Used Satake Optical Sorters for Sale

Satake was founded in 1896 when Riichi Satake invented Japan's first power-driven rice milling machine in Hiroshima Prefecture. Over the following century the company expanded from rice milling into a full range of grain processing and optical sorting equipment, growing into a multinational organization with manufacturing and sales operations across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond. Three generations of the Satake family have received Japan's Blue Ribbon award for advances in food processing technology.

The optical sorting division is Satake's most widely recognized product line in the industrial equipment market. The compact, portable FMS-2000 (also marketed as the Pikasen Alpha) is a full-color RGB chute sorter handling up to 4,000 pounds per hour, suited to small and medium production runs as well as laboratory and R&D applications. The high-capacity RNEZS series scales from three to nine chutes and sorts common grain types at up to 36 tons per hour using Satake's patent-pending Smart Sensitivity (3S) software. The Evolution RGB and Evolution MIR sorters add multi-wavelength infrared detection for tough foreign-material removal, while the Nirami NRM series combines RGB full-color cameras with NIR technology to identify glass, plastic, and stone contaminants that share the color of the accepted product. The Beltuza Spectra belt sorter incorporates six optical wavelengths including X-ray for internal defect detection, and the Pellet Sorter II is purpose-built for plastic pellet quality inspection. The ScanMaster and ScanMaster II conveyor-belt sorters remain widely traded on the used market for nut and specialty crop applications.

Satake optical sorters serve a broad range of end markets: rice and cereal milling plants, flour mills, pulse and legume processors, coffee roasters and green-bean exporters, nut and dried-fruit packers, seed conditioning facilities, and plastics compounders and recyclers. The machines are deployed at every stage of the processing line, from pre-cleaning through final quality inspection before packing.

Buyers seeking used Satake optical sorters consistently cite the brand's build quality, long-life LED and CCD camera systems rated at up to 30,000 hours, and the wide availability of replacement ejectors, cameras, and software updates through Satake's North American service network. The machines hold resale value well because their modular chute and ejector designs make refurbishment straightforward, and their intuitive touchscreen interfaces reduce retraining time when equipment moves between facilities.

Optical sorters use NIR, color, and multi-sensor detection to separate resins and remove contaminants in plastics recycling, glass, and material recovery facility lines.

Meadoworks is your trusted source for used Satake equipment. As third-generation industrial equipment dealers and AMEA-certified appraisers with over 50 years of experience, we offer quality-inspected Satake machines at competitive prices. Browse the 1 used Satake machine listed above, or call 800-323-0307 for equipment not yet listed.

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