Duravant Showcases Food Sorting and Handling Equipment at Pack Expo International

Duravant's Food Sorting and Handling Solutions business, which includes operating firms Key Technology, Multiscan, PPM, and WECO, will showcase its world-class equipment and integration services at Pack Expo booth S-2852.

Duravant provides innovative optical sorters, customized conveyors, and turnkey line solutions to food processors and producers, allowing them to maximize food safety, optimize product quality, increase production, minimize manpower, and improve operating efficiency.

“The value of automated technology continues to grow as food processors and packers face an increasingly tight labor market. Innovations that make systems easier to use further help by reducing training requirements so high turnover is less costly. At the same time, AI-driven software is improving system performance and reliability, and the IIoT is enabling customers to leverage big data to optimize line efficiency while delivering quality product at the highest possible yield. From every angle, we’re focused on providing systems that solve our customer’s problems. In addition to offering more products, expanding our group’s breadth enables us to provide a wider range of integration services and line modules,” Jack Lee, Duravant Group President - Food Sorting and Handling Solutions, mentioned.

At Pack Expo, Key Technology will display its COMPASS line of optical sorters. COMPASS is the most user-friendly optical sorter on the market, boasting next-generation inspection technology such as a new sort engine and ergonomic user interface. It achieves consistently accurate foreign material (FM) and product defect removal while simplifying system operation, sanitation, and maintenance. COMPASS is ideal for a wide range of vegetables, fruits, snack foods, and other items, assisting processors in automating and improving product quality while increasing yield and profitability.

Key Technology’s reversible Zephyr horizontal-motion conveyor is also on the Pack Expo show floor. Achieving higher capacities than other horizontal-motion conveyors, Zephyr’s unique motion profile gently slides the product to convey with no segregation or stratification to protect product quality and reduce noise. The reversible Zephyr, equipped to flow in either direction, maximizes line versatility while improving sanitation and minimizing maintenance.