Your Challenge

A couple of gummy bears without ears? A stray splinter of wood in a bag of licorice?

Today, more than ever before, quality problems can put your reputation at risk. After all, candy is an eminently emotional product. Consumers are not only more demanding, but also more empowered. Before you know it, negative reactions are easily shared on Facebook and Twitter - from dissatisfied candy lovers, to concerned parents. One destructive post is often enough to completely damage your reputation. The reach of social media is large and the Internet never forgets.
Moreover, the rules on food safety are being tightened worldwide. It’s no different for candy, which is an extremely competitive market. In addition, medicines and vitamins in gums are becoming increasingly popular. And if there’s one sector that places high demands on food safety and quality, it’s pharmaceuticals.
​So compromises on quality are out of the question, but you don’t want to put your profitability at risk. In short, it is important to optimize your sorting process: detect as many foreign materials and defects as possible, without unnecessarily removing good candy.

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The Novus is available in different sizes. Its maximum scanning width of 2400 mm makes it the widest optical belt sorter on the market. The NOVUS may be used for many different applications: fresh, dried or frozen potato products, fruit and vegetables, crustaceans and shellfish, confectionery and nuts.

  • widest optical belt sorter
  • excellent good-to-bad ratio
  • unique three-in-one combination of camera, laser and metal detection
  • sorting on the basis of color, shape, structure and biological and magnetic properties
  • superior resolution
  • advanced sorting software using AI
  • optimal flexibility and integration options
  • perfect hygiene
  • fast product switching
  • 24/7 (remote) service

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The VENTUS may be equipped with up to 16 lasers (and 32 laser detectors). With an impressive laser scanning speed of more than 4000 scans per second, it offers the highest resolution of all laser sorters on the market. In addition, all different laser signals are processed simultaneously by our Multi Dimensional Laser System (MDL) system, which outperforms all other systems.

In order to get an excellent good-to-bad ratio even for the smallest products, you can equip it with a high-resolution valve system: ultra-fast and small blowing jets with a center-to-center distance of 4.6 mm.

  • widest double-sided free-fall laser sorter
  • robust, advanced lasers
  • excellent good-to-bad ratio
  • sorting on the basis of color, shape, structure and biological characteristics
  • superior resolution
  • advanced sorting software using AI
  • optimal flexibility and integration options
  • perfect hygiene
  • fast product switching
  • 24/7 (remote) service

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Features & benefits

Optimum Sorting

Multidimensional image processing

Most image processing algorithms reduce the RGBi signal of a colour camera from four to two dimensions. This may result in the loss of valuable information. All signals, both from the cameras and from the different lasers, are interpreted simultaneously by means of our algorithms, resulting in a more accurate detection of foreign objects and defects, plus a lower risk of false detections.

Precision ejection system

Accurate defect detection is pointless without an equally accurate ejection system. The distance between our air ducts, centre-to-centre is 7.5 mm instead of the usual 10 mm. Thus there are more ducts that are able to blow more effectively and that improves the ejection accuracy. There is also a high-resolution valve system with a centre-to-centre distance of 5 mm for specific applications. Optionally, also a double reject system is available resulting into a 3-way sort.

Data view

Why not use the data recorded by the cameras to adjust your sorting process where necessary? An optional module that filters data to parameters of your choice - length, shape, colour, defect level, etc. - and makes them available to your operators in a clear numerical or graphical way, so that they can intervene if desired. This module lays the basis for ‘sort to spec’.


Exceptional user-friendliness

Visual calibration

Setting acceptance thresholds is often time-consuming and complex. This is not the case with Optimum Sorting systems. Your operators no longer have to work with graphs or formulae themselves. Our machines can easily be calibrated by selecting images of acceptable and unacceptable products.

Intuitive GUI with AI

Thanks to the CUMULUS sorting platform with Artificial Intelligence, operating our sorting machines is child's play. Your operators see all relevant information at a glance.

Remote control

If you want to operate your sorting machines centrally, then no problem! Our solutions are easily integrated into your network, so that your operators and supervisors can keep an eye on things from any network computer.


Superior hygiene and efficiency

Optimum Sorting systems are made from stainless steel and all components to be cleaned are easily accessible. This way hygiene is guaranteed and cleaning costs you hardly any time and effort.

Moreover our machines are designed in such a way that any contamination has no impact on the sorting. Furthermore, they excel in stability, which means that your sorting process requires virtually no manual intervention. You can switch from one product to another or from one specification to another with just one press of a button.

And finally, their sturdy construction offers you a maximum uptime with minimum maintenance.


Partners

The world is our market place, the joined forces of product, process and country specialists make the difference between a good and the best product. We cannot do this by ourselves only, but make use of our partnerships with true professionals and market-leaders. Together with our partners we can delivery you turn-key tailor made solutions. You will benefit for the combination of our knowledge.