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Nuts and Dry Goods in Bulk

Industry Background and Core Challenges

 

As a healthy snack food, the purity of raw materials directly determines the market viability of nuts and seeds. However, nuts are naturally considered "non-standard agricultural products." During the harvesting, shelling, and preliminary processing stages, they are easily mixed with field stones, hard mud clods, and broken glass that have a density extremely similar to that of nuts. In addition, due to the influence of the natural growing environment, nuts naturally have objective defects such as "wormholes," "empty shells," "shriveled," and "mold spots."

Traditional manual sorting is extremely inefficient and prone to causing visual fatigue, while ordinary metal detectors are completely ineffective against non-metallic impurities such as mud and stones. Our company has created a dual sorting defense line for "loose nuts" using "X-ray detection + AI visual sorting," ensuring the highest quality control from the source.

Nuts and Dry Goods in Bulk
  • Core scenario: Bulk nut primary processing line (Bulk Nut Inspection)

Nuts and Dry Goods in Bulk

 

Application scenarios: High-speed sorting of unpackaged nut raw materials (such as walnuts, macadamia nuts, sunflower seeds, pistachios, pine nuts, etc.) upon arrival at the factory or before roasting.

Key pain points:

Highly toxic impurities of similar density: The density of gravel and hard mud in the field is almost identical to that of nut shells. If these are missed during detection, it can easily lead to high-value customer complaints and claims from consumers who feel like they are "breaking their teeth".

Internal and external biological defects: hidden insect holes and small mold spots on the surface, as well as "empty shells" or "shriveled fruits" that look intact but have no kernel inside.


Detection items (dual-core driven, precise rejection):

X-ray inspection - Specializing in high-density foreign objects: Utilizing a large-channel high-speed X-ray detector, the system can collect and generate grayscale images based on the different penetration rates of X-rays, thoroughly penetrating the nut shell and accurately distinguishing between "organic kernels" and "inorganic impurities (metals/ceramics/stones/mud/glass)".

 

Nuts and Dry Goods in Bulk

 

Vision inspection - Specializing in wormholes and empty/rotten nuts: High-definition industrial cameras equipped with deep learning AI algorithms accurately capture tiny "wormholes," "mold spots," and discolored defects on the surface of nuts; at the same time, combined with multi-dimensional morphological features, they intelligently identify and remove "empty shells" and "shriveled nuts" with abnormal weight distribution.

 

Nuts and Dry Goods in Bulk

 

Microsecond-level precision rejection: After defective products are detected, the high-speed multi-channel air valve at the end of the belt uses high-pressure airflow to precisely "blow" foreign objects and bad products into the waste trough, minimizing the loss of good materials.

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