A century of constant innovation propels UNITEC towards the future

The participation to MACFRUT 2024 is a unique opportunity for UNITEC, as it coincides with the 100-year

anniversary of the company (1924-2024). This journey was characterized by research, analysis, and experimentation, and guided by a great passion for concreteness as well as a continuous pursue of perfection, where Customer results are the ultimate goal. “We work for your results”, therefore, as the UNITEC mission declares.

 

"A hundred years for a company sound like a long time only when one feels tired and has lost motivation” states Angelo Benedetti, President of UNITEC. “The incentives that our Customers around the world give us every day, by trusting us, are a long-life elixir for us: we frequently manage to build partnership paths that make us look forward to the next 100 years, to keep giving them Results thanks to our solutions and our continuous innovation”.

 

UNITEC has already successfully sorted more than 50 types of fruit and vegetables and it is now getting ready to face the next challenges, leveraging the know-how built in a century. Among the innovations presented at the trade show (Hall B1 Stand 075)  , it is worth mentioning:

 

UNI SMART TRAY FILLER

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

 

 

UNICAL 244 DATES

Electronic sorter dedicated to handling products of small dimensions, such as damson plums, small tomatoes,

jujubes, olives, radishes, chestnuts, walnuts, and dates.

Among the main advantages:

- Considerable cost reduction compared with manual handling;

- Possibility of using unskilled labor;

- Objective increase in handling efficiency;

- Inexpensiveness of mechanical and electronic maintenance costs;

- High performance thanks to the latest generation, easy-to-use software.

 

 

UNITEC AND UNISORTING UNIQ SOLUTIONS FOR INTERNAL QUALITY SELECTION DEDICATED TO

INDIVIDUAL FRUITS

Many innovations on the internal quality selection systems front, with solutions made entirely by the

company's R&D department, dedicated to specific fruits in the UNIQ range (UNIQ Kiwi, UNIQ Apples, UNIQ

Peach, UNIQ Plum, UNIQ Blueberry, UNIQ Cherry, UNIQ Orange, UNIQ Apricot, UNIQ Melon, UNIQ

Pomegranate, UNIQ Cherry Tomato, UNIQ Pears, UNIQ Avocados, UNIQ Onions, UNIQ Dates, etc.).

 

 

BLUEBERRY SAMPLING MACHINE

UNICAL 222 blueberry is now available with a new design, in the single-lane version, as a sampling machine. It offers a preview of a product batch, it helps to check the average quality of the batch that comes from different producers and, consequently, to decide how to handle the fruit.

At MACFRUT the UNITEC Group is also present as a PARTNER in the Blueberry Arena. Here, in addition

to its solutions for external quality selection, UNITEC presents “taste sorting”; this is possible today thanks to the UNIQ Blueberry solution, entirely designed and developed in-house.

 

 

UNITEC AT “RED PLANET”

UNITEC will also participate in “Red Planet”, the immersive event created by Agroter and MACFRUT to give industry experts a technical and sensory experience on tomatoes, the “red gold”. Indeed, research evidence shows significant consumer dissatisfaction with the taste of tomatoes, especially in terms of quality consistency, and UNITEC solutions can decisively contribute to solving this. The future of tomato quality goes through single-fruit selection, to be able to subdivide the different sensory profiles of the products, in line with consumers’ perception.