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Integrated Solutions
for increased quality and efficiency, reduced labor
Financially, the potato industry is the same as any other industry.
It's simply about increasing revenue and lowering costs. Potato
growers need the right resources to guide them when the time comes
for major decision-making and big-picture planning.
With this in mind, large processors often take a team approach to
looking at cost and revenue needs from field - to storage - to
handling. The field group meets with the plant to understand how the
flow of product to the processor can be improved.
When a project is determined to have significant value, key people
including on-staff engineers, project managers and others work together
to plan how the project will run and what kind of performance can be
expected from the investment. So how is this decision-making process
handled when an operation is running on a " lean and mean " basis?
Looking at another set of challenges - a seed grower sees demands
for required sizing, portable skid mounted defect sorting, holding, and
automated bulk bag filling. Seed growers have an opportunity to sell
more and simultaneously use the same investment to lower costs. This
may require the grower to upgrade and possibly restructure storage -
even to the extent of segmenting into smaller bins and adding a bulk
filling line with sizing and holding included.
In the specialty variety market, there is a need to increase
pack-out by threefold to meet demand. By implementing
freshpack line solutions, there is an opportunity to review
costs. If product loss can be minimized or eliminated,
investment needs for improvements can cost less.
Gellert saw all of these challenges and answered them with GellertFresh,
an integrated approach with strategic partners for growers and freshpack.
GellertFresh is designed to deliver the team approach similar to what
larger operations experience with their in-house staff. It offers turnkey
optimization, targeting major parts of
an entire operation that are forwardlooking
and fully resourced.
Integrated solutions almost always
include best-in-class strategic partners
that can offer the complete package. Our
GellertFresh initiative was built for this
purpose and includes a fully operational
audit from field to storage to handling.
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GellertFresh is excited to offer
Dewulf Group and Herbert Solutions
as part of their Integrated Solution.
Dewulf Group, also home to the Miedema brand, has over 150
years of combined experience. They supply growers with quality
equipment for soil cultivation, planting, harvesting, in-store,
and grading of potatoes. Their solutions excel in reducing soil
and waste - so more net product gets into storage. From the
unloading of the trailer outside the storage through the filling of
boxes or of the store floor in perfect layers, their machines are
efficient, durable, and user and product friendly, as well as
adaptable in size to growers' needs.
Herbert Solutions offers proven freshpack engineering and
equipment that simply performs and can adapt to what is coming
from the field. Starting with 3D designs and layouts, the decision
process may include visits to other companies' facilities to see the
various equipment working successfully. Whether a packing
shed is looking to upgrade, improve, or add lines for
additional varieties, Herbert's handling is innovative.
Often what happens in between the line is as important
as the equipment on the line. Herbert's packaging and
end-of-line palletizing design can accumulate and reduce
investment costs.
Gellert's post-harvest expertise offers multiple designs and
approaches to storage that competes globally and offers domestic
manufacturing for affordability. Their control panel was built to
report to all levels of an operation and provides data that can be
used on its own or integrated into a
software solution.
Gellert saw all of these
challenges and answered them
with GellertFresh, an integrated
approach with strategic partners
for growers and freshpack.
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GellertFresh is ready to provide value
to projects through a full range of
integrated solutions.
For more information on GellertFresh,
visit www.gellert.com or call
1.888.GELLERT.
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