To sort pears, you can choose between the MSE Combicup or MSE CXL. This sorting unit has specially shaped cups, which ensure that the pears keep lying properly during transport along the system. The Combicup is specially intended for round pears, the CXL for larger varieties.

 

The MSE type is a tried and tested system of which more than 1,000 have been sold worldwide. The maximum speed is 4 pears per second per lane. The system is available with 2, 4, 6, 8 or a maximum of 10 lanes.

 

If your sorting unit is equipped with the intelligent Quality Sorter (iQS), pears can be sorted by external characteristics. The iQS system includes cameras to take up to 70 pictures of every pear during its passage along the singulator. This allows for detection of deviations of as little as one square millimetre.

 

The intelligent Flavour Analyser (iFA) allows for assessment of the internal quality of a pear. This module analyses aspects such as the brix value and even internal quality characteristics such as internal brownness or core rot. iFA uses a light source to make a spectrum analysis which gives an assessment of the entire piece of fruit instead of just a small part of it.

 

Nature is full of surprises, and misshapen fruit is one of them. However, buyers generally require uniform fruit and vegetables of standard size and good quality. That’s why, for many years, we have supplied sorting modules which sort by size, weight and colour, either simultaneously or independent of one another.

 

Infrared CCD cameras are used for sorting by size. An option is to combine the camera measurement with electronic sorting by colour and/or weight.

Sorting by size is adjustable in increments of 0.1 mm. The range of the size sorting process varies per product. The number of measuring groups you can adjust on the unit depends on the product and the sorting unit type.
The size sorting module also allows for selection of short and long pieces of fruit of the same diameter. This sorting by length is done in millimetres or as a proportion in relation to the diameter.

 

A colour CCD camera system is used to sort the fruit by colour. The colour of the entire piece of fruit is displayed with this system which is not affected by possible reflections from the fruit. The range of the colour sorting process amounts to 1023 pixels, from green to red. The number of colour groups you can preset varies per product and per unit.
Furthermore, it is possible to determine the so-called blush of non-equally coloured fruit (red value percentage compared to the lighter background colour). This will allow you to quantify the external added value of your fruit.

 

The fruit is weighed by means of a precise 3-point weighing process which is adjustable in increments of 1 gram. The weighing range varies per unit and per product. The same holds for the number of weight groups you can preset.