Tomatoes are among nature’s greatest blessings. They are a boon for growers as they provide an abundant crop and have a high demand. The public is impressed by the fact the fact that tomatoes contain beneficial antioxidants, nutrients and nutrients. Producing processed foods tomatoes bring the color, flavor and the natural goodness of juices, pastes, purees and sauces as well as sauces, ketchup and other condiments. Food processing lines rely on tomatoes. tomatoes provide a steady income stream.

However, after rejoicing over the blessings and blessings, let’s take some reality checks. As the demand for tomatoes in the world is growing, so too are the demands they place on manufacturing lines. It is imperative for sorting, grading and then pack more tomatoes in the short season of harvest and not let standards fall. However, the shifting of consumer preference for more variety in tomatoes, particularly smaller ones, make this crop more difficult to grade and sort. At the same time, while striving to improve throughput processors also need to maintain or increase food safety as well as high-quality products. Brand reputations are based on it.

The growing market for tomatoes has led to a worldwide production of 19 billion tonnes annually. They cover about 5 million hectares covering a total area that is greater than 153 of countries of the world’s 192. Market researchers are looking into the coming 5 years they find that global sales of processed and fresh tomatoes are expected to continue growing with a compound annual rate of around 4-6 percentage.

The primary processing tasks involved in making, sorting, and storing tomatoes are becoming significantly more complicated. With the introduction of novel varieties of tomatoes has resulted in an increased variety of different varieties in terms of sizes, colors and form. Consumers and retailers have increased their expectations for quality to levels previously impossible. Exporting to countries around the world has put a greater emphasis on shelf-life as well as the capacity to predict the duration of it. But two important indicators of quality, firmness as well as Brix contents, are unnoticed by the eye of the naked or cameras. If the crop isn’t dealt with in a manner that is gentle enough when processing it, the entire the quality could be lost.

In the past few years TOMRA expanded its offerings by purchasing two of the most innovative New Zealand-based firms, BBC Technologies and Compac which has made it the only provider of complete post-harvest-topack solutions. The solutions cover everything from putting the fruits onto the line until packing it up at the end and is well suited for tomatoes. Since these products are flexible and adaptable and adaptable, they are suited for businesses of any size. With TOMRA’s control software, they are able to be changed from one variety of tomato in a matter of minutes and speed. (One other exception are the tiny, tomato plants that need to be manually sorted.)

It is the TOMRA Food business area that develops, manufactures, and sets up, calibrates, and supports post-harvest-topack solutions to tomato farmers and packers includes TOMRA Fresh Food. (The second business line can be referred to as TOMRA Processed Food.) TOMRA is a major player on the market for tomatoes and is currently working to expand upon this, especially across Latin America and Europe – as well as behind the scenes. TOMRA Food’s R&D team is in the process of developing many new ideas and technological strategies to assist tomato growers and packers.

Integrated post-harvest-topack solutions

ToMRA’s goal with tomatoes, along with other food groups will be to guide the revolution of resources in a the world where every bit of food matters. To cater to large tomatoes, TOMRA’s cutting-edge, market-leading solutions comprise TOMRA 5S, the TOMRA 5S Advanced sorting and size platform, the Spectrim Sorter and grader, along with UltraView inspection module, or Inspectra2 Grading System as further choices. Small, snack-sized tomatoes TOMRA provides two sortsers The MIRA360 and the Small Fruit Sorter (SFS) equipped with InVision2 Grading System. To cater to tomatoes of any size, TOMRA has a broad range of automated weighing and filling options.

More information is available here:

Marijke Bellemans

TOMRA

Tel: +32 (0)476 74 19 18

Email: marijke.bellemans@tomra.com

www.tomra.com/food