Technology news from Eurofruit

Technology news stories with a direct relevance to the European fresh produce business, including updates on production and harvesting systems, sorting and grading machinery, packaging, coldstorage and controlled atmosphere, digital management, robots and automation, vertical farming, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Tomra Benedetta Ricci Iamino Category Director Cherries_TOMRA Food

Tomra LUCAi platform now available for cherries

2024-03-19T10:50:00+00:00By

New LUCAi platform for InVision2 leverages Tomra’s Deep Learning technology to add value to cherry packing

HortiRoad2India

Dutch experts look to transform India’s fresh produce supply chains

2024-03-18T12:57:00+00:00By

Fruitnet’s Fresh Produce India event offers chance to learn how Dutch technology could open up new market opportunities for Indian fruit and veg suppliers

Bayer Generative AI tool

Bayer pilots generative AI tool for agriculture

2024-03-15T11:57:00+00:00By

System has been trained by Bayer agronomists and proprietary data to benefit farmers, agronomic advisors, and other industry users

ProducePay Visilibility

ProducePay launches Visibility solution to improve transparency and cut waste

2024-03-15T10:33:00+00:00By

New tool gives buyers end-to-end visibility from farm to final destination

Biome Makers

Biome Makers database surpasses 24M microorganisms

2024-03-07T09:25:00+00:00By

Company’s AI-powered database provides insights into disease risk, yield improvement and impact of regenerative agriculture

Oishii Hiroki Koga Brendan Somerville

Oishii bucks vertical farming’s downward trend with US$134m fund boost

2024-03-01T14:44:00+00:00By

Company says investment will enable it to expand its strawberry and tomato production capacity and invest in new technology like robots

L-r: Harry Tinson, general manager at HarvestEye, and Antti Hintikka, U2 Online Oy

Distribution deal brings HarvestEye into Finland

2024-03-01T09:16:00+00:00By

British company has growth plans for its crop insight tool in the Nordic region

Svilen Rangelov Elizabeth Oudkerk crop

Could fresh produce soon be flown around the world by drone?

2024-02-28T13:21:00+00:00

As Qatar Airways Cargo’s Miguel Rodriguez underlines the importance of fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers to its business, a more technologically advanced future appears on the company’s radar

Unitec Uni Robotics Uni Smart Pal Robot

Lights, camera, robots, action! Unitec marks centenary at cutting edge of innovation

2024-02-23T09:02:00+00:00By

One of the fruit and veg industry’s top technology providers has achieved a century in business, a remarkable milestone for a group that rolled out its first ever fruit sizer all the way back in 1924.

Koppert

Koppert secures €140m investment to propel global growth

2024-02-16T12:56:00+00:00By

Investment will fund the expansion of company’s production facilities and working capital

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ProducePay Visilibility

ProducePay launches Visibility solution to improve transparency and cut waste

2024-03-15T10:33:00+00:00By

New tool gives buyers end-to-end visibility from farm to final destination

Dalia Ghassan Awdi

Awdi Gardens eager to show off quality of Lebanese produce

2024-03-15T10:19:00+00:00By

Having experienced rapid growth in its grape exports to markets across the globe, Lebanese producer Awdi Gardens sees potential for Lebanese cherries, plums and kiwifruit

Christelle Bertin, Blue Whale

Blue Whale aims for resilience through (Re)Generation

2024-03-14T16:30:00+00:00By

(Re)Generation Fruit, a Blue Whale-led consortium in France, is seeking to support the ecological transition of the sector while providing vital economic resilience for its growers

Mercadona

Mercadona posts record profits for 2023

2024-03-14T10:11:00+00:00By

Retailer’s share of Spanish market edges up 0.6 per cent to 27.6 per cent

Michael Stimson, Sun World

Sun World successfully enforces IP infringements in Italy

2024-03-13T16:24:00+00:00By

Italian courts have ruled in favour of Sun World International in four separate cases in recent months in litigation the company has filed against unlicensed growers for their unlawful production and sale of Sun World grape varieties.