When processing food and beverages, or anything related to food production, a company’s hygiene strategy directly affects production quality and profitability. Poorly cleaned equipment or unsafe conditions for food processing can lead to an inferior or potentially harmful product.

The challenges of a growing global population is well documented and by 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion, 34 percent higher than today. That’s a lot more people to feed, which is a challenge and a great opportunity for our industry. As the demand for food increases, especially healthy and fresh, it’s a great time to be working in the horticulture industry! The challenge above requires us to increase production by more than 30 percent in around 30 harvests and when you think about it that way, there is not a lot of time. It’s great to see Hort Connections this year is aiming even higher than that and it's inspiring to know that many believe it’s possible. We certainly do at Compac and TOMRA Food and we are constantly evolving our solutions to help growers, packers and food processors achieve greater efficiency.

Last week my colleague Tim Marshall bit into a perfectly good looking apple and found the internal browning in the image above - he came straight to me as inspection systems product manager to complain about his negative eating experience. Tim, like most consumers, made his initial purchase based on the exterior appearance and feel of the apple. Having had a bad experience, he's unlikely to buy this brand again.

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El mes pasado, nuestro equipo asistió a Global Cherry Summit en Chile para apoyar a la industria local y pasar tiempo con nuestros valorados clientes. No solo fue un placer para el equipo conocer a los adorables chilenos, ver el hermoso país y pasar el tiempo en un lugar tan maravilloso, sino que también aprendieron más sobre el mercado actual y sus desafíos.

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Last month, our team attended Global Cherry Summit in Chile to support the local industry and spend time with our valued customers. Not only was it a pleasure for the team to meet with the lovely Chilean people, see the beautiful country and spend time in such a wonderful place, they learnt more about the current market and its challenges.

Since the 1980s, Compac has been on the forefront of fresh produce sorting and grading technology. Today, we have installed over 6,000 lanes worldwide and provide sorting solutions for many of the globe’s largest growers and packhouses.

Andrew McQueen's recent blog announcing the launch of Spectrim 2.1 briefly discussed our new Texture Grading Algorithm. And no matter what you call it - Texture, Puff and Crease, Creasing, Albedo or Kraakskil - the grading of creased fruit is important to orange packers.

• Creates world’s most extensive fit-for-purpose small-fruit sorting and packaging portfolio
• Leverages high growth in consumer demand for important superfood category
• Incorporates innovative traceability platform www.freshtracker.com

BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 8, 2018 – TOMRA Food is forming cross-industry working groups to accelerate development of digital standards for the Food industry, with the first meetings to be held in Q4, 2018.

With over 70,000 attendees, Fruit Logistica in Berlin is the largest trade show for the fresh produce industry. The show is a great opportunity for the global supply chain to gather for three days and discuss the future of our industry. TOMRA, Compac and partners will demonstrate the following sorting solutions to protect and enhance produce brands at Hall 5.1 B-15.