UNITEC Blueberry Vision: "We are 3 or 4 years ahead of what will be the future of blueberries"

Blueberry Vision from UNITEC: "We are 3 or 4 years ahead of what the future of blueberries will be"

23/01/2018

"For us, Blueberry Vision from UNITEC is a revolution in the blueberry sector. Who does not have this technology will be relegated in a couple of years, if not before. " This is what Cristóbal Duke, General Director of Collipulli (Chile), said about UNITEC's Blueberry Vision technology at the end of the 2016 season.

«Blueberry Vision from UNITEC is the first technology on the international scene that allows 100% of the internal and external surface of each product to be examined, making it possible to accurately separate the ready-to-pack product from the one with defects. The possibility it offers "Unitec's first attempt to completely inspect both the exterior and the pulp of each fruit is the turning point that opens new horizons in the quality selection of blueberries," the company says. «Already in 2011, thanks to the trust of the market, the direct and continuous dialogue with companies (clients and non-clients) and the technical skills acquired in more than 90 years of activity, UNITEC was ahead of its time and opted for the potential of blueberries with the creation of a quality electronic classification prototype that could satisfy the emerging needs of the market," they add.

At present, after 7 years since the creation of this prototype, Unitec's technologies for the processing and classification of blueberries have obtained important results thanks to the experience acquired in the main markets of this product, such as Latin America, North America, Europe and South Africa.

From the Italian company they assure that Blueberry Vision of UNITEC is designed to meet the demands of increasing the production efficiency of fruit and vegetable plants on the one hand and on the other, to preserve the delicacy of valuable fruits such as blueberries, even in atmospheric conditions and / or complicated season.

“If we take into account the climatic phenomena that occurred this year - continues Cristóbal Duke de Collipulli - this year we would have lost the fruit had we not had UNITEC technology. Approximately 15% of the product would have ended frozen. In addition, it offers a great advantage: we can recover all the fruit that the producers provide us, which in the end are those who want the fruit to be exported. ”

With these words, Cristóbal Duke de Collipulli expresses himself in favor of UNITEC's Blueberry Vision technology, which is able to support producers during difficult years in the climatological aspect, such as the 2016 year in Chile.

"Likewise, with UNITEC technology, the delicacy of fruit processing is always combined with maximum production efficiency in terms of increase in kilos/hour processed per person and a significant reduction in product processing and manufacturing costs.", Anade.

Piotr Wisniewski, Managing Director of Polana Spolka, stated in 2017:

"The UNITEC line is very delicate with fruit and offers us the possibility to check it both inside and outside; that's very, very important and I think that has been the main factor that has made us choose this line. All without compromising productivity!
We are now saving around the 25% labor, compared to last year. This means that there is a less than 25% of employees in the line, who can work in the fields and this has been crucial this year, since we needed more people to collect the fruit as quickly as possible, taking into account the weather conditions " .

UNITEC has also researched and carried out innovations in all phases of product processing: from automatic feeding and cleaning of the product at the entrance, through the classification of numerous parameters of internal and external quality (caliber, color, external defects) of skin, pulp defects, excessive softness, presence of petiole, excessive maturation, wilting / dehydration and dent) until the final preparation, which allows a subdivision of the customizable and flexible product according to the different reference markets.

In a few years, UNITEC has made dozens of blueberry processing facilities around the world that have met the expectations of some of the world's most important operators in the sector.

«Thanks to the quality guarantee offered by UNITEC technology, fruit and vegetable plants that choose Blueberry Vision technology can improve their productivity exponentially in the different markets in which they operate and in which they aspire to work in the future to expand. your business.
As customers receive fruit of homogeneous quality consistently over time and there is no possibility of receiving complaints for fruit that does not meet the agreed quality criteria, the consumer never feels betrayed.", affirm from UNITEC.

“With Blueberry Vision from Unitec we want to try to offer a better product to the Asian and European markets, which are the most profitable”, declares Oscar De Blasis, General Director of the Chilean company Merex. "In my opinion, thanks to Blueberry Vision we are getting 3 or 4 years ahead of what the future of blueberries will be."

De Blasis, from Merex, believes that thanks to UNITEC Blueberry Vision it is possible to finally cross the threshold of the most profitable markets, which until now had not been taken into consideration.

Luis D'Andrea and Aduardo Pavon, General Director and Head of Plant and Land of Blueberries, in Argentina, have no doubts about it:

"We have opted for UNITEC because it has proven to be an innovative brand in this sector, as well as for its great experience. UNITEC has specialized in the selection of blueberries and Blueberry Vision is the technology most requested and used in this sector worldwide. We are convinced that, with Unitec, we will be able to maintain a lasting relationship with customers over time. Thanks to the high quality of the products offered, the customer places a lot of trust in us ".

Source: freshplaza.es