Duravant’s newly formed Food Sorting and Handling Solutions group includes operating companies Key Technology, Multiscan Technologies, PPM Technologies, and WECO. The group provides a range of optical sorters, specialized conveyors, and advanced turnkey processing line solutions.
Key Technology recently introduced its new COMPASS® family of food optical sorters, ideal for sorting processed, frozen, and pre-processed vegetables and fruits, nuts, leafy greens, potato chips, confections, and other food products.
UK-based potato packers Cockerill have purchased four additional Key Technology Herbert OCULUS optical sorters for whole potatoes, which automate defect removal to improve production efficiencies while ensuring final product quality.
Key Technology has introduced the enhanced Herbert OCULUS optical sorter for whole potatoes. Ideal for fresh market potatoes or whole potatoes prior to processing, the enhanced system improves performance to better find and remove potatoes with defects.
Mariani, dried fruit industry leader, recently decided to employ a VERYX® optical sorter from Key Technology to find and remove foreign material and product defects to make grade while maximizing yield.
Key Technology has introduced its new #16 Air Cleaner system for food processing facilities, featuring a new fan, motor, screen, and chamber configuration.
Key Technology has announced its new, AI-driven Sort-to-Grade®
software for Key digital sorters, which recognizes and categorizes the surface defects and length of individual potato strips.