Latest Fruit Processing Industry News
Washington apple season forecast
The Washington State Tree and Fruit Association (WSTFA) recently released a production forecast for 2021, showing that the packaging volume this season is expected to be close to 125 million boxes (18 kg boxes). This will be an increase of 2.3% from the output of 122 million boxes in 2020, but 7.2% less than the output of 134.5 million boxes in 2019.
Quality sorting with reduced costs
Grading and sorting is the core of first industry's fruit solution. According to the fruit demand and production capacity of fruit packers, first industry provides customers with single channel, double channel and multi-channel fruit weight graders. The electronic fruit weighing and grading machine can help reduce manual labor and greatly improve the quality of fruits through accurate sorting by the classifier.
Lime washing drying grading line
Recently we have had a lot of inquiries from customers about lime sorting equipment. There is no doubt that the quality of limes can be accurately sorted based on the target market. Fstsort lime cleaning drying waxing sorting line can help to improve the quality of limes without the use of manual labor. Lime cleaning grading line includes washing tank, brush spray, dryer, and size grading machine.
Significant growth in fruit exports from New Zealand
A few days ago, Plant & Food Research and Horticulture New Zealand jointly released an industry report for the previous season. The latest data show that in the year ending June 30, 2020, the total value of New Zealand's fruit, vegetable, flower and wine exports increased by 7%, exceeding New Zealand $10 billion (approximately US$6.6 billion) for the first time.
How to obtain the right orange sorting machine from the manufacturer
Egypt has become the world's largest exporter of oranges, taking the position away from Spain. Even though 95% of Egypt's surface is desert, the country has nearly 168,000 hectares of orange trees spread through its arid geography as if they were a mirage; and not only in areas of the Nile delta, since 60% of them are located in reclaimed desert areas.
Tomato Sorting Machine Manufacturer
As a tomato sorting machine manufacturer, we can not only provide basic tomato sorting machine with feeding hopper elevator part as well as drum size sorting part for you, but also add further necessary functions such as washing and drying parts on tomato sorting machine. It can be taken for granted that we tomato sorting machine manufacturer are the carrier from tomato growing plants to tomatoes packing house.
Why do we have to grade sweet potatoes
After the sweet potatoes are harvested, the first thing we need to do is to sort them. Why do we have to grade sweet potatoes? Well , if you have grown sweet potatoes, you would have noticed that sweet potatoes come in different sizes and varying sizes. Some are huge, maybe as the size of a human head, called a jumbo, and there are some which fall in grade one, which is of high quality, grade two, and some non-marketable. So while grading the sweet potatoes, you can differentiate and categorize these sweet potatoes based on size and quality. Because you don’t want the bad and non-marketable sweet potatoes to be sold with the good ones.
The tomato grading packaging line was successfully installed
Two days ago our engineers installed a tomato grading and packaging line for a customer in Anhui, China. This tomato sorting line has a high degree of automation and adopts international advanced sorting technology, which does not hurt the tomatoes and has high sorting efficiency.