UNITEC GROUP

UNITEC reaching 1.000 installations in Italy

06/05/2022

UNITEC celebrates the installation of the 1000th quality selection lane of the Italian sorting lines installed since the opening of its business in 1924. This goal is not only symbolic, it testifies to the history, to the passion for research and to the calling for innovation that have always distinguished the company from the region of Romagna and that have allowed it to reach an absolute relevance in fruit and vegetable sorting worldwide. Nevertheless, the company remained faithful to the values of the territory from which it was born, first and foremost proactive service, attention to the…

UNITEC guarantees a sustainable future for all fruit

05/04/2022

Packing Houses using UNITEC many patented solutions, thanks to them, select a number of fruits every year that is difficult even to imagine. As a matter of fact, they are three hundred and fifty billion, which - just to give you an idea - corresponds to over 40 fruits for each inhabitant of the Earth. Who would have thought that, in less than 100 years of history, UNITEC would have been able to implement over 6,500 sorting lines and allow its Customers to reach sales point and consumers in every corner of our planet?

World first for internal quality grading of blueberries... and other developments

18/10/2021

UNITEC's participation in Fruit Attraction 2021 highlighted, as it usually does, its satisfied customers, in the image frieze, and new developments in technology, highlighting advances in blueberry sorting and robotics. In the picture, Nour Abdrabbo, Sales Director, in front of the UNIQ Blueberry technology, dedicated to the selection of the internal quality of blueberries that, combined with the Blueberry Vision 3 technology, guarantees an integral selection of each fruit. Blueberry Vision 3 and UNIQ Blueberry allow the packing houses to give even more value to their blueberries to…

Sorting the future of blueberries with Unitec

06/10/2021

In this episode of “The Business of Blueberries,” host Kasey Cronquist, president of the USHBC and the North American Blueberry Council (NABC), sits down with Daniel Jackson of Family Tree Farms and Raffaele Benedetti of UNITEC to discuss innovations in blueberry sorting and sizing, and the impacts these innovations will have on the future of blueberries. “We had 150 people sorting these blueberries every day, and now [since implementing UNITEC technology] we’ve been able to scale that back to … 12-13 people doing the same work 150 people did, which I think is a pretty big…

UNITEC Group at Fruit Attraction 2021

05/10/2021

“We work for your results”: the payoff encloses the core essence of UNITEC Group, that this year as well will be attending Fruit Attraction, scheduled to be held in Madrid on 5-7 October. UNITEC will present its latest news, which are the result of a know-how gained in 97 years of history and the Group’s constant drive towards innovation aimed at generating new Results for the Packing Houses worldwide. As a matter of fact, Fruit Attraction will be the opportunity to present the latest technological solutions, entirely designed and developed by the Group's Research & Development Team,…

Continous innovation for packing houses: UNI Robotic, the robotic division of UNITEC, is born

07/09/2021

UNITEC Group returns to Macfrut exhibition, scheduled to take place in Rimini from 7 to 9 September 2021, bringing with it all the technological excellence that has characterized it for over 95 years to guarantee new effective solutions to the demands of the Packing Houses across the world. The Rimini event will be the opportunity to meet at the fair the protagonists of the fruit and vegetable world and to present the technological innovations on which UNITEC has worked in recent years to help Packing Houses from all over the world to successfully achieve their business goals.

Venus Citrus relies on UNITEC technology for mandarin selection

19/05/2021

Mandarin Vision 3, Orange Vision 3 and Lemon Vision 3 are the latest evolution of UNITEC's vision systems for quality sorting of mandarins, clementines, oranges and lemons. These systems are equipped with very high resolution cameras that help to reliably sort the quality of citrus fruits, thus creating a strong efficiency in the process. This delicate and important process is carried out according to several parameters: external skin defects, defects in shape, weight, size, colour and density of the fruit using the technology of the UNIQ range. Venus Citrus, located in Loxton, South…

Unitec Campus among the winners of the Responsible Innovators 2020 Award of the Emilia Romagna Region

01/02/2021

UNITEC, specialised in the design and manufacture of technologies for the sorting of the quality of fresh fruit and vegetables, is one of the winners of the Responsible Innovators 2020 Award. The initiative was sponsored by the Emilia Romagna Region, and was aimed at enhancing the actions which contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, carried out in the local area by companies, professionals, associations, schools, and universities. During the award ceremony held on 22nd December, the new UNITEC Campus project was awarded in the 2030…

New degree course in mechatronics of the University of Bologna will be born in Lugo in 2022

24/12/2020

Lugo, in the heart of Romagna, will be the chosen location for the new Degree Course in Mechatronics at the University of Bologna, which will start in the 2022 academic year. The project has been presented, during the press conference held on Friday, December 18, by the Mayor of Lugo Davide Ranalli, by Unitec President Angelo Benedetti, by the President of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio e Banca del Monte di Lugo Raffaele Clò and by the President of the Ravenna delegation of Confindustria Romagna, Engineer Tomaso Tarozzi. The new Degree Course is a project born from Unitec strong will…

UNITEC Cherry Vision 3.0 allied to the Spanish packing houses

01/09/2020

"For Frutas Mifra- said its General Manager and Owner Miguel Vicente Juan - Cherry Vision 3.0 technology has been a great ally throughout the cherry harvesting and packing season. A complicated year due to the weather conditions of the season and the exceptional situation of the Coronavirus pandemic".