The Sunshine Coast's rapidly growing Food and Agribusiness industry, that contributes around $670 million to Queensland's economy each year, has another exporting success story.
Coolum-based Sunfresh has signed a distributorship agreement with a Hong Kong importer for a new product that is set to revolutionise the avocado industry.
Sunfresh Deputy Manager Evan Heidemann said the business had recently implemented purpose built technology to process avocados in a manner that greatly increases their shelf-life and distribution potential within Australia and overseas.
'Through a unique process that Sunfresh has developed, we can now process 100% natural avocado with no chemicals or preservatives added that greatly prolongs their shelf-life and so enables us broader export potential nationally and around the world,' he said.
'This is a wonderful outcome for Sunfresh and the avocado industry. It attracted plenty of interest from a number of countries at the recent HOFEX trade show in Hong Kong and as a result we have earned a distributorship agreement with a Hong Kong-based importer and we've received an order for our avocados.'
