Aweta: Continued
International Growth Netherlands-based Aweta is leading the way when it comes to the manufacture and supply of turnkey solutions for the grading and packing of fresh produce. The company is enhancing its global reputation thanks to its continuous dedication to technological development and sales network expansion.
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016 was a record sales year and 2017 looks set to be just as impressive,” says Mr Jean-Luc Delcassé, Aweta CEO. This growing success is the result of a variety of factors, including highly innovative projects such as turnkey plants for both round and cherry tomatoes, for the largest Spanish and French cooperatives as well as major growers in the US and Mexico. The company’s most modern customers in Italy (Rivoira) and France have been equipped with fully automated apple pre-sorting and packing lines. The most advanced sorting solutions for citrus fruits have also been implemented in South Africa and California, as well as a new sorting line in Spain for the coming season. Aweta also provides tailor-made sorting technologies for avocadoes and mangoes, internal scanning for peppers and advanced softness detection sensors for tomatoes, peaches and kiwis. 42 Industry Europe
Enhanced Sorting Performance Over the past few years, Aweta has been focusing on a new technique called ‘HyperSpectral’. This innovative optical sensor has been successfully tested on many types of fruit including apples, pears, tomatoes, kiwis, avocadoes and mangoes. PowerVision Hyperspectral® brings significant added value to any operation when it comes to selecting external defects. It is particularly useful for identifying defects that are almost invisible, such as internal bruising or punctures. A specific spectral vision technology has been developed for citrus fruits and Advanced Vision UV uses the ultraviolet spectrum to identify clear rot on citrus – a skin defect barely visible to the naked eye. With Inscan-Pulse®, Aweta has introduced a new version of the Internal scanning sensor, named Inscan®, in order to take the detec-
