Coffee Leaders Invest $1 Million to Automatise Grading

QualySense, a young Swiss company pioneering high-speed analytics and sorting solutions for seeds, grains, and beans, announces that it has entered a partnership with Cooxupé, the Dubai Multi Commodity Center, Nespresso, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, Starbucks, and Suntory to automatize the coffee quality inspection and roasting performance with the QSorter® technology.

Today, the routine inspection of a green coffee sample is limited to visual quality parameters. Beans’ size and defects grading are still performed manually, and it can take up to 20 minutes per sample. Some aspects of the manual grading process such as eye fatigue and the insufficient grading experience are sometimes unavoidable during harvest time, and it may directly affect processing/blending/roasting decisions. Furthermore, invisible quality parameters that drive the roasting process, such as the amount of sucrose or lipids, are not at all measured during the inspection and the reason has been the unavailability of rapid non-destructive methods.

The global coffee industry leaders have joined forces with QualySense to solve these challenges by means of the QSorter® technology. The QSorter® technology pioneered by the Swiss Company, is the only high-speed single bean analyzer in the world combining 3D Imagining, High Resolution Spectroscopy with Machine Learning Algorithms, Precision Sorting and several data handling features in just one platform. Every second, up to 30 green coffee beans are analyzed with respect to visual and invisible quality properties. Each bean is analyzed, and a lot of data are generated to help users making the right decisions at any time. The QSorter® has the potential of solving several of today’s challenges and it will become a new standard for the entire coffee industry. The first units of the QSorter® for the inspection of green coffee beans are produced in collaboration with Ferrum AG and will be installed in Summer 2022.

Marco Bellinato, a coffee experts say: “QualySense will revolutionize and globally standardize the way we inspect coffee, will bring to the market the must-have tool for traders or roasters. This machine will help me improve efficiency and speed of service; we will be able to inspects hundreds of samples in a fraction of time compared to today standards.”

Francesco Dell’Endice, founder and CEO of QualySense, says: “We are very honored and thankful to work with such world-leading coffee companies in advancing quality control and digital solutions for the coffee industry. The enthusiasm is very high, and all the partners are contributing enormously with their know-now and longstanding expertise to the project. The first campaign of field tests completed successfully, and we are now starting deliveries”.

More Info about our Innovation Partners

Cooxupé                                                                                             https://www.cooxupe.com.br/

Dubai Multi Commodities Center                                              https://www.dmcc.ae/

Nespresso                                                                                           https://www.nespresso.com/

Bernhard Rothfos Intercafé AG (Neumann Kaffee Group)       https://bric.ch/

Starbucks                                                                                             https://www.starbucks.com/

Suntory                                                                                                https://suntorycoffee.com/