How to maximize yield from every harvest?
As a grower or processor of nuts, you aim to deliver a product that’s not only full of flavor but also meets the highest standards of quality. Whether you’re working with tree nuts or groundnuts, your goal is to offer customers a final product that’s consistent, delicious, and free from defects. With the right technology, that ambition becomes reality.
Each season brings its own set of challenges. The quality of your raw materials can be unpredictable, and food safety regulations continue to tighten. At the same time, customers are becoming less forgiving of issues like shell fragments, glass, stones, or rancid nuts. Even the smallest defect can put your reputation at risk.
That’s why smart sorting isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. With Optimum Sorting, you can get the most out of every nut harvest. Our advanced technology accurately detects foreign materials and defects, while preserving valuable product. It’s a solution built for efficiency, reliability, and peace of mind. That way, you can keep your focus on what truly counts: delivering a product your customers can rely on, every single day.
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Our sorting machines for nuts
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.
Perfectly suited for sorting tree nuts and groundnuts (by color and shape).
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.
Perfectly suited for sorting tree nuts and groundnuts.
Technology made to fit your needs
Optimum Sorting’s Ventus and Novus sorting machines deliver tailored solutions for every stage of your nut processing. Engineered through intensive research and development, they combine advanced cameras and lasers with multidimensional imaging technology for superior quality, size, shape and length sorting — down to the finest detail.
High-resolution cameras can detect nuts with discolorations and size and shape deviations, while laser sensors detect foreign objects. Special lasers can even sort by biological characteristics, such as the presence of micotoxines. SWIR or Short Wave InfraRed lasers can be combined with other lasers for optimal foreign body detection.
Our sorting systems easily adapt to the required quality specifications and give you the possibility to choose between two-way or three-way sorting. Using a unique, 2400 mm (94 in) maximum scan width, they not only offer greater capacity than other systems, the extra width ensures that the products to be sorted are more distributed across the inspection zone, allowing defective ones to be removed more accurately and reducing the risk of false rejections. Why settle for less? Optimum Sorting delivers excellence in every nut; with speed, precision, 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.
Improve scanning, refine sorting
Our new laser technology, TDA (Topological Data Analysis), takes detection to the next level. By analyzing six laser signals simultaneously, it builds a detailed six-dimensional profile of every single object. The more data you combine, the sharper your ability to detect and distinguish even the slightest defects. This gives you a clearer view of every batch, boosts your yield, and empowers your operators to work faster and make smarter decisions.
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.
