Automation systems company Key Technology has launched a range of digital sorters under the Veryx C140 name, through Sydney's Treotham Automation.
These sorters maximise the detection and removal of foreign material and product defects based on the colour, size, shape and structural properties of objects, while minimising false rejects to enhance product quality and increase yields.
With belt-fed and chute-fed configurations available in various widths, Veryx handles a range of products and production throughputs.
Belt-fed systems sort frozen and fresh cut fruits and vegetables, leafy greens, potato chips and other snacks, confections, seafood, wet and frozen potato strips, and more.
Chute-fed systems sort nuts, dried fruits, IQF products, and other free-flowing foods.
The inspection width of every Veryx sorter is 10 to 15 per cent wider than comparatively sized sorters, which enables higher throughputs within a similar footprint and better singulation of product to improve sorting accuracy, according to Key Technology.
Key tailors each system around the product characteristics and production objectives of each processor with the ideal sensor types, sensor positions, lighting, ejection system, product handling, and software.
For food processors that require all-sided surface inspection, Key can configure belt-fed Veryx with top-and-bottom mounted sensors and chute-fed Veryx with front-and-back mounted sensors to achieve a full view of each object in the product stream with no blind spots.
