Collection Solutions
- Reverse Vending
  
  As the world leader in the field of reverse vending with over 75,000 installations worldwide, you can rely on TOMRA for the best solutions for collecting and recycling cans and bottles.
- Material Recovery
  
  TOMRA's material handling activities are complementary to its RVM business in North America.
Sorting Solutions
- Food
  
  For more than 40 years, TOMRA has been the leading provider of optical sorting and peeling equipment for many different food industries. Discover our solutions here!
- Recycling
  
  TOMRA Sorting Solutions' pioneering industry expertise continues to result in state-of-the-art machines and exceptional service within the waste and metal recycling industries.
- Mining
  
  TOMRA´s sensor-based solutions help to extend the life of mining operations and increase the overall value of the deposit for more energy-efficient and cost-effective pre-concentration and material recovery.

Food sorting and peeling solutions

Food

TOMRA’s advanced sorting machines inspect millions of individual product pieces per hour, typically recovering five to ten percent through higher yields and better utilization.

That’s equivalent to approximately 25,000 trucks of potatoes per year!

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IXUS™ BULK SORTING MACHINE BY TOMRA

By implementing the latest x-ray and imaging software technology, metal, stones, pits, glass, high density plastics, etc. from food is removed.

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Ixus working principle
Cherry sorting machine Primus - Helius - Ixus - TOMRA Sorting
Raisin sorting machines Helius and Ixus - TOMRA Sorting
Raisin sorting machines Helius and Ixus and Nimbus - TOMRA Sorting

The Ixus™ Bulk x-ray sorting machine provides the safest food sorting solution for customers’ brand protection.

IXUS™ BULK SORTING MACHINE: OVERVIEW

X-ray detection with an unmatched resolution
Low false reject with precise air ejectors
Ease of use with intuitive graphical user interface (GUI)
High capacity food sorting machine for high volume processing

FOOD SORTING APPLICATIONS

CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

Sun Valley Raisins has been in the raisin business for seventy years and has grown into one of the largest growers and processors of California raisins. Read their testimonial and find out why they decided to partner with TOMRA Sorting Solutions.

Read the success story and discover how Uren Novaberry (Poland, fruit industry) provides safer food quality with TOMRA’s Ixus, thereby justifying a premium price.

Read the success story and discover how Elixir Foods (Serbia, fruit industry) explored the food sorting solutions market and decided to partner with TOMRA Sorting Solutions.

Key features

Sensor Technology

The Ixus™ Bulk scans products in bulk to detect foreign material that can be dangerous to your customer. Metal, glass and small rocks (free flowing and embedded) are detected by absorbing more x-rays than the good product. The Ixus™ Bulk can also divide products into different categories (for example, size and shape). The type of x-ray source depends on the product, type of defect and capacity.

The Ixus™ Bulk is very flexible and easy to integrate into the production line and can be used as a complementary or as a stand-alone sorting machine. Implementing an x-ray sorting machine at the beginning of the line will decrease your incoming defect load significantly and will facilitate further processing. At the furthest end of the line, it will minimize the risk of finding anything unwanted in your final product, just prior to packaging.

Product Benefits

Superior safety
Optimized yield
Easy to integrate
Flexible
Unparalleled throughput

Advanced Sorting Criteria

The Ixus™ Bulk can sort multiple food applications by the following sorting criteria:

Foreign material
Pit detection

Technical specification

	Ixus Bulk 420	Ixus Bulk 570	Ixus Bulk 800
Capacity	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dimensions (L x W x H, mm)	2,260 x 1,631 x 2,189 mm (89 x 64.2 x 86.2")	2,260 x 1,859 x 2,204 mm (89 x 73.2 x 86.8")	2,435 x 2,739 x 2,649 mm (95.9 x 107.8 x 104.3")
Infeed belt width	1,324 mm (52")	1,324 mm (52")	835 mm (32.87")
Air pressure input	6 - 7 bar	6 - 7 bar	6 - 7 bar
Electrical consumption	1ph: 1.5 kVA	1ph: 1.5 kVA	1ph: 1.5 kVA

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