P&P Optica (PPO) combines in-line smart imaging technology with data analytics in a novel way to help ensure the food we eat is safer, higher quality and produced with less waste.
The global food industry is facing relentless pressure to drive production volumes ever higher, with improved quality and safety of food. While automation in food handling has driven significant production gains, costly recalls are all too frequent and waste is endemic. Now with PPO’s patented automated hyperspectral imaging systems, food producers can replace subjective, error-prone visual inspection and time-consuming laboratory testing with an in-line, real-time solution. The result is higher revenue, lower costs, and safer products.
The global food industry is facing relentless pressure to drive production volumes ever higher, with improved quality and safety of food. While automation in food handling has driven significant production gains, costly recalls are all too frequent and waste is endemic. Now with PPO’s patented automated hyperspectral imaging systems, food producers can replace subjective, error-prone visual inspection and time-consuming laboratory testing with an in-line, real-time solution. The result is higher revenue, lower costs, and safer products.
Location: Canada, Ontario, Waterloo
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 519-576-0007
Founded date: 1995
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Fulcrum Gl... | fgcvc.com |
| - | Innovation... | iimkc.com |
| - | Golden Tri... | goldentria... |
| - | Ag Capital... | agcapitalc... |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.01.2026 | P&P Optica to Demonstrate Industry-Leading Bacon Grading Technology at IPPE 2026 | PPO’s solution allows for a limited footprint, meaning processors can improve their consistency and reduce both product waste and labor costs without a total line redesign.” — Olga Pawluczyk, CEO of PPOWATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA, January 26,... |
| 26.01.2026 | P&P Optica to Debut Automated Chicken Nugget Grading Solution at IPPE 2026 | By focusing on breading coverage and shape in a limited footprint, we’re helping our customers reduce waste, optimize productivity, and ensure that only the best product reaches the consumer.” — Olga Pawluczyk, CEO of PPOWATERLOO, ONTARIO, ... |
| 26.01.2026 | PPO Celebrates First Smart Imaging System Built in the US, in Partnership with Midwest Metalcraft | Midwest Metalcraft’s craftsmanship and experience in industrial fabrication ensure that our Smart Imaging Systems are built to the high standards of durability and performance we’ve always delivered.” — Olga Pawluczyk, CEO of PPOWATERLOO, O... |
| 02.10.2025 | P&P Optica Named Among Canada’s Top Foodtech Innovators | PPO selected as one of the Foodtech Frontier 25, a new national initiative by the Canadian Food Innovation Network. We are honoured to be part of the inaugural Foodtech Frontier 25. This recognition underscores how our Smart Imaging System ... |
| 21.05.2025 | PPO Launches Redesigned Website to Enhance Access to Food Inspection Solutions | Explore PPO’s redesigned website, which features smarter navigation, improved resources and easier access to food inspection insights and technology. WATERLOO, CANADA, May 21, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- PPO is pleased to announce the launch... |
| 23.01.2025 | A Decade of Innovation with P&P Optica | Advancing Foreign Material Detection for Safer, Higher-Quality Meat Processing Our work is helping processors all over the world provide safer, higher-quality food, and I couldn’t be prouder of our team and what we’ve achieved.” — Olga Pawl... |
| 07.11.2022 | Federal government invests $2.4 million in P&P Optica to help meat processors automate food safety | - |
| 08.07.2021 | P&P Optica gets Series B funding to bring hyperspectral imaging to the meat industry | Covid-19 has raised serious questions about the safety, efficiency, and overall efficacy of meat processing. From labor shortages to infected workers to empty store shelves, the pandemic has only highlighted the many ways in which the indus... |
| 29.12.2020 | Our experience launching an agtech fund in the midst of a global pandemic | Editor’s note: Duane Cantrell is managing partner, and Kevin Lockett and John Peryam are partners, at Fulcrum Global Capital, an ag-focused VC firm based in Kansas City, US. The views expressed in this guest article are the authors’ own and... |
| 12.03.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Fulcrum Global Capital closes $36m agrifoodtech fund and four investments | From their office in Kansas City, Missouri, Kevin Lockett, Duane Cantrell and John Peryam sit in the heart of US livestock country and on the frontline of global food production disruption. And today AFN can reveal that the partners’ ventur... |
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