TOMRA News about Food processing and sorting

TOMRA & Masgcor-CSESA: 15 Years of Fruit Partnership in Africa

TOMRA Food proudly congratulates Masgcor-CSESA on 15 years of outstanding partnership as its exclusive distributor for fresh large fruit in South Africa and several neighboring African countries, including Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Angola.

Why We Built the TOMRA 4C

Discover the TOMRA 4C and learn why it's designed to transform nut and IQF processing. Engineered for precision, ease of use, and minimal downtime, it features the full spectrum of artificial intellgience to detect defects and foreign materials with unmatched accuracy.

LUCAi Severity Score for Smarter Fruit Sorting

LUCAi™ Severity Score empowers packhouse operators with unprecedented control over fruit sorting. By combining deep learning with decades of expert-labelled data, LUCAi distinguishes not just the type of defect, but how severe it is — down to a fine-grain severity score from 0–100. This advanced scoring system helps operators make smarter decisions, maximize packout, and protect profit margins by ensuring the right fruit ends up in the right grade.

A Guide to AI at TOMRA Food

Discover how TOMRA Food uses artificial intelligence, including both machine learning and deep learning, to optimize sorting and grading for food growers, packers, and processors.

TOMRA Food wins Jury Prize at FOOMA Japan 2025

TOMRA Food has been honored with the Jury Prize at FOOMA Japan 2025 for its innovative Integrated Turnkey Solution for Blueberries. Combining advanced optical sorting, AI-powered LUCAi™ intelligence, and precision filling via CURO, this award-winning system sets new standards in fruit processing. Learn how TOMRA’s technology is transforming Japan’s food processing industry by enhancing quality, efficiency, and yield for blueberry packhouses.

TOMRA 5A & 5B: Performance Spotlight by PCP

Pacific Coast Producers are always trying to improve efficiency and manage costs, and TOMRA Food is part of their journey. Hear directly from Oroville plant manager, Paul Fairbanks, in their 'Under the Lid' series.

How TOMRA Food Uses AI to Help Growers and Packers Thrive

TOMRA Food's AI program is allowing our customers to maximize their yields by fine-tuning their grading like never before. Watch Brendan Byrne tell AI Ireland about TOMRA's AI capabilities today and the future opportunities on the horizon for our customers.

Strengthening Presence in Australia & New Zealand

TOMRA Food has merged their Fresh and Processed divisions to provide integrated food sorting, grading and processing solutions to their customers. As part of this new organisation, TOMRA Food has developed a regional business model consisting of three areas: Americas (AMS), Asia Pacific (APAC), and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) with the aim to elevate their customer-centric approach.

TOMRA Food Exhibits At FOOMA Japan 2024

TOMRA Food Japan will exhibit at the FOOMA Japan 2024 to be held at Tokyo Big Sight from June 4 to 7, 2023. TOMRA will introduce the latest belt-type sorting machine TOMRA 5B 800 COMPACT for the first time which is developed especially for the Japanese market.

Trusted Togetherness: Building Strong Partnerships

One of the most successful businessmen of all time, the American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, identified teamwork as “the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” The influential business consultant Ken Blanchard put it another way: “None of us is as smart as all of us.” In other words, even the cleverest, most focused, hardest-working people can achieve more when they collaborate with others. This is certainly true at food processing plants and packhouses, where efficiencies depend not only on the line equipment, but also on the teamwork of the people managing and operating it. 

TOMRA Food Wins Award for Innovative Solutions

Industry experts in China applaud TOMRA for setting new standards in sorting and grading solutions with AI technology

TOMRA Food to share expert insights at world avocado congress

Leader in sorting, grading, and packing solutions to host industry events, show new packing line solution, and make presentations on latest technologies.

TOMRA Food at Fruit Logistica Berlin 2023

Industry leader highlights the growing importance of AI to the food industry and demonstrates its wide-ranging solutions with a holographic display

Enhancing Tomato Profitability with TOMRA Sorting

Tomatoes are one of life’s blessings. For growers, tomatoes give a high yield and are in strong demand. For consumers, tomatoes are packed with healthy antioxidants, nutrients, and vitamins. For processed food manufacturers, tomatoes add color, flavor, and natural goodness to juices, pastes, purees, sauces, and ketchup. And for food processing lines, tomatoes are a swelling revenue stream.

TOMRA Food reveals first details about its new Research Orchard

Scientific research into the causes and effects of growing conditions on fruit will make sorting and grading even more effective

Peter Lamb Appointed to Key Role at TOMRA Food

New role to strengthen TOMRA’s global support of fresh fruit and vegetable packhouses 

New Regional Sales Director for North America

New appointment is the latest of numerous initiatives strengthening customer support in TOMRA's biggest market

Safer, Efficient Confectionery Production with Sorting

Today’s sorting technologies achieve an accuracy that manual sorting simply cannot. The optical sorting machines offered by industry-leader TOMRA Food can be relied upon to detect and eject foreign materials, cross-contamination, product clumping, and malformed products. And at the same time as looking over the production line like guardian angels, automated sorters also enhance product hygiene, solve labor-related challenges, increase throughput, maximize yield, and gather data that can unlock further improvements in line efficiency.

Potato Growers Benefit from Latest Sorting Tech

TOMRA Food’s industry-leading sorting technologies - optical sorting machines, application-specific modules, multi-lane sorters, and the TOMRA Insight data platform - are extraordinarily effective. And sorting solutions are now available for a wide variety of potato products - everything from potatoes just taken out of the ground or storage to fresh pack, chips (crisps), French Fries, other frozen products (such as wedges, slices, and hash browns), and dehydrated flakes and granules.

How nut processors can gain from the latest sorting technologies

It’s not easy for nut processors to ensure food safety or meet customers’ product specifications. For one thing, foreign material and shell fragments can get into the processing line’s product stream. For another, nuts can be damaged by both by external and internal defects which can be almost impossible to detect. There’s also the risk posed by allergens if one type of nut should unintentionally get mixed with another. Yet all of these threats have to be eliminated to protect processors and retailers from product recalls and reputational damage. This is achievable thanks to the extraordinary effectiveness of state-of-the-art optical sorting machines.

Kiwifruit Packhouses: Meeting Industry Demands

Packing lines can increase throughput, improve product quality, and enhance profitability with modern sorting and grading solutions. Tim Grieve, TOMRA Food’s Global Category Director for Kiwifruit, explains.

End-to-End Solutions for Cherry Packhouses

Changes in the cherries business are bringing new challenges as global demand is rising and exports are booming. Packhouses are under pressure to handle greater volumes and at the same, they must also maintain or improve product quality. There are sensor based solutions that make this possible as Benedetta Ricci Iamino, Global Category Director for Cherries at TOMRA Food, explains.

Closer Collaboration Between Solutions Suppliers

With processing machinery becoming more interconnected, new business partnerships are making day-to-day operations easier at processors and packhouses. They are also accelerating the development of new solutions. Bjorn Thumas, TOMRA Food’s Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions and Partnerships, explains.

Improve Profitability in Citrus Packhouses

Citrus packhouses are striving to meet evermore demanding quality expectations, yet must also increase quantities and improve yields. This is a tricky balancing act, but it can be done, as Clinton Jeffries, Global Category Director Citrus at TOMRA Food, explains.

Boost Capacity & Quality in Avocado Packhouses

Here we take a brief look at the challenges currently facing avocado packhouses; how retailers’ requirements are expected to change; and why state-of-the-art sorting and grading solutions not only enhance packing efficiencies but also put packhouses in better shape for the future.

Achieving Food Safety & Quality for Vegetables

Guaranteeing food safety. Protecting brand reputations. Complying with product specifications. Minimizing food waste. Maximizing yields. Protecting profitability. Too many challenges for the growers, processors and packers of fresh, fresh-cut, canned, frozen and dried vegetables! Challenges which would be so much easier if foreign materials didn’t get mixed up with freshly harvested vegetables. Or if every batch of vegetables didn’t contain sub-standard product. Or if the presence of these unwanted materials on the processing line wasn’t sometimes almost impossible to detect. The good news is that optical sorting machines can deal with all these challenges. 

Fighting Toxic Weeds in Green Vegetables with Sorting

Toxic datura and nightshade weeds are more often harvested with crops such as green beans and baby leaf spinach, with the risk of getting into the final product. However, an advanced sorting technology is proving to be a game-changer. Jacob Hobbel, TOMRA Food’s Global Category Director for Vegetables & Fruits, explains how to mitigate this risk.

Digital Transformation in Food Sorting and Processing

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A Spotlight on AI in Food Sorting Technology

Two recent product launches have shown how AI is changing food processing. James French, Head of Innovation at TOMRA Fresh Food, explains how AI is already adding value and why its importance will grow.

Avocado GAC Boosts Efficiency with TOMRA Solutions

Ahead of the new online event for the global avocado industry, TOMRA spotlights solutions for growers and packhouses who are under pressure to increase throughputs – and whose next big challenge will be higher expectations of product quality

De Marchi: Enhanced Food Processing with TOMRA Tech

The De Marchi group is a standard-setter in fruit and vegetable production in Brazil and a successful exporter. This business invests in the best practices and processes to ensure safe, healthy, and tasty products. To further increase product quality, and to raise the level of automation on its processing line, the group recently acquired its first TOMRA 5B sorting and grading machine.

Douyuan Improves Quality with TOMRA Sorting Solutions

Processing many different types of frozen vegetables, this Chinese business has doubled efficiency and increased productivity by adopting two optical sorters, including the laser-equipped TOMRA 5B.

Seed & Grain Processors Benefit from New Sorting Tech

The increasing global demand for seeds and grains, including seed corn and coffee beans, is a great opportunity for food processors to swell their revenue streams.

Blueberry Packhouses: Modern Grading & Packing Solutions

For blueberry businesses, this is a time of change. Global demand is climbing. Production is increasing. New growing regions are gaining market strength. And consumers’ quality expectations are rising. All these changes mean that growers and packhouses must now be more productive and efficient than ever before.

Paul Slupecki appointed as head of TOMRA Fresh Food

For the new leader of TOMRA’s business area specializing in fresh fruit and vegetables, the priorities are customer-centricity and developing the business’ global presence

Reduce Food Waste on Vegetable Processing Lines

When peeling vegetables, many processing lines waste huge amounts of food – and potential revenue. With modern peeling machines, however, this can be prevented, while also reducing energy costs and water consumption. Eamonn Cullen, Market Manager Peeling at TOMRA Food, explains how.

Steam Peeling Solutions for Efficient Food Processing

Eamonn Cullen, Market Manager Peeling at TOMRA Food, analyzes in this article the market situation and some of the challenges faced by potato processors, such as reducing food waste and energy use in the processing line, and explains how TOMRA Food addresses these issues.

TOMRA 5C at IFFA: Innovations in Food Sorting

TOMRA Food has just celebrated its 50th anniversary with all teams around the globe. The company is leading the resource revolution with intelligent, game-changing products that improve yields and minimize waste. In addition to more sustainability, this also means increased cost efficiency and protection of the brand image benefitting customers in the meat and poultry processing industry. The leading manufacturer of sensor-based sorting machines will present its digitally supported portfolio at the IFFA trade show from May 14th to 19th, 2022 in Frankfurt.

TOMRA 5C Wins Award for Excellence in Food Sorting

The award’s judges applaud how, by using digital tools and AI technology, TOMRA Food has advanced food sorting accuracy and efficiency

TOMRA Food Announces New Brand Strategy

New tagline recognizes how TOMRA Food and its customers can work together to improve global food production; legacy brands integrated into one TOMRA Food brand; new talent to be attracted to build on market leadership

First Global Category Director for Vegetables & Fruit

TOMRA Food continues to sharpen its focus on sorting and peeling solutions precisely tailored to food categories 

New Regional Sales Director EMEA for Processed Food

Christian Tougaard joins the company to lead TOMRA Processed Food sales in the EMEA region

New Sales Manager for Citrus at TOMRA Food

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High Yield & Waste Minimization with TOMRA Sorting

With TOMRA’s new sensor-based sorting technologies, Pet Food manufacturers and producers of animal by-products will be able to reach new levels of efficiency, food safety and product quality.

TOMRA Launches New Packing & Sorting Solutions

Wide-ranging announcements made today at leading international trade show

Premium Sorting for IQF Vegetables & Fruit with BSI Tech

In this new application, the TOMRA 5C makes final quality checks on the line with superior sorting efficiency, higher yields, higher capacity, and the benefits of big-data analysis

TOMRA Food Publishes New E-Book on Sorting Solutions

Free-to-download publication spotlights how sorting data can now be easily accessed and understood to gain commercial advantage

TOMRA Food welcomes ICOEL as an integrated business partner

New partnership will strengthen and simplify customer support for Fruit Packers

Sorting & Grading Solutions for Apple Packhouses

Damien Gibson, Global Category Director Apples at TOMRA Food, analyzes in this article the challenges faced by apple packhouses and explains how TOMRA Food’s solutions allow them to reduce the labor required for sorting whilst significantly improving the consistency, accuracy, and packout of the sorted product.

TOMRA Talks Food - All things (TOMRA) Food with Michel Picandet

Michel Picandet, Head of TOMRA Food, touches on topics like food safety and transformation. He talks about his daily routine, favorite dishes, and what he learned in China. But most of all: he gives you a unique insight into the mission he sees for TOMRA Food in the world around us. Be inspired and inspire in return!

TOMRA Talks: Transformation with Jessica Brennan

Jessica Brennan, Head of Transformation and Communications at TOMRA Food, onboarded about one year ago while TOMRA Food was … yep … as if it were written in the stars … in full transformation. While she explains to us that it’s all about people: involving everybody in the story, making sure we keep the big picture in scope and create room for (more female) leadership, we also get to know why an Australian aeronautical engineer ends up on Belgian soil (was she not aiming for Mars???). Her biggest piece of advice: ‘Be yourself, be bold, and speak up’.

TOMRA Talks Food - Why a Culture of Customer Centricity is Vital

David Coupez, Customer Centricity, Enablement and ACE (Advanced Customer Engagement) Program Lead, is joining us in the TOMRA Talks Food studio to look at the past, present and future of TOMRA Food. A peculiar conversation on TOMRA as a technological innovator at the core and how to balance that with smart Customer Engagement actions to keep ahead of the customer revolution. His piece of advice: 'Don't be afraid to use your creativity'.

Why the food industry needs to think about sustainability

When businesses behave with sustainability, it’s not only society that benefits – this can also help bring in new business. Stefaan Kennis, Director of Strategy, Market Intelligence and Sustainability at TOMRA Food, explains why - and how technologies can make this easy.