads to consistent top quality, satisfied customers and maximum yield from every harvest.
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Our sorting machines for fruit
Novus
Discover what true sorting precision looks like with Novus: our most flexible belt sorter. Using smart camera, laser, and metal detection technology, this machine gives you full control over your product flow. From color and shape to texture and even biological or magnetic characteristics, every product is examined and sorted with exceptional precision.
Magnus
Sort delicate products like soft fruit with ease using Magnus: our intelligent all-in-one sorting solution. Magnus doesn’t miss a thing. It detects even the smallest imperfections in color, shape or structure and removes them with precision. By doing so, Magnus ensuring every product meets the high standards your customers expect, time after time.
Ventus
Get to the very core of your product with Ventus: our most efficient laser sorter. With its dual free-fall system and ultra-precise lasers, Ventus spots even the slightest imperfections in a flash. It delivers consistently accurate sorting and an exceptional yield, making it the trusted choice for businesses that demand nothing less than top-tier quality.
Technology made to fit your needs
For fruit sorting, Optimum Sorting offers innovative, tailor-made systems that respond perfectly to your specific needs and challenges. One of our most groundbreaking solutions is the Magnus, an all-in-one sorting machine designed for the exceptionally gentle handling of soft fruit.
With its advanced technologies, the Magnus effortlessly sorts by size, color, shape and even product characteristics that are invisible to the naked eye, all without compromising speed or quality. The key lies in a unique combination of camera and laser technology, complemented by a transport system with 64 O-shaped belts and a minimal drop height at the end of the conveyor belt. This ensures that even the most delicate fruits are handled and sorted with exceptional gentleness, with minimal risk of damage.
For other, less fragile types of fruit, our Novus and Ventus sorting machines continue to set the standard. Equipped with high-resolution cameras and ultra-precise laser sensors, they effortlessly detect discolorations, shape deviations and foreign materials with speed, accuracy and reliability.
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Built for optimal sorting
Pinpoint imperfections with accuracy
Most image processing algorithms reduce the RGBi signal of a color camera from four to two dimensions, resulting in loss of valuable information. We make sure all signals, both from the cameras and from the different lasers, are interpreted simultaneously by means of our algorithms, resulting in a more accurate detection of foreign objects and defects, plus a lower risk of false detections.
Remove defects with precision
Precise defect detection is meaningless without an equally precise ejection system. Our air valves have a center-to-center distance of 7.5 mm (0.29 in), compared to the standard 10 mm (0.39 in). This means more valves can blow more effectively, enhancing ejection accuracy. Additionally, we offer a high-resolution valve system with a center-to-center distance of 5.25 mm (0.21 in) for specific applications.
Fine-tune with detailed data
Why not use the data recorded by the cameras to adjust your sorting process where necessary? An optional module filters this data to parameters of your choice (length-width ratio, shape, color, defect level, etc.) and makes them available to your operators in a clear numerical or graphical way, so that they can intervene if desired. This module sets the basis for automatic sorting through customized specifications.
Exceptional user-friendliness
Quick and easy calibration
Establishing acceptance thresholds can be a lengthy and complicated process. But with the systems of Optimum Sorting, it’s different. Your operators don’t have to deal with graphs or formulas. Our machines are able to calibrate themselves by using images of acceptable and unacceptable products.
Intuitive interface
Operating our sorting machines is incredibly simple, thanks to our user-friendly and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). This interface is designed to ensure that your operators can effortlessly access and view all relevant information at a glance, making the entire sorting process smooth and efficient.
Remote control
Do you want to operate your sorting machines centrally? No problem. Our solutions can be easily integrated into your network, so your operators and supervisors can keep an eye on things from any network computer.
