Avocado packing app:

Avocado packing app: rapid incoming avocado record keeping, wash, sort, grade, and pack avocados quickly: maximum avocado traceability, recalls, quality control, sales and shipping. Easy invoices, import and export avocados.


Avocado packing app:

Avocado packing app: rapid incoming avocado record keeping, wash, sort, grade, and pack avocados quickly: maximum avocado traceability, recalls, quality control, sales and shipping. Easy invoices, import and export avocados. 
Avocado packing app
Avocado Packing App for accurate order filling & production
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Avocado packing:  Some packhouses (often present at importers) have ripening facilities. These are important to trigger the ripening of avocado and deliver ready-to-eat fruits to supermarkets. The ripeness level at the start and temperature management are critical for the ripening. The exact ripening program is supervised by experienced experts. Special (forced-air) ripening rooms are used to achieve and maintain an uniform fruit temperature of, for example, 20 °C. The fruit is monitored to decide when to stop the ripening process. Exposure to ethylene can be an additional tool to speed up the ripening.

Avocado packing app
Avocado packing app manages food safety

Avocado packing systems:

What we do in the packing shed.
Having navigated the harvest process and delivery to our packing shed we then ensure that our avocados are safely and securely packed. The trip through market systems around Australia can be tough on an avocado and we try to prepare them for the journey. All through the packing process we are trying to avoid bruising through a combination of careful handling and cooling.

Precooling
Avocados that are cooled to 5oC are far more tolerant of bruising and less likely to rot as they soften. At Avowest our avocados are loaded into coolrooms as soon as they are harvested. Early in our harvest season (July) this is barely necessary due to cold winter temperatures. Sometimes it’s warmer inside the coolrooms than outside.

Precooling using coolrooms
Precooling using coolrooms

Water bath
From our bulk bins the avocados are gently tipped into a water bath to begin their journey through the grading and sizing machinery. This allows us to transfer the avocados from the harvest bins without bruising. The chlorinated water is also chilled to minimise bruising.

Avocado packing app
Avocado Packing App for reduced food & fresh produce waste

Packaging the avocados: 
The packaging used at avocado packers is cardboard trays with a moulded fibre insert. Both are made using a mixture of recycled and new pulp material. They are completely recyclable and renewable. They also absorb shocks and moisture to help us get our avocados to the customer in the best condition.

Avowest recyclable & renewable cardboard trays and moulded fibre inserts
Avowest recyclable & renewable cardboard trays and moulded fibre inserts

Back in the coolroom
Once our avocados have been sized and graded into trays it’s back in the coolroom as soon as possible. Research commissioned by Avocados Australia clearly shows that maintaining the cool chain is critical for supplying the best quality avocados to retailers. Our avocados will stay in coolrooms until they are transported to ripening and distribution centres on refrigerated trucks.

Avocado packing app
Avocado packing app manages supplier food quality and traceability

Avocado is a favorite tropical fruit that offers many benefits. However, the packaging of fresh avocados has not been able to protect the fruit from physical injury and the lack of information obtained by consumers. The aim of this study was to develop avocado packaging that is good and appropriate according to consumer needs. The method used was the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) approach. The QFD method includes the stage of collecting the voice of the customer, creating the House of Quality (HoQ), and the stage of analysis and evaluation. The results indicated that attributes required by the costumers include fruit size, information completeness, perforation, design, shape, and material of packaging. While, the technical responses to be created were i.e. homogeneous fruit size, attractive packaging design, packaging with shapes that match the avocado, packaging that can explain the product in detail, eco-friendly packaging materials and protect from physical damage, and packaging with a circulation hole or perforation.