A Successful Partnership Since 2016

The Japanese Tabata group, specialized in processing and trading of high-quality nuts, recognized the benefits of Insort technology early on and purchased a Sherlock Air back in 2016. 
Since then, the machine has performed with outstanding success, particularly in shell sorting, chemical defect sorting (bitter almonds) and minimizing oversorting.
The CIT® technology boosted their pistachio business by 60% and significantly improved product quality.​

Now, Tabata is taking the next technological step: the Sherlock Hypernova, the perfect machine for nut processors, was recently approved.

It excels at identifying and removing even the smallest foreign materials and detecting “invisible” defects to ensure the highest product quality.

The Sherlock Hypernova's advanced technology offers these key benefits:

• Thanks to the latest Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT® GEN3) combined with high-resolution color cameras, even the smallest foreign objects and product defects can be sorted out with unprecedented accuracy. CIT’s chemical inspection capabilities reach new levels of product inspection, far surpassing optical systems like lasers or X-ray, and require no constant operator monitoring.
• Revolutionary Artificial Intelligence: Sherlock Hypernova employs sophisticated Deep Neural Networks to detect and remove even the tiniest defects, both visible and invisible to the human eye, in real time – ensuring precise sorting at high speeds.
• inlineFOODLAB 4.0 provides real-time chemical and quality data, detecting key parameters like dry matter, rancidity in nuts, amygdalin in almonds, and more, while also analyzing color, shape, size, and foreign materials for enhanced quality control.
• Modular Design: Sherlock Hypernova’s flexible, modular design adapts to any sorting requirement. Its precise air and flap separation technology ensures maximum food safety by classifying products, foreign bodies, and defects into three categories in a single pass.