Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd. company News and Trends items

Airtight packages preserve the product’s freshness, improve quality and prevent leaks. It is essential to ensure that the package is reliably sealed, and this sets requirements for seal inspection process. Good seals can only be made on clean material: any contamination between the seal and the package is no longer airtight. As a result, air and contaminants such as mol...

Strelen Control Systems GmbH uses a hyperspectral camera from the Finnish manufacturer Specim to check nuts before processed in the food industry. High-precision nozzles shoot faulty parts and foreign bodies out of the process in flight. There is only a little time left for reliable image processing.

Inndeo, a Spanish company founded in 2016, uses Specim’s hyperspectral imaging technology to improve the quality inspection processes and increase automation in the food industry. With hyperspectral imaging, they can detect contamination and defects in the production lines and characterize different food quality parameters.

Taste is paramount in food products, impacting consumer preferences and purchasing decisions. Condi Food BV harnesses hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to ensure the perfect taste of tomatoes.

Consumers are conscious of the effects of food quality and composition on nutrition and well-being. Different types of allergies and intolerances have become more common, and ethical questions about food production raise concerns. In addition to increasing consumer requirements, food producers have a legal obligation to control the quality and safety of their products. ...

ImpactVision is a machine learning company, applying hyperspectral imaging technology to food supply chains in order to improve food quality, generate consistent, high-quality products and reduce waste. ImpactVision software is aimed at food processors, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. It provides real-time insights into the quality of foods. For example, the...

Based on hyperspectral cameras from the Finnish manufacturer Specim, Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have developed a smart All-in-one Spectral Imaging (ASI) laboratory system for standardized, automated data acquisition and real-time spectral model deployment. A fully standalone system integrated with two different hyperspectral cameras working i...

100x higher yield in crops with 98% less soil and 95% less water usage – not science fiction yet enabled by science. Agricola Moderna is an Italian Vertical Farming company selling their brands of leafy greens and salads to the Italian supermarket’s main actor and in a platform specialized in sustainable and local food. They specialize in all the aspects that concern Ve...

Food scarcity, population growth, and global climate change have propelled research to enhance crop yield growth. Field crop phenotyping provides important information to explain crop growth and its relationship with the environment. However, the traditional vehicle-mounted platforms used for field experimental sampling and determination of crop character parameters are...

Food producers must ensure the quality of their products at every step of the process. At different steps of the processing chain, food can be contaminated and become a health hazard. The quantification of several parameters, such as fat, moisture, sugar, and protein content, is crucial to provide high quality. A contaminated food package, or a mismatch in the labeled an...

Quality control is crucial in the food industry. Monitoring the nutritional properties of food products contributes to brand reputation and profit. Consumers monitor fat content carefully when buying meat, and producers have to document it precisely. Monitoring the fat content also has a significant cost-benefit effect. New automation technologies are therefore required...

Monitoring and controlling food quality is of the most significant interest for profitable and responsible food production. Especially fruits and vegetables are more sensitive than other food products and must be sold and processed fresh to be valuable and healthy. Hyperspectral imaging provides crucial data for automatic quality control systems to assure the high qualit...

The discovery of foreign objects often results in product recalls, which can be costly for businesses and damage the brand’s reputation. To ensure the quality and safety of food products, manufacturers must implement robust quality assurance throughout the production process, where hyperspectral imaging offers a solution.

Detect blemishes and bruising under the skin, define ripeness and chemical quality independent of the fruit color and size, find and remove foreign materials like plastic, wood, paper, metal, or insects. Specim FX cameras can reveal much more than traditional color and filter cameras or point spectrometers. Achieve better quality, ripe products with optimized shelf life,...

Wide product variety, high manufacturing speed and quality requirements in the processing industry calls for a flexible solution that can transfer from one product to another, and reliably identify materials based on biological, chemical and physical parameters. Hyperspectral imaging plays an important role where traditional color, spectral or x-ray cameras cannot provid...

Improve your product’s quality and safety. Define meat’s chemical quality: lean/fat content, protein, water, tenderness, and find and remove foreign materials like bone, cartilage, plastics, wood, rubber, metal, or parasites. Specim FX cameras can reveal much more than traditional color and filter cameras or point spectrometers.

Nut processors work hard to find ways to improve as high-quality products as possible and that way increase the products’ value. This means finding and removing all foreign material (including shells) and low-grade products during the process. Specim’s hyperspectral cameras help to ensure the highest quality in any type of nuts: almonds, cashew, walnuts, pistachio, pean...