TOMRA and GRIMME joine forces

Belgium

Tuesday 05 December 2017

GRIMME Group has joined forces with TOMRA, the global leader in food sorting solutions. Caption from left to right: Maurice Moynihan (Director Strategic Marketing & Business Development at TOMRA Sorting Food, Richard Weiss (Managing Director Purchasing & Production at GRIMME), Sebastian Talg (Managing Director Sales at GRIMME) & Thomas Molnar (Global Sales and Marketing Director at TOMRA Sorting Food).

GRIMME will distribute the TOMRA FPS so customers can purchase and deploy a single, integrated grading and sorting solution, including post-sale support.

With the newly launched PowerCombi, GRIMME uses the combination of highly efficient mechanical separation mechanisms and electronic sorting to not only increase separation accuracy of up to 98 percent, but also to increase capacity up to 100 tonnes per hour, a 25 percent improvement on previous systems. As a result, fewer employees are required to check for waste products and therefore labor costs are considerably reduced.

Using TOMRA’s unique multispectral infrared sensing, the FPS scans the product stream in-air and can differentiate between good, typically soil-coated potatoes and stones, soil clods, cans, wood, and other foreign objects, which are rejected by high speed ejectors. The potatoes continue unharmed through the machine and onto the takeaway conveyors.

Ashley Hunter, Senior Vice President and Head of TOMRA Sorting Food, said: "We are excited about this new cooperation with GRIMME after two years of field evaluations to offer improved quality and yield improvements to our mutual customers through increased integration between grading and sorting solutions.

“Current and new customers will see new levels of service, support and productivity from the work we’ll do together with GRIMME.”

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