The Satake products use electronic color sorting to increase the quality of food products to meet the continuously increasing demand of today's consumer. The optical color sorters were designed to improve the quality of such products as: seeds, beans, tree-nuts, peanuts, soybeans, sunflowers, rice and cereal. The sorters are proven in many industries in both monochromatic and bichromatic applications in both visible and infrared wavelengths.

s product flows down the wide gravity slide, individual channels orient the streams of product so that each passes in front of an individual ejector. With a carefully controlled burst of compressed air, the ejector removes defective product and foreign material that may be mixed with good product while removing a minimum of acceptable product. The ScanMaster™ is available in models with 2, 4, or 8 chutes. The 8 chute model employs nearly 4,000 individual sensing sites using 16 charge coupled device (CCD) cameras or infrared cameras to meet the highest standards for your industry specifications.