Accuracy = Efficiency
With its on-belt inspection zone and 360° view, the TOMRA 5B analyzes color and shape defects with unequaled precision.
TOMRA 5B
The TOMRA 5B is the top-of-the-line belt sorter for many products, including French fries, chips (crisps), other potato products, protein products, green beans, spinach, peas, carrots, bell peppers, various leafy veggies, and baby spinach leaves. Its flexibility and accuracy are only rivaled by its gentle handling.
Swift removal of foreign material and other defects arrives via 360° inspection with smart surround view technology, powered by both camera and laser sensors and advanced shape processing algorithms.
Coupling the latest sensor tech and advanced algorithms, the TOMRA 5B enables you to reach the most challenging quality targets and yields.
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Improving detection with every batch the TOMRA 5B captures and stores images of foreign materials in the system for easy alerts. -
Impressive sorting parameters
This machine can sort by shape, size, and length-to-width ratio while detecting hard-to-find foreign materials like stem stalks and Datura. -
Highest achievable yields
Our smart ejection & sort-to-spec features ensure minimal false rejects. These incremental gains accumulate every hour the line is running. -
Reduced operators hours required
Designed to reduce the time operators need to complete tasks, the 5B features a TOMRA XCD interface that is common across several TOMRA machines. The common user interface reduces training time and the time needed to complete daily tasks.
Sort to Spec for French Fries
Sort to Spec enables food processors to maximize yield and profitability while dynamically adjusting to incoming defect loads and customer specifications – all while minimizing operator labor time.
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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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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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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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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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Compatible platforms
Fruit sorting and grading solutions
Discover TOMRA Food's line of electronic carriers, optical sorting and grading machines, infeed and pre-grading machines, and packing and filling solutions.
Fruit sorting and grading solutions
Discover what our customers have to say
Customer story
BS Cocinados - Potatoes - Spain
The TOMRA 5B's ability to detect millimeter-sized black spots on potato slices enhances BS Cocinados' product quality, giving them a competitive edge. BS Cocinados can now ensure the production of flawless potatoes, free from green skin, rot, or damage, guaranteeing a zero-defect output — and access international market and top-tier customers.
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Customer story
Monte Vista - Almonds - United States
This Denair is a grower and packer of California Almonds, and their customers want the best quality almonds that California has to offer. To get products from the farm to the point on the chain, they looked to TOMRA to improve their volume and operational safety with a tailored solution to their products.
Customer Story
De Marchi - Fruit & Vegetables - Brazil
Brazilian vegetable and fruit producer, the De Marchi Group, achieved a 30% increase in productivity by replacing a completely manual production process to the TOMRA 5B. Working with TOMRA means their plants easily meet product safety standards and increase the quality of their product.
Service and support
With service centers and support located across the globe, TOMRA Food provides a comprehensive service offering to our customers, ensuring you have the proper support at the right time, empowering your business to succeed.
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