Tobacco Sorter™ 3 (TS3)

The Tobacco Sorter™ 3 recognizes more than 2 million colors, detecting and removing foreign materials, as well as subtle product defects, from strip tobacco, tobacco stem, and other leafy product (such as tea). This technology helps achieve the highest purity standards, maximize yields, reduce overhead, and limit product liability at unprecedented rates and accuracy. Operation is simple, and sorting criteria are easy to adjust, store, and retrieve.

Features and Benefits

Extraordinary detection—targets metals, plastics, paper, black rubber, cellophane, string, foreign organic material, and more
High-speed, high-volume inspection – over twice the speed of previous models
Gentle handling—on-belt laminar airflow stabilizes product with no degradation
Consistent performance—industry’s best NTM rejection and good product retention
Easy adjustment—multilingual touchscreen graphical user interface for fast color setting or batch job changes
Network connectivity—allows remote monitoring and communication
Minimized downtime—global, round-the-clock support and service
Top/bottom-viewing cameras with projection-lighting vision module
Proprietary high-speed intelligent image processor
Precise, high-speed rejection valves
Real-time video processing and valve firing
Metal halide lamp life of 10,000 hours (four times longer than commonly used fluorescents)
Open, easy-access design
Sealed, stabilized optics/electronics enclosures

Common Product Applications

Strip tobacco
Tobacco stem
Tea
Other dry leafy products

Sorter Reference Information

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