Meet Unitec’s innovative sorting solutions and grading technologies for dates
Unitec is an international group with over 100 years of experience, specializing in designing and manufacturing solutions for handling, sorting, quality selection, and packing fruit, tree nuts, and fresh vegetables.
In a highly competitive global market, the ability to accurately select quality and ensure reliable processes is a decisive factor in creating value.
The company's solutions are designed to deliver the best results for different types of fruit and vegetables, supporting packing houses in the accurate and reliable classification of products.
How Unitec helps keep quality standards in the date market
The global date market is experiencing steady growth, driven by increasing demand for natural, health-oriented products with high nutritional value. In the industry, dates are also a functional ingredient in processed foods.
In this context, Unitec technologies ensure consistent quality with every delivery, providing consumers the desired visual appearance and organoleptic characteristics, which have become essential for market competitiveness.
The company makes this possible thanks to its patented systems VISION/SORT and UNIQ. The former detects the external, while the latter selects based on internal fruit quality.
The company’s sorting technology is the first step toward the right market. The DATES SORT 4.0 AI vision system scans 100 percent of the surface of each fruit, identifying and separating external defects with the highest accuracy.
Enhanced by artificial intelligence, this technology enables the detection of the perfect size of the fruit to achieve greater consistency in quality standards, faster processing, and access to more profitable markets.
Meanwhile, the UNIQ technology developed by Unitec enables the non-destructive detection of invisible organoleptic parameters, which are essential for assessing fruit shelf life.
“Defects are now detected with constant accuracy, greatly limiting false waste while ensuring optimal quality consistency. Among the many operational advantages, the optimization of handling times has certainly been a key factor in our choice of Unitec technologies,” says Ali Ben Bachir, Founder & CEO of Les Délices Majhoul, in Morocco.
Customer satisfaction is the driving force behind the company's ongoing development of increasingly high-performance solutions.
The company works alongside its customers through a dialogue-based approach, enabling the development of highly customized solutions.
Support and assistance are provided by a network of 20 operating branches located in some of the world’s most important fruit and vegetable-producing countries, as well as by a SALES organization that connects with customer needs in over 65 countries worldwide.
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