It is just a few weeks to Interpoma, the only vertical exhibition specifically dedicated to the apple trade, to be held in Bolzano from 17 to 19 November. This is a major event for Sorma Group, which will be presenting all its main innovations for the industry. The company’s stand will display, assembled and operating, the Cardboard tray filling and closing line and the updated version of the Aporo Pick & Place machine, the first model of which actually received its European preview at the previous edition of Interpoma in 2018.
For Sorma, participation at the Bolzano show is the opportunity for in-person meetings, after a break of no less than 4 years, with the apple sector trade, and for updating visitors on all the innovations its Research & Development division has evolved in the meantime, with a specific focus on apples, a particularly delicate product. “The apple trade,” comments Mario Mercadini, Marketing Manager of Sorma Group, “is one of the leading examples of the application of automation in after-harvest fruit grading and packaging processes. Sorma’s integrated offer of machinery for every phase of the process, together with its packaging solutions, is designed to provide a highly innovative, complete response to operators’ demands, with the more and more essential attention to efficiency, sustainability and processing delicacy.”
The Cardboard tray filling and closing line comprises a model DB-F115 automatic tray denester, an Easypack model EP-F115 filler, and a model FBC-F115 tray closing and labelling machine. The filling machine is supplied by a diverging belt system and is able to handle trays of 4, 6 and 8 fruit of all types, not just apples. The closing and labelling machine is particularly flexible as it can switch tray sizes very rapidly thanks to software which memorises the settings for each one.
At Interpoma, Sorma Group also presents the updated version of Aporo, the revolutionary packing machine based on research conducted in New Zealand, for which the Group is European licence holder. Using a robotic arm, the machine places 8 apples in the pockets simultaneously, and with the aid of cameras it arranges them all with the stalk facing in the same direction. Aporo can handle up to 120 fruit per minute and its operation can be monitored from remote. The new version retains all the benefits of the original model dating from 2018, combined with a more compact structure, which saves space, and the ability to pack with the pockets already placed in the box if necessary.
Sorma makes apple processing more and more efficient and automated. To view the two machines in operation, visit us at Interpoma from 17 to 19 November, stand C18/58 in Hall CD.
For more information:
Jessica Sabatini 
Press office Sorma Group c/o fruitecom
Tel.: +39 338 73 07 649
jessica.sabatini@fruitecom.it
Eleonora Faietti
Tel.: +39 348 4074079
eleonora.faietti@fruitecom.it