TTA ISO CombiFix Germination Correction

Germination corrected trays up to 100% filled with qualified plants.

The CombiFix is the successor of the most successful gapping and correction machine for young plant trays ever.

The CombiFix is a fully automatic gapping up machine that can fill trays to 100% after germination.

The machine presents the trays at the selection position. It then selects the incoming trays using an in house imaging system based on the optical appearance of each individual plant. Empty plugs, as well as plants that are too small or of poor quality, are collected and discharged via the blow out section. After the blow out section, the trays are divided over two different chain conveyors. The CombiFix allocates one tray as a donor tray, which provides the plants. The other trays receive plants, thus being germination corrected to 100% full trays with qualified plants.

The head of the plant gripper moves between the donor and destination trays using a direct magnetic drive system. This allows it to accelerate very quickly and ensures the highly accurate positioning of the plant grippers. This technique also reduces maintenance costs.

With the use of the TTA ISO group pusher pin system, even fragile plants with an incomplete rooting system can be handled with almost no damage to the root plug. The advantage of repairing trays is an optimum use of available space, uniformity in plant material and plant development, and process optimization during automatic robotic transplanting.

The market is asking for 100% filled young plant trays for use with automated transplanting. There is no other machine on the market that offers the quality and speed of the CombiFix.

The CombiFix is designed as a small single frame of 3.8 x 2.2 meters in which all processes occur. Destacking units and discard rollers are available.

Specifications:

Operators
1

Plug diameter
9 mm to 30 mm

Capacity per hour
12 000 to 20 000 plugs