Cherries

Fast and effective grading speeds

World-leading blemish detection

Greater crop returns

Minimized product giveaway

High cup fill reduces the need for recycling

Unrivalled softness sorting

Full traceability from orchard to supermarket

Packing performance metrics and compliance

Gentle handling and transfer with
TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's hydro-cushion

Lower labor requirements

5 view detection system sees a larger percentage of the cherry

Bin Tipping

Our bin tipping technology is fully automated and efficient and dumping bins of cherries gently into water flumes for transportation. Our systems cater for 45-100 bins per hour.

Small Fruit Eliminator

Removes small fruit and stones before they can enter the sorter. Eliminating undersize cherries and debris at high speed keeps the line running at maximum capacity.

Water Flume & Pumping System

The best way to ensure gentle transportation of cherries is with our stainless steel water flume and pumping systems, designed specifically to meet your requirements. Hydro-cushion, our state-of-the-art patented water cushion technology provides the gentlest handling and transfer of your cherries onto the TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac sorter.

Hydrocooler

Hydrocooling keeps cherries at a consistent temperature as they move through the line, maintaining their shelf life and preserving their retail quality.

Cluster Cutter

Effective cluster cutting prepares cherries for individual grading and reduces the need for manual separation of cherries.  

Size

TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac’s InVision system gives extremely accurate size grading for cherries, allowing packers to ensure cherries remain in their correct size grade, reducing downgrading of larger fruit and matching cherries to their most profitable markets. TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac’s system tracks the stem of cherries in order to measure the shoulder of the fruit, just as you would with a sizing ring, upping the accuracy of the system and ensuring retail packs meet your customers’ grade.

Color 

Our intelligent, easy-to-use InVision learning software enables intuitive recognition of fruit types and will adjust grading accordingly. InVision can accurately perceive dark colors, subtle browns, soft pinks and yellows commonly found in different varieties of cherries.

Surface Defects & Softness

Using TOMRA Fresh Food | Compac's advanced InVision software, cherries are sorted by the presence of surface blemishes and softness. Cherries are then graded on minor to major defects including softness, bruising, doubles, spurs, rain cracks, pitting, limb rubs and misshapen fruit. InVision can be configured to grade for differing levels of defects, providing maximum control when matching product grades to different markets.  

Box Filling

Box filling units gently fill cherries by weight with a trickle feed to accurately fill the box to the nearest few cherries. This means less underweight boxes and reduced labor requirements to manually top up boxes.

Punnet Filling

Delivers constant flow of cherries from the machine to the punnet or clamshell filling stations. We also have a number of third party options for punnet and clamshell filling to meet customer needs and requirements.