TOMRA News about Food processing and sorting
How food processors and packhouses are improving efficiencies with new solutions powered by artificial intelligence
Two recent product launches have shown how AI is changing food processing. James French, Head of Innovation at TOMRA Fresh Food, explains how AI is already adding value and why its importance will grow.
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Game-changing sorters are fighting the threat of toxic weeds in green vegetables
Toxic datura and nightshade weeds are more often harvested with crops such as green beans and baby leaf spinach, with the risk of getting into the final product. However, an advanced sorting technology is proving to be a game-changer. Jacob Hobbel, TOMRA Food’s Global Category Director for Vegetables & Fruits, explains how to mitigate this risk.
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TOMRA Food reveals first details about its new Research Orchard
Scientific research into the causes and effects of growing conditions on fruit will make sorting and grading even more effective
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TOMRA Food appoints new head of sales for TOMRA Fresh Food business area
New role to strengthen TOMRA’s global support of fresh fruit and vegetable packhouses
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Why digital transformation matters to food processors and packhouses
Though digital technologies are still young, they are already improving operational efficiencies and have the power to help improve profitability in other ways too. Felix Flemming, Head of Digital at TOMRA Food and Recycling, explains.
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How closer collaboration between solutions suppliers is keeping processors and packhouses ahead of the game
With processing machinery becoming more interconnected, new business partnerships are making day-to-day operations easier at processors and packhouses. They are also accelerating the development of new solutions. Bjorn Thumas, TOMRA Food’s Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions and Partnerships, explains.
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How kiwifruit packhouses can keep pace with the industry's changing demands
Packing lines can increase throughput, improve product quality, and enhance profitability with modern sorting and grading solutions. Tim Grieve, TOMRA Food’s Global Category Director for Kiwifruit, explains.
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Helping vegetable processors achieve food safety and product quality
Guaranteeing food safety. Protecting brand reputations. Complying with product specifications. Minimizing food waste. Maximizing yields. Protecting profitability. Too many challenges for the growers, processors and packers of fresh, fresh-cut, canned, frozen and dried vegetables! Challenges which would be so much easier if foreign materials didn’t get mixed up with freshly harvested vegetables. Or if every batch of vegetables didn’t contain sub-standard product. Or if the presence of these unwanted materials on the processing line wasn’t sometimes almost impossible to detect. The good news is that optical sorting machines can deal with all these challenges.
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How avocado packhouses can boost capacity and meet rising quality expectations
Here we take a brief look at the challenges currently facing avocado packhouses; how retailers’ requirements are expected to change; and why state-of-the-art sorting and grading solutions not only enhance packing efficiencies but also put packhouses in better shape for the future.
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How modern sorting, grading and packing solutions are making tomato packhouses more competitive
Tomatoes are one of life’s blessings. For growers, tomatoes give a high yield and are in strong demand. For consumers, tomatoes are packed with healthy antioxidants, nutrients, and vitamins. For processed food manufacturers, tomatoes add color, flavor, and natural goodness to juices, pastes, purees, sauces, and ketchup. And for food processing lines, tomatoes are a swelling revenue stream.
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How sorting technologies make confectionery production safer and more efficient
Today’s sorting technologies achieve an accuracy that manual sorting simply cannot. The optical sorting machines offered by industry-leader TOMRA Food can be relied upon to detect and eject foreign materials, cross-contamination, product clumping, and malformed products. And at the same time as looking over the production line like guardian angels, automated sorters also enhance product hygiene, solve labor-related challenges, increase throughput, maximize yield, and gather data that can unlock further improvements in line efficiency.
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TOMRA Food wins award for its contribution to the development of China's small berry industry
Industry experts in China applaud TOMRA for setting new standards in sorting and grading solutions with AI technology
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How nut processors can gain from the latest sorting technologies
It’s not easy for nut processors to ensure food safety or meet customers’ product specifications. For one thing, foreign material and shell fragments can get into the processing line’s product stream. For another, nuts can be damaged by both by external and internal defects which can be almost impossible to detect. There’s also the risk posed by allergens if one type of nut should unintentionally get mixed with another. Yet all of these threats have to be eliminated to protect processors and retailers from product recalls and reputational damage.
This is achievable thanks to the extraordinary effectiveness of state-of-the-art optical sorting machines.
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This is achievable thanks to the extraordinary effectiveness of state-of-the-art optical sorting machines.
How potato growers and processors can gain from the latest sorting technologies
TOMRA Food’s industry-leading sorting technologies - optical
sorting machines, application-specific modules, multi-lane sorters, and the TOMRA Insight data platform - are extraordinarily effective. And sorting solutions are now available for a wide variety of potato products - everything from potatoes just taken out of the ground or storage to fresh pack, chips (crisps), French Fries, other frozen products (such as wedges, slices, and hash browns), and dehydrated flakes and granules.
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sorting machines, application-specific modules, multi-lane sorters, and the TOMRA Insight data platform - are extraordinarily effective. And sorting solutions are now available for a wide variety of potato products - everything from potatoes just taken out of the ground or storage to fresh pack, chips (crisps), French Fries, other frozen products (such as wedges, slices, and hash browns), and dehydrated flakes and granules.
TOMRA Food to share expert insights at world avocado congress
Leader in sorting, grading, and packing solutions to host industry events, show new packing line solution, and make presentations on latest technologies.
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Ten good reasons why "trusted togetherness" boosts profitability at food processors and packhouses
One of the most successful businessmen of all time, the American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, identified teamwork as “the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” The influential business consultant Ken Blanchard put it another way: “None of us is as smart as all of us.” In other words, even the cleverest, most focused, hardest-working people can achieve more when they collaborate with others. This is certainly true at food processing plants and packhouses, where efficiencies depend not only on the line equipment, but also on the teamwork of the people managing and operating it.
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How end-to-end line solutions for cherry packhouses are improving efficiencies and profitability
Changes in the cherries business are bringing new challenges as global demand is rising and exports are booming. Packhouses are under pressure to handle greater volumes and at the same, they must also maintain or improve product quality. There are sensor based solutions that make this possible as Benedetta Ricci Iamino, Global Category Director for Cherries at TOMRA Food, explains.
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TOMRA Food spotlights artificial intelligence and demonstrates sorting, grading, and packing solutions at Fruit Logistica Berlin
Industry leader highlights the growing importance of AI to the food industry and demonstrates its wide-ranging solutions with a holographic display
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TOMRA Food appoints new regional sales director for North America for its processed food business area
New appointment is the latest of numerous initiatives strengthening customer support in TOMRA's biggest market
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How citrus packhouses can improve profitability with the latest sorting and grading solutions
Citrus packhouses are striving to meet evermore demanding quality expectations, yet must also increase quantities and improve yields. This is a tricky balancing act, but it can be done, as Clinton Jeffries, Global Category Director Citrus at TOMRA Food, explains.
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TOMRA Food maximizes protein's profitability from meat poultry rendering and pet food
Maximizing protein's profitability from meat, poultry, rendering and pet food
TOMRA digital transformation presentation with Brendan O'Donnell
As the leader in optical sorting technology, TOMRA is committed to developing and adapting new technologies to help almond processors create higher value products and maximize grower returns without sacrificing profitability. In this video, TOMRA reveals how big data and analytics are used to uncover hidden inefficiencies, unlocking the potential of your process with the power of information and providing accessibility all the way to your mobile device.
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Removing lethal aflatoxins from pet food
As a large number of product recalls recently showed, plant-based ingredients in pet foods can hide a dangerous poison. The near-invisible threat is aflatoxin, one of the mycotoxins produced by certain molds (fungi) on plants such as corn, grain and tree nuts. When this slips into the food chain undetected, it can harm pets and pet food manufacturers’ reputations.
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TOMRA Food announces new organization
TOMRA Food announced today its new organization focused on two business areas, Fresh Food and Processed Food. This change creates a powerful organization, unique in the world, which brings together the most extensive technology portfolio, the widest array of Research & Development skills, and the strongest global footprint in the sector.
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How tuna processors are improving profitability with a new sorting technology
Tuna processing is demanding, fiddly, and hugely labor intensive. So many people are involved in removing bones and scales from the fish, and in separating the differing colors and qualities of meat, that the risk of human errors is ever-present. So too are the risks of worker-related foreign materials, such as clothing fibers and strands of hair, falling into the product.
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Solving the challenge of potato processing for kettle chips
The booming popularity of kettle chips (known in some parts of the world as ‘crisps’) brings potato processors a mixture of opportunities and challenges. Opportunities lie in the strong demand for a potato-based product that commands a premium price. Challenges arise because what originated as a low-volume ‘artisan’ snack must now be produced in vast and faultless quantities for big-brand retailers with reputations to protect.
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Vegetables - a critical part of the future of food
Today, we are delighted to give the stage to Jason Schenker, Chairman of the Futurist Institute; President of Prestige Economics and bestselling writer on many innovative topics, such as future food challenges.
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The multiple benefits of sorting cashews with machines
Cashew processing in India is getting more challenging, especially considering manual labor and the current global environmet. Maximizing quality is especially important to maintaining India’s reputation as a premium cashew market and perhaps the best weapon to have in the battle for product quality and commercial competitiveness is optical sorting machines. Acquiring such machines is a significant financial decision, but also a wise investment that pays back with rich rewards.
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Potato fresh packers are finding that sorting machines solve many challenges
Running a potato fresh pack line involves keeping an eye on so many variables that it can seem like juggling – and now, because of COVID-19, there are more balls to keep in the air. Performing the seemingly impossible can become possible, however, when TOMRA Food provides a helping hand. TOMRA’s optical sorting machines, well known for sorting to high levels of accuracy with low levels of waste, also solve a wide range of pack line challenges which have intensified since the emergence of COVID-19.
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Quality is vital for leafy greens
With the demand for fresh, convenient and healthy food growing among consumers, leafy greens are the order of the day. From fresh cut to pre-washed and pre-packaged products, this is a rapidly growing market with significant potential.
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How Digitalization of the Supply Chain will reduce global food waste
The scale of the global food waste problem is staggering. According to reports, 1.6 billion tons of food are lost or wasted every year, equating to a total value of $1.2 trillion being wiped from the supply chain. With one-third of the total amount of food produced globally being misused, the industry needs to look towards innovation and digitalization to combat this ever-growing trend.
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Resolving challenges in peanut process industry
With global peanut production huffing past the 45 million metric ton mark in 2018, according to International Nut and Dry Fruit Board, the global appetite for this unassuming ground nut has been skyrocketing. Not only have peanuts established themselves as an increasingly versatile food item in the human diet, but their consumption is distributed globally, with China producing and consuming approximately 40% of the produce.
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