Tomra Food informed about innovative sweets sorting systems for gummies and delicate confectionery. These systems help food manufacturers to ensure that their end products always meet the highest quality standards by reliably and efficiently removing defective articles and foreign materials. Tomra’s state-of-the-art sorting equipment detects cross contamination, starch, and foreign materials, and identifies clumping and misshapen products. These imperfections are removed in a safe and reliable process. For the reliable sorting of sweets, the company uses advanced technology. Product colour and structure are checked by laser scanners. In addition, the scanners identify contaminated products or foreign objects that are not visible to the naked eye. When augmented by an Advanced Foreign Material Detector (AFMD), sorting can be supplemented to include product-specific properties. Tomra has developed special high-resolution cameras for optical food sorting on the basis of colour and outline. A further module for shape recognition ensures that, through scanning, individual products comply with the desired dimensions and shapes.