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OptoSort GmbH offers: development, design and systems ready for use as well as service for sorting base and precious metals, diamonds/precious stones, industrial minerals.

The company OptoSort GmbH develops, produces and sells machines to sort bulk materials and for a wide range of special applications in international mining. Under the brand of OptoSort, which is known throughout the world, sorting machines have been used for over 20 years, sometimes under raw climatic and industrial conditions. They have proved that OptoSort sorters display the necessary robustness and reliability even if in use for 24 hours per day, in addition to their highly developed technology and are consistent with the requirement profiles put forward by users.

OptoSort is one of the pioneers of opto-pneumatic sorting technology and displays its innovativeness and pursuit of improvement through continuous further development and refinement of this technology. This continuous further development is also supported by a close development partnership with the IOSB Fraunhofer Institute in Karlsruhe. A team of specialists in the fields of geology, mining technology as well as automation and control technology tirelessly develops and optimises individual solutions for our international customers, which are largely classified as belonging to the mining industry in the broadest sense.

Optical sorters have been developed and manufactured under the OptoSort name since 1992. The first two sorters were installed in a lime stone mine in Southern Germany in 1993. The sorting task was to separate the black amphibolite from white-grey lime stone

OptoSort sorters are installed worldwide, for example to sort lime stone in the USA, in diamond mines in South Africa, to enrich gold and precious metals in Russia as well as for various industrial minerals throughout Europe, i.e. Austria, France, Belgium, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Germany, etc.