Enhanced SORTEX
A and SORTEX B optical sorters empower processors to deliver clean and safe
food
London, United Kingdom, 23 April 2014 - Responding
to the increasingly complex defect challenges faced by food processors, the
Bühler Group, a global leader in optical sorting solutions, has fortified its
optical sorting portfolio for dry commodities - nuts, seeds, pulses, grain,
coffee and plastics. This comprehensive portfolio - the SORTEX A and SORTEX B
ranges - feature Bühler innovations in feed, vision and ejection systems,
underpinned by over 65 years of SORTEX technical excellence and heritage. It
will offer processors even greater levels of yield, performance and product
superiority, in their efforts to safeguard food safety standards.
Although processors may
target their output to a range of customer specifications, all must remove
particular food safety hazards from their input, and all demand consistency in
their end-product. This requires consistent and accurate sorting, along with
the fastest processing speeds and low cost of ownership. Bühler has
subsequently developed a sophisticated and flexible optical sorting product
portfolio, with a wide range of customisable product options allowing
processors to meet their exact sorting requirements.
The SORTEX A and SORTEX B
portfolio is driven by technical excellence, responding to feedback from
Bühler's customers, who require hygienic and reliable solutions to help them
deliver products that meet local and international food safety and quality
standards.
Bühler Global Product
Manager Faisal Baig affirms: "The innovations included in this portfolio
mean Bühler can now resolve more of the most demanding sorting and food safety
challenges facing the food industry, and provide efficient, impressively accurate,
high yield sorting options to a wider range of customers whilst delivering
clean and safe food."
SORTEX A range
- for the strictest levels in optical sorting
The SORTEX A has been
proven to excel in the most difficult of dry commodity food sorting
applications, where the strictest levels of food quality and safety are
non-negotiable. Variants of this range include the standard SORTEX A,
DualVision™, ColorVision™ and MultiVision™. They are available in a range of
modules to allow processors to tailor their sorting investments to their
specific capacity requirements.
Each of these variants is
capable of detecting and removing the subtlest of defects - in colour, shape or
size - that other conventional sorters cannot.
In seed processing, for example, US-based Red River Commodities Inc. –
whose commitment to food quality and safety is second to none, endorsed by the
American Institute of Baking for ‘Outstanding Excellence’ - has raised the
output quality of its sunflower seeds to a near-perfect 99.99% purity, while
simultaneously increasing yield by 50%, following the installation of a SORTEX
A ColorVision™ InGaAs machine.
Fitted with an enhanced
inspection system that can detect defects not possible with RGB technologies
alone, Red River found Bühler’s InGaAs and PROfile (shape) technology to be the
most effective solution for removing challenging foreign materials, such as
sticks, stems, stones, glass and importantly, sclerotia – a compact mass of
fungal growth.
SORTEX B range – for optimised mainstream sorting
This range is designed to
maximise yield and productivity in mainstream sorting applications which do not
require the highly-advanced technology offered by the SORTEX A range. The SORTEX B is the first choice for
conventional day to day bulk sorting, offering the assurance of Bühler's
trusted technology. It provides high
reject accuracy and process efficiency ensuring a high yield of consistent
quality end-product. The SORTEX B variants include the standard SORTEX B, DualVision™ and ColorVision™ and is available in various module sizes,
offering processors a choice of powerful solutions for their specific capcity
requirements.
Charith Gunawardena, Head
of optical sorting at Bühler, comments, "The SORTEX A and SORTEX B ranges
are further evidence of Bühler’s continuing dedication to innovation and to
developing products that help processors to overcome their food safety and quality
challenges, such as subtle defect detection and mycotoxin reduction.
Coupled with the recent
development of our all-new flagship SORTEX S UltraVision™ for rice sorting,
this latest portfolio development demonstrates Bühler’s commitment to developing
enhanced advanced and conventional sorters offering food processors the best
possible sorting solutions, whatever the difficulty of the application."
Buhler Sortex Managing
Director, Hamid Kefayati concludes, “The introduction to the global market of our
enhanced SORTEX A and SORTEX B advanced optical sorting portfolio for dry
commodities, strengthens Bühler’s position as the leading technology partner of
choice for food and non-food processors who are seeking to reduce the most
challenging defects from their products, whilst maximising yield and
capacity.
“This portfolio
demonstrates the critical role that SORTEX optical sorters play in delivering
maximum profitability in difficult sorting applications, ensuring the highest
levels of food safety and helping customers meet the most stringent of food
standards.”
Buhler Sortex is a
worldwide brand recognised for intelligent innovation and technical excellence
in optical sorting, with a sorter install base of over 25,000 machines
worldwide and a global presence in over 140 countries, underpinned by The
Bühler Group with over 150 years in process technology.
For further information,
please listen to the latest Bühler Optical Sorting podcast “Empowering the
Optical Sorting industry – the enhanced SORTEX A and SORTEX B portfolio” at www.buhlergroup.com/sortex_a
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