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lettuce, mixed lettuce, potatoes, french fries, chips and
specialty potato products.
McCall Farms, one of the U.S.'s leading providers of
canned vegetables and fruit located in Effingham, South
Carolina, is a TOMRA 5B user. The machine helped the
operation increase its annual green bean production from
18 million to 204 million cans.
" The performance superiority of TOMRA's sorters
is staggering, " Amanda Salisbury, McCall Farms
maintenance superintendent, said. " It's a delight to watch
them perform. We got results above expectations - a
99% removal rate for all defects. Our product quality has
risen substantially. "
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The TOMRA 5C can detect and reject nightshade
and datura in IQF vegetables even after the weeds are
reduced in size by slicing and even after datura has lost
its spikes.
Sorting accuracy, including low false-reject rates,
is achieved by combining sensors and high-resolution
lasers with TOMRAs.
With BSI, every object passing down the processing
line is assessed for color and biological characteristics.
By looking inside materials with next-generation
spectral imaging, then comparing what's " seen " to
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information stored in a database, BSI contrasts good
and bad materials and can detect smaller defects than
conventional spectral technology.
With AI machine learning, the TOMRA 5C continually
improves the accuracy of its defect detection. AI also
empowers defect classification software so machine
operators can set new sorting programs.
Big data analysis is made possible by connecting the
TOMRA 5C to the customer portal and cloud-based data
platform TOMRA Insight. By accessing live data from the
sorter, operators can improve line efficiencies. Also, by
accessing data retrospectively, it is possible to quantify
the standards of raw materials from suppliers.
Virto Group, a producer of quick-freezing vegetables
with 15 specialty centers in 10 countries, recently updated
its main plant in Spain with 11 BSI+-equipped sorters.
" Our main objective was to take a quantum leap in new
technologies for foreign material sorting, " José Antonio
Baldero, technical manager for Virto Group, said. Francisco
Casas, in charge of sorting at Virto, said the company was
impressed with the BSI+ technology's high-performance,
configurable programs and low false rejection rates.
" Our new TOMRA units can do things that were
complicated before we had them, " Casas said.
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