Drive Accuracy & Speed with Automated Sortation Systems

SmartSort® Swivel Wheel Sorter

The Transnorm SmartSort® Swivel Wheel Sorter product family offers advanced solutions for high-speed sorting and distribution. This versatile range includes the Divert Conveyor TS4800, the Compact Sorter TS4800C, and the innovative Sorter Cartridge TS4810 — engineered to deliver distribution capacities ≥ 8,000 units per hour.

Designed and manufactured by Transnorm, the SmartSort® family is a modular, high-performance sorting solution tailored for the efficient sorting, outfeeding and distribution of unit loads. Its intelligent design incorporates electrically driven swivel bars, a central drive mechanism, and robust PU-coated rollers, ensuring gentle yet reliable handling of a wide variety of items over 100 millimeters in length. From shipping bags and small parcels to plastic containers, trays with waffle bases, and even tires, the system accommodates complex goods and manages them securely at high speeds.

Sliding Shoe Sorter

Up to 24,000 items/hour​

Pioneered by Honeywell in the 1980s, the innovative sliding shoe sorter combines one of the highest throughput rates in the industry with the most accurate product handling. ​

Diverting “shoes” attached to the conveyor surface positively divert items onto an after-sort conveyor. A patented “soft touch” divert system provides fast, gentle control and accuracy, reducing item impact speed by 500%. Ongoing refinements have made the latest generation of shoe sorters quieter than ever, while offering the flexibility of modular design.​

Fast, accurate handling of diverse items​

Fed by a single stream of products merged from multiple areas of a building upstream, sliding shoe sorters are a popular choice for shipping sorters, as they can provide high rates with predictable divert accuracy for a wide range of items. They’re also a great choice for operations that handle polybags, jiffy bags and bubble mailers, because their innovative design eliminates potential pinch points.

HDS Sliding Shoe Sorter

Up to 11,000 items/hour​

For applications that need to fit in limited spaces, the high density sliding shoe sorter (HDS) features a dual-sided design that accommodates more divert chutes in a smaller footprint. This configuration enables fast, precise diverts of a wide variety of product and packaging types — including polybags — while supporting zone-skipping strategies.

Mid Rate Sliding Shoe Sorter

The Mid-Rate Sorter is a strategic addition to Honeywell’s sortation portfolio, designed to support operations in need of 6,000-8,000 items an hour.

Incorporates high-density divert spacing and simplified mechanical/electrical systems to optimize footprint and cost, while maintaining the ability to handle diverse package types.

Bomb Bay Sorter

Up to 24,000 items/hour​

Ideal for high-throughput, e-commerce operations, quiet, high-capacity bomb bay sorters run in a continuous loop, dropping items into cartons, totes or engineered packaging chutes. The flat carrying surface reliably handles polybags, round items that roll, non-conveyables, multimedia, mail and more. Bomb bay sortation solutions are available with single, dual or heavy-duty, split-tray styles.

Push-Tray Sorter

Up to 24,000 items/hour​

Honeywell’s award-winning push-tray sorter is one of the most flexible mid-capacity solutions in the industry. Items are inducted onto carts running around a continuous loop, before being pushed off by a sliding bar. Push-tray technology combines the benefits of sliding shoe and tilt-tray sorters. A twin-tray design enables the handling of nearly all packaging types and sizes, from 200 g polybags to 20 kg cartons. In many cases, this versatile solution can even handle products that traditionally required manual sorting.

Tilt-Tray Sorter

Up to 27,000 items/hour​

Tilt-tray sorters are engineered for critical high-capacity, high-speed sorting applications. Trays mounted to carts running on a continuous-loop conveyor “tilt” and transfer items down into a chute when an item reaches its sorting destination. Items are inducted either manually or automatically onto the trays via induction station sat multiple locations throughout the loop. ​

Durable, low-maintenance tilt-trays accommodate nearly all item sizes, deliver high throughput and accuracy, and are ideal for applications that require a high number of sort locations. Low noise levels make atilt-tray sorter a good solution for operators who work in close proximity to a machine. In addition, virtual sorter capability enables dual-purpose operation for peak capacity and high-volume runs. ​

Flexible performance in tight spaces ​

The low-profile frame of the tilt-tray sorter allows for clearance in otherwise tight locations. Its modular design enables the system to scale easily, accommodating future expansion or seamless integration into existing facilities.

Cross-Belt Sorter

Up to 27,000 items/hour​

Honeywell’s high-capacity, flexible cross-belt sorter is designed to handle fragile and high-friction items of virtually any size. Motorized belt conveyors are mounted onto carts running on a continuous loop conveyor and transfer items down into a chute when an item reaches its sorting destination. Two belt units per cart — which give the cross-belt sorter its name — can handle large items while increasing capacity for small-to-medium-size items.

The system’s flexible modular design easily scales and adapts to your operation’s current and future needs. ​

Tilt-tray or cross-belt? ​

While cross-belt technology offers similar functionality and features as tilt-tray sorters, they provide more predictable divert reliability for certain types of products and packaging. They provide unmatched throughput for high-friction pieces or those that need gentle handling, including tricky items like letters, flats, books, CDs and DVDs.