InnospeXion newsletter February 2018

Newsletter

1-2018

New facilities

InnospeXion has moved to a completely refurbished building, a former country school next to the E20
motorway, north of Sorø, Denmark. The new facilities provide much more space and enables a more rational
production flow. You are welcome at our new premises: Bjernedevej 25-27, Bjernede, Sorø, Denmark.

Exhibitions InnospeXion has moved to larger and more adequate buildings

Visit us in Hall 10.1 Aisle B Stand No: 096 (Danish Pavilion) on Anuga
FoodTec in Cologne ( 20th to the 23rd of March). InnospeXion will have the
low-energy X-ray technology on display. This technology has proven
extremely capable for packaging integrity assessment, for bone detection in
poultry and fish, for glass in glass detection, for cheese inspection, and many
other applications in the food industry.

Royal award for detection capability: Glass in glass detection (Malaysia)

Second time winner of the FoodTech Innovation Award
Presented by his Royal Highness Prince Joachim of
Denmark, the award was given for a novel X-ray
system capable of detecting the small but very critical glass
splinters. This technology is relevant for products filled in
glass containers, and provides a very high probability of
detection in the sub-millimeter range.

Ultra-sensitive systems for large cheese inspection and -analysis (Denmark)

InnospeXion has launched EHEDG designed high contrast, high resolution X-ray systems dedicated to the
dairy industry. The systems are available for sliced cheese package integrity assessment up to large scale
inspection and characterization of full size cheese blocks (+ 20 kg). The high sensitivity enables detection of
steel spheres down to 0.4 mm and wire pieces down to 0.2 mm in diameter, but also detection of certain
rubber & plastic contaminants, and characterization of the cheese void (hole) structure and size distribution.

The new cheese block systems enable the quantification of cheese holes as well as detection of even minor
impurities, down to 0.2 mm, in real-time and up to 30 cheeses (20 kg each) per minute.

Packaging integrity using low energy X-ray technology for pet food packaging (USA)

Packaging irregularities that leads to leakers are a major concern for many food producers. Our low energy
X-ray technology is particularly useful for on-line, real-time, detection of deviations in the seal zone
tolerances. Particularly, the detection of product in the seal immediately after filling is fundamental. The pet
food application is a big market in the USA, as elsewhere.

The InnospeXion low-energy X-rays provides a clear picture of the seal zone, and immediately reacts on
deviation in tolerances and product in seal. Simultaneously, the content can be assessed with exceptional
contrast and resolution, leading to the best probability of detection for on-line X-ray systems.

Lobster grading using high contrast X-ray technology (Canada)

Quality assessment of live lobster, crab, and other crustaceans, Lobster entering X-ray
includes the assessment of the meat content. High sensitivity system tail first.
X-ray imaging combined with advanced numerical image
analysis enables such grading. The system is reliable,
automatic, fast, robust, consistent and repeatable. The basis of
the technology is the large experience of InnospeXion in
supplying bone detection systems for the fish processing
industry world-wide.
In the lobster X-ray image, the claws are identified, and the
software grades the lobsters. This is based on the intensity in
the X-ray image which depends on the attenuation of the X-
rays by the projected shell thickness and the meat content
inside the shell.

Fish & Poultry bone detection (Russia and Poland)

Since 2010, the InnospeXion low-energy X-ray technology has proven effective for detection of even very
small bones in fish (fillets, bits&pieces, frozen blocks, ready meals, etc) and chicken (breast fillets, nuggets,
other products). The success is due to the high resolution and the high contrast that facilitate detection of
bones in fish down to < 0.25 mm in diameter. Combined with a hygienic design and a low false reject rate,
the solution has proven competitive even in very price competitive markets.

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