Case Study: Caro Nut improves product quality, increases yield with VERYX BioPrint Hyperspectral Sorter
Caro Nut Company is a producer of snacking nuts, nut butters, and ingredients for major brands, private label customers and industrial food processors. Its commitment to food safety, which drives its success, led them to Key Technology. For its nut butter line, Caro Nut selected Key’s new VERYX BioPrint sorter. As the world’s only sorter that combines hyperspectral detection signals with color camera signals at the image pixel level, this new technology removes more shells, more foreign material (FM) and more product defects, all while increasing yield.
“With VERYX BioPrint, we get the high quality product we need and we’ve reduced our operating costs at the same time,” said Gerard Lorenzano, Plant Manager at Caro Nut. “Before we replaced our old sorter, we had to sacrifice a lot of good nut meat in order to get the shells out. It took a lot of time and effort to re-sort the rejects and recover yield. All that changed with our new sorter. VERYX BioPrint removes exactly what we want and nothing more. It’s phenomenal. This powerful technology has improved our product quality at the same time it’s increased our yield by more than one metric ton of product a day.”