Duravant’s Food Sorting and Handling Solutions group includes operating companies Key Technology, Multiscan Technologies, PPM Technologies, and WECO will showcase its portfolio of optical sorters, specialized conveyors, and advanced turnkey processing line solutions that optimize yield, ensure product quality, reduce labor and improve operating efficiencies for food growers and processors. Key Technology will unveil its COMPASS® food optical sorter. It achieves consistently high foreign material and product defect removal while simplifying system operation, sanitation, and maintenance. Ideal for sorting a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, snack foods, and more, this sorting system helps processors automate and improve quality management of their food products, while maximizing yield and increasing profitability. It will also present its reversible Zephyr™ horizontal-motion conveyor.
WECO will be showcasing its integrated Sortivator fresh-pack line for blueberries that can be customized to incorporate systems for eliminating debris, removing soft fruit, sorting by color and/or sorting by size. Suitable for big and small operations, whether the berries are harvested mechanically or by hand, the Sortivator line provides fast, gentle, and effective blueberry sorting controlled from a single touchscreen control panel.
