Tomra Sorting Solutions

Company details

Company name Tomra Sorting Solutions
Company type Large-Scale Company (250 or more employees or revenues greater than 50 MEUR)
Industry sector Production Technology
Activity description

Tomra Sorting Solutions is a leading provider of sensor-based, high-speed sorting machines for a wide range of markets including food, mining and recycling. This project concerns the illumination part of LED based sorting machines.

Project information

Project Phase Contract Phase
Technology platform TP-3: Polymer-based components and large area organic photonics
Application domain Smart Cities & Smart Living
Project scope

Improved collimation lens for on-line inspection. The company wishes to evaluate the current applied lenses to see if lens adaptations (within certain ranges) can improve the collection and uniformity performance in the illumination region.

ACTPHAST Partners KIT, VTT, VUB
Project leader Wendy Meulebroeck
Project start October 2015
Project duration 3.5 months