The group owns the property and exploitation of modern facilities (Packing House and Cold Storage), in a 15.000 m2 in an industrial area in the city of Paysandú. The post-harvest processes applied to the fruit which is brought from the orchards are carried out with modern machinery and technology.
Packing
process -
Pre-selection, disinfection, waxing, selection, sizing, conditioning in
different types of cases for selling purposes (open tray, telescopic cartons
of 5 kg), control of final produce, palletizing and identification are all
carried out during this stage.
Degreening process - Special chambers are conditioned through an
updated ethylene process in a modified atmosphere area in accordance to
different varieties and the different stages of the fruit ripening.
Precooling process - It is applied to all the fruit in
"Californian" type tunnels and it leads to a quick lowering of the
pulpe temperature which ensures a long preservation and lasting of the
product.
Cold
storage process - It is carried out in modified atmosphere chambers
with automatic controls of the temperature, relative humidity and CO2
concentration. Since the fruit is kept under ideal conditions until final
destination the quality of the same can be easily ensured.
Uruguay has, beyond doubt, become within the international market a consistent supplier of top quality citric produce with volumes that keep growing year by year. This has been the result of combining ideal soil and climate togheter with the experience and technology applied by the citric exporter sector.
