Key Technology, a member of Duravant’s Food Sorting and Handling Solutions group, has introduced optical sorters for processed protein products, such as frozen chicken nuggets, chicken tenders, fish sticks, plant-based meat alternatives and more.

Automatically removing product defects and foreign material, Key’s optical sorters including Compass and Veryx are designed to help optimise product quality while improving yield and reducing labour. The optical sorters detect the colour, size, shape and/or structural properties of every object to identify and remove a variety of product defects including clumps of product, clumps of breading/batter and product that has not been formed, cooked or coated correctly.

Foreign material (FM), such as plastic, metal, glass and paper, that may have been accidentally introduced to the production line is also removed. For processed protein applications, optical sorting is most often utilized immediately prior to packaging for final inspection but may also be utilized upstream to inspect incoming ingredients.

 

Veryx optical sorter for processed protein products from Key Technology
 

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