Costs and profitability
Costs and profitability of blueberry sorting – when does the investment pay back?
The costs of blueberry sorting and the profitability of the investment are key factors when choosing the right technology. This category brings together materials on process economics and the factors that affect profitability.
An overview of the indicative costs of a blueberry sorting machine and the factors that affect the price: capacity, number of sorting channels, quality assessment system, packing automation and the level of expansion of the complete line.
A comparison of manual labour and automatic sorting in terms of seasonal costs, throughput, number of workers required, cost of sorting 1 kg of fruit and consistency of batch quality.
A practical explanation of how to match sorter throughput to daily harvest volume at peak season, real working time, the required capacity buffer and the organisation of feeding, receiving and packing.