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News
Greefa S.A. wishes everyone a very Happy and Successful 2010!!!
Greefa proudly presents the EasySort: Introduction Fruit Logistica: 3,4 and 5 February 2010, Berlin!!!
International strategic alliance for world-class fruit packing facility in South Africa
GREEFA PROUDLY PRESENTS:
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Greefa's IQS SYSTEM (External quality): POPULAR FOR CITRUS!Greefa S.A. has successfully installed the 5th iQS system for citrus this season at Scheepersvlakte (Kirkwood, Eastern Cape). Sitrusrand (since 2003), Cape Citrus and IT Ferreira (Patensie) preceded. Sitrusrand even installed a second iQS system for their new packhouse this season! It's no wonder. The Greefa iQS system provides you with optimum control over your quality classes.
This is why Greefa's system is unique: - Experienced with iQS since 1996. - Up to 5 different quality classes (with at least 95% accuracy). - Higher capacity. - The best service and support you can get. - Greefa's SmartSort perfectly suitable for iQS. - User friendly (settings can be made manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic!)
iQS is also available for: apples, pears, avocado's, tomatoes and stonefruit.
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Determine INTERNAL QUALITY of Apples!The Greefa iFA system allows to non-destructively detect internal characteristics such as core rot and internal brownness. Enabeling fruit growers to guarantee their quality fruits to their markets. The iFA technology can also measure brix value and acidity content!
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Greefa's sorting machine reaches capacity of 10 TONS OF SWEET PEPPERS AN HOUR!
The family Joosten (owning 8.5 ha greenhouse in Someren, Netherlands): " For the processing of thousends of sweet peppers a day, we needed an effective and ergonomic justified way to sort our products. We wanted an automatic system, easy to work with and taking our season depending quality of our product into account."
Source: (Dutch) vegetable-news. (groentennieuws.nl, okt 2008). |
International strategic alliance for world-class fruit packing facility in South Africa
Colors Fruit, the largest privately owned fruit exporter in South Africa, recently formed a strategic alliance with Greefa Europe, one of the largest international designers and manufacturers of fruit sorting machines. This state of the art technology will be a first for the South African fruit industry and implemented in Colors’ flagship pack house, Novo.
Colors currently own and manage seven pack houses, which includes Novo Pack house situated in Paarl, Western Cape. The original Novo Pack house in Paarl was the humble beginnings of the Colors Group just over a decade ago. This modern pack house was the pride of the Colors Group, but was unfortunately damaged beyond repair in a devastating fire on 20 April 2009.
The catastrophe did have a silver lining. It created the platform for a new beginning and the development of exciting business opportunities. The strategic partnership with the like-minded and innovation driven company Greefa is one of those prospects.
Greefa Europe, also a solid family enterprise, has developed high-quality sorting machines for more than half a century. Greefa has gained a strong reputation in this specialized field around the world. The company designs every part of their machines and modules, and can therefore offer unique solutions regarding functionality, ease-of-use and sorting requirements.
Because both companies embody a pioneering spirit and value the innovative thinking of their employees, the strategic alliance between Colors and Greefa is not only a comfortable cultural fit, but a quantum leap for the South African fruit industry and sets a new world-class benchmark for local pack houses.
Dick Verkade from Greefa Europe stated that "We are very happy to have come to the strategic partnership with the Colors Group. We have found each other in innovations and state-of-the-art technologies. Our mutual aim is to upgrade the South African fruit industry with the latest technologies."
The first phase of the new Novo Pack house commenced in the first week of December 2009 and the objective for the project is to have the first production line commissioned in early June 2010.
The new pack house will be able to sort and pack fruit at unprecedented efficiency levels which is more than double than the industry norm in South Africa, whilst giving significant consideration to the environmental sustainability of the new installation.
Revolutionary technology invented by Greefa and implemented by Novo will be a first for the South African industry and includes the state of the art iQSIII and iFA sorting systems.
iQSIII is an intelligent Quality Sorter that sorts fruit automatically according to external quality of the fruit by using special infrared and colour cameras and utilizing advanced software analyses techniques.
iFA does almost the impossible. The intelligent Flavour Analyser determines the internal quality of
fruit by analyzing it using Near Infra Red (NIR). The entire fruit is screened and the brix value, internal brownness and core rot can be determined accurately.
The project scope entails the installation of a 44 channel pre-sorter with an 8-lane iQSIII grader, complemented with up to 5 specialized and dedicated packing lines, to pack pre-sorted fruit according to the marketing plan.
The project will however commence with a multi-packaging line, equipped with a 6-lane iQS system to handle apples, pears, nectarines, peaches and plums.
Novo Pack house will have the local sales support of the Port Elizabeth based Greefa SA, the South African alliance of Greefa Europe. MED Automation in Paarl, led by Gerhard Visagie, will be the key supplier of pack sets, carton conveyors and other locally supplied peripheral packing equipment.
The strategic partnership between Novo and Greefa will not be limited to the supply of state-of-the art packing equipment. Colors Fruit will have preferential access to future sorting technology invented by Greefa’s Research and Development team, ensuring that the Novo pack house remains at the forefront of this technology.
According to Willem Bestbier, Colors Group Operations Director, “Innovation and thought leadership lies at the core of Colors as a business. The new Novo pack house will truly be a physical testimony to this pioneering spirit”.
For additional information on these companies visit www.colorsfruit.com or www.greefa.com.
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