TOMRA Sorting Food is set to launch a new sorting machine, TOMRA 5A, at Pack Expo 2016 in Chicago, November 6-9. 

The TOMRA 5A supports processors by combining a graphical user interface with stable sorting performance, while increasing the level of food safety and quality with minimal product waste.

With food safety and quality being a top priority for consumers and processors alike, this machine achieves optimum performance with the new peel control module, an extra add-on system. The TOMRA 5A also boasts a sorting capacity of 55 tons of potatoes an hour.

The peel control module, which can connect to multiple sorting machines, takes potato data from the TOMRA 5A sorter for dependable measurements of the peel removal levels. Using proven process control techniques to achieve the desired peel removal, the optimal steam time is then calculated and sent directly to the steam peeler. Consequently, the result is lower peel loss and less food waste, with no operator supervision required.

The TOMRA 5A ensures superior foreign material removal, effectively discarding items such as corn cobs, wood, stems, plastics, glass and even stray golf balls. It has an intuitive and functional graphical user interface design, which makes it convenient for all operators.

Jim Frost, marketing unit manager, comments: “A faster response to varying product conditions, with an output of more consistent product quality and higher yields, is now possible, regardless of who is operating the TOMRA 5A. There is no longer a need for a specialist to operate and adjust the sorter.” 

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