Color Sorter Series

ANON Color Sorter

Anon provides a 99.99% high sorting accuracy color sorter to upgrade the quality and comply with international food safety standards. Our automatic color sorters are designed for standardized processing in your grain processing production line. We offer specialized color sorters and complementary attachments tailored for your grain type and production requirements. ANON color sorters are ideal for most grain, bean, and nut types, such as rice, wheat, corn, quinoa, coffee beans, soy beans, chickpeas, green beans, red beans, lentils, peanuts, cashews, pistachios, almonds, and many more.

Color Sorting Machine Benefits for Farmers

1. Higher Selling Price: ANON color sorter significantly enhances the value of your final products by removing defective grains and improving overall product quality, enabling a higher market selling price.

2. Increase the Bargaining Power: ANON color sorter delivers consistent, high-quality, and low-impurity grains and beans, helping you strengthen your position in price negotiations and gain more stable buyers.

3. Reduce the Burden on Labor Cost: ANON color sorter machines are designed for continuous, high-efficiency operation, effectively reducing reliance on manual labor and lowering overall processing costs.

4. Higher Yields Efficiency: Advanced high-precision detection combined with AI recognition technology minimizes the loss of good grains, maximizing yield from each batch of raw material.

5. Standardize the Quality: ANON color sorter ensures consistent and standardized output quality, enabling you to build long-term, reliable partnerships with downstream buyers and meet strict market requirements.

6. Access Higher-end Markets: With strict and stable quality control, the ANON color sorter helps your products meet international export standards, allowing access to higher-value and more demanding markets worldwide.

Advantages of ANON Color Sorter

High Efficiency High Capacity

Enhance your sorting efficiency by switching to the ANON fully automatic color sorter

Our color sorters are strikingly faster in two aspects. First, ANON high-speed color sorters take 0.001-0.01 seconds to recognize and separate 1 unit of material, which is significantly higher than the processing speed of humans. Second, ANON only manufactures color sorters with a multi-channel system design – a 32-channel chute in our mini model and a 64-channel chute in the standard model. That means 32 or 64 workers sorting at the same time, with a 0.001-0.01 processing speed. To adapt to different capacity requirements, we provide more models that have up to a 768-channel system design. This allows a maximum processing speed of 12 t/h in one single machine.

ANON provides high efficient machine regardless of your factory size and the capacity requirements.

High Standard Quality Control

Significantly increase the quality of your products with the high-precision camera and AI recognition system built in the ANON advanced color sorter.

Our color sorting machines adopt a multi-spectral light system for better detection of defects invisible to the human eye. The sensor will collect color information from the visible light, red light, and blue light from different angles. The AI recognition system will then analyze the images. Grains or beans that are different in color or shape will be captured. Additionally, many internal differences that are not visible at the surface will also be detected by the color sorter, such as internal moldiness, water-content difference, and looseness of structure. Finally, every unqualified unit will be removed by the air jets.

In general, the multi-spectral light and AI recognition algorithms in the ANON color sorter ensure higher-standard quality control. It allows for the production of premium products that comply with international standards.

Minimize Waste

Anon’s two-stage color sorting system will improve purity while minimizing good grain loss, greatly increasing your overall profits.

The first-stage coarse sorting removes obvious defects on the grains and large impurities like stones, while the second-stage fine sorting removes subtle defects and color deviation precisely. This layered sorting will effectively solve the over-sorting problem that commonly occurs in single-stage sorting. In order to maintain a high-purity output, the single-stage color sorter often has a high reject rate that removes near-quality grains directly. It largely lowers the final yields by increasing the loss of good grain. The defect grading separation by different machine parameter settings – high throughput for the first-stage & high precision for the second-stage.

Our two-stage color sorting solution is ideal for export-grade products and high-value legumes such as coffee beans and cashews. It is a high ROI solution that provides increased yields and stable long-term operation. Since every near-quality grain will go through a second-stage sorting process, it effectively minimizes errors and reduces over-sorting in single-stage systems.

Stable & Durable

ANON color sorter is very stable even under continuous operation.

We provide air filtration and refrigeration drying systems along with our color sorter machine to improve stability and reduce failures of the ejection system. They ensure that dust, oil mist, and solid particles do not enter the pneumatic system. This reduces the likelihood of blockage, which can lead to inconsistent and inefficient separation.

We are devoted to providing a stable color sorting machine with minimal downtime, even under continuous operation.

Types We Offer

ANON offers two types of color sorters: CCD single-color color sorters and RGB multi-color color sorters.

CCD color sorters have a simple working principle. Once the color is settled, it cannot be changed easily. It is suitable for a smaller factory that processes one type of material.

RGB color sorters use cameras that mimic the human eye. They can accurately detect particles of different colors or shapes in the material being sorted, resulting in high sorting accuracy. It is suitable for a larger factory that requires high sorting accuracy and processes more types of materials.

FAQ

1. What types of impurities can be separated by a color sorter?

It can separate surface impurities such as stones, soil blocks, discolored particles, insect-infested particles, and diseased particles; Internal defects, such as moldy, hollow, and sprouted grains (requiring the use of an infrared color sorter); And particles with abnormal shapes, such as broken and withered grains.

2. Is rice sorted by color?

Rice is usually categorized by its length, color, and processing method. For example, jasmine rice is a long-grain rice that comes in both milled (white rice) and unprocessed (brown rice).

3. How does an optical sorter operate?

First, the operator places the material into a hopper, where it is vibrated and moved down a chute. Then, a pneumatic or mechanical ejector separates the material based on size and quality, ejecting any defective material.

4. How should I maintain my color sorter on a daily basis?

Regularly clean the lens, spray valve, and passages to prevent dust from affecting detection accuracy. Check the spray valve operating pressure (0.2-0.5 MPa) and the air compressor pressure (≥0.7 MPa) to ensure stable air flow. Regularly clean or replace the air filter element to prevent air flow blockage.

5. What is the working principle of a color sorter?

The selected material enters the machine from the top hopper and moves downward along the channel through the vibration of the feeding device. As the material accelerates into the sorting chamber, it passes through the inspection area between the sensors and the background board. Under the illumination of the light source, variations in light intensity and color are detected, generating output signals that activate the ejector valves. The defective or discolored grains are blown into the waste hopper, while the good grains continue to fall into the finished product hopper, thus achieving accurate separation.

6. How do you achieve two-stage color sorting? 

It requires two elevators for transporting materials to the color sorter, as they need to go through the machine twice. We will customize the height and capacity based on the factory layout and the capacity requirements of your factory.

7. Is the color sorter easy to operate?

The ANON Rice Color Sorter features a streamlined user interface for effortless operation and real-time monitoring. Equipped with an industrial-grade 10-inch color touchscreen, it allows for simple parameter settings and intuitive navigation. The colorful interface is not only user-friendly but also visually pleasing. No specialized technical knowledge is required for operation or maintenance. The machine adopts an intelligent closed-loop control system with an industrial-grade data bus, ensuring reliable communication and strong anti-interference capability. In addition, an intelligent fault alarm system helps operators quickly identify and resolve any issues. With smart temperature and air-pressure control, the machine is always maintained at optimal working conditions.