HIGH-TECH packing

摘要

Modern packing line equipment is found in all of the seven VI.P packing houses. The Geos packing house, a member of the Vinsch-gau Fruit and Vegetable Producers cooperative (VI.P), is almost too quiet to be a processing facility. State-of-the-art design and equipment has silenced the dump room, and natural lighting makes the packing line well illuminated. The 200,000-square-foot facility, located in Silandro near Merano, Italy, was remodeled a decade ago to upgrade and expand capacity to 65,000 tons, said Andreas Humml, production manager at Geos. Everything is pre-sized and graded by an external sorting machine made by Greefa in Holland that can sort seven fruits per second. The facility has 10 packing lines and 51 channels, and can handle about29 tons of fruit per hour. Bin dumping and stacking is automated. Two work shifts run daily for a total of 15 hours, processing up to 1,400 bins per day. Plastic bins are used at Geos, each holding about 700 pounds.