First Edition - This is our first edition of Compac Sorting Equipment's newsletter "Compac Innovations". We're introducing this to help provide you with information about what is taking place at CSE, who we are and relevant industry information that we believe you will find useful and interesting.

Each issue will contain sections on New Innovations, Product Features, Our Team, Industry Info, Customer Profile, Software News, Service News and Press Releases. In future it will be expanded with additional links to our website and other sites where you'll be able to learn more.

If you'd like to contribute any information or have any comments please forward them to newsletter@compacsort.com

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Hate having to continally stick little pieces of paper or write on chalk boards on your machine to identify the size and grade of fruit coming out at each outlet? Compac has the solution that will save you time, frustration and confusion. Compac's BDM 1000 is a digital outlet display with 6 characters x 57 mm high to show the size and grade coming to each outlet. When the operator makes a change to the software, the BDM 1000 is automatically up-dated so that packers can easily see what size and grade they are packing. The BDM 1000's are available as single or double sided (excellent when using tray fillers) and can be installed on any machine running HAL 4000 electronics and the most current version 8 software. For more information click here.

Compac's Carrier & Chain Lubrication System can extend the life of your main carrier chain and help keep the carriers tipping freely.

The lubricator consists of a pumping system and spray applicator mounted over the return carrier return guides and requires an air supply for operation. The sizer is operated at approximately 100 carriers per minute while a metered amount of food grade silicone lubricant is applied.

The optional chain and carrier lubrication system is being installed on most machines that have been manufactured over the past year and can be fit to existing machines as well. Contact your Compac salesman or e-mail us at sales@compacsort.com for a quotation.

The 'Vision Software Team' at Compac is experiencing unparalleled success in the development of blemish grading technology.



The team consists of three university educated professionals who have been jointly responsible for developing the current blemish grading technology right from it's beginnings and which now boasts a high degree of commercial success. For more information click here.

Freeze bites Washington pink lady, fuji harvests. There will be no late harvest of Washington apples this season.

Nature has seen to that. “If there were any apples on the trees, they’re gone,” said Ron Eakin, secretary for Eakin Fruit Co., a grower-shipper in Yakima. For full story click here.

DNE picks apple exec as sales VP DNE World Fruit Sales has dipped into the apple industry to pluck an executive with 36 years of citrus industry experience. For full story click here.

Three mid-November hailstorms have wiped out an estimated one million 40-pound cartons of New Zealand’s apple crop, possibly affecting the 2003 volumes of the leading importer of the island nation’s apples and pears into the U.S. For full story click here.

Smart thinking from Satara’s Marshalls Rd packhouse in the Bay of Plenty is paying big dividends. For full story click here.

A newly released Rotofiller III (RF III), fully automatic, swing-over bin filler is now avaialble. For full story click here.