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.
Sensors
Camera
Our cameras recognize materials based on color, biological characteristics, and shape (including length, width, diameter, area). The capabilities go beyond the visible spectrum and include infrared, UV, and different spectra imaging. TOMRA has developed high-resolution industrial cameras for the applicable range using advanced focusing lenses ideal for optical food sorting.
Laser
TOMRA's laser machines sort based on color, structure, and biological characteristics. Laser scanning detects contaminants even when the good products and defects are the same color. Learn more about TOMRA's Biometric Signature Identification (BSI), Advanced Foreign Material Detector™ (AFMD) , Detox™, and Fluo™ features.
X-ray
This technology detects based on product density, regardless of the size, moisture, or contamination level. This technology detects based on product density, regardless of the size, moisture, or contamination level.
Processing
Artificial Intelligence
TOMRA Food’s AI capabilities extend across our entire active product line. From deep learning to simple machine learning applications, our AI features and capabilities support your strategic decision-making and lift the burden from your operators. The result: right product, right pack, season after season – no matter where the year takes your business.
LUCAi™
This unique and unprecedented AI offering encompasses a detailed library with hundreds of thousands of hand-labeled reference images to provide training information for our algorithms.
Handling
Air
What’s the best way to separate a potato from a clod of dirt? The answer is: as it flies through the air. Air handling offers a full inspection of every product without interference from debris and dirt. Plus, it offers the durability a bulk sorter needs to withstand even the most fast-paced environments.
Machines: TOMRA 3A, TOMRA 5A, Sentinel II
Applications: Potatoes, carrots, onions, beets, mangoes, stonefruit, tomatoes
Machines: TOMRA 3A, TOMRA 5A, Sentinel II
Applications: Potatoes, carrots, onions, beets, mangoes, stonefruit, tomatoes
Belt
We can’t change the aerodynamics of lettuce, so we sort it on the belt instead. Designed for sticky products that can’t (and shouldn’t) fly, TOMRA’s belt machines offer either one or two points of inspection across a long belt to view every product from multiple angles, including a 360 view of the object as it moves off the belt.
Machines: TOMRA 5B
Applications: Potatoes & potato products, vegetables, proteins, leafy greens
Machines: TOMRA 5B
Applications: Potatoes & potato products, vegetables, proteins, leafy greens
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Chute
Not ideal to fly through the air or lay on a belt? A combination of vibrator and glide plates help products that glide easily to a chute and imitate a waterfall. As each piece of product falls through the chute, multiple sensors inspect it on both sides. Ideal for small products, like nuts, dried fruit, and IQF), chute handling allows for a smaller footprint, fewer moving components, and simple vertical integration in your line.
Machines: TOMRA 5C, Blizzard
Applications: Nuts, dried Fruit, IQF, seeds & grains
Machines: TOMRA 5C, Blizzard
Applications: Nuts, dried Fruit, IQF, seeds & grains
Carriers
And for the products that require the lightest touch and close individual inspection? TOMRA’s secret to gentleness: our carrier designs deliver high throughput while prioritizing the careful handling of even the most delicate produce. Geometrically designed for gentleness, carriers convey fruit over 100 meters to deliver each piece of fruit to its selection destination with as few transfers as possible to minimize fruit contact. Along the way, they rotate each piece of fruit to allow the sensors to capture a complete set of images of each piece of produce.
Machines: TOMRA 5S Advanced, SLS/DLS, KATO
Applications: Apples, avocados, blueberries, cherries citrus, kiwifruit, stone fruit, tomatoes
Machines: TOMRA 5S Advanced, SLS/DLS, KATO
Applications: Apples, avocados, blueberries, cherries citrus, kiwifruit, stone fruit, tomatoes
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Operational costs continue to increase, and every little saving makes a difference.
Our automation works smarter, wastes less, and optimizes your lines to safeguard food safety and ensure consistent product quality.
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