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Fruit and Vegetable Solution Brochure
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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions Fruit and Vegetables Sorting from Buhler. Equipment and Solutions. The Buhler Advantage 3 Fruit and Vegetable Applications 4 Model variants and specifications 16 SORTEX® Customer Care 18

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Bühler in partnership with processors. An integral part of fruit and vegetables processing. Bühler is a leading global supplier of optical sorting solutions to the food and non-food processing industries and has been at the forefront of pioneering optical sorting technology since 1947. With a commitment to substantial investment in research and development, Bühler’s proprietary sorting technology delivers excellent results in removing the most challenging defects and foreign materials in a wide range of applications. Fresh and frozen fruit and vegetable processors can be confident of...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions Serious about food safety. Simplifying your most challenging sort. 2 Vegetable mixes Major and minor colour defects such as white, green and dark blemishes as well as foreign materials including stones, insects, mice, plastic, wood, glass and cardboard can be moved from a variety of fresh and frozen carrot applications. All types of colour defects ranging from yellow, blond, khaki and nightshades are removed with ease using Bühler’s advanced and custom-built colour cameras. Foreign materials and Extraneous Vegetable Matter (EVM) such as pods, sticks,...

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Fruit and Vegetable Applications. Raspberries Defects such as white, pink, green, mouldy or soft raspberries as well as foreign materials including insects, snails stems, attached stems, glass and plastic are removed with high efficiency without compromising the valuable, fragile produce.

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions Flexible optical sorting solutions. At all stages of the process line. 3 Before Blanching After Blanching Before blanching, SORTEX® sorters are used to remove colour defects, extraneous vegetable matter (EVM) and field foreign material to save processing resources further down the line ensuring higher line capacities can be achieved. Colour defects can often be enhanced during the blanching stage and SORTEX® sorters are well equipped to ensure that any remaining product deformities are removed. A robust sorting solution prior to the freezing stage,...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions After IQF (Individually Quick Frozen) In the frozen state, SORTEX® sorters are equipped with technologies to remove the more subtle colour defects as well as any remaining shape deformities. They are also perfectly suited for bulk to bulk cleaning processes for the removal of missed EVM, field foreign material (FM) and packaging FM. At the final stage of the process, there is a risk of packaging FM such as wood, plastic and cardboard entering the product stream. SORTEX® sorters in the packing line are optimised to detect a wide range of foreign...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions Process highlight. Pre and post blanching. 4 SORTEX® K The SORTEX K range uses a cutting-edge, double sided detection system to remove the most challenging defects in canned or fresh applications. The high capacity sorter is able to inspect product in a blanched or unblanched state and can be equipped with PROfile™ (shape) technology for outstanding detection of EVM to remove hazardous foreign materials. The SORTEX K also features a hygienic, stainless steel frame with IP56 protection. ■■12.1 inch user-friendly touch screen interface ■■Custom-built...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions Process highlight. After IQF and in the packing line. 5 The new SORTEX F range of optical sorters for frozen fruit and vegetable processors pushes the boundaries in hygienic design with the most open and accessible frame the market has ever seen. Available in three frame sizes, the SORTEX F is perfect for small to large processors seeking maximum food safety and quality. Combine this with breakthrough sorting technologies including the SORTEX® PolarVision™ detection system and new LEDXenon lighting for unprecedented defect and foreign material...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions SORTEX® E1D The SORTEX E1D offers consistent performance over a wide range of products and complex vegetable mixes with no changes to machine settings. Efficient detection of packaging FM with Enhanced InGaAS technology removes plastic, wood and cardboard. Highspeed ejectors efficiently remove defects with minimal loss of good product. Colour measurement parameters can be adjusted to separate subtle colour differences; PROfile™ (shape) technology allows detection of defective material in real time through the measurement of multiple shape features on...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions Custom-built visible cameras SORTEX® PolarVision™ technologyInGaAsHD technology The specialist SORTEX PolarVision™ detection system brings together pioneering technologies for unprecedented, market leading foreign material removal. Innovative PolarCam™ technology targets the spectral and spatial differences between the commodity and foreign materials whilst new high-definition InGaAsHD cameras detect foreign materials in the near invisible infrared spectrum. Buhler’s high resolution colour cameras which are designed and custom-built in house remove...

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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Solutions PROfile™ technology PROfile™ technology can intelligently detect and virtually separate touching objects, allowing for higher capacity shape sorting. It can also use a combination of multiple shape parameters to remove stems and under or oversized products at the same time. High-speed Ejectors and Ejector* 128, 256, or 384 high speed, high flow ejectors efficiently remove defects and 600 mm, 1200 mm, or 1800mm viewing width ensures high product flow and low yield loss. Ejector* technology, Buhler’s most powerful ejectors, is now available on SORTEX E1D...

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