TOMRA 5C sorting machine

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BSI+

By combining color and material attributes, BSI+ lights up even invisible defects in your product. Biometric Signature Identification (BSI+) technology combines color and material attributes to clearly identify what's good and what's bad in your products. Whether you apply it to pre-sort, regular sort, or reverse sort, BSI+ delivers an extremely concentrated reject stream while enabling high capacity.

What is BSI+?

TOMRA’s Biometric Signature Identification is a hyperspectral spatial scanning technology. It uses 32 signals to inform our machine on the color and other material attributes structure of the product including oils, and moisture content. The result is new possibilities for detecting foreign materials and quality defects.

BSI+ lasers can be set up using a wide variety of configurations depending on whether you apply it to:

  • Large foreign materials (soy, corn, bones, sticks, stones);
  • Quality defects (allergens, mold, cross contamination, aflatoxin); or
  • A combination of foreign material and quality defects

 

Fast facts:

  • Started in 1996 with 1st generation BSI developed  for TOMRA Recycling
  • +/- 4,000 TOMRA sorters in the field using BSI technology
  • Currently 5th generation BSI+ designed for food industry

BSI+ is available on

TOMRA 5C

TOMRA 5C

Capable of unrivaled foreign material removal, this highly efficient machine is powerful and robust, easy to use and maintain, reduces storage needs, is easily movable, and saves on labor. 

Applications: Berries, Dried Fruit, Almonds, Cashews, Hazelnuts, Macadamia Nuts, Peanuts, Pecans, Pistachios, Raisins, Walnuts, Leafy Greens; IQF fruit and vegetables
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Where does BSI+ belong in your line?

  • Corn at Uwafen seeds
    Corn at Uwafen seeds

    Achieve a highly-concentrated reject stream

    Place the TOMRA 5C in your pre-sort position to  minimize the good in your reject stream and accept with a significantly reduced defect load.
  • A TOMRA 5C sorting walnuts at Omega Walnut in California
    A TOMRA 5C sorting walnuts at Omega Walnut in California

    Add on to your regular sort

    As your regular sorter, the TOMRA 5C and BSI+ offer an all-in-one solution that retains flexibility. You're getting the maximum usage of your sorter.
  • Osman raisins
    Osman raisins

    Achieve extreme targeting

    In the reverse sort position, BSI+ allows you to target good product with excellent recovery. You can be sure that the reject stream from a reverse sort is true reject.

See BSI+ technology in action

Explore BSI+ for IQF

Sorts for quality and foreign bodies (even glasses, metals, and black foreign materials) and becomes even more targeted towards EVM and FEVM.

Explore BSI+ for nuts

BSI tackles soy, corn, bones, teeth, white plastics – and quality defects like mold and shrivelled peanuts. 
High contrast easily highlights shell, hull, and sticks as well as quality defects like mold and insect damage. 
False rejects caused by skin on the hazelnuts are significantly lower – and BSI eliminates quality defects like mold, shrivelled produce, insect bites, and rotten hazelnuts. 

Identifies certain mold types and shrivelled walnuts.

Sort sticks and shells from the pistachios. Plus, BSI+ tackles quality defects including white shrivelled pistachios, mold, insects bites and blemishes like brown, grey, and visible yellow stains on in-shell pistachios. 
TOMRA 5C sorting machine
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