UNITEC: Automation at the Core of Fruit Attraction

The 2024 edition of Fruit Attraction will be a special one for UNITEC. Not so much for the spirit with which it participates, which is the same as always, of constant and maniacal attention to innovation that translates into concrete results, but also because it comes following a difficult moment for our land in Italy, Romagna, recently hit by the flood.

This event tested UNITEC, but paradoxically, in this difficulty UNITEC felt even more connected to the global fruit and vegetable industry, that community of people and businesses which constitutes its universe of reference.

Angelo Benedetti, the President of UNITEC, began:

“We work for your results was our compass during the flood. Our mantra, customer satisfaction, combined with the team spirit that has always been UNITEC's model, gave us the strength to get back up again and resume work on the lines in record time. This has been possible thanks to the strength and tenacity of all our employees, to whom all my esteem and gratitude goes. We took care of the urgent deliveries, and this allowed us not to be overwhelmed by what was happening around us. Our customers have been our strength and our salvation, and it is with this spirit, now stronger than ever and oriented toward continuous innovation, that we are again presenting ourselves in Madrid this year.”

Indeed, the targeted and optimized solutions developed by UNITEC are the fruits of constant research and development, which not even the flood was able to stop. These activities are geared to meet the specific needs of each of the 50 types of products that UNITEC solutions are able to handle with high standards of efficiency and automation.

Nour Abdrabbo, Global Sales Director of the Group, declares:

“It is precisely automation that is now an effective response to the increasing difficulty of packing houses in finding labor, thanks to solutions that improve efficiency and productivity. 

It is to this and many other innovations, from external and internal quality selection systems to robotics, that UNITEC has oriented its presence at Fruit Attraction. UNITEC is aware that only the constant development of reliable technologies will enable the sector to adapt even to the climate changes that make quantity and quality of fruit and vegetable production less and less predictable during each productive season.”

And it is precisely with this spirit that UNITEC awaits you at the fair, ready to listen to your business needs and objectives to develop highly customized solutions, to win every challenge, present and future, thanks to innovation.

At the UNITEC Group Stand, the following can be seen at work:

UNI SMART TRAY FILLER

Automatic filler which allows packing different varieties of fruit such as peaches, nectarines and apples in trays or in trays inside crates. Fruit gathering and its placing in trays occur thanks to an innovative robot with a pick and place function, that can adjust coordinates of gathering/placing based on the size and format of the package in handling.

UNICAL_10.0 with Flat Peach Vision and Avocado Sort + UNIQ Peach and UNIQ Avocado

This solution has been designed to handle many types of fruit, including different sizes and shapes. The fruit is handled non-invasively and without creating any mechanical damage to the product.

This solution is presented for flat peaches handling.

UNICAL 244 DATES with Dates Sort and UNIQ Dates

Electronic sorter dedicated to handling small products, such as damson plums, small tomatoes, jujubes, olives, radishes, chestnuts, walnuts and dates (the solution on display will be dedicated to the latter fruit)

Advantages:

• Reduced costs compared to manual handling
• Possibility of using unskilled labor
• Objective increase in handling efficiency and product quality
• Cost-effectiveness of mechanical and electronic maintenance costs
• High performance thanks to the latest generation of easy-to-use software.