SOLUTIONS

Sorting, Separation and Material-Handling Equipment

Profile’s solutions are developed to optimize sorting, separation, and vision-based analysis processes, providing greater operational control, improved product recovery, and increased efficiency throughout the operation.

Flexibility for

Profile Industries Inc. portfolio brings together standard, configurable and customized equipment to meet the specific needs of each application.

Spirals

Rotary Spiral Separator

The Rotary Spiral Separator uses powered spiral cores to separate round material from irregular, broken, or misshapen particles. Variable speed and directional control allow operators to fine-tune the separation while the machine is running.

Features

Motor-driven spiral cores
Variable-frequency speed control
Forward and reverse core rotation
Adjustable product feed
Replaceable Spiral-core configuration

Benefits

  • Produces presice shape-based seperation
  • Delivers repeatable results from batch to batch
  • Adjusts quickly to changes in material behavior
  • Recovers more usable product from the reject stream
  • Provides greater control during production

Applications

  • Cleaning soybeans, peas, canola, and other seeds
  • Grading steel shot, ceramic media, and glass beads
  • Removing splits, chipped pieces and misshappen particles

Static Double Spiral Separator

The Static Spiral Separator continuously separates materials according to shape and rolling characteristics. Product travels through the fixed spiral by gravity, providing dependable separation without motors or electrical controls.

Features

Energy-free gravity operation
Continues spiral seperation path
Adjustable feed-rate control
Multiple flight geometries
Direct-feed or hopper-feed compatibility

Benefits

  • Eliminates electrical operating costs
  • Requires minimal mechanical maintenance
  • Offers straightforward setup and operation
  • Provides continues processing with no moving parts
  • Deleivers and economical solution for consistent products

Applications

  • Cleaningsmall and large or specialty seed lots
  • Reclaiming usable abrasive media
  • Portable or seasonal processing operations

Static Simple Spiral Separator

The Static Spiral Separator continuously separates materials according to shape and rolling characteristics. Product travels through the fixed spiral by gravity, providing dependable separation without motors or electrical controls.

Features

Gravity-powered shape separation
No electrical power required
Stationary spiral cores
Feed rate controlled by orifice
Available in open or enclosed configurations

Benefits

  • Eliminates electrical operating costs
  • Requires minimal mechanical maintenance
  • Offers straightforward setup and operation
  • Provides continues processing with no moving parts
  • Deleivers and economical solution for consistent products

Applications

  • Cleaningsmall and large or specialty seed lots
  • Reclaiming usable abrasive media
  • Portable or seasonal processing operations
Sorters

Oscillating Shape Sorter

The Oscillating Shape Sorter uses controlled linear vibration and an inclined deck to classify material. Round particles roll down the deck while flatter or irregular particles move upward into separate collection areas.

Features

Adjustable Oscillation speed and amplitude
Variable deck incline and runoff
Interchangable deck surface texture
Vibratory feed-control hopper
Eight fractional collection containers

Benefits

  • Handles small micron size difficult-to-sort materials
  • Detects subtle differences in particle shape
  • Separates material into 8 or more fractions
  • Fine-tune particle movement for challenging products
  • Accommodates diverse materials through deck changes

Applications

  • Sorting flower, grass and other fine seeds
  • Classifying powders, microbeads, and small particles
  • Grading ceramics and specialty materials into multiple fractions

Vysion Optical Sorter

Optical sorting solution that uses multispectral vision, machine learning, and real-time adaptation to detect and separate materials with a high level of precision.

Features

Intelligent defect detection
Intuitive interface with remote access
Multi-layer material analysis
Recognition of color, shape, size, and density
Real-time automatic adjustment

Benefits

  • Greater quality and purity control
  • Waste reduction
  • Performance validation with the customer's material
  • Decision-making support with test reports, purity data, and yield data.

Applications

  • Seeds
  • Food
  • Industrial
  • Mining and minerals
  • Medical
  • Advanced materials
  • Custom solutions

Belt Shape Sorter

The Belt Shape Sorter uses an inclined moving belt to separate products according to shape, surface texture, and rolling behavior. Adjustable belt conditions direct material into four collection fractions.

Features

Variable belt-speed control
Adjustable incline and runoff angles
Interchanglable belt textures and materials
Vibratory hopper-feed system
Four fractional collection containers

Benefits

  • Separates similary sized products with different surfaces
  • Produces multiple grades in a single pass
  • Prevents feed surges from dirupting seperation
  • Adapts to new products through mechanical adjustments
  • Reduces time spent manually sorting material

Applications

  • Seperating vegetable seed from weed seeds
  • Removing round plating media from manufactured components
  • Sorting spherical balls from deformed, chipped or broken balls
COMPARISON

Static Spiral Separator vs. Rotary Spiral Separator

Both technologies separate materials according to shape, but their performance and level of control are significantly different. The Static Spiral provides simple, economical separation, while the Rotary Spiral delivers substantially greater precision, effectiveness, and process control.

Static Spiral
SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL SEPARATION
Rotary Spiral Separator
HIGH PRECISION SEPARATION