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The first electronic sorters used eddy-current sensing.

The facility showcases Buhler's market-leading Sortex optical sorter equipment featuring a Sortex E1D for frozen fruit and vegetables and Sortex K2P machine for fresh products.

Buhler Sortex will be adding Anyware software, a tool which enables it to monitor sorter performance remotely via an internet connection.

These accessories were added to the second generation sorters to stop overhanging straps from getting caught on the mechanical tipping gear and field devices." He added: "There is only one way to deal with an unpredictable array of baggage that is loaded onto high speed tilt tray sorters and that is to induct the bag accurately onto the centre of the tray."

Conveyors then pass by manual sorters who remove non-PET containers that have made it into the bales, including enough crushed aluminum cans to regularly fill a truck trailer for shipment to a secondary aluminum producer.

"He told me that anyone could walk up and make the color sorter work on the Prism," Griep recalls.

When packing lines were remodeled, experienced cherry sorters performed their jobs with greater accuracy and were much less tired at the end of the day.

The versatility of these sorters provides multiple solutions--including returns, routing and shipping--within a single sorter.

"In developing our latest SORTEX ElC optical colour sorter, we had nut processors firmly in mind.

By automating the routine testing of Tegra's ejection system valves, processors of foodstuffs are able to easily detect potential problems more frequently and with greater accuracy, enabling them to take the corrective action that may be needed to operate the sorter at peak performance.

This year we're also putting in a number of optical sorters on our lines to better segregate our plastic container mix."

With a flexible, modular design, the S-3000M integrates into existing systems and facilities, and offers easier capacity expansion than some other sorters.

Trout, Blue Chelan has four 10-lane cup sizers with color sorters, and one nine-lane sorter.