TOMRA Food technology

Our technology offers high efficiency, precision, and speed - working faster than other sorting technologies and wasting fewer resources in the process. We design future-proof solutions to grow with your business and anything your customers may need from you down the line. Explore our sensing, processing, and handling technologies from this page.

Sensors

Camera

Discover how TOMRA’s advanced camera-based imaging systems, featuring pulsed LED illumination technology, deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions for food sorting and grading. As pioneers in free-fall and belt sorting applications, TOMRA offers flexible, stable, and high-performance camera solutions for bulk sorting, lane grading, and quality control. Cameras detect foreign materials and sort by color, size, shape, and defects — ensuring superior accuracy across a wide range of applications.

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Laser

TOMRA Food leverages proprietary laser sensing technologies to achieve the highest contrast in food sorting, accurately distinguishing between good products and defects, including foreign materials and invisible toxins. TOMRA’s technology enables fine-tuned detection of specific product properties, such as surface structure, for consistently reliable results. Learn more about TOMRA's Biometric Signature Identification (BSI), Advanced Foreign Material Detector™ (AFMD) , Detox™, and Fluo™ features

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BSI+ technology uses a powerful combination of color and material attributes to reveal even the most difficult-to-detect defects in your products. With Biometric Signature Identification, BSI+ precisely distinguishes between acceptable and defective items, enhancing accuracy across pre-sort, regular sort, and reverse sort applications. The result is a highly concentrated reject stream and exceptional throughput, ensuring both quality and efficiency.

Exclusively available on the TOMRA 5C.

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Processing

Artificial Intelligence

TOMRA Food has deployed everything from the simplest forms of artificial intelligence up to the most advanced deep learning in our products for over a decade. Explore the forms of AI available on your machine.

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LUCAi™

Our customers say they achieve unparalleled precision in grading because "LUCAi™ knows the difference" between even the hard-to-detect defects. But how does LUCAi™ know? Learn more about how this form of artificial intelligence works for apples, blueberries, cherries, and now, citrus fruits.

Learn more about deep learning

Computer with TOMRA's XCD technology interface

XCD

Discover how TOMRA’s advanced software platform, XCD, can deliver outstanding results and help your operators save time. As pioneers in the food‑sorting space, TOMRA’s latest software platform continues our tradition of unbeatable performance. The XCD platform enables the development of precise sorting programs that use a multi‑dimensional space to detect defects while avoiding the ejection of good product — all to maximize yield.

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LUCAi™ for Citrus—an advanced deep‑learning upgrade for TOMRA’s Spectrim optical graders. It accurately detects over 20 citrus defects (like rot, sunburn, clipper cuts, long stems, pre‑rot) with >99 % accuracy, assigns severity scores (0–100), and offers operators a simple interface to fine‑tune sorting. It highlights benefits like improved yield, pack‑out consistency, reduced waste, and seamless seasonal performance.

Available exclusively on Spectrim.

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Handling

Air

How do we separate potatoes (or carrots or onions) from foreign materials to see every defect? We do it ‘in-flight.' Air handling gives TOMRA sensors the ability to complete a very thorough and precise inspection of every potato, onion, or carrot while also detecting foreign material and unsafe produce.

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Belt

TOMRA’s Belt handling technology ensures the most stable, shadow-free inspection of produce like peas, cherries, olives, and more. By bringing light and sensors close to the product on a reflective belt, it enables high-speed sorting with unmatched accuracy—even for defects smaller than 1mm.

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Chute

Chute-based sorting by TOMRA uses vibration and glide plates to inspect both sides of small products – nuts, dried fruit, IQF – with high precision, compact footprint.

Learn more about the Chute portfolio

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