Top Optical Sorter Companies

Optical Sorter Market size was valued at USD 3.4 Billion in 2024 and is poised to grow from USD 3.73 Billion in 2025 to USD 7.76 Billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 9.6% during the forecast period (2026–2033).

A growing number of new competitors are entering the market as a result of the product demand expanding significantly across several end-use industries, including the food and beverage, mining, pharmaceutical, and waste recycling sectors. The major producers are spending money on R&D to create new items and broaden their customer base. Additionally, manufacturers are utilizing this tactic to improve sales and expand their market dominance. 'TOMRA Systems ASA (Norway)', 'Buhler Group (Switzerland) ', 'Satake Corporation (Japan) ', 'Key Technology, Inc. (USA) ', 'Sesotec GmbH (Germany) ', 'Allgaier Process Technology GmbH (Germany) ', 'National Recovery Technologies (NRT) (USA) ', 'STEINERT GmbH (Germany) ', 'MAF RODA S.p.A. (Italy) ', 'CP Group (USA) ', 'Hefei MEK Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (China) ', 'Beijing Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (China) ', 'Shenzhen Uni-Tech Vision Technology Co., Ltd. (China) ', 'Zhengzhou Keli Color Sorting Technology Co., Ltd. (China) ', 'Shanghai Wanshen Optical Sorting Equipment Co., Ltd. (China) ', 'Anhui Golden Eagle Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (China)'

Quality control and product safety are critical concerns for industries like food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. Optical sorters play a vital role in ensuring product quality by efficiently detecting and removing defects, foreign materials, and contaminants from the production line. The increasing emphasis on product safety regulations and consumer demands for high-quality products drive the adoption of optical sorters.

Expansion of Application Areas: Optical sorting technology is expanding beyond traditional industries such as food processing and recycling. It is finding applications in emerging sectors such as pharmaceuticals, mining, cosmetics, and logistics. Optical sorters are being used to sort pharmaceutical tablets, mining ores, cosmetic products, and parcel packages, among others. This expansion of application areas broadens the market potential for optical sorters and drives their adoption in diverse industries.

In terms of market share, the optical machine industry will be dominated by North America in 2022. Due to growing food sorter machine use in the food industry and severe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations to assure food quality, this is the case. The top manufacturers and suppliers of optical sorter machines in North America include Green Machine LLC, National Recovery Technologies, Inc. (NRT), and MSS, Inc. The only fully integrated provider of recycling systems in the optical sorter machine sector is Green Machine LLC, a manufacturer of cutting-edge recycling, solid waste optical sorter systems, and equipment in the United States.