UNITEC guarantees a sustainable future for all fruit

Of the 350 billion fruits selected each year, 12% are unsuitable for the fresh market but can be used for different purposes, reducing waste. UNITEC has developed many patented sorting solutions to provide specific answers to 

market needs.

 

UNITEC solutions, designed to give answers to the processing of about 50 different types of fruit, are made internally and, therefore, are 100% Made in Italy: from defining the project to manufacturing mechanical, electrical and electronic components, to automation and traceability systems. UNITEC solutions are studied starting from the characteristics of each type of fruit and declined according to market needs. Therefore, they offer a real opportunity to increase the success of each business in a personalized way. 

 

UNITEC innovates relentlessly to continue to give answers to its customers, with constant updates and upgrades and to continue to develop increasingly high-performance solutions for selecting fruit external and internal quality, with Vision and UNIQ range systems dedicated to specific fruit.

 

In particular, UNITEC has worked on the Hazelnut and Walnut Vision systems, for the classification of the external quality of hazelnuts and walnuts. Hazelnut Vision's high level of accuracy and automation can even eliminate the need for manual sorting. UNITEC, in fact, has developed a patented solution that ensures significant advantages in the processing and quality classification of hazelnuts – in shell or shelled, raw or roasted – not only offered to the consumer as a whole fruit, but also as pieces and combined with other dried fruits, or used in the confectionery industry.

 

With Avocado Vision and UNIQ Avocado vision solutions, UNITEC has created an effective response to the need to select the external and internal quality of the precious Hass avocado, by detecting both any external and internal defects and the level of ripeness of the fruit, while always fully safeguarding the integrity of the product. UNITEC sorting systems allow users to offer to the final consumer avocados in line with the right degree of ripeness, consistently over time. Moreover, Avocado Vision and UNIQ Avocado selection systems associated to UNICAL 10.0 sorter, can combine reliability in selecting ripeness and quality with maximum efficiency in the process.

 

UNITEC has created UNI Robotics division. This division intervenes in designing management solutions for all those activities that are usually carried out manually, upstream and downstream of the selection process. This way they can be carried out in line with anthropomorphic technological solutions. A real example of this is punnet boxing, where the robot performs the work normally done by humans more quickly and can manage shifts that would require the use of several teams, thus being able to operate 24/7. In addition, the automated work eliminates activities that are alienating and wearing for the personnel, and drastically reduces room for error.

 

UNITEC contributes to reducing waste and wastage by guaranteeing a better shelf life for each fruit. With more than 6,500 processing lines installed worldwide, UNITEC not only allows the sorting of more than 350 billion fruits each year, but is also able to redirect more than 45 billion fruits on the 5 continents towards markets other than that of fresh, which – to give an idea – corresponds more or less to 1 million tonnes, the quantity corresponding to the food waste produced in Italy in one year (source Waste Watcher International Observatory).

 

In this way, it is possible to avoid packaging together fruits with very different characteristics in terms of shelf life and taste profile that, for this reason, would not only not satisfy consumers but would even risk not being consumed, this produce waste at the end of the chain that is avoided thanks to UNITEC solutions, with a concrete benefit for the planet.

 

 

 

More information about UNITEC and the various solutions offered HERE