Sorting means arranging, homogenizing, separating and categorizing the items of a product in a systematic way. Sorters or sorting machines are used to separate all kinds of food and agricultural products in predetermined ways. Sorting machines are designed to make everyday and common tasks easier, and their usage techniques can be color sorter, optical or light sorting, digital sorting, sensor sorting, Magnetic sorting and other things. These devices, which are called sorters, automatically sort the target product based on color, structural features, weight, size, chemical composition, shape, etc.
What is sorter?
Functions performed by sorting machines can be inspection, alignment, separation, removal and collection, which speeds up the overall processing process. Sorters are used in packaging, food processing and agriculture, mining, recycling, waste management, chemical and plastic industries. The most important types of these sorters are agricultural sorters and from this category are rice sorters and dry fruit sorters.
Advantages of sorting
Increasing the production capacity of consumer goods and simultaneous monitoring of manufactured products is the main reason for using sorting machines in various industries. These devices perform the process of separating and increasing the quality of products, which was generally done manually and traditionally, in a shorter period of time, with much higher accuracy and lower cost.
What is Colorsorter?
Highly advanced sorters that sort and separate the product based on its color (using image processing technology) are called color sorters or color sorters. Colorsorter technology can be based on camera, X-ray, laser and ultra-spectral imaging. Sorting machines in the food industry are a combination of mechanical and optical sorting technologies.
Types of color sorter:
There are different types of color converters based on the capacities and type of target product. For example, there are one to ten channel color sorters. Another type of segmentation is based on the target product; Such as rice sorter, dry fruit sorter, bean sorter, tea sorter, etc.

Application of sorter in industries
Sorters are used in various industries. With the progress of sorting machines, the desire to use these devices in factories has increased. Uses of mechanical separators in packaging and cleaning:
1. Tea
2. fish, chicken, meat
3. fruits such as apples, cucumbers and other agricultural products
4. dry fruits such as: pistachios, rice