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  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

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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TOMRA 3A

Boasting the highest capacity on the market, the TOMRA 3A is the most robust, reliable and cost-effective optical sorter available for growers. Built to last, it is a highly efficient, durable and powerful labor-saving solution specifically developed to provide unrivalled foreign material removal and meet harvest demands. Simple to install, use and maintain, it is an easy fit into the harvest cleaning and grading line and can also be used for out-of-storage sorting.

SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY.
HIGH PERFORMANCE.

The TOMRA 3A employs NIR (Near Infra-Red) multi-spectral sensors for an unobstructed assessment of every object ‘in flight’, seamlessly identifying between potatoes and foreign material. Color sensors now also enable the detection of unwanted green potatoes. Positioned at the end of the conveyor belt, intelligent finger ejectors achieve superior foreign material and green potato removal with minimum loss of good product.

The strategic combination of multi-spectral pulsed LED illumination technology, high-resolution cameras and TOMRA analysis software ensures the accurate and consistent removal of stones, soil clods, rocks, wood, bone, plastic, glass, metal and rubber.

Enclosed in a fully sealed box, the camera is tolerant of most environmental conditions such as rain, wind, dust and heat while the optical system has no moving parts, making the TOMRA 3A the most mobile, robust and stable sorter available.

BENEFITS

Significant labor reduction
Higher yields and enhanced product quality
Superior foreign material removal and reduced risk of deductions
Unwanted green potato removal
High capacity for quicker harvest (up to 100TPH possible)
Accommodates various soil types and coverages
Optimized design for gentle handling even during fast, high capacity sorts
Reduced storage costs
Consistent long-life accuracy
Quick and easy installation
User-friendly, simple to use and maintain

DURABLE. RELIABLE. EASY TO OPERATE.

When it comes to boosting productivity, optimizing efficiency and maximizing value, information is key. Installed with a highly intuitive user touchscreen, the TOMRA 3A ensures monitoring of the sort at a glance. Adjustments, if needed, are quick and simple. The bright, information-rich display also provides a clear, on-screen display of data, empowering the grower with total control over the quality of the sort.

Working Principle

The produce is spread uniformly onto the infeed belt and scanned in-flight by a full width NIR and color vision in the inspection zone. A few milliseconds later the foreign material is rejected by intelligent finger ejectors, positioned off the end of the conveyor belt, while the good produce is conveyed away by the supplied accept take away conveyor.

working principle diagram

Key features

High Performance

Advantages

High capacity
High trash removal capability in difficult harvest conditions
Removes Foreign objects missed by mechanical systems
Easy to fit into grading line
Easy to move to various product storage locations
Simple to use, quick to adjust
Minimised cleanout
On screen, quick read Sorting and product data
Easy to service

Sorting parameters

In sorting potatoes, TOMRA 3A can efficiently remove:

Stones, rocks
Soil Clods, hard & soft
Typical foreign objects from the field

Wood, Corn cobs/stalks, dead veg matter
Glass,
Plastics,
Bone
Metal
Rubber

Unwanted gross Green potatoes

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Why TOMRA?

TOMRA Sorting offers the widest range of food sorting and peeling equipment available in the food industry today. TOMRA supplies optical sorting solutions for a multitude of food applications, for fresh and processed food, from farm to fork.