High-Capacity Packhouses

Our fruit comes straight from the field to intake tunnels, ready for pallet hight adjustment.

From intake they are moved into our fast chilling chamber, where they spend about an hour to reach a temperature of between 2 to 5 C, which is a requirement for the next stage – Packing.

Once our fruit has been chilled and quality control checked, it is moved to the packing area through the feeding line, where is weight checked.

The second part of packing is heat sealing and the checking of seal integrity. After sealing, the next step is applying the customer’s label and promotional label, if required.

Every single punnet passes through our metal detector machine before being packed into customer trays.

Customer trays are labelled, with tray-ends carefully placed on the pallet, secured with stretch wrap and labelled before Storage.

From the packing area, pallets are placed into our storage (Dispatch) area, which is segmented by customers and depots.

Before fruit is dispatched, our operators prepare the loading plan to make sure they are sent to the correct destination.

When lorries arrive to collect the fruit, our operators measure the internal temperature of the trailer and ensure that trailer is in good condition.

Once the operator has loaded the final pallet, the paperwork is issued to the driver who distributes our berries to the depots.