mealworms | Optimum Sorting

Sorting mealworms

Sorting mealworms is a craft of its own. It demands precision, advanced technology, and a system that can effortlessly handle the complexity of living organisms.

With Optimum Sorting’s cutting-edge sorting machines, each mealworm is individually inspected for color, shape, and size—ensuring a clean, consistent product that’s ready for immediate processing or sale.

Traced defects

Immature mealworms (sorting based color and size)
Feed or skin remnants
Dead mealworms
Larder beetle (Dermestes Lardarius) and other non-desired species

Benefits

Empower your workflow with a versatile machine that adapts to various types of mealworms.
Detect even the smallest defects thanks to our unique high-resolution camera technology.
Benefit from machines designed for hygiene and built for minimal maintenance.
Experience the simplicity of a user-friendly interface that works intuitively and requires minimal training.
Get the support you need, when and where you need it — 24/7, worldwide.

See more, waste less

Examine every mealworm in stunning detail — powered by Optimum Sorting’s advanced technology.

Our high-resolution cameras reveal what the naked eye can’t: the slightest variations in shape, the most delicate traces of residual material. With this level of precision, you gain a crystal-clear view of everything moving along the sorting belt — and the confidence that nothing goes unnoticed.

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NOVUS

The Novus is available in different sizes. Its maximum scanning width of 2400 mm makes it the widest optical belt sorter on the market. The NOVUS may be used for many different applications: fresh, dried or frozen potato products, fruit and vegetables, crustaceans and shellfish, confectionery and nuts.

widest optical belt sorter
excellent good-to-bad ratio
unique three-in-one combination of camera, laser and metal detection
sorting on the basis of color, shape, structure and biological and magnetic properties
superior resolution
advanced sorting software using AI
optimal flexibility and integration options
perfect hygiene
fast product switching
24/7 (remote) service

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Partner

VDL Insect systems, business unit of the foodtech cluster of VDL Groep, contributes in making the feed and food sector more sustainable through the development of standard smart solutions and systems for insect production. Insect growers can be enabled to produce competitively against classic protein sources as they offer the technology and equipment to solve their production challenges. VDL brings biology, physics, high-tech knowledge and craftsmanship together in smart and reliable solutions. Based on their versatile and modular approach, they provide solutions for different production phases and factory capacity sizes. They also serve the industry with custom engineering and manufacturing.

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