Advanced fruit sorting platform
Optimize your operations with a cutting-edge sorting solution designed to enhance product integrity, ensure hygienic processing, and gently handle delicate produce, making it ideal for achieving superior sorting and grading efficiency in high-speed production environments.
Sorts and Grades Fruits and Produce Efficiently
The TOMRA 5S Advanced from TOMRA Food is a cutting-edge fruit and produce sorting platform designed to elevate your processing capabilities. This equipment excels in precise sorting and grading, accommodating a broad spectrum of foods including fruits, nuts, potatoes, and vegetables. It operates with a gentle handling mechanism using sculpted stainless steel and polymer surfaces that minimize product damage. The platform seamlessly integrates into your production line with high-speed, continuous operation, handling various stages such as sorting, grading, and singulation with ease.
Capable of sorting a wide array of end products like apple slices, avocado cubes, citrus segments, and fresh pack potato wedges, its application extends further into nuts and dried fruits, maintaining a consistent quality output. It can process substantial throughput due to its robust design, featuring individual drum drives and dual-tipping carriers, enhancing reliability through its newly designed food chain that reduces wear and optimizes chain-stretch.
Automated via a digital heart, the TOMRA 5S Advanced facilitates integration with cloud-based platforms like TOMRA Insight for seamless data management and future-proofing. Its ultra-hygienic design ensures quick and easy cleaning, utilizing toolless component removal and isolated weigh bridges to prevent cross-contamination. TOMRA Food offers comprehensive customization and support services, making this equipment a vital asset in modern processing environments.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality and reduces waste through precise sorting and grading.
- Saves time and labor costs with quick, toolless cleaning and maintenance.
- Protects delicate produce with gentle handling mechanisms, reducing damage and spoilage.
- Future-proofs operations with cloud-based data connectivity and analytics.
- Ensures compliance with ultra-hygienic design and food-safe materials.
- Applications
- Grains, Dried fruit, Potatoes, Protein, Pet food, Confectionery, Nuts, Coffee beans, Vegetables, Seeds, Fruit
- End products
- Pecan halves, Pet food kibbles, Pistachio kernels, Avocado cubes, Cherry tomatoes, Macadamia nuts, Chocolate-covered nuts, Citrus segments, Walnut pieces, Fresh pack potato wedges, Apple slices, Gherkins, Hazelnut halves, Broccoli florets, Dried banana chips, Roasted coffee beans, Dehydrated vegetable flakes, Cauliflower florets, Cashew kernels, Pickled cucumbers, Frozen french fries, Kiwifruit slices, Almond slivers, Peanut butter bases, Raisin packs, Carrot sticks, Dried cranberry pieces
- Steps before
- Harvesting, Transportation, Pre-sorting, Washing
- Steps after
- Packing, Quality control, Distribution, Storage
- Input ingredients
- apples, avocados, citrus fruits, kiwifruit, fresh pack potatoes
- Output ingredients
- sorted apples, sorted avocados, sorted citrus fruits, sorted kiwifruit, sorted fresh pack potatoes
- Market info
- TOMRA is known for its expertise in sensor-based solutions for resource productivity, particularly in recycling, food sorting, and mining industries, offering advanced technology to improve resource recovery and efficiency, enhancing sustainability and operational performance.
- Automation
- Cloud-based connectivity
- Component Material
- Stainless steel / Food-grade polymers
- Hygiene Features
- Ultra-hygienic, easy clean design
- Cleaning Time
- 5–10 minutes
- Handling Type
- Gentle handling with sculpted surfaces
- Sorting Type
- Multi-fruit versatility
- Sorting Precision
- Advanced grading performance
- Ejection Method
- Dual-sided, intelligent algorithm-based
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Changeover time
- 5-10 minutes
- Gentle handling
- Stainless steel and molded polymer surfaces
- Cleanability
- Easy to clean
- Biological compatibility
- Food-grade materials
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Material used
- Stainless steel / Food-grade polymers
- Feed/discharge method
- Sculpted surfaces for gentle handling
- Carrier design
- Single carrier for singulation, rotation, weighing, and ejection
- Discharge method
- Dual-sided tipping with intelligent algorithms
- Cleaning design
- Toolless and quick-release components
- Polymer chutes,backstops,sweeps
- Virtually indestructible, easy to clean
- Clip out design
- Yes, for easy maintenance
- Control panel type
- Digital / HMI
- Toolless removal
- Yes
- Customizable design
- Stainless steel, polymer surfaces