Optical Sorting
Browse our machinesWhat is Optical Sorting?
Optical sorting is the process of sorting products or items using lasers and cameras.
Optical sorting is used across a wide range of industries, including food processing, recycling, pharmaceuticals, and mining.
Within food production, optical sorting is used to identify and remove defective produce and foreign objects, as well as grade crop and vegetables based on size and quality.
What does an optical sorter do?
The accuracy of an optical sorter means that produce with small defects, irregularities in shapes, and even disease can be identified and removed from the production line.
Optical sorting means a faster production process as the lasers and cameras can sort produce at a much faster speed than the human eye. It also minimises mistakes and reduces the chances of recall.
The data gathered by optical sorting can also be used to measure growth rates, consistency of crop, and throughput levels in real time.
MAF RODA Optical Sorting
MAF Roda offers quality optical sorting equipment suitable for effective grading of onions, potatoes, garlic, Brussel sprouts and more.
Tong is the official UK distributor of MAF Roda grading equipment, including highly effective optical sorters which perform highly accurate external and internal vegetable quality sorting.
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TOMRA 3A Optical Sorter
This TOMRA 3A optical sorter offers high capacity optical sorting of dirty crop, featuring durable and powerful optical sorting technology for high quality results.
The TOMRA 3A can also be fully integrated with Tong equipment as well as customised to meet your individual requirements with capacities of up to 100 tons per hour.
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Visar Potato & Carrot Optical Sorting
Tong is proud to be the UK’s sole distributor of the Swiss Visar Sortop optical sorters – offering high-quality optical grading and sorting of carrots and potatoes.
With 360 degree infrared vision, the Sortop offers the unique ability to detect any defect, as well as grading and weighing crop with great precision.
Check out the VISAR Optical Sorter