Fruit and Vegetables
| Albert Bartlett And Sons Potato Processing Plant, Airdrie, Scotland | ||
The Airdrie processing plant in Scotland. |
Albert Bartlett is one of the biggest potato growers in the UK. |
The plant is extremely automated and much of the improvement will be in this direction. |
Potatoes packaged at the facility are of many varieties. |
The facility supplies many of the UK’s largest supermarkets. |
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| Amy's Kitchen - | ||
Amy's Kitchen has made a name for itself in the organic and vegetarian food business, so much so that it is now expanding with its first plant outside California. |
The original vegetable pot pie, Amy's Kitchen's first marketed product. |
The new plant will be used to process vegetables and beans to produce a range of salsa, pasta sauce, pizza, pasta ready meals and a host of other vegetarian and vegan delicacies. |
Oregon farmers will produce fresh organic vegetables for the new plant. |
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| Beech-Nut Nutrition Production Facility | ||
The new facility will make infant foods and cereal. |
The company is the second biggest producer of baby food in the US behind Nestle. |
Beech-Nut produces an extensive range of jarred foods for the US market. |
| Bestlan Group, Dried Fruit Processing Plant, North Queensland | ||
The plant was opened in 2007 as part of the family company Bestlan Group. |
Bananas will form a large part of the dried fruit production at the new processing plant. |
The three directors of the company(from left to right): Walter Rigoni, Nadia and Keith Moulds. |
Blueberries are imported from Poland for drying to produce value-added products. |
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| Bud Antle Vegetable Processing Plant, | ||
Vacuum cooling tunnel such as will be constructed at the new plant. |
Refrigerated warehousing facility for shipping and storage of lettuce and bagged salad products. |
Dole representatives negotiating with North Carolina growers. |
Lettuce harvesting. |
Lima bean field prior to harvest. |
Cabbages ready for the harvest. |
| Chumporn Palm Oil Industry Public Company Limited (CPI) - | ||
Chumporn Palm Oil Industry began construction of a new palm oil refinery in Chumporn, Thailand, in June 2004. |
Palm oil preparation equipment. |
The Chumporn palm oil refinery is a response to a large world demand for palm oil products. |
Palm oil extraction processing equipment. |
Palm oil refining equipment. |
There are many different types and grades of palm oil. |
An adult palm tree may produce up to 100kg of bunches per year. |
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| Conagra Foods Lamb Weston Processing Facility | ||
A computer rendering of the new plant. |
At the announcement of the new plant in Delhi some sweet potato fries were sampled. |
Sweet potatoes are seen as a healthier alternative to normal potatoes in the US. |
Delhi was chosen because it is in the heart of a major growing region producing quality sweet potatoes. |
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| Gartenfrisch Jung Salad Line, | ||
The new R-series machine joins six others already on the salad line at the Gartenfrisch Jung facility. |
Salad must be shipped with at least five days of clear shelf-life for the retailer; speed is therefore incredibly important for the Gartenfrisch operation. |
The Gartenfrisch salad packing line uses weighers from Ishida Europe. |
The R-series machine from Ishida has introduced a number of new advances to save on giveaway and also to increase speed with no loss of accuracy. |
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| Heinz Canning Plant Energy Efficiency Expansion, | ||
The new energy centre at Heinz's Wign plant will be able to generate up to 140t of steam per hour. |
The 55-acre Wigan site produces canned soups, baked beans, pasta and puddings for the UK and European market. |
Heinz is one of the largest tomato processors in Europe. |
Ketchup production was moved to Holland in mid-1998. |
The complex has 17 filling lines, a dedicated can-making factory, its own distribution centre, world-class laboratories and a pilot plant. |
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| JR Simplot | ||
JR Simplot Company's new potato processing facility, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. |
Simplot's potato processing plant on the Bluff Industrial Park site. |
Near completion of new plant, August 2002. |
Key Technology's ADR4 (automated defect removal) system in use in the new facility. |
Key Technology's ADR4 machine viewed from the in-feed side. |
Key Technology's ADR4 cutterwheel assembly. |
Key Technology's Tegra optical sorter. |
Key Technology's Optyx optical sorter. |
French fries produced at the new plant. |
Anaerobic-aerobic digester under construction. |
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| JRI Canola Oil Processing Plant, Yorkton, Saskatchewan | ||
Canola oil can be used as food or fuel. |
The seed planted now is mostly GM. |
The new Canadian plant will be able to process some 840,000t per year. |
| Mariani Packing Company, Line Modification | ||
Mariani Packing is one of the biggest producers of dried fruits in the US. |
The variety of dried fruits produced by Mariani includes domestic and tropical types. |
The Optyx and Raptor technologies combination helps eliminate defects and foreign bodies. |
The fruit for Mariani's processing plants in the US now comes from around the world instead of exclusively from California. Apricots are sourced from Turkey. |
Mariani processes 125 million pounds of fruit per year. |
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| The Cocoa Processing Company Ltd | ||
The new cocoa processing plant producing cocoa mass. |
The new plant has a capacity of four metric tons per hour. |
Cocoa makes up 20% of Ghana's total exports. The immediate target of the government is to process at least 40% of the annual cocoa crop of 500,000t. |
Cocoa bean pod prior to harvesting. |
Cocoa beans ready for grinding and extraction. |
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| The Tracklement Company, Filling Line, Malmesbury, Wiltshire | ||
Only fresh local and organic vegetables are used in the company's products such as chutney. |
Riggs Autopack installed a new twin-head filling machine to increase production. |
Recipes use all the freshest organic ingredients and no preservatives or artificial colourants. |
Mustard seed and spices are freshly ground after being locally sourced. |
The Tracklement Company now operates from a purpose-built facility in Wiltshire. |
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| Vega Mayor Salad Processing, Navarre | ||
Vega Mayor was acquired by Florette Group in 2001. |
The temperature-controlled warehouse at Vega Mayor can hold over 40 types of salad for processing at any one time. |
The Ishida 14-head weigher is crucial to a rapid process. |
The bagged salad market in Spain is growing by 10% per year. |
The new Vega Mayor plant is in the Navarre region of Northern Spain. |
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