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Join Us Tomorrow at WiVi Central Coast!
We’re excited to be part of Central California’s premier wine and viticulture symposium and trade show! Stop by our booth to see the Wine Grape Tek Sorter on display and learn from our experts about how WECO’s optical sorting system can deliver higher throughput and lower labor costs for your harvest.
Don’t settle for less—trust WECO to take your harvest to the next level!
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Weco Introduces PeanutTek Moisture Monitoring Tool
Woodland, CA – September 19, 2024 – WECO, a member of Duravant’s Food Sorting and Handling Solutions group, introduces their PeanutTek active moisture monitoring system. Eliminating the need for peanut buying points to take routine manual moisture samples during the drying process, PeanutTek takes real-time continuous in-shell moisture readings, displays current burner temperatures of all semis/wagons and can automatically turn off each burner once the moisture reaches a set point. By improving the monitoring and control of burners and enabling buying points to make more informed decisions, PeanutTek maximizes production efficiency, reduces labor requirements, improves product quality and increases profitability.
“PeanutTek transforms peanut drying operations, eliminating the need for continuous manual sampling and improving worker safety. Our system provides instant and consistent moisture data while automatically controlling dryers. This not only redirects employees to safer roles but also prevents over-drying, saves energy and preserves product quality," said Nick Lightfoot, Vice President of WECO. "Drawing on our 25 years of moisture monitoring expertise, we've created a solution tailored specifically for peanut buying points."
PeanutTek features a series of sensors that are installed in each semi/wagon to collect moisture data from a substantial sample size. By taking instant samples from a consistent location, buying points can better achieve repeatable success hitting their target moisture content. Buying points can program PeanutTek to automatically turn off burners when the moisture of a load reaches a set point and configure a time delay for how long the fan should run afterward to help remove remaining heat within the semi/wagon. PeanutTek shows up-to-date dryer temperatures to help fine tune gas pressure and ensure that all burners are drying at their maximum efficiency and speed.
The data from sensors is sent to a centralized computer at the facility, where the active drying process for all semis/wagons can be remotely monitored with WECO’s AgTrack information management system. AgTrack enables buying points to collect, access and store data about each load’s entire drying cycle, as well as load numbers, semi/wagon numbers, growing variety, blocks and more. It provides users with in-depth graphs of moisture and temperature curves. Data can be exported to spreadsheets for record keeping. Users can also access AgTrack remotely via a smart device or home computer.
By harnessing data about the drying process, AgTrack can reveal patterns and trends that buying points can use to improve production efficiency. For example, buying points can use AgTrack’s data to determine if certain varieties of peanuts need more time to dry than others. Buying points can also use data from AgTrack to identify whether certain times of the day are inefficient for drying and it’s more effective to wait to turn burners on. Additionally, AgTrack data might reveal that on hot days buying points can simply use fans without burners to get the amount of heat needed for drying, further reducing energy consumption.
"By collaborating closely with the peanut industry, we've adapted our proven technology to solve an 80-year-old problem," said Lightfoot. "PeanutTek has halved both labor needs and over-drying incidents. This success is driving us to develop more solutions tailored to the peanut industry's specific needs."
PeanutTek and WECO’s other high-quality sorting and moisture monitoring solutions are available for sale and lease. WECO’s industry-leading customer service organization provides installation and start-up services, preventive maintenance, technology upgrades and 24/7 emergency assistance.
For more information about WECO, visit www.wecotek.com.
About WECO
WECO has been designing, manufacturing, and servicing optical and color electronic sorters for over thirty years and has thousands of units deployed worldwide. WECO products feature a design simplicity that results in cost-effective equipment and greater uptime for operators. WECO serves growers and processors in several fruit and nut processing sectors: tomato sorting on the harvester, walnut and pecan line sorting and drying, hops kiln moisture monitoring, and small fruit sorting of blueberries, cranberries, olives, coffee cherries and wine grapes.
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About Duravant
Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL, Duravant is a global engineered equipment company with manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Through their portfolio of operating companies, Duravant delivers trusted end-to-end process solutions for customers and partners through engineering and integration expertise, project management and operational excellence. With worldwide sales distribution and service networks, they provide immediate and lifetime aftermarket support to all the markets they serve in the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors. Duravant’s market-leading brands are synonymous with innovation, durability and reliability. For more information, visit www.duravant.com.
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WECO Is Exhibiting & Sponsors at WiVi!
We are proud to be a Silver Sponsor at WiVi! Swing by our booth to see how WECO's automated MOG optical sorting system results in a higher throughput and lower labor requirements.
WiVi Central Coast
March 27, 2024
Paso Robles, CA
Booth #315
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WECO Will Be at WiVi, March 29
Stop by booth 315 on March 29 at WiVi in Paso Robles and check out our grape sorter.
Our WineGrapeTek grape sorter removes MOG (Material Other than Grapes) — stems, jacks, shot berry and other types of foreign material including raisins. Automated MOG sorting with WECO’s optical sorting system results in a higher throughput and lower labor requirements.
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Event Type: Trade Show
Event Date: 02/14/2023
Location: Spain
Fastest, Most Effective, Grape Sorting and Packaging Products on the Market Showcased at Unified
WECO offers a full line of Blueberry packaging as well as foreign material, defect, and size sorting for the fresh-pack and frozen markets. Our state-of-the-art defect and foreign material sorters, in addition to our pre- and post-IQF frozen blueberry sorters, have been the industry standard for over 15 years. This market leadership has continued with the introduction of the fresh BerryTek Sortivator line in 2021, weigh-and-fill packaging line (in partnership with Azcaval) in 2021, and Jumbo Size Sortivator in 2022.
Simply put: WECO provides the fastest, most effective, and gentlest berry sorting and packaging products on the market. That is why our equipment is used by every major Blueberry marketing brand in the world.
Three small but essential advances make the new BerryTek Color Sortivator the gentlest and most sanitary blueberry color sorter in the industry. First, an integrated elevator transfers the berries from one machine to the next with a drop of less than 2 inches (5 cm). Second, the pathway from the main channelized belt through the camera system has been reduced by 2 full inches (5 cm). Third, all new WECO machines feature integrated wash and dry-in-place systems.
WECO The Science of Optical Sorting
Unified Symposium Booth: 1706
optical sorting machine grape sorter Unified Wine & Grape Symposium
New Optical Harvest Sorting Machine
In the news…. A new optical harvest sorting machine will soon enter the market. Designed by the Californian company Weco, it was successfully tested this year at Château Smith Haut Lafitte (French translation).
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WECO (Woodside Electronics Corporation), based in California, has been designing, manufacturing, and servicing electronic sorters for over thirty years and has thousands of units deployed worldwide. WECO serves several industries: tomato sorting on the harvester; the walnut industry; and several small fruits including, blueberries, cranberries and wine grapes.
WECO’s optical sorter for grapes uses the latest ChromaxHD optical sorting technology and advanced algorithms to efficiently remove under- and over-ripe fruit and foreign material (MOG). These features ensure vastly improved quality with increased throughput at a fraction of the price of alternative methods. Our system is also designed to be easy to understand and operate, employing intuitive controls and a touch-screen interface refined over the last 30 years.
Our wine grape sorter’s automation offers tremendous gains in productivity and labor efficiency.
Available in 32″ (81.3 cm) and 64″ (162.6 cm) width models.
Multi-Camera System Advantages
WECO designs and manufactures our camera/illuminator systems in-house specifically for high-speed sorting, which keeps costs low.
To maximize viewing of product flow, we divide the product flow into sections, which allows us to scale machines to nearly any width while maintaining a near flat-field, low-distortion image. For example, we use four cameras for a 32”-wide (81 cm) sorter.
Our resolution is superior. Using four cameras to view 32” (81 cm) of product flow offers four times the lateral pixels as a single camera viewing the same product flow.
The lower the light level, the less accurate the sort. Splitting the product flow for viewing by multiple cameras provides a flatter image and higher signal levels.
Each ChromaxHD camera module utilizes two high-speed DSP processors running in parallel, which enables real-time complex sort algorithms. This reduces system cost and increases reliability.
If a camera fails, the remaining cameras continue to sort. Since the cameras are modular, replacement is accomplished easily in the field without requiring recalibration.
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| Title | Name | Phone | Extension | |
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| Bryan Chambers | bryan@wecotek.com | 530-681-1390 |
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| Locations | Address | State | Country | Zip Code |
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| WECO The Science of Optical Sorting | 1311 Bluegrass Pl., Woodland | CA | United States of America | 95776 |
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