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Topo Berlin- Fruit Logistica 2010

MAF Roda Agrobotic: Technological innovations and Conviviality

A great success for MAF Roda Agrobotic despite snow, logistic problems: cancelled flights, delayed baggage, which are the characteristics of Berlin 2010. The MAF stall exhibited his success by a continuous and enthusiastic attendance of visitors, customers and partners.

The MAF "know-how" reinforces its human and technical values. The main set of themes was "Focus on Sensors".

Installed on our sizer Pomone Universal 2 lanes (1 lane for citrus fruits, 1 lane for apple) 6 computers are connected with our new electronics: Firmness, Lemonscan, Globalscan, Viotec, Insight NIR Plus. Our developer engineers from France, Spain, Australia, and United States livened things up on stall. They demonstrated the capacity of MAF to be still looking for and finding the latest and more innovative solutions in order to comply with fruits "Quality sorting" criteria, while remaining accessible to customer and respecting the specificities of different international markets.

The "Firmness" sorting: With contacts thanks to delicate sensors, we can meter the fruit firmness and determine its destination for a local or faraway market, and of course we can move apart the products unfit for consumption. The Insight NIR Plus: Its function is to meter Brix (sugar rate in fruits) and to detect internal defects. For example, after certain storage time a fruit can appear healthy outside but it can present defects and brown marks when cutting up. Its system of "Full Transmission" (light which crosses the fruit right through) allows a total visibility from fruit inside, unlike others systems on the market that only detect half or a quarter.

The Globalscan, Lemonscan and Viotec treat the external quality.

The last version of Globalscan combines new CMOS cameras, a new software, a new LED lighting. Since it was launched in February 2009, more than 300 lanes have been fitted all across the world. The use of LED lighting (on all our electronic systems), synchronized by our cameras and fruits crossing, offers a very high quality and stability of obtained images. A very important lifetime of LED and a synchronized utilization are so many factors that generate energy and maintenance savings. Contrary to halogen, with LED the food security is guaranteed, because there is no risk that lamps explode and that broken glass go onto the fruits. The Lemonscan is a variant developed for lemon specificities: forms, colours and defects.

Viotec for citrus fruits keeps up all advances of Globalscan but now with UV (Ultra-violet LED) which allow to detect starts of rotting (often caused by insect bites) invisible to the naked eye and which can quickly damage complete fruit batches and generate big losses for producers.

In nonstop demonstration on stall, we decided to show the "Cherryway" dedicated to the sizing of small products: cherries, cherry tomato, walnut, lychees etc....The Speed Packer V6, conditioner in multilayer boxes for citrus fruits, had a lot of success. With many flashes, visitors couldn’t remain indifferent to its efficiency and capacities. Two other small machines, very easy to use and already plagiarized by other manufacturers (even if MAF remains the instigator) were presented: the Speed Bagger , filler/counter of bags, and the Speed Counter which counts and detects the exact fruit number for a delicate filling of boxes.

The Group invests 3% of its turnover in Research and Development. 18 subsidiary companies and about 40 technical and commercial partners across the world.

A great Thank to all our visitors for their interest during these 3 days of Fair.

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MAF Roda Agrobotic: Moving scheduled for January 2011

The construction has started April 2010 on industrial development Albasud, on the south side of Montauban, France. The new headquarters will include 3000m2 of offices and 17000m2 of manufacturing space. This investment is part of a corporate strategy of consolidation and modernization of the workshops and offices.

The construction was entrusted to the company GA. Through its organization, GA will be entirely responsable for the total project from concept to delivery and installation, in other words GA will handle the project management.

Delivery is scheduled for January 2011. It is to MAF RODA to integrate all elements of this investment to allow the continuation of the development and the growth of the Group.

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Export Growth Award

Export Growth Award - 2009 December

Maf Roda Group has experienced an acceleration of its international developments in the 2000s. The Group has 18 subsidiaries located in major agricultural production areas on several continents, primarily responsible for marketing, but also, in some cases, activities of design / manufacturing. The whole employs over 900 people, marketing based also on a network of 40 agents. Succession seems assured, since the five son of Philip Blanc were involved in the group. Price Growth Export, sponsored by Factocic, an SME award with a rate of growth of its sales abroad more than 50%.