Stas NV

PEAR SORTING & PACKING

PEAR SORTING MACHINE

Pears are a delicate fruit that must be handled with care. At STAS we are specialized in offering best solutions for packing and grading pears carefully and quick without brushes caused for friction or by drops.
STAS offer turnkey solutions for that lead packhouses to reduce considerable savings in labour costs. We are also specialized in growing apple-trees, fertilizers, spraying machinery and of course machinery for packing and grading apples.

INFEED

Infeed is the first stage of our turnkey solutions. STAS designs state of the art tipping and dumping solutions to
gently tipping bins into water tanks or into transport belts. The capacity of our
bin dumpers goes up to 60 bins per hour.
The STAS Compact apple / pear dumper is only suitable for apples and pears. This machine is a simpler version of a dumper.
The STAS apple dumper is suitable for apples. This machine is the entry-level model of the underwater unloading system.
With our underwater unloading systems (portal dumpers and compact dumpers) the bags are carefully immersed in a water basin.
The new portal dumper (Servo V1) Developed by STAS Nv This can easily go to 60 cases per hour.
Can be used for all types of fruit that do not require a wet delivery.

WATER CANAL

” STAS ensures customers to gently transport fresh produce through our stainless steel water flume and pumping systems “

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Elevator + sprayer + clean water

STAS provides a wide range of water channels, sprayers and brushers for proper treating apples and pears. STAS washer removes contaminants or pests from fresh produce as pears or apples before sorting.

Drying And Brushing System For Pears

STAS offers different solutions for drying and cleaning your fruit. Mostly we use sponges and if the drying requirements are critical for our customers we use hot air. Brushes for cleaning are also aggregated to dryers for a gently cleaning of the fruit. Our drying rollers are easy to clean and in cases that your space is limited STAS can offer you compact solutions. The result is that there is much less chance of damage such as brushing or other damage to the skin and additionally we make sure that fresh produce is completely dried.

SINGULATION

A proper singulation of the fruit is needed before fresh produce is sorted and graded under the cameras. Thereof we design and manufacture step belts and V belts made of stainless steel and food contact materials.
V-BELTS & U-BELTS ESPECIAL MADE FOR LONG PEARS

GRADING & SORTING

There is a growing demand for higher external and internal quality. External aspects are the main components in the decision to purchase.
Internal quality (texture, taste and absence of internal defects) is linked to aspects that are not generally
perceived externally but are equally important to many consumers.

CUP-GRADER

Our Pear Cup XL grading machine is specifically designed to handle pears and thanks to the newly designed unique brushes and cups our automated singulator can align and rotate pears without manual operators.

EXTERNAL QUALITY

Providing the perfect quality to your customers with the help of our STAS Pear Twin Vision Hyperspectral camera system! Working with a variety of user defined quality sorting parameters, each and every pear passing under the cameras will be sorted in the quality catagory of your choice. The Twin Vision HS allows you to optimize batch quality and to add value by satisfying the needs of your different markets.

INTERNAL QUALITY

The Pear Inscan non-destructively measures the internal quality of your pears and provides a perfect product to your customers. The Inscan allows you to:

PACKING & PALLETIZING

STAS provides tailor-made solutions. An example being our line of unique and versatile packaging systems. Produce is packaged in accordance to the individual requirements of the customer (e.g. supermarkets and retailers). Options include crates, boxes, bags or punnets. All packaging can be labelled with the date of production and all other desired information, enabling accurate tracking and tracing on an international level.

Packing Belt

The packing belt are used for manual packing of the selected fruit coming from the sizer. Each exit of the grading machine can be connected to one or various packing tables for manually packing fruit into carton boxes.

Bin Fillers

Our dry-bin fillers are specifically designed to re-bin your apples from your commit-to-pack sorting line. Combining high capacity with extreme gentle fruit handling will allow you to re-bin your presorted apples in a safe and time-efficient way.

COMBI PACKS

The Combi packs are used for manual packing of the selected fruit coming from the sizer. Our combi packing tables have two infeed conveyors, and several packing trays to place empty boxes and also it can also weight cartons. Combi packs also incorportate a lower conveyors for the exit of the full boxes. About the lower conveyor can also be incorporated a roller conveyor for the infeed of empty boxes.
Our dry-bin fillers are specifically designed to re-bin your apples from your commit-to-pack sorting line. Combining high capacity with extreme gentle fruit handling will allow you to re-bin your presorted apples in a safe and time-efficient way.
The development of our acclaimed Combipack conveyor belt has already been copied by most of our competitors. Are you looking for an efficient and ergonomic solution for manual packing and for someone who does it just that little bit better? STAS NV Belgium offers a wide range of solutions and innovates in consultation with the customer and knows how to create that unique solution including calibrated weighing equipment. All conveyor and packing belts are obtainable with the necessary certificates and have been designed in accordance with CE, HACCP and FDA regulations.