Meeting unique vegetable processing needs
IQF products have become more popular. According to Maria Vieitez, marketing coordinator of OctoFrost, this has led fruit and vegetable processors to expand their product lines to process more

Kakuzi books a bumper full-year 2022 profit and dividend harvest
Kakuzi Plc has posted a Kshs 845.8 million net profit for the financial year ended 31st December 2022, representing a 62% after-tax profit growth. The avocado and macadamia grower attained a

UK’s Muddy Machines to offer robotic harvesting as a service
Muddy Machines is a UK-based robotics company. It has developed a team of five robotic harvesters called "Sprout" that will work together to pick British asparagus commercially in Herefordshire

‘Sprouts’ set to harvest spears
A ‘herd’ of robots is to be released into the English countryside to commercially pick British asparagus for the first time this coming season. Muddy Machines – the robotics company behind

Packaging engineer Anthony Penn dies
Packaging Automation owner and chairman Anthony Penn has died, the company has announced. The packaging machinery specialist said Penn passed away peacefully with his family at his side after a

Why Macfrut is a different fruit and vegetable fair #freshtalks with Renzo Piraccini
The new edition of Macfrut will be held from 3 to 5 May 2023, in the halls of the Rimini exhibition centre, with different focuses and high expectations, starting from the expansion of the spaces

"More and more fruit growers decide to buy mobile night frost control machine"
Since 2020, Swift International has been the distributor for mobile night frost control machines, which are developed and manufactured in New Zealand. As a distributor, Swift International works

Remach appointment strengthens Haith’s European presence
The UK’s leading vegetable handling equipment manufacturer has strengthened its European presence with the appointment of a new dealer. Haith has appointed Remach BV as their representative in

PepperCorer PC-55 from Sormac: One machine - multiple possibilities
Paprika is a fruit vegetable that can be prepared and combined in many different ways. There are no limits to the imagination. But it is precisely these diverse application and processing

New raspberry to extend harvest window
EarlyBell™ (‘N1237.057’) is the latest release from Pacific Berries, a joint breeding program between Plant & Food Research in New Zealand and Northwest Plant Company in Washington, US. The

Saving time and labor
It is more important than ever to improve shop floor efficiency. Companies are increasingly struggling to get enough staff; even more when heavy labor is involved. That is Van den Berge

Egyptian companies seeking business opportunities
Egypt will be participating in Macfrut 2023 with a large exhibition area along with twenty producers and major exporters. The project is being curated by ExpoLink, a private non-profit association

Development of fully automated harvesting and transportation robots with AI
A system of robots that harvest and transport crops on their own without human assistance has been developed for use in agricultural facilities such as smart farms. The research team under Choi

CTI FoodTech from Italy opened a new US facility
The Italian fruit processing machinery manufacturer CTI FoodTech scales up by opening a new US facility in Lodi, California. This new addition adds to the already well-established facilities of

"We produce macadamia nuts via over 7,000 certified organic smallholder farmers"
The German-Kenyan company LIMBUA works with more than 7,000 certified organic smallholders in Kenya and in 2022 alone produced some 900 tons of cracked macadamia nuts, which are marketed