Tomra Sorting:
Growth leads to opening of 2 new facilities, site investments in 3 other countries
Sacramento lobby.
The company’s 50-plus strong team at its facility in West Sacramento, California, has relocated to a new purpose-built site over 30 per cent larger than its previous building, just a month after the similarly-sized workforce in Dublin, Ireland, transferred to accommodation more than three times the size of its former premises.
In addition, a significant extension has been completed at TOMRA Sorting Food’s global headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, while the company has invested significantly at sites in India and China.
Tomra's US team has been based in West Sacramento, which has been labelled “the Silicon Valley of food”, for about 15 years and in California for more than 30. Tomra Sorting Food’s new West Sacramento facility and site in Denver, Colorado, provide comprehensive customer support and manufacturing capabilities for the Americas.
Dublin office exterior.
The Dublin workforce has moved 2km (1.25 miles) within the award-winning Citywest Business Campus, from a 767 sq metre site in Orchard Avenue to 2,410 sq metre premises in Kingswood Avenue. The team includes specialists in research and development, sales support engineering, and market and product management.
In addition, 80 of TOMRA Sorting Food’s 190 employees at its global headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, now occupy a 1,600 sq metre extension to the previous 12,900 sq metre site.
Developments in Asia have included TOMRA Sorting Food opening new sales and service offices in India, where six employees are based, for the growing market in that country. In China, it has also invested substantially at existing facilities in Xiamen, producing upgraded offices, stores, service and test and demonstration space.
Xiamen reception.
The company is also setting up multiple service hubs in territories throughout China, where it has significant customer bases. These Chinese and Indian premises complement TOMRA Sorting Food’s other Asian sites in Japan and South Korea.
Summarizing the reasons for the upgraded and new premises, senior vice-president and head of TOMRA Sorting Food, Ashley Hunter said: “In all cases, they’ve been triggered by our current and planned expansion. In the US, for example, our total revenue increase has averaged almost 40 per cent per annum in recent years.
Mr Hunter said the incorporation of a cold room in the test and demonstration area in West Sacramento would allow easy testing of individually quick frozen products by TOMRA’s new Blizzard sorter, which was designed specifically for this application. He said the sorting solutions center also contained a laboratory, where tests for aflatoxins, which the company’s technology can identify, could be conducted.
He said the California facility was ideally placed to support the nut processing industry and as an example will allow TOMRA to locally demonstrate the biometric signature identification (BSI) technology, which offers many advantages to this sector.
Please visit www.tomra.com/food to learn more about Tomra Sorting.
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Tim Curran
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