Spotlight on sorting
TOMRA Food speaks to Kennedy’s Confection about how sorting technologies make confectionery production safer and more efficient
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rand reputation is so important, yet in the confectionery business all it takes is one momentary slip in standards for this to be damaged and devalued. If just one batch of defective products should reach the end of the production
line - or worse still, a foreign material potentially harmful to health - the commercial repercussions can be catastrophic. Which means that installing optical sorting machines on confectionery lines is crucial not only for product quality, but also to assure food safety. Today’s sorting technologies achieve an accuracy that manual sorting simply cannot. The optical sorting machines offered by industry-leader TOMRA Food can be relied upon to detect and eject foreign materials, cross-contamination, product clumping, and malformed products. And at the same time as looking over the production line like guardian angels, automated sorters also enhance product hygiene, solve labour-related challenges, increase throughput, maximise yield, and gather data that can unlock further improvements in line efficiency.
All of this matters more now than ever before because consumers’ demands are changing. More people around the world are earning middle-class incomes and acquiring
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middle-class tastes. More are raising their expectations of food product quality. And fewer are prepared to tolerate product imperfections without complaining about them on social media platforms, where comments and photos can quickly reach and influence large audiences. Today’s confectionery market is also 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. For all of these reasons - and because confectionery ingredients can be costly - sorters must remove unwanted materials and imperfect products without also throwing away good product. That’s why TOMRA’s sorters are designed, developed, and fine-tuned on-site to eject unwanted materials with minimal product loss. To minimise food waste and maximise yield, TOMRA’s machines achieve an exceptionally low good-in-bad reject ratio - and any good product ejected from the line can be recuperated when rejected materials are double-checked by running them through a sorter for a second time.
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