Westfalia Fruit, a leading multinational supplier of avocados, has conducted the first successful trials of an innovative and natural method of ensuring food safety within the supply chain. Current industry practice is to manually deep clean avocado ripening rooms to maintain high levels of food safety and eliminate residue from naturally occurring fruit mould. Westfalia’s new method uses a probiotic uniquely distributed within a water mist circulated throughout ripening room, delivering … [Read more...] about Westfalia Fruit trials exclusive technology targeting food safety and sustainability
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Westfalia Fruit: helping the climate and Colombian biodiversity with a unique reforestation project
Westfalia Fruit, a leading multinational supplier of avocados and a range of fresh vegetables and fruit, is leading a unique effort in Colombia to care for a nationally protected area on its land in the Sonsón municipality, northwest of the capital Bogotá. Westfalia has several orchards and an avocado packhouse in the area, and one of its orchards, La Loma, is within the Distrito Regional de Manejo Páramo de Vida Maitamá. A landscape called páramo that unites diverse climatic and ecosystem … [Read more...] about Westfalia Fruit: helping the climate and Colombian biodiversity with a unique reforestation project
Vertical Integration and Assortment: VOG Sets the Standard in the Apple Category
At Fruit Logistica, the Consortium presented the developments in the reorganisation that has resulted in coordination of all production chain phases. The trend for the 2023-2024 sales campaign is encouraging VOG – 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 … [Read more...] about Vertical Integration and Assortment: VOG Sets the Standard in the Apple Category
