Fruit & Vegetable

Since more than 80 years, Schwab Guillod is one of the leading companies in the fruit and vegetable trade business in Switzerland. The company independently selects its agricultural partners locally and abroad according to high quality standards. Its success is in the quality and rapid availability of its products. Schwab Guillod applies the highest quality standards, which are regularly discussed and checked with its agricultural partners. The product range includes leafy vegetables, lettuce varieties, asparagus, tomatoes and onions. As well as stone fruit, citrus and exotic fruits.

"From farm to fork" also applies to the fruit and vegetable industry

In order to get the fresh fruits and vegetables to the end consumer as quickly as possible, production and the associated production processes must be well structured and closely timed, to enable a fast product throughput. Especially in the end of line area, the flexibility of ESPERA weighing and labeling systems offers an optimal workflow.

Requirements for weighing and labeling lines for naturally grown products - The ESPERA 3D camera is the perfect solution

In fruit and vegetable products, no two products are alike. Grown products such as fruit and vegetables always differ in their product geometry, shape and size. This makes precise product labeling with one (or more) labels all the more demanding. On the one hand, to avoid poorly labeled products, because this would generate unnecessary "scrap" for the production plant. On the other hand, in the case of irregular product geometries, attention must also be paid to the readability of the label for the end consumer. After all, what could be worse than wrinkled labels on a product package that leads to a non readability of the label? With its fully automatic labeling systems, ESPERA focuses on maximum precision and guarantees a labeling accuracy of up to +/- 1mm. For grown products, the integrated 3D camera offers the possibility of a completely individual product labeling. A camera scans the geometry of a product in real time and determines the perfect labeling position fully automatically. This ensures that the label fits perfectly on the package and that the end consumer can read the label easily. Especially for companies that have a large product variation or naturally grown products, the 3D camera is an optimal tool to improve the quality of the labeling process and to prevent poorly labeled products from reaching the retail market in the first place.