Sorting mussels

 

Whether your mussels come from rope-grown or bottom culture, are fresh, cooked, or frozen, with or without shells — each variety demands a precise and thoughtful sorting solution. With Optimum Sorting’s advanced optical technology, you can rely on thorough and dependable inspection tailored to the specific characteristics of your product.

Unwanted elements such as crabs, starfish, barnacles, seaweed, or byssus threads are effortlessly detected and removed. This ensures a clean end product that meets the highest quality standards in the food industry — delivered with consistency, efficiency, and an uncompromising eye for detail.

 

Traced defects

  • Sorting based on size
  • Mussel beards (byssus threads)
  • Seaweed
  • Open or broken mussels
  • Empty shells
  • By-catch (such as crabs, starfish, sea anemones etc.)
  • Tubeworms
  • Barnacles
  • Foreign materials (including wood, plastic, glass, or stones)

 

Benefits

  • Easily process various types of carrots: rope-grown or bottom culture, fresh, cooked, or frozen, with or without shells.
  • Achieve unseen accuracy thanks to a superior resolution that detects even the smallest defects.
  • 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

With its dual-sided laser inspection, the Ventus sorter redefines precision in mussel processing. Its advanced technology accurately detects subtle structural differences — such as between ‘silvernose’ and mussel meat — ensuring that even the most nuanced defects are identified and removed.

The result? Mussels that meet your highest quality standards, both in appearance and internal structure.

 

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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VENTUS


The VENTUS may be equipped with up to 16 lasers (and 32 laser detectors). With an impressive laser scanning speed of more than 4000 scans per second, it offers the highest resolution of all laser sorters on the market. In addition, all different laser signals are processed simultaneously by our Multi Dimensional Laser System (MDL) system, which outperforms all other systems.

In order to get an excellent good-to-bad ratio even for the smallest products, you can equip it with a high-resolution valve system: ultra-fast and small blowing jets with a center-to-center distance of 4.6 mm.

  • widest double-sided free-fall laser sorter
  • robust, advanced lasers
  • excellent good-to-bad ratio
  • sorting on the basis of color, shape, structure and biological characteristics
  • 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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