"We've been all over the world and Compac were by far the single best solution"
- Filmore-Piru Citrus
Citrus
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac works with the worlds leading citrus packhouses. We deliver unrivalled performance in terms of speed, handling, blemish detection and sorting accuracy.
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac has over 30 years experience designing and building integrated citrus packhouse technology solutions; from infeed through to our world-class after sales support.
The benefits of our end-to-end citrus solutions are:
Gentle handling at high grading speeds of 12 citrus per second
16 colour grades available
Intelligent optimizers to minimize product giveaway
World-leading blemish detection
Unrivalled internal quality sorting
Full traceability from orchard to supermarket
Packing performance metrics and compliance
Lower labor requirements
Greater crop returns
Throughout the year, no matter the change in weather or fruit conditions, quality is able to remain consistent with the Spectrim system
- Fowler Packing
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Infeed & Treatment
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's citrus infeed solutions ensure a gentle transition from bin or field box to the sorter. Options include:
Bin Tipping
Our bin tipping technology is fully automated and efficient and dumping bins of citrus gently onto belts or into water flumes for transportation. Our systems cater for between 45-100 bins per hour.
Small Fruit Eliminator
Using a series of steel conveyor rollers with a gap between each roller, undersized citrus are redirected before they reach the grader. Fixed and variable options are available.
Sanitizing
Sanitizing is performed to reduce mould and bacteria load on fruit. Disinfection of the fruits surface is part of the overall sanitation process.
Cleaning
Citrus is washed and brushed prior to treatment. Washing units prepare the surface for fungicides and protective coatings as well as enhancing the appearance of your fruit.
Drying Room and Tunnel
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac provides a full range of drying units including a full drying room and conventional and vertical tunnels. All options control temperature and humidity as the citrus passes through to ensure moisture is removed.
Dynamic Lane Balancer
The TOMRA Fresh Food Dynamic Lane Balancer allows you to maximize the operational effectiveness of your sorting line by providing overall increased throughput through better distribution of fruit while reducing spill and recycle rates, and damage to fruit.
Sorting & Grading
Central to TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's citrus solutions is our state-of-the-art sorting technology. Your production requirements and capacity determine whether single, dual or multi-lane sorting capabilities is right for your packhouse. What differentiates our sorting solutions is our innovative, industry-leading Spectrim, Inspectra2 and InVision citrus grading systems. Both systems reduce labor requirements and provide you with unparalleled sorting consistency and accuracy.
Weighing
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's weighing and pack optimization software delivers unsurpassed accuracy by meeting pack specifications, reducing citrus giveaway and maximizing profits.
Color
Our intelligent, easy-to-use software enables consistent grading of citrus by color with the ability to define 16 different grades of colour.
Surface Defects
The quality and consistency of surface blemish sorting, reduces labor and packing costs and effectively sorts for surface damage, texture, blackspot and scarring.
Size and Shape
Using TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's intelligent and easy-to-use software, fruit images are analyzed with multiple measurements to ensure accuracy, consistent size and shape sorting of citrus.
Density
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac are pioneers in density sorting of citrus. We use innovative mathematical algorithms to accurately determine volume and weight measurements and density calculations for state-of-the-art frost damage grading.
Internal
Reduce your fruit giveaway with Inspectra2 - a non-invasive solution for internal defect grading. The NIR spectrometer can detect brix, acid, frost damage and granulation via TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's Inspectra2.
Packing
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's packing solutions have been designed with citrus in mind, ensuring a particularly gentle transition and handling. We have many citrus packing solutions to meet the different needs of our customers including:
Volume Filling
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's automatic box filling machine has weighing options at the outlet of the sizer to fill boxes with a specific volume of fruit.
Bin Filling
We offer a full range of units designed to fill bins in a gentle and smooth motion without damaging the citrus. Our fillers include a sensor to control the citrus level and come with options for both manual and automatic filling of bins.
Bagging
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's manual or semi-auto bagging systems use unique optimizers to select the optimal combination of fruit across the sorter, ensuring accurate bag weights are achieved, with the minimum possible giveaway.
Pattern Packing
High production units for packing boxes of citrus. The packer uses gentle handling to ensure the citrus is delicately packed without any damage and presentation is high.
Carton Handling & Robotics
Reduce your labor requirements with our automated Carton Handling Systems (CHS).
The CHS tracks cartons from the sorter and distributes them to different destinations within the packhouse for palletizing and shipping. These intelligent systems can manage multiple boxes, products and destinations simultaneously. CHS integrates with the TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac Pack Printing system to automate carton labelling and data transfer to your ERP system for traceability, compliance and stock control.
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's pallet handling solutions improve efficiency. Our robotics ensure efficient and safe transportation of pallets around the packhouse, especially for high volume.
Data & Analytics
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's data and integration solutions track and record all citruses as they cross the sorter. This information can then be shared with other packhouse systems such as ERP, traceability systems and carton printing applications. Reports on the performance of your operation can be generated, allowing you to feed this information back into your operation, making changes to optimize efficiency.
After Sales Service & Support
Our industry-leading service and technical support network is dedicated to ensuring you have the right support to keep your packhouse running smoothly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac U backs up this support with a comprehensive training program, turning your operators into experts in packhouse technology and operations.
In addition to a 24/7 support team, online tools and resources, our after sales service includes: annual pre-season servicing of your TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac equipment; regular site audits - both mechanical and electrical; training and certification programs. Our aim is to turn your operators into experts and in doing so ensure maximum efficiency within your packhouse.
We also have our network of regional offices and partners across 15 different countries to provide localised support for our customers.
