BEST NV supplies laser, camera, light emitting diode, and X-ray sorters to perform color, structural, shape, and density sorting. It offers laser sorters for use in applications that require color and structure sorting, such as raisins, shrimps, vegetables, tobacco, and nuts; camera sorters for use in food and nonfood applications, which include French fries, shrimps, vegetables, snacks, raw cotton, plastics, and extrudates; and X-ray systems for the detection of defects, such as bones in meat, fish, metal, or plastic in packaged goods, as well as stones in bulk products, such as nuts or beans, and glass or metal fragments in jars, or cans. The company also offers dual sorters that are designed to sort out stones, bones, wood, and other foreign objects; light emitting diode sorters; and measuring systems that perform measurements for statistical quality control for various products, including French fries, potatoes, rice, beans, and chemical granules. Its products are used in applications, such as dried fruit, nuts, fruit, vegetables, potato, coffee, seafood, tobacco, cotton, plastics, and glass. The company provides its products and after-sales service through a network of agents. Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology was founded in 1996 and is based in Heverlee, Belgium with additional offices in Leuven and Aarschot, Belgium; Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and the United States.see less
