The latest grading machine, the ProSort, will be highlighted by Haith at the Potato Europe 2022 event. Alongside this, the company will also showcase the ProLine modular washing unit and the RotaTip box tipper, which won the company a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
Visitors to the event, which takes place at Rittergut Bockerode, near Hanover, Germany, on the 7th and 8th of September, will be able to talk to Haith’s sales team about their requirements.
The ProSort was developed alongside Grimme UK and automates the removal of stones, clods and debris from potatoes, helping growers deal with labour shortages. Using a TOMRA 3A optical sorter, it can handle up to 100 tonnes per hour, and can also detect green potatoes which are removed at the end by intelligent finger ejectors.
“The ProSort has been extremely well received by UK growers, and we expect a similar reaction from visitors to Potato Europe,” said Haith sales manager Rob Highfield. “Haith and Grimme’s innovative combined approach has solved two common problems facing growers today – the need to sort in the field or the farm accurately and quickly and with fewer people. We think visitors to Potato Europe will be very impressed with both the ProSort and our ProLine.”
The ProLine is said to be a complete turnkey solution, featuring the RotaTip, waste separation, SupaFlume de-stoner, barrel washer, polisher, drying, optical sorter, box fillers and packaging machines in one, modular machine.
“The ProLine has evolved over several years, in which time we have undertaken some of our largest ever turnkey projects,” continued Mr Highfield. “By working with some of the biggest food producers and packers in the UK and overseas as well as smaller businesses, we have had the opportunity to refine how our individual machines work together. The ProLine is a proven approach to delivering the most efficient lines possible while retaining the ability to customise them to suit our customers’ precise requirements.
“We are very much looking forward to Potato Europe. We missed it last year and in 2020, so expect it to be a really busy show. It will also be our first overseas exhibition since winning our second Queen’s Award for Enterprise in April 2022.”