Unitec to showcase at PMA Fresh Summit

In New Orleans, Unitec will be showcasing a range of innovative technologies and systems from cherries to apples, stone fruits, melons, small watermelons, citrus, peppers, courgettes, cucumbers, which allow industry operators to improve their handling processes via increased output, improved handling, greater consistency, enhanced quality and labor savings.

In particular, Unitec will present its new technologies to process cherries and cherry tomatoes, with which they have achieved outstanding success around the world, including USA and Canada.

Above all Cherry_Vision©, the system that allows non destructive detection of the external and internal quality of cherries, entirely designed and developed by Unitec. This is technology is versatile and customizable for any packing house on the basis of end user requirements. This very successful technology significantly reduces the work of identifying fruit defects manually, with marked savings in processing costs.
Thanks to Cherry_Vision©, cherry packers can noticeably improve their quality selection regime and increase market profitability thanks to accurate quality selection never reached before.

Also on display is Unical_200 Cherry©, the electronic sorter dedicated to sort small and delicate fruit varieties, in particular cherries and cherry tomatoes. This innovative sorter is characterized by its high productivity (about 108,000 fruit/hour/lane) and extreme gentleness, both greatly appreciated by end users.

Other innovative technologies on display will be Unical_700©, the electronic sorter for APPLES, characterized by its ultra gentle technology which take care of fruit integrity during the inlet and outlet from the sorter. This is due to the special technologies soft diverging and devices such as bedding belts, SOFT_ROLLER© and SUPERSOFT_EXIT©, the ultra-gentle system that guarantees zero damages to apples during the unloading from sorter.

The company is ready for the PMA Fresh Summit in New Orleans with a technological “fleet” capable of achieving further important new successes in US market.

PMA – Unitec, Hall F - booth: #1047

For more information:
Micaela Rambelli
Unitec
Tel: +39 0545 288884
Email: Micaela.rambelli@unitec-group.com
www.unitec-group.com

Publication date: Fri 11 Oct 2013