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Agristo satisfied with solution treatment of washing water

Agristo BV in Tilburg, the Netherlands, with parent company in Harelebeek - Belgium, has specialized in the production of deep-freeze and pre-fryed chips and various potato products.This year the company seriously invested in the treatment of the washing water of the potatoes. Agristo was keen to avoid large.....

New branch UNITEC USA established in Stockton

US (CA): UNITEC started up new cherry sorting technologies

the new electronic cherries sorting system installed by UNITEC at O-G PACKING of Stockton (CA), one of the most important companies in California for cherries' processing is now in operation. This UNITEC new installation has been presented during an open-house and was held in Stockton, May 29. It was.....

GP Graders new Rainier-friendly cluster cutter

GP Graders have been at the forefront of cluster cutter development since the introduction of their patented grooved belting in the 1990s. They have now made their cluster cutter even more gentle, in fact it is gentle enough for even the most delicate cherry, the Rainier. Until now, many people believed that.....

Guus Treuen: "Larger sorting capacity than competing machines"

Marcelissen captures American market with roll sorter

Machine manufacturer Marcelissen from Belfeld, The Netherlands, has been active in the food and vegetable processing industry for more than sixty years. "We supply quite a number of machines for processing potatoes and carrots," Guus Treuen explains. Guus Treuen of MarcelissenAmongst others screw de-stoners,.....

Ron van de Pavert, Brimapack:

"Machine saves 50% on labour costs for harvesting iceberg lettuce"

Brimapack in Ulft supplies a growing assortment of packaging systems for field vegetable production. Since the introduction of the first sealing machine, their product range has grown into a complete range of packaging solutions over the last ten years; varying from packaging machines to sorting and.....

New clean-in-place system for Wyma Vege-Polisher™ and Vege-Peeler

The Wyma team has developed a series of Clean-In-Place CIP features for Vege-Polisher™ and Vege-Peeler to meet the strict hygiene requirements of pack-houses and processing facilities, and to provide some level of automation to the traditionally manual cleaning procedure. The main components of the CIP.....

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Growers see better returns

Leading apple packer invests in tray-less flowrapper solution

Apple growers are seeing better returns for their products thanks to savings being made by a leading fruit packing company using Ulma Packaging’s bespoke Atlanta tray-less flowrapper solution to wrap apples in numerous formats – 2 x 2, 3 x 2, 4 x 2 & importantly 4 x 1 with or without trays at all on the.....

Lars Heuvelmans of Dofra Foodtec:

New onion peeler: moving parts replaced by super magnets

The Dutch company Dofra Foodtec has been active as a machine manufacturer in the agro and food sector since 1959.The company has specialized in the production and sales of machinery for the processing of different fresh products. "We process everything from peppers to mushrooms, leafy vegetables, citrus,.....

Hi-Volume cherry line starts production California

Compac’s newest sorter, the Small Fruit Sorter, has officially started production for Prima Frutta based in Linden, California. Sorting 50,000 cherries every minute for size, shape, color, softness and surface defects; making this machine one of the largest electronic cherry sorters in the world. Cherries.....

capacity of 25 to 35 tons of chips per hour

Kiremko supply fryer to West European chip producer

Kiremko have produced a complete process line and supplied with this a two-stage fryer of serious format for one of the largest chip producers in Western Europe. During the last few months the engineering department has developed this fryer with a special free carrying conveyor belt. This new fryer is a.....

Trayless flow wrapping machines

Redpack maximise profit margins and minimise packaging waste

Manufacturers of products that require overwrapping for protection and to retain freshness are faced with two significant challenges. One is to reduce their environmental footprint to a minimum and the other is to cut costs. Both of these challenges have to be accomplished whilst providing customers with.....

Matrix features Triton High-Speed Bagging Machine at United Fresh

Matrix Packaging Machinery, powered by Pro Mach, will showcase at United Fresh, May 14-16 at the San Diego Convention Center, the Triton, a vertical form-fill-seal machine optimized for the fresh produce packaging industry. The Triton automated bagging machine, which comes in two models, can help fresh.....

Maxwell Chase Technologies:

New MCT25 double row tomato slicer doubles capacity

Maxwell Chase Technologies today announced the next generation of their patented MCT 25 Automated Tomato Slicer which doubles the production capacity of the previous model.The new MCT 25 Double Row Tomato Slicer occupies the same footprint of the previous model, while doubling the production capacity to over.....

Allround Vegetable Processing:

Vegetable processing lines for various greens

Allround Vegetable Processingfrom Andijk supply a wide range of vegetable processing machines, directed at sorting, weighing, washing, polishing, brushing and packing of vegetables and potatoes, combined with scouring lines. The company's products include: inspection tables, lifts, washing machines, sorting.....

Rivermaid to install 42 lanes of electronic cherry grading in 2014

Rivermaid Trading Company are proud to announce they will be installing a 42 lane electronic cherry grader in California next year. The machine is to be designed and manufactured by GP Graders.The turn-key 42 lane cherry line will be installed at Rivermaid’s Lodi plant.Rivermaid’s CEO, Patrick Archibeque and.....

Lakewood offer customized packing solutions

Lakewood Process Machinery, primarily known for their blueberry packing and processing equipment, is hopeful to reach growers, packers, and repackers in need of custom equipment solutions for their fruit or vegetable packing lines by offering custom machinery and equipment solutions from their custom shop.....

Finland: Greefa builds new sorting line for Närpes Grönsaker

Närpes Grönsaker is a Finnish cooperation that sorts, packs, markets and sells greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers. The total acreage is nearly 35 hectare from 70 different growers in Finland. Since they have to sort and pack a big amount of produce coming from their growers every day, the cooperation has a.....

UNITEC Optical Cherry Sorter

OG Packing puts finishing touches on new packing line upgrade

OG Packing has put the finishing touches on its new multi-million dollar facility upgrade as it unveiled its new packing line. “Our new line-3 maximizes all available Cherry packing technology,” Says Tom Gotelli of OG Packing. The new line features the UNITEC Optical Cherry Sorter and countless flume and.....

Sorter introduces new linear weighing machine

Offering a range of sorting solutions for the fruit and vegetable industry, Sorter has introduced a new linear weighing machine for sorting produce.Sorter new linear weighing machine is designed specially to sort all round fruit and vegetables such as apples, citrus, tomatoes, but also pears with the.....

Sormac 10 years after a fresh start

Today, 1 May 2013 is exactly ten years since director Bert Haffmans made a fresh start with Sormac following the bankruptcy of Backus Sormac B.V. "A decade later we can refer to ourselves unhesitatingly as: Sormac, a leader in technology." “The focus in the early years was primarily on trust and quality......