Designing for Flexibility

Crops and standards change every season. Wyma’s flexible, modular equipment helps processors adapt quickly while maintaining quality and efficiency.

Every Crop Is Different, and So Is Our Approach

No two harvests are ever the same. Soil types, climate, and storage conditions vary, retail standards evolve, and sustainability expectations are rising. For processors, these shifts can mean fluctuating crop size, shape, density, and finish, all of which impact line performance.

We design equipment that doesn’t just perform; it adapts. Flexibility isn’t an afterthought; it is engineered into every line from the ground up. Whether you’re handling carrots, potatoes, parsnips, or beetroot, Wyma systems are built to manage variability without compromising efficiency or product quality. A well-engineered solution should adapt to the processor, not the other way around.

The Challenge: Constantly Changing Crop Specifications

Modern processors operate in a landscape defined by volatility and complexity:

• Climate change is altering soil conditions, yield consistency, and crop geometry.
• Retail standards continue to evolve, demanding new pack formats, cosmetic grading, and traceability.
• Labour shortages and rising costs drive demand for automation.
• Sustainability regulations push for water reuse, energy efficiency, and waste minimization.

Traditional, fixed-design systems struggle to keep pace. What’s needed is equipment that evolves with your operation: modular, smart, and future-ready.

Flexibility from the Ground Up

Wyma’s “flexibility by design” philosophy ensures every project is engineered to fit today’s needs and tomorrow’s challenges. Our Consult–Design–Manufacture–Install–Support process integrates mechanical, electrical, and digital engineering from the outset.

Our process:

1. Consult: We begin with your crop, your facility, and your targets, not a pre-set catalogue.
2. Design: Using 3D laser scanning and parametric modelling, we create a digital twin of your site for a perfect fit.
3. Manufacture: Local assembly in Europe and New Zealand, combined with global OEM partnerships, ensures both precision and scalability.
4. Install: Our project management teams oversee every step, from fabrication to commissioning.
5. Support: Lifetime service, spare parts, and upgrade pathways ensure your line remains future-ready.

This lifecycle approach guarantees your investment adapts as your product mix, throughput, and market demands evolve.

Engineering Adaptability into Every Detail

Modular System Architecture
Wyma lines are built around modular frameworks, allowing components such as intake hoppers, barrel washers, polishers, and sizers to be added, bypassed, or replaced with minimal disruption. This design simplifies maintenance, reduces downtime, and enables fast adaptation to new crops or capacity requirements.

Intelligent Automation
Flexibility today means digital adaptability. Wyma integrates Smartline™ production software, giving operators real-time visibility into throughput, energy use, and product quality. Adjustable brush pressure, variable-speed drives, and programmable wash cycles allow instant changeovers between crop types, all from a centralized control interface.

OEM Integration for Seamless Solutions
Through long-standing partnerships with leading providers, we integrate optical sorting, weighing, and palletizing technology into complete lines. This ensures processors benefit from world-class automation while maintaining a single point of accountability for performance.

Compact, Custom Footprints
Many European processors operate from legacy facilities with limited floor space. Our engineers use 3D scanning to optimize layouts for material flow, safety, and service access, often achieving higher throughput within the same footprint.

Parametric modelling lets our designers “stretch” or “shrink” components to suit your crop and site, precision engineering that saves time, space, and cost.

Case in Point: Adapting from Carrots to Parsnips

A Northern European processor recently commissioned a carrot line designed with future diversification in mind. Knowing that parsnips and beetroot might soon enter their product mix, Wyma engineered a modular solution using:

• Adjustable Lift Roller Sizers (LRS) for variable crop diameters
• A Vege-Polisher™ with independent brush pressure and rotation control
• Configurable conveyors allowing alternative routing between cleaning and grading stages

The outcome:

• 25% reduction in seasonal changeover downtime
• Improved finish consistency across multiple crops
• Seamless compliance with evolving retailer specifications

This is flexibility built in from day one.

Continuous Innovation Keeps Us Ahead

Flexibility is a mindset, not a feature. Wyma’s global engineering and R&D teams implement over 500 product improvements annually, guided by real-world processor feedback.

Recent innovations include:

• Optical Roto-Cut™ trimmer – AI-assisted cutting that dynamically adjusts to each vegetable’s unique profile, minimizing waste
  
• Smartline™ digital integration – enabling operators to track yield, water flow, and energy use in real time

Together, these technologies redefine what adaptable design means in modern vegetable processing.

Designed for Life and for Change

Every Wyma system is backed by our local service and parts teams in Europe, the UK, Australasia, and beyond. Because flexibility doesn’t end with installation; it extends throughout the equipment’s lifecycle.

Our service model includes:

• Preventative maintenance and health checks
• Fast regional parts dispatch
• Remote diagnostics and software updates
• Retrofitting and upgrade options to extend line life

We believe in creating customers for life, working alongside you to ensure every system continues to deliver “the best from every harvest.”

The Result: Equipment That Grows with You

Choosing Wyma means investing in equipment and a partnership that adapts to every challenge your business faces.
Our flexible systems make it easier to:

• Respond quickly to market and crop variability
• Maintain productivity under changing regulations or specifications
• Reduce total cost of ownership through upgrade-ready design

Wyma equipment doesn’t just process vegetables; it evolves with them. 

Ready to design a line that grows with your business?
Contact your local Wyma office to learn how flexible design can help you achieve greater efficiency, sustainability, and crop quality.