A medium sized forklift weighs about the same as an average dump truck — and can cause just as much damage or injury. In fact, forklifts are still one of the greatest health and safety hazards in our packhouses, warehouses and manufacturing sites.

Co-founder of Fruitday, China’s leading fruit e-tailer, Loren Zhao talks about the company’s recently created packing and marketing arm, its new proprietary orange brand ‘Mr Orange’, and the future of fruit branding in China.

Reduce fruit damage, lower your labor costs, and maximise your uptime.

In today’s competitive fruit packing environment, fresh produce brands must find creative ways to extract maximum value from every piece of fruit on every tree.

Nature is unpredictable and packhouses must expand their sorting resolution to ensure quality and value maximisation. With today’s sorting technology, field run fruit can be broken down into an infinite number of grades and sizes. Some packhouses have as many as 13 size breaks and 4 quality grades, giving as many as 52 different pack-outs. And this is before we start to look at different packaging types.

PRESS RELEASE - AUCKLAND, New Zealand and Orange County, Calif. May 18, 2016 – Compac, a leader in post-harvest integrated solutions and services to the global fresh produce industry, today announced it has appointed Darrell Smithson to the role of VP Global Services, effective immediately. Smithson was most recently Vice President, Managed Services, with Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation.

High visibility clothing was once something thought of as unique to the construction industry. Now it is seen as the hallmark of safety in almost every industry, including packhouses and distribution centers.

I will never forget discussing the emergence of high vis as a corporate standard with a group of civil engineers. Standing on the pedestrian footpath at the Lions Gate Bridge, they were dressed in suits, ties and fluoro orange vests. They stood in stark contrast to the tourists, sightseers and fitness focused locals in Vancouver, British Columbia.

At Compac, our goal is to optimize every finished pack leaving your facility, ensuring the product is presented to the market exactly how you want it, within spec and at the highest possible value. And today, this means accommodating increasingly high standards for food hygiene.

When you’re running a produce company and exporting perishable goods all over the globe, how can you ensure you’re producing the best retail product to your consumer?

Agricola San Clemente, a Chilean company that exports fruit to local and international markets, was seeking a postharvest solution spanning software, hardware and equipment for getting cherries from the packhouse to their global retail customers as efficiently as possible.

Valencia, Spain-facility will be hub for EMEA post-sales service, product development, and manufacturing, including Compac’s new Spectrim^TM platform  

PRESS RELEASE - January 20, 2016  Ground-breaking Spectrim^TM Platform Enables Faster, Consistent Grading and Lower Operating Costs

Compac, a world leader in post-harvest integrated solutions and services to the fresh produce industry, announced the successful operational deployment of its Spectrim^TM optical sorting platform at Washington Fruit and Produce Company.

PRESS RELEASE - December 10 2015 Compac, a provider of post-harvest integrated solutions to the fresh produce industry, announced its new executive leadership team. The team will lead the company in the next phase of its transformative growth and execute on its strategy for capturing the expanding global opportunities in the fresh produce industry.