Dried fruit processing: optical sorting machines

Dried fruit comes in many varieties, and luckily so do our solutions for sorting them. We offer the most robust dried fruit processing equipment on the market, complemented by our local service and support teams worldwide.

Every Dried Fruit Counts

TOMRA's sorting machines remove discoloration, loose pits, pit fragments, insect damage, blemishes, sticks, stems, and foreign material in dried apricots, cranberries, figs, prunes, raisins, and multiple other dried fruit varieties.

TOMRA's sorting equipment for dried fruits can also detect and reject objects based on many specifications, including color, shape, and structural abnormalities.

Raisins sorting

For raisin processing, TOMRA's sorting machines provide superior detection capabilities with high throughputs. Our optical technologies ensure food safety by removing foreign materials, deliver consistently high product quality targeting cap stems and mold, among other raisins defects, minimize product waste, and are easy to use.

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Dried apricots sorting

TOMRA offers the best sorting solutions for dried apricots, whether they are natural-dried, sulfured-dried, whole, or diced. In addition to ensuring food safety by detecting and ejecting all types of foreign material, our optical sorting machines also uphold product quality by removing imperfect apricots. Stems, pits, stones, glass, metal - all can trouble dried apricot processors, but none can sneak past our sorters. Our dried apricot sorting machines remove product defects including discoloration and black spots, sunburn, skin damage, and mold. With low false reject rates and high efficiency, TOMRA's sorters raise quality, increase throughput, and deliver higher yields.
Dried dates sorting

TOMRA offers sorting solutions for different dates such as medjool dates, saqei, khalas, and jujubes dates. In addition to ensuring food safety by removing foreign materials from product streams, TOMRA state-of-the-art optical sorters uphold product quality removing unacceptable dates and grading the others.
Dried cranberries sorting

TOMRA's sorting machines give dried cranberry processors superior detection capabilities with high throughputs. Our optical sorting technologies ensure food safety by removing foreign materials, deliver consistently high product quality by removing cranberries with defects, minimize product waste, and are easy to use. Sticks, stones, plastic, metal - all can get into the material stream with dried cranberries, but none can sneak past our sorters.
Dried figs sorting

TOMRA offers several optical sorting solutions for processing figs. These machines ensure the highest level of food safety and product quality by removing foreign materials (like stems, stones, and glass), aflatoxins, and quality defects. TOMRA machines sort dried figs by color, size, and shape.
Prunes sorting

For prune processing, TOMRA's sorting machines provide superior detection capabilities with high throughputs. Our optical technologies ensure food safety by removing foreign materials and pits, deliver consistently high product quality by removing prunes with defects, minimize product waste, and are easy to use. Our sorters detect and eject all types of foreign material, as well as loose pits and pit fragments. TOMRA's sorters can even see unwanted pits when they are a couple of millimeters below the fruit's flesh. The sorters can also see and remove prunes with cracks, scabs, scars, stains, mold, brown rot, and insect damage.