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Advanced laser sorting technology inspects potatoes beyond the surface, helping detect hidden defects, internal quality issues and foreign materials that conventional camera systems may miss.
August 16, 2026
Laser Sorting Raises the Bar for Quality and Food Safety in Potato Products
Optimum Sorting's laser technology detects hidden defects, foreign materials, wet centers, soft rot and solanine in potatoes, fries and chips, delivering high-precision sorting with 0.3 mm resolution and up to 3,333 scans per second.
DOWNS Crop Vision Plus
November 24, 2024
DOWNS launches improved high-throughput optical sorter for unwashed potatoes: the CropVision Plus
Following the success of the CropVision launched in 2020, DOWNS, a leader in potato reception, automated sorting, and storage, introduces its new high-throughput optical sorter for unwashed potatoes: the CropVision Plus.
Tolsma-Grisnich Optical Potato Sorter Optica Q
November 13, 2024
InterPom 2024: Tolsma-Grisnich Introduces Its Optica Q Sorter and Efficient Refrigeration Systems
At this year’s edition of InterPom, Tolsma-Grisnich company specialists will showcase labor and energy-saving solutions meant to support the agri-food sector to efficiently produce quality food.
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October 28, 2024
INTERPOM 2024: Energy boost for a potato sector in accelerated transition
INTERPOM is the most specialized indoor trade fair in Europe for the entire potato chain. From November 24 to 26, 2024, 330 exhibitors from 15 countries will welcome growers, contractors, processors, packers, buyers, and traders of fresh and processed potatoes to their stands at Kortrijk Xpo.
Discover Kiremko at Interpom 2024: Leading the Way in Potato Processing Innovation
September 16, 2024
Discover Kiremko at Interpom 2024: Leading the Way in Potato Processing Innovation
Are you planning to attend the Interpom trade fair in Kortrijk, Belgium, from November 24 to 26, 2024? Make sure to stop by Kiremko's booth! As a market leader in potato processing machinery, Kiremko, along with theirv trusted partners Idaho Steel and Reyco, will be showcasing the latest innovations in the industry.
Sackett Ranch meets the high standards of the United States' most popular potato chip brand by using TOMRA Sorters
March 15, 2024
Sackett Ranch meets the high standards of the United States' most popular potato chip brand by using TOMRA Sorters
The Sackett family has been growing potatoes in Michigan for six generations since first planting 20 acres of the crop in 1905.
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TOMRA Insight Foreign Materials Identification
November 02, 2023
TOMRA Food wins International FoodTec Award for foreign material identification
The foreign material identification accuracy of TOMRA Food's sorting and grading solutions has won a prestigious International FoodTec Award for 'using artificial intelligence and cloud technology to improve food safety, quality, and traceability while increasing process efficiency'.
Potato Europe 2023
September 19, 2023
Potato Europe 2023 attracts increasingly international crowd
Potato Europe 2023, recently held in Tournai, Belgium, became more international than we saw in the past years. Visitors from all around the world visited the event to see the latest European potato technologies.
Marco Colombo, Global Category Director for Potatoes at TOMRA, Potato Europe 2023
September 12, 2023
TOMRA Food showcased new-generation, AI-Equipped TOMRA 3A Sorter at Potato Europe
Visitors to Potato Europe, the outdoor exhibition for potato cultivation and machinery (Tournai, Belgium, 6-7 September), were the first to see in action the latest-generation TOMRA 3A sorting machine.
Virto Group facility
September 08, 2023
Capabilities of modern sorters illustrated with a toxic weeds challenge for 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. Today, advanced sorting technology is capable to deal with these challenges
DOWNS I-CropVision
September 01, 2023
The potato optical grader I-CropVision by DOWNS to be launched at Potato Europe 2023 in Belgium
DOWNS has extended its range of optical potato sorters with the arrival of the I-CropVision®: a modular version of the CropVision®, it incorporates the same technology and numerous benefits.
OCULUS identifies and removes potatoes with diseases and defects, as well as potatoes outside the specified length and width profile, if desired
November 22, 2022
Key Technology to Showcase Systems for Fresh and Processed Potatoes at Interpom 2022
Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, is exhibiting their Herbert OCULUS whole potato sorter and showcasing their range of other high-performance solutions for fresh and processed potatoes and vegetables in booth #257 at Interpom
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