UNITEC Group at FRUIT LOGISTICA 2020

“12 months of work, 12 months of Results”: this is how we could sum up the past year of UNITEC, an International Group specialized in highly innovative technologies for handling and selecting quality of fresh fruit and vegetables. UNITEC will participate at FRUIT LOGISTICA, which will take place in Berlin from February 5 to 7, 2020 and will display many of the technologies that are generating important Results for several packing houses all over the world. The participation of the Group in this 2020 edition of Fruit Logistica is precisely dedicated to these Results, which were achieved thanks to the work and continuous innovation of UNITEC Group. “UNITEC Results are its Customers Results. - stated President Angelo Benedetti during the celebration of UNITEC 95 years, in September 2019 – We the people of UNITEC, and our Customers are on the same side. We are part of the same team. If we win, all of us win!” During its ninety-fifth birthday - the first sorting lines were built in 1924 - UNITEC took the chance to relive the goals achieved during almost a century of history. While Fruit Logistica 2020 will be an opportunity to do a summary of the Results achieved during the past year. The show will also allow seeing “live” some of UNITEC and Unisorting technologies for external and internal quality selection of the fruit, since they will be displayed at the booth.- Cherry Vision 3.0, thanks to its high-resolution cameras is able to have a complete vision of each cherry, even in its more hidden parts, and to select its quality with unprecedented reliability and according to multiple parameters;- Blueberry Vision 3, the last frontier in the field of blueberry quality selection, which is able to inspect 100% of the fruit, combining maximum productivity and gentleness;- Plum Vision 3, is able to detect plums features with extreme precision, creating a product with Consistent Quality over time;- Kiwi Vision 3, the technology that can select the quality of all types of kiwifruits, with green or yellow flesh, which is characterized by extreme gentleness and allows preserving all valuable features of the fruit;- UNIQ Cherry, UNIQ Plum, UNIQ Kiwi and UNIQ Apples, the innovative UNITEC and Unisorting systems for internal qualities selection of cherries, plums, kiwifruits and apples. These systems are equipped with high-resolution cameras, allowing to reveal every organoleptic secret of these fruits with unprecedented reliability and precision;- Pears Sort 3, thanks to its ability to scan the pear 360 degrees, the technology is able to select this fruit with extreme reliability and to create classes of pears with great qualitative homogeneity within each supply and between one supply and another;- Apples Sort 3, the system that allows the division of apples according to preservation and distribution requirements in the respective target markets;- Dates Sort 3, which is able to inspect 100% of each date surface to guarantee maximum reliability and precision in selecting this fruit. These technologies, result of a continuous Research and Development work carried out within the company, are the real protagonists of the Group's participation in the Fair. These are Technologies that UNITEC Group has been innovating, and continues to innovate relentlessly, with the goal of helping its Customers reducing labor costs, valorizing their product as only UNITEC technologies can do, achieving Consistent Quality over time, which is the only real guarantee for Customer loyalty. "At Fruit Logistica 2020 - declared Angelo Benedetti, President of UNITEC Group – we will be full of the same passion and confidence we have always had. Confidence in technology, in innovation, in the fact that only by working every day without holding back, by giving our best and aiming at excellence, we can guarantee real development Results to packing houses all over the world". Analysis of the technologiesCherry Vision 3.0Firstly, Fruit Logistica 2020 will be the opportunity to summarize the second year of life of Cherry Vision 3.0 technology for the quality selection of cherries. "This year we have received many compliments from all our customers for the work we are doing with regards to color, size and the absence of defects. The change is remarkable! This allows us to ship to Asia and Europe without any problem! I think that without Cherry Vision 3.0, we could not have achieved this result. And the orders are increasing considerably!" Among many statements released by Customers with UNITEC Cherry Vision 3.0 technology, these are the words of Carlos Llambrich, Llamfruit Cherry General Manager, a packing house located in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. Moving from Spain to France, satisfaction does not change. These are the enthusiastic words of Thomas Coignat, Owner of Cerifrais, a French shipping and packing house specialized in cherries, at the end of its first cherry campaign with Cherry Vision 3.0 technology: "Cherry Vision 3.0 works perfectly: this technology allowed us to be much more efficient, precise and meticulous in the quality selection of cherries. Our growers are more than satisfied of our job and, of course, so our customers too. This serves as a genuine quality recognition from our partners!" As we leave Europe to move overseas, the words of our Customers continue to confirm the Results. Stuart Walton, owner of the Australian packing house BackCreek Orchard, in 2019 chose to invest in UNITEC Cherry Vision 3.0 technology for the quality selection of his cherries, underlined how this system allowed meeting the very high quality standards of Asian consumers. "In the export market - declared Stuart Walton – the quality level required is higher than the domestic one. From Hong Kong, Singapore and in general from Asia they ask us: “Do you have optical technologies?”. Therefore, having an optical technology is an advantage and having Unitec technology is even more an advantage, because it is world renowned! Our exports will definitely grow". Plum Vision 3 and UNIQ Plum2019 was a big year also for UNITEC Plum Vision 3 and UNIQ Plum technologies. Tany Nature, the leading Spanish packing company in stone fruit, following the results achieved with Plum Vision 3 technology for selecting external quality of plums, in 2019 chose to rely again on UNITEC by purchasing UNIQ Plum system for selecting internal quality of plums. "We are very happy with the Results we are getting. Thanks to UNITEC's UNIQ Plum system, which allows us to detect the sugar content, we were able to select a much larger number of fruits than before for each sample batch. We are becoming stronger in selecting batches, thus obtaining a better segmentation of all our fruit". These are the words of Atanasio Naranjo Jr, Chief Operating Officer of Tany Nature, who was very enthusiastic about his choice. Pears Sort 3Also for Unisorting 2019 was a year of intense work and important Results. An example? Diamond Fruit Growers, Customer of the Hood River Valley, in Oregon, thanks to the UNITEC 18-lane line equipped with Unisorting Pears Sort 3 technology, has created a final product with very high levels of qualitative homogeneity, within each supply and between one supply and another, thus generating satisfaction of all the actors involved, at all levels of the fruit and vegetable supply chain. "We have received many comments about the line – declared David Garcia, President of Diamond Fruit Growers – and all have been positive. Other packing houses have come to tour the line and have expressed how efficient and smoothly it runs. Retailers that have received our product have commented on our fruit quality and how very consistent it is. We have had several top retailers stop at our plant just to tour the line and have been very impressed with the operation". Retailers were really impressed by the Quality Consistency of the product supplied by Diamond Fruit Growers: several retail chains openly stated that the product they could exhibit on the shelves was characterized by levels of homogeneity considerably higher than what they were used to, which led the Final Consumers to significantly increase their purchase.