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Digital innovation for food quality

Nowdays, the food sector has a clear responsability: paving the way and following the path of innovation, doing its best to meet the consumers’ expectations about quality and safety.

That’s why at Alfrus we designed our plants on the model of a “Smart Factory 4.0”. A prototype of contemporary production and business management based on digitalization, where technology operates in order to maintain product’s high level of quality and traceability, along the path that goes from producer to consumer.

As a matter of fact, we are one of the first Italian companies of almond processing and commercialization to equip our plants with the most sophisticated technologies for processing these seeds.

A 4.0 SMART FACTORY AT THE SERVICE OF QUALITY ALMONDS

How to combine attention to the product, food safety and customer satisfaction? The secret lies in the digitalization applied in our company.

For companies operating in nuts sector, ensuring food safety is a priority that requires certain precautions, as seeds may have outer and inner defects almost impossible to detect and as possible foreign bodies can enter the processing line. We must avoid these risks in a widespread way, in order to adequately safeguard the health of consumers on one hand and protect the food companies that choose us on the other.

For this reason, at Alfrus, technology is considered an essential tool for analysis and control, upon which we have structured our test and controls system. The almonds we process undergo the most advanced industry technologies. Since their arrival in our factories along the entire processing line, the raw material is constantly monitored by digital intelligence.

We rely on state-of-the-art machinery specifically developed for nuts and equipped with detection systems that can identify and isolate contaminant agents. Among these we have:

  • Sorting machines with optical and laser technology;
  • Metal detectors and x-ray machines along the entire processing line;
  • State-of-the-art equipment used in laboratory analyses;
  • High-tech pasteurization plant for the production of marzipan;
  • Innovative sorting, selection, processing and packaging machinery.

Everything that could escape the human eye is captured by 4.0 technology.

 

THE ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR FOOD INDUSTRY

For a food company, relying on digital innovation means introducing advanced systems, techniques and production methods in order to improve processes and products radically.

These technologies are able to upgrade production facilities not only in terms of production performances but also in a sustainable point of view. With the support of digital technologies, it is possible to increase productivity and efficiency, reducing consumption.

Digital technologies support quality control and product improvement. In addition, they allow the tracking of a wide range of data, allowing real-time detection of process changes that could compromise quality.

A production line that makes use of digital technology also involves improvements in terms of results, since the entire production line is integrated and kept under control by a single system.

Less energy consumption reduces costs and environmental impact. These factors help consolidating customers’ loyalty.

Moreover, being able to manage production processes with greater flexibility allows us to offer a wide range of products, customizing the offer according to the needs of individual customers and, whether necessary, to expand it, testing new ideas quickly and with optimized costs.

“Quality must always be excellent – underlines Michele Sisto, Alfrus’ Head of Logistic – Through a careful process of control and selection, performed by our state-of-the-art machinery, we are sure to offer an intact and impeccable product to the market.

Thanks to this accurate performance, the product yield is very high. This allow us to face even the most complicated contemporary operational challenges”.

In this way, the irresistible taste of almonds meets the experience of knowing how to choose, make and transform.

The result is an almond processed in full respect of its original characteristics, according to precise organoleptic, tasting, aromatic, aesthetic and consistency parameters. A food that maintains all the natural features, a guarantee of food safety, obtained with the use of ultra-modern machinery.

Only premium quality Alfrus almonds reach our partners, to bring the authentic taste of excellence to the market.

28 December 2023

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