With belt speeds of up to 5.2 m/s, our optical sorting machine is ideally suited for industrial vegetable processing. Key benefits for vegetable processors include processing of high vegetable volumes per hour, increased production capacity and productivity, and no bottleneck in the processing line. Even at high speed, sorting accuracy and grading quality are maintained.

The system uses targeted air pulses to remove individual off-spec products. Benefits include the highly accurate ejection of defective vegetables while good product is preserved, resulting in less product loss. This is essential for fragile products such as leafy greens and cut vegetables.

Sustainability and efficient energy use play an increasingly important role in vegetable processing. The OptiServe system delivers up to 50% lower compressed air consumption, reduced operational costs, more sustainable production processes and a lower CO₂ impact. In this way, our technology combines productivity, manufacturing efficiency and sustainability.

Different vegetable streams call for different sorting strategies. Our system therefore supports multiple configurations for different quality streams and grading classes: 2-way sorting (good product / reject), 3-way sorting (flexible settings: premium quality / standard quality / reject) and reverse sorting (separating good products from the reject stream). This makes it easy for vegetable processors to create different quality classes and to split premium and standard vegetable streams.

Alongside sorting, our system collects valuable production data – the number of sorted products, defect rate, shape and size distribution, and quality variation per batch. This data supports quality control, process optimization, production analysis and modern industrial automation strategies. Sorting becomes a core source of insight for continuous improvement of manufacturing efficiency.