How to maximize yield from every harvest?
Potatoes are far more than just a basic ingredient: they’re a global favorite. From crispy chips to creamy mash and golden fries, their versatility makes them indispensable in both home kitchens and industrial food production. However, delivering a top-quality product starts with one essential step: flawless sorting.
As global demand for potato products continues to rise, so do expectations. Today’s consumers demand nothing less than premium quality; consistently and without compromise. At the same time, food safety regulations are more rigorous than ever. In this high-stakes environment, even a single misstep (a shard of glass, a stray stone, or a flawed potato) can put your brand’s reputation at serious risk. And then there’s sustainability. Today’s producers are expected to do more than deliver quality; they must do it responsibly. That means cutting waste, reducing environmental impact, and making every harvested potato count.
That’s why a smart, efficient sorting system is no longer optional, it’s essential. With Optimum Sorting’s innovative technology, you detect defects and foreign materials with unmatched precision without losing good product. No compromises. Just results.
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Our sorting machines for potato products
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 French fries (raw or frozen), chips and potato flakes.
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 French fries and other frozen potato products.
Triplus
Choose proven efficiency with Triplus: our resilient, durable and robust free-fall sorter. Built for sorting whole potatoes (peeled or unpeeled), it combines smart technology with a tough, reliable design. With its advanced detection of color, shape, and texture, Triplus sorts your entire harvest with ease, speed, and absolute precision from start to finish
Perfectly suited for sorting large volumes of whole potatoes (peeled or unpeeled).
Technology made to fit your needs
Whole potatoes, raw fries, frozen fries, chips, potato flakes… whatever potato products you want to offer, our Novus, Triplus, and Ventus sorting machines support multiple steps in your production process.
These optical sorting machines are the result of extensive research and development. They use a sophisticated combination of advanced cameras and lasers, with multidimensional image processing for superior quality, size and length sorting. High-resolution cameras detect discoloration and size and shape deviations, while laser sensors detect foreign objects and ‘sugar ends’ extremely accurately. Special lasers sort by biological characteristics, such as the presence of solanine (fluorescence lasers), acrylamides and water (SWIR or Short Wave InfraRed lasers). InGaAs camera technology offers an alternative to SWIR lasers.
Our sorting systems easily adapt to the required quality specifications (using a 2-way or 3-way sorting). Thanks to 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.
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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.
Explore our smart end-to-end solutions
To provide you with the best possible results, we actively collaborate with forward-thinking partners who excel in their field. In collaboration with Optimum Sorting, these system integrators offer total solutions that perfectly match your production process. This allows you to benefit from smart systems that process your products efficiently and accurately at every step, from washing or peeling to sorting and packaging.
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