Vision and robotics; pick and place unit for the smallest seeds The possibilities in vision and robotics are constantly increasing. Techniques are getting smarter and are making things possible that were beyond our dreams. On Seeds Meets Technology we demonstrate our pick and place robot for the smallest seeds. Our vision softw...
ZTI has investigated the feasibility of deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) in addition to ZTI's machines. The research has led ZTI smart machines to continue with field tests in various areas, using AI en DL. Applications in the seed processing industry and various applications in the fruit processing ...
Watermelon wedging requires particular skills I need a machine that can cut watermelons into six equal pieces. Is that something you can develop for us? A customer needed this job to be automated and therefore asked us this question. They now have one or two people employed who could make this cutting movement in a good w...
A customer asked us whether we could develop a machine for destemming grapes. He had ten people lined up, standing by crates, manually turning the grapes from the bunches. A labour-intensive job. In addition, the repetitive twisting movement, which must be made from the wrist, could increase the risk of RSI. An automated solutio...
Our machines also need to be cleaned and maintained. Just like a car, a machine has wear and tear parts. They are used intensively and so you replace knives, springs, cylinders, etc. every few revolutions or time. Preventive maintenance prevents downtime. Each ZTI machine comes with a spare part list. In this list you will find...
Our machines don't process fully autonomous (yet). Not that we can't make them, the costs are holding back for the time being. So an operator is needed to load the machine and who can intervene where necessary. That means human contact with the machine. It goes without saying that this must be done safely. ZTI machines comply w...
ROI, or when do you earn back the machine? A calculation that is made by comparing the purchase price and the cost of ownership with the savings on human labor and waste. That of course differs per product and per country. Wages in Germany will undoubtedly be higher than in Mexico. In contrast, a mango will be cheaper in Mexico ...
Fruit is fragile. The processing of fruit therefore requires a number of inventive peeling and cutting methods. Our machines exert as little pressure as possible on the fruit. The peelers in our machines are gently pressed onto the fruit with springs specially developed by ZTI (ElastoSprings). The springs are making it very easy...
Of course, we all want to have yield as high as possible, or the best net result at the end of the process. Our machines can play an important role in optimizing the yield. The mechanical processing of fruit presents a number of challenges. It is important to cut away as little material as possible from fruit and to have the end...
Despite the pandemic, ZTI smart machines from Tuitjenhorn is positive about the past year. The production of machines lagged somewhat behind, but this also gave room for new developments. The Watermelon Wedger, the Watermelon Dicer, the Fruit and Vegetable Wedger, the Mango Peeler de Cheeker 20, and the Pineapple Peeler were del...
Nos gustaría agradecerle la confianza que ha depositado en ZTI durante este año anormal pasado. A pesar de la pandemia, hemos sobrevivido a 2020. Principalmente le estamos agradecidos por mantenernos en el negocio. La confianza en nuestras máquinas y el interés genuino que nos ha brindado por nuestro ...
The new Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker 20 peels and destones 20 mangoes per minute. Half the capacity of its big brother - the Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker 40. That machine processes, as the name says, 40 mangoes per minute. But those large quantities are not always necessary. Only the largest mango processors need that capacity, there are ...
Convenience fruit has been on the rise for a number of years now. Mixed fruit salads containing grapes are in great demand in supermarkets worldwide. It is not without reason that the Destemmer is one of our bestselling machines. So yes, now we know grape destemming is a piece of cake for the Destemmer, but cherry tomatoes are a...
ZTI smart machines from Tuitjenhorn focuses entirely on fruit and vegetable processing machines. And the developments are certainly not standing still. This year alone, four completely new machines have been developed. And there is more to come! The most recent machine from the sleeve of this innovative company is the Dicer. And...
Carrot, parsnip, or cucumber; the Long Product Cutter top tails them all. The products are transported into the machine via an ingenious Stepper system. The single pieces land horizontally orientated in the trays. For each product, it is possible to set precisely how many millimeters must be cut per side. Or on one side when onl...
A watermelon is large and heavy. That is why more and more retailers are opting to offer manageable wedges of watermelon instead of an unhandy whole fruit. And watermelon is a popular fruit. Of course because of the taste and certainly also because of the red and refreshing appearance. In addition, watermelon also contains a lot...
A pineapple peeler is not a new machine in itself, there are already many variants. But there is much improvement possible on a large number of points on the existing pineapple peelers. Among other things, by thinking carefully about a number of important principles. Increasing shelf life, a better yield and good ROI. The engine...
24, 25 en 26 september Proeftuin Zwaagdijk (Nederland) Er is een grote vraag naar geavanceerde machines in de zaadverwerkende industrie. Onlangs heeft ZTI een machine ontwikkeld voor het openen en legen van zaadzakjes; de Sachet Emptying machine. Alle voorwaarden worden in acht genomen. Bijvoorbeeld stofvrije verwerking en het ...
Did you know that our Citrus Kiwi Peeler is operating all over the world? Maybe because citrus and kiwi is such a common fruit. Very much liked in salads, jams and chutneys. And did you know that the machine also can be equipped with a gouge? It makes nice strings of peel that can be used in the bakery and liquor industry for ex...
It very well may be that you already know our Fruit Cutter. A topline machine. Made with the best components for high demanding customers. A machine that has been sold very good. But high quality comes with a price. That is why we engineered a Fruit Cutter e-line. Competitive, with a smaller footprint and ready to cut your fruit...
Of cause you can purchase just our Destemmer. An ingenious machine which destems the grapes (or dates, or lychees, or cherry tomatoes) o-so gentle from de bunch. Gently because the soft friction pads carefully rotate the fruit from the stem, without damaging the growing point. But you can also acquire a complete destemming line ...
Amazing to see all the options in robotics and vision techniques. It really tickles the imagination of our engineers. Now we have developed two machines that are really hands-on and ready to use. The first one is a pick and place installation for mango cheeks. Mango is a tender, juicy and slippery fruit to handle. Something to b...
ZTI is known for making high-quality machines. The best components, functionality, return on investment and design are our main drivers. The result of those highly qualified materials is a high-quality machine. But sometimes the market asks for something that is good enough. A little less excellence, with more or less the same p...
Another one of our beautiful machines recently left the building. On its way to Mexico. Although beauty counts, the machine is chosen for its yield and output. We have quotation requests from South East Asia to South America and from Africa to Europe. This machine is going places. Recently a Dutch local TV station came to our b...
Thanks to the 'flourishing' economy, the flower sector is also doing well again. We notice this mainly in the continuing interest in and sale of our Super Sealer. Now one of the bestsellers of our machine park. The machine packages up to 1200 bunches of roses per hour. Practically all lengths and diameters can be automatically a...
Physalis, or Inca Fruit, grows in a little lantern of leafs, a husk. In the processing industry of these Goldenberries, people are taking the husk of by hand. ZTI has been asked to invent a machine that's carefully taking of the husk. And so we did. The 'dehusker' prototype is dehusking good and almost ready to launch. Physalis...
Pineapple, melon, mango; this new machine makes small canoes out of it. Or fingers. Or strips. In England they are called 'wedges'. That is perhaps the best coverage for the cutting results of this machine . Or bars... Actually, they are all different words for the same result. Anyway; this machine, like all our machines, ...
The companies in Seed Valley develop new vegetable and flower varieties. Improved varieties whom are providing more yield, are resistant to diseases or are suitable for modern cultivation methods. There is a great demand for advanced machines in the seed processing sector. Recently ZTI has developed a machine for opening and emp...
The Citrus Kiwi Peeler has been in our machine range for some years now. There are quite a lot of machines up-and-running worldwide. Before a machine goes in production and leaves our premises, it endures many comprehensive tests. But when the machine really goes into production, the true testing starts. Different sizes, types o...
Our Mango Peelers are selling like hot cakes. By now forty of our machines are processing mangos worldwide. Our Mango Peeler differentiates itself from other mango peelers. It carries the fruit on the kernel and so prevents damage to the fruit. Furthermore the mango is peeled over the length and gives it a traditional 'look'. An...
The fact that animal feed is made from mainly residual products is a thing of the past. The demands made on the ingredients of animal feed are becoming increasingly higher. The feed contains more and more high-quality ingredients to ensure that your four-legged friend stays healthy. After all, you want the best for your pet, jus...
The fruit placing into a machine will no longer be done by hand in the future. The pick and place robot scans, orientates and pick-and-places mango cheeks into a machine. For example from the Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker into the Fruitcutter; a machine that cuts mango cheeks in fingers or cubes. That’s how we are increasingly m...
The Citrus Kiwi peeler can now also be equipped with a gouge for citrus peels. This gouge makes long strings of, for example, an orange peel. The string is adjustable in width and thickness. When the citrus fruit is stripped of the outer shell, it can also be further peeled off. Up to the flesh. The thickness of the second white...
Watermelon is the rising star among the vegetables. Yes, vegetables. Melon is family of the cucumber. The watermelon lives up to its name: it consists of 95 percent water! Thanks to the tasty and juicy consistancy, the many vitamins and the beautiful red color it is a popular product. The demand for watermelon processing machin...
Thank you very much for all the interest we have received at Fruit Logistica 2018! It was a pleasant reunion or meeting with our regular and new customers and dealers. Again we have been able to talk extensively about the Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker. Unfortunately we could not show it on the stand, but we hope that we have been able...
The Citrus-Kiwi Peeler has a new option. The machine can now also be equipped with a 'gouge'. This gouge peels a citrus fruit and makes a long rectangular string from the peel. A popular product in the cake and pastry industry and marmalade. The thickness and width of the string can be adjusted via the LCD screen. After removing...
Cashew nuts are surprisingly tasty. Most people already know that. But they also have a number of characteristics that are less known. The nut grows under a pseudocarp or false fruit. The fruit itself is not edible, although the juice is sometimes being used and actually quite good. The nut underneath the fruit is even the more ...
The most important trade fair for the fruit and vegetables (processing) industry is coming up again. From the 7th untill 9th of February 2018 you will find ZTI at the Fruit Logistica. For Machiel and Hans a period of hard work, long days and especially a lot of talking. Networking, meeting customers, informing dealers about the ...
Now that the Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker has been added to our standard machines, it is time for a new challenge. We are developing new machines continuously. The demand for machines that can overtake monotonous and annoying work is huge. Just like the demand for convenience fruit. Fruit that is peeled, washed and chopped and ready ...
ZTI is educating graduates and interns all year round. Of course we also have a lot of fun, but we also invest in our students. Time to guide them, talking to study supervisors, explaining and co-think with the student to set a goal or project fort heir study. We think that education incompany is important for a good connection ...
Stuffed with antioxidants, super delicious and healthy. Toss it through the lettuce, on a peg with some pieces of cheese and chicken or as a treat or just in a bowl to take away to work, school or on the road. The convenience food industry has also (re)discovered the grape. There is a lot of demand for salad processing companies...
The launch and commissioning of the MPDC was followed by many interested potential buyers. Because mangos can differ in size and shape and because they are processed in different grades of ripeness, some last adjustments have been made on plant. The results are now, after several months of production, positively found by us and ...
What a beautiful Rally, what a beautiful country and what an excellent organization. The second participation of the ZTI-Bilashaka Racing Team at the Morocco Desert Challenge 2017 was a great success in all respects. Both in the foreplay and in the aftermath. We will be looking back with a smile for a long time. The Morocco Des...
The past year the ZTI Bilashaka Rally Team worked hard in their free hours to get the Land Rover Defender 'on point' for the Morocco Desert Challenge. Machiel Honig, "I think it's great to see how everyone's commitment to this project. It really is something we have done together within the company and has given us many beautifu...
Without our sponsors the ZTI-Bilashaka Race adventure could not have been possible. To thank everyone personally we have therefore organized a sponsor day. Contractor Sjef Houtenbos created a beautiful piece of 'surrogate desert' for us, where our sponsors were able to experience the Rally. In the sunshine we really enjoyed the ...
The Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker (MPDC) is ready to be delivered. Our first MPDC customer also processes mangoes into fingers and cubes, so they have ordered two ZTI Fruitcutters to complete their processing line. And above all of that we also deliver all conveyors. The peels and stones are removed from the processing...
In 2015 ZTI Bilashaka Racing participated in the Libyia Rally and then earned 7th place in the final standings. This year we participate in the same rally, for the first time under the name Marocco Desert Challenge. Logical because that is after all the country where the rally is being driven. To be able to finish higher in the ...
Like last year, the interest at Fruit Logistica for the Mango Peeler-de-cheeker was great. The machine has been made ready for production in 2016. The first machine will be leaving the building in Tuitjenhorn at the end of March. Including various conveyer belts for the peels, mango cheeks and stones. These conveyor belts can al...
'We are proud that we have been nominated for the second time for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award' said Hans Keijzer, Director of ZTI smart machines. 'In 2014 was the ZTI Destemmer (ed. Destemming machine for grapes, tomatoes, dates, etc.) nominated for the FLIA. In 2017 is our new machine, the Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker com...
There was not one stone left unturned in Autralia. The best machines were selected from six different countries. The ZTI destemmer was best reviewed and purchased is now working
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Ecocreation manufactures bioplastics, sustainable packaging and composting machines. The basic principle of the company is to reduce waste with sustainable packaging materials, extracted from natural sources. The composting of Ecocreation accelerates the recycling or compostingsprocess. The machines are now being used in for exa...
Our Destemmers are also fully operating in Australia now. At the plant of our client Fruit Master Australia 'Grape N-go' containers are being filled with ready to eat table grapes. The machinery is fully installed under our supervision and equipped with our 'smart' supply and discharge conveyors. Smart because the Destemmer comm...
Peeling and removing the mango-cheeks at the incredible speed off 40 mango's per minute! On Fruit Logistica 2017 (8, 9 and 10th of februari) in Berlin you can see for yourself the quick and smart way this machine operates. Looking forward to meet you there! Hall 3.1 stand A05. Mango Peeler-de-Cheeker
Now the Citrus and Kiwi Peeler is in good company of a bigger brother. Scaling up the machine makes it possible to peel pineapple and melon. Of course with the same simple interface for adjusting the peeling thickness by touch screen. Because of the adjustable peeling thickness the most optimum yield can be earned. The Pineappl...
The Mango Peeler de cheeker processes up to 40 mangoes per minute. That is a lot; sometimes too much. For customers who process less mangoes we therefore still sell the successful, existing Mango Peeler. This machine peels 4 to 5 mangoes per minute. And that's a lot faster than manually peeling. Reason for our customer from Tahi...
What an extraordinary country is Qatar! A large sandpit, inhabited by 80% of non-indigenous population, with only one export product; oil. The capital Doha is a huge futuristic, almost alien-like city. How great that also in Doha a ZTI smart machine will be peeling fruit. The Citrus Kiwi Peeler is almost ready for transport to Q...
ZTI has commissioned the production of 6 Super Sealers! The Sealers will be shipped to Spain at the end of November. Our client Bercomex, will integrate the Super Sealer in its successful flower bunching- and processingmachine 'Furora'. This flowerline sorts roses through vision technology on length, maturity, form etc. and devi...
Research and development; that's not a department in our company. We are Research and Development. Vision technology, robotics, sensors, test configurations. It is our everyday's business. In our 'testlab' we develope different possibilities for a picka nd placerobot. For example for the placing of mango cheeks in our Fruitcutte...
'Does the destemmer also destem kiwi berries?' A customer asked us not so long ago. Well we just have to try, of course. And with excellent results! So good that this customer has bought the Destemmer for destemming kiwi berries. There you have it. Besides grapes, dates, tomatoes now also a kiwi-berrie-Destemmer. And what more i...
The Mango Peeler-de-cheeker is now a ready-for-sale smart machine. We have had a lot of enthusiastic (potential) customers at ZTI who have watched the machine performe live. All sorts of mangos have been tested. Small and large, from soft and ripe till hard and unripe. Peeling and decheeking the mango goes at neckbreaking speed ...
The metal tension spring is in particular in the food processing industry, a troublesome component in a machine. When broken, it can shoot in excerpts from each other and particles can get into the processed product. Further, a spring is a very difficult part to clean. Food can get in between the spring and holds it tight. ZTI ...
Cars are getting smarter and safer every day. Take for example the airbag, the tightening of a seatbelt or the compression of a steeringcolumn during an impact . All measures that must minimize the damage on a person during a collision. But actually, these measures are just a little too late in times of need. It would be ...
Our well- equipped workshop is also well used outside office hours. We repair our cars, "preppen" a rally car and since a few weeks we are working on two "Start Ramps " for FCV Schagen. On this launch ramps bike riders can practice good starting from behind a starting gate . We like to sponsor this club A) because we find BMX cy...
"New, smart and simple applications, that's the challenge"Machines that detect themselves, think and take action, are more and more common in the modern production process. A team of smart engineers at ZTI is working daily to design and assembly these "smart machines". Using mechatronics, robotics and vision technique they inven...
Australia's mad about grapes. Using our destemmers fruit-to-go cups with ready-to-eat table grapes will be filled. The destemmers are fitted with a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt feeds the bunches of grapes into the destemmer automatically. In order to be able to regulate the speed of delivery, the destemmers are fitted with a...
Fruit and vegetables are now often orientated by hand and placed in a machine. That requires a lot of manpower and repetitive actions. The machines must be equipped with necessary protections to prevent human contact with sharp objects and knives in the machine. In many cases, this will be at the expense of the speed of processi...
Cashew nuts are popular the world over. Not just because they are so healthy, but also because they taste so good. Yet cashews can be difficult. Not least difficult to shell. The nuts grow on the cashew tree, just under a false fruit. The fruit is usually discarded, while the nut is prized. There's just one problem: getting it o...
Development rarely stands still: certainly not in the field of car tyres. TNO asked ZTI to build a 'carlab' so that they could test car tyre behaviour under differing conditions. Wireless sensors can be used to track the exact performance of the tyre and how it holds the road. The relatively small contact area between tyre and ...
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A machine should not just be smart and do what it has to do, a machine can also be sleek. Functionality and aesthetics actually go quite well together. Together with an industrial designer, we looked at the appearance of our machines, and the first one is getting a make-over as we speak. At the same time, the logo and house styl...
This year, the ZTI Racing team took part for the first time in the Libya Rally in Morocco. Over six months of preparation went into this. A team of enthusiastic amateur mechanics worked hard to prepare the Land Rover Defender V8 for the rally. The ZTI racing team managed to land a fine seventh place in the 'cars' category for fi...
'Ondernemen doen we zo!' is an informative programme in which business people talk to top-level sports people. Hans Keijzer of ZTI had a place at the table with managing director Jan van de Ham of Formibo DIY centres. Racing driver Tim Coronel was the sports person providing the link between the business people. As Hans Keijzer ...
In February 2015, the first Destemmer for grapes landed in Australia. Pinnacle Fresh has since successfully started production with the machine. One thing leads to another, and we are working hard on future deliveries.
