BFV Brochure - Belgische Fruitveiling

Pre-sortingNo detail escapes the attention of IQS(Intelligent Quality Sorting)The IQS system assesses apples for their size, bloom and base colour and also for their skin quality. It is composedof an ingenious combination of computers and advanced digital colour and infra-red cameras. We have written thecomputer’s sorting programs. We based our ideas for this exceptionally precise and objective inspection on currentconsumer demands and market requirements.HOW DOES IQS OPERATE?• Each piece of fruit is photographed 72 times: 36 times in infra red, 36 times in colour.• Afterwards the computer calculates the coloured percentage of the surface and compares thephotographs with a pre-programmed databank. Thus it is able to recogniseall deviations, and each grower is given the same objective treatment.• This detailed job is performed at an extraordinary tempo. Some 20 tonsor 1 full trailer passes before its all-seeing eye per hour.Exact sorting yields a wealth of benefitsThis ultramodern pre-sorting system offers both grower andcustomer alike nothing but benefits.We sell the fruit immediately in the correct packagingIn this way, we avoid considerable additional costs from interim packaging, further sorting and cold storage.We can deal with sudden surges in demandThis installation enables us to sort a large capacity in a short time and thus solve any urgent problem immediately.We sort large batches extraordinarily quicklyThanks to IQS, all apples in a particular quality category conform to identical conditions irrespective of the batch,grower or time of sorting. Moreover, the fast throughput of sorting guarantees better retention of quality as well.We take industry’s demands better into accountAs a result of pre-sorting, we get a good picture of the percentage of fruit from the new harvest that will be suitablefor industrial use as early as at the picking stage. Consequently, we are able to make a prognosis of the quantity ofindustrial fruit in the cooling units and are better able to take industry’s demands into account.Furthermore, this enables us to give added value to the qualities A3++ and A4++ of industrial fruitby sorting them in advance as well. And that counts considerably against the costs of pre-sorting.