Industry Insight
Focusing on sorting and grading, TOMRA Food is working with its customers to maximise value across the food chain, end to end. Our solutions improve the value of food from harvesting to processing and packing - and even to distribution and consumption, considering the great value of the digital tools and data we provide.
What challenges does the industry face at present that you feel TOMRA Food is equipped to create solutions for? TOMRA Food can help food businesses, in confectionery and other categories, face a wide range of challenges. Skilled labor scarcity, higher quality demands, increasing input costs, risks of high impact food safety events - our solutions help secure food safety; improve throughput; improve yields; deliver consistently high product quality; while reducing labor costs. These solutions help food producers improve efficiencies and profitability. They also help to protect and enhance our customers’ brands.
Why is it so important to transform as a business instead of remaining inactive?
Progress requires change and innovation; I think we all understand that. This means that if you stand still in any competitive business, you will go backwards. We have become very clear with ourselves that transformation is at the heart of everything TOMRA does. Of course, our products enable and improve the transformation of raw material into valuable products, but further: we constantly look to transform ourselves to improve how we fulfil our mission. We transform companies into more profitable, sustainable businesses. And we transform how the world’s resources are obtained, used, and reused, which also helps transform people’s everyday lives.
Anything else to note? Today’s confectionery market, like others in food, is being changed by the need for sustainability. More people are now aware that it is crucial to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and take better care of our planet’s limited resources.
Retailers and consumers want to see food
manufacturers addressing these concerns by implementing sustainable business practices and taking active measures to minimise food waste.
22 Kennedy’s Confection July 2022
“More than 12,800 TOMRA units are installed at food growers,
packers, and processors worldwide for confectionery, fruit, dried fruit, grains and seeds, potato products, proteins, nuts, and vegetables”
TOMRA’s sorters are already standard-setters in reducing
food waste, and we are constantly pushing to improve efficiencies further by employing a range of detection technologies. Our modular systems employ high-resolution RGBI cameras, different lasers, and our unique BSI (Biometric Signature Identification), which detects the biometric characteristics of objects. Through these state-of-the-art technologies, and by precisely calibrating sorters to their food-specific applications, we work tirelessly to improve the efficiency of our systems to reduce product waste and add value for our customers.
Three sorters are particularly well-suited to confectionery applications: the TOMRA 5B, a belt machine, and the Blizzard and Nimbus free-fall machines. Belt machines are generally most suitable for distinguishing the shapes of objects on the line and for hard candies that might be too fragile to land from a free-fall. Free-fall machines, which scan and separate objects in flight, are better suited to looking for discolorations. All of TOMRA’s sorting platforms are connectable to TOMRA Insight, a web-based data platform that gathers sorting data in near real-time and stores this securely in the cloud. Live data can be reacted to immediately (and remotely) to optimise machine settings; historical data can be processed into actionable information to unlock improvements in machine performance.
KennedysConfection.com
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