UNITEC, brochure Advanced technology

Unitec.

Advanced technology shapes the quality of your success in the fruit and vegetable sector.

Forwards.

Unitec has pushed forwards the boundaries of technology applied to the fruit and vegetable sector.

degree of hardness

Ultra vision Unitec Technology enables qualitative selection of fruit and vegetables based on external appearance.

visNir vision Unitec Technology and Nir vision Unitec Technology allow measurement of the key parameters of the internal quality of fruit.

For these technologies, Unitec has designed its own proprietary software that offer simplicity of use, a wide combination of parameters and dedicated customisation for each fruit and vegetable processing plant.

15 different made-to-measure sorting systems for every kind of fruit, from the smallest to the largest, from the simplest to the most delicate and complex.

All technologies, innovations and software solutions have been developed by the Unitec team and are used to best advantage in all our projects.

Every Unitec plant delivers the best of Unitec.

Every Unitec plant delivers the best solution. For you.

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shape

% dry matter

visNIR VISION

Brix degree

Unitec Technology

degree of ripeness

level of acidity

NIR VISION Unitec Technology

external defects

Ultra VISION

weight

Unitec Technology

volume

color

length

optical size

Solutions.

Innovation generates solutions!

Unitec innovative technologies for selection of external and internal quality not only are non-destructive, but they can also be portable.

Right back in 2001 Unitec was the ďŹ rst on the market to pioneer a portable instrument for measuring the quality parameters of fruit that can also be used in the ďŹ eld, as well as in packing houses and supermarkets.

From that ďŹ rst important step, the road has been paved with success and tangible results for Unitec customers and their products.

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Versatility.

Versatility knows no bounds.

Thanks to ongoing research and continuing technological development, Unitec offers customised solutions tailored to every processing need and to every innovation requested by sector operators.

From the reduction of processing spaces to ultra-delicate fruit handling technologies, from types of packing and packaging to the speciďŹ c demands of individual markets served by Unitec customers, and the selection of the correct quality parameters for those markets.

From taking on new markets to planning future scenarios, and obtaining better and better results.

Often far exceeding expectations.

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Value.

Unitec. Technology and human value.

The solutions proposed by Unitec are based on projects and technologies that are groundbreaking in this sector.

And they permanently reduce many processing costs.

As well as improving the efficiency and performance of production processes.

These are solutions which, in some cases, have changed the very history of production and sale of fruit processed in a number of countries.

Innovative, hi-tech and avant-garde solutions which would yet be nothing, were they not underpinned by the professionalism of the men and women that make up Unitec.

Professionals who look carefully at the needs of customers and tailor specific solutions designed to create tangible results capable of putting... “smiles” on their faces.

That is how Unitec has gained its position of leadership.

Through total customer satisfaction achieved with Unitec technology. “Smile after smile”.

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Reasons.

Unitec Technology. So many reasons to have it.

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Non-destructive

Ease of use.

Great versatility

Reliable, lasting

with customised

technologies.

technologies.

multi-functional technology.

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Simple, independent

Generation of useful

Simultaneous use of

Enhancement of the

calibration of quality

processing statistics.

systems for external and

external appearance

internal quality detection.

of fruit.

selection parameters.

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Enhancement of the

Reduction of

Increased efďŹ ciency of

Greater proďŹ tability

organoleptic and

processing costs.

production processes.

and returns.

nutritional characteristics of the products selected.

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Love.

Unitec Technology takes care of your fruits with love.

Example.

Innovative Unitec technology applied to cherries.

CHERRY VISION Unitec Technology

It sees and selects external beauty.

Defects, color and shape.

Vision with patented rotation

The color that certifies quality

CHERRY VISION Unitec Technology

It detects defects.

Inside and Outside.

Vision with Cherry Vision

Vision with the naked eye

Vision with Cherry Vision

Vision with the naked eye

Vision with Cherry Vision

Some defects detected

Healed wound

Bruise

Crown cracking

Decay

Doubles

Healed wounds

Healed cracking

Healed cracking

Healed hole

Light color

Healed wound

Overripeness

Pitting

Scar

Shriveling

Softness

Spurs

Stemless

Sunburn

Abrasion damage

CHERRY VISION Unitec Technology

It handles large quantities.

Today in less time.

For example: 40 lanes – Morada Produce U.S.A.

CHERRY VISION Unitec Technology

It increases efficiency.

It reduces costs.

Yesterday without Cherry Vision

Today with Cherry Vision

Over 600 Cherry Vision on Unitec lines.

CHERRY VISION Unitec Technology

Results.

Unitec world turns into smile on customers’ faces.

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Doug Pauly

Kerim Taner

NORTHERN FRUIT USA

ALARA AGRI TURKEY

Hernán Garcés

Atanasio Naranjo Hidalgo

SAN FRANCISCO LO GARCÉS CHILE

TANY NATURE SPAIN

Jorge Massanés

José Gandía

UNIFRUTTI CHILE

ROYAL SAT SPAIN

West Mathison

Tom Gotelli

STEMILT USA

O-G PACKING USA

Marco Salvi

Luigi Peviani

AFE-SALVI ITALY

PEVIANI ITALY

Masahiro Inayoshi

Mir Khuram Shafi

SUNFARMERS JAPAN

HARSHNA NATURALS INDIA

Unitec S.p.A. Italy - 48022 Lugo RA Via Prov.le Cotignola, 20/9 Ph. +39 0545 288884 Packaging Division R&D Offices 52045 Foiano della Chiana AR Via delle Farniole, 35 Ph. +39 0575 648678

Uniservice Sicilia S.r.l.

Italy - 97012 Chiaramonte Gulfi RG Via G. Martino, 6 Ph. +39 0932 921644

Unitec Ibérica S.L.

unitec-group.com

Spain - 30169 San Ginés, Murcia P.I. Oeste, c/Amistad Aptdo Correos 206 Mod. A-2, Parc. 19 Ph. +34 968 882952

Unitec France S.A.S. France - 84911 Avignon cédex 09 Bât. B de Créativa – 200, Rue Michel de Montaigne Site Agroparc - BP 31222 Ph. +33 4 37642460

Unitec Chile S.p.A. Chile - 9500780 Buin Región Metropolitana de Santiago Pasaje San Diego, 494 Ph. +56 2 2821 4465

Unitec S.A. Argentina - R8324JUK Cipolletti Río Negro Tres Arroyos, 535 Ph. +54 299 4774044

Unitec USA Universal Technologies, Inc. USA – 95240 Lodi CA 310 N. Cluff Avenue, Suite 117 Ph. +1 209 369 6200 / 6201 USA – 98801 Wenatchee WA 2623 Euclid Avenue, Suite B Ph. +1 509 888 9938

South Africa Fruit Technology Ltd South Africa – 7646 Paarl Western Cape 7A Zuidmeer Street

Our quality is certified.