Ecuador’s banana industry reiterated calls for a fairer pricing model and the rationalisation of certification schemes at last week’s Fruit Logistica. read more

The six leading topfruit suppliers in the Southern Hemisphere expect to produce a combined crop of just under 4.78m tonnes of apples in 2024, up 1.1 per cent on last year, according to a new forecast released by the World Apple and Pear Association. read more

Last Friday, during the last day of Fruit Logistica, not one, but two prizes were awarded for companies offering innovative products for the sector. In addition to the annual Fruit Logistica Innovation Award (FLIA), awarded to Unica Fresh for its Zucchiolo, for the first time
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An exciting Fruit Logistica for Tomra Food, which presented three new solutions based on artificial intelligence. Lots of novelties, but the mission still remains customer proximity thanks to the new organisational structure. The latest element of the new structure is the creation
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Home of apples confirms itself as a reference point in the apple category, with an increasingly efficient organisation, a specialisation in the product and an assortment of varieties and brands capable of nourishing the fruit and vegetable department all year round. This is how
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To measure the success of a trade fair one can use quantitative parameters, which are more objective, or qualitative, which are more subjective, or a mix of these. With regard to the former, Fruit Logistica - both in terms of exhibitors and visitors - confirms its undisputed leadership in the
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Tomra Food has unveiled its new organizational structure, showcased its sorting, grading, and packing solutions, and launched three new AI-powered sorting and grading solutions. read more

Fruit Logistica 2024 is done and dusted. Three days of networking, walking around and, in our case, taking pictures, has come to an end. Exhibitors were generally positive. Protests and strikes in and around Berlin certainly did not make traveling any easier, but people still managed to find
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The Ecuadorian Banana Cluster represented by AEBE and Acorbanec, supported and accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador, Franklin Danilo Palacios, and H.E. Diego Morejón Pazmiño, Ambassador of Ecuador in Germany, stands united to address critical issues faced by banana producers
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At Fruit Logistica 2024, Sorma Group launched a new case filling robot that can be integrated into the end-of-line. A solution developed at the German site that improves the automation of post-harvest processing of fruit and vegetables and is ready to be marketed. Ne
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VOG, the home of apples confirms its status as an apple category benchmark with reorganisation for ever-greater efficiency, product specialisation and a variety and brand assortment able to add value to the fruit and vegetable department all 12 months of the year. All these factors were
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On 9 February, the World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA) held its annual general meeting. During the meeting, which took place during Fruit Logistica in Berlin, WAPA unveiled its forecast for the southern hemisphere apple and pear harvest. This report was
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At Fruit Logistica in Berlin, Quik’s has introduced a new refrigerated potato brand for the European consumer. At the fair, visitors could get acquainted with PotatoLove. PotatoLove is not just a potato brand, it's an innovative approach to refrigerated potato products. read more

Aggregation has always been a mantra that characterises conferences and proclamations in the horticultural world, a fine word that translates into little or no reality. It is therefore good to report some 'juicy' news that we were able to discover
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Vog - Home of apples reconfirms itself as a benchmark for the apple category, with an increasingly efficient organisation, product specialisation and an assortment of varieties and brands capable of enriching the fruit and vegetable department for all 12 months of the year. Thus the
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On 5 February, the change in Assomela's management formally took place, with the handover between Alessandro Dalpiaz, director of the association for over 20 years and now retired, and Giovanni Missanelli, Assomela's new director, who has
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On Friday afternoon, as Fruit Logistica closed its doors (click here to read more), all the attention of the agricultural sector shifted to Rome, where the government, in the space of a few hours, summoned both the main trade unions in the sector and the spokesman of one of the
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Tomra Food is riding the Ai wave and at Fruit Logistica in Berlin, illustrated its sorting, grading and packaging technologies with three new solutions based on artificial intelligence. A revolution also in food sorting Tomra Food Neon for pre-sorting blueberries read more

TOMRA Food unveiled its new streamlined and optimised organisational structure in Berlin, presented its sorting, sizing and packaging solutions, and launched three new AI-based sorting and sizing solutions. read more

Zucchiolo, the new vegetable product from Unica Fresh in Spain, has won this year’s Fruit Logistica Innovation Award. read more