Key Technology Introduces VERYX Belt-Fed Digital Sorters

Key Technology introduces its VERYX belt-fed digital sorters, with a goal to improve product quality, increase yields and reduce the need for labor.

The new sorter has an innovative mechanical architecture, sustainable all-sided surface inspection, multi-sensor Pixel Fusion, the highest resolution cameras and laser sensors available on a digital sorter and it is easy to use. VERYX maximizes foreign material (FM) and defect detection and removal while virtually eliminating false rejects.

"We launched our VERYX family of digital sorters last year with the C140 chute-fed system, which is achieving great results in production environments. Now, after extensive in-field testing, we’re introducing the first belt-fed VERYX – the B175 model – to begin shipping in November 2016,” explained Marco Azzaretti, advanced inspection systems product manager at Key. “Our next- generation VERYX sorters achieve more accurate discrimination – they detect additional kinds of defects and smaller defects at the same time they sacrifice almost no good product to the reject stream. More intelligent automated decision-making minimizes the need for operator interaction and helps maintain optimal sorting performance.”

To address a wide variety of food products and production capacities, the VERYX family will grow to include chute-fed sorter configurations in two widths and belt-fed sorters in four widths. With a highly customizable modular design, Key tailors each system specifically around the product characteristics and production objectives of each processor with the ideal sensors, sensor positions, lighting, separation/ejection system, product handling, software and more. The system can easily be upgraded in the field with more or different cameras, lasers, BioPrint hyperspectral sensors and other technologies, as customer requirements evolve over time.

The VERYX B175 features a 1750-mm wide inspection area suited for mid- to high-capacity operations. Ideal for potato processors sorting wet or frozen strips and specialty potato products as well as food processors sorting vegetables, fruits or other products, the B175 can be configured to achieve two- or three-way sorting, as needed.

For food processors requiring all-sided surface inspection, Key can arrange the sensors to achieve full view of each object in the product stream with no blind spots.

You can read more onVERYX Belt-Fed Digital Sorters in the next issue of our print magazine Potato Processing International (July/Aug 2016)!