Atmosphère Controlée et Atmosphère Modifiée

It is ten years since Fruit Control Equipments started to apply dynamic atmosphere with its' success confirmed  year after year. First on the world market with initial stress solutions (ILOS) our company has believed in this revolutionary technology, which has become widespread in Italy and abroad, where there are now many customers who use it to extend the conservation of their products (apples and some varieties of pear), avoiding the problems related to the formation of superficial scald ( an important physiological disorder that compromises storage) without the use of any chemicals in postharvest. With the Swinglos ® technique excellent results are also obtained in maintaining quality parameters  (background color, hardness, acidity etc.) that allow product shelf life to be extended after storage.
Going back in time we like to remember that just after the publication of the important work of South African researchers Truter and Combrink, 15 years ago the staff at FCE  took steps to implement the formulas and protocols reported by them at our customers'  industrial plants in order to permanently resolve the problems related to scald. At that time only initial oxygen stress was foreseen at the beginning of the storage period (ILOS - initial low oxygen stress); in the light of the good results it was rapidly decided to repeat this stress phases during storage, thus introducing the concept of 'dynamic atmosphere (ie with values ​​no longer static but dynamic and changing over time).

The CHALLENGER is an innovative system for nitrogen production that exploits the different release times of oxygen and nitrogen by a bed of activated carbon molecular sieves .
The apparatus can be used in the following fields of application:
- enology
- breweries
- coffee bean storage
- experimental laboratories
- food packaging
30 years of experience in the design and building of Controlled Atmosphere apparatus as well as a deep knowledge of plant engineering, has allowed us to realize the new CHALLENGER generator, easily adaptable to the customer's various needs.

On Tuesday 06 of December, the afternoon was definitely international on the French farm « Gaec des fruits de Bourgogne », managed by Mr Geoffroy. About 30 people participated in the event, including people from Poland, Netherland, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. They have followed the technical presentation by Mr Gratadour, Technical Manager of Rhône Chamber of Agriculture. After 100 days of preservation, the openning of Janny MT modules has shown the good results obtained and the evolution of the experimentation. Many technical exchanges took place while a comparison between the fruits preserved in ordinary cold and those preserved in Janny MT modules was held. This meeting has emphasized several key factors in order to carry out a successful preservation with Janny MT modules on pears.

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During the MACFRUT exhibition in Cesena the innovative Janny MT system, for which our company is the exclusive distributor for Italy, was presented .

Great interest has been shown for this system which allows controlled atmosphere to be used by all small and medium producers.

After one month from the exhibition, the requests for Janny MT covers have continued to increase and Janny MT company has decided to hold a demo day in France, where this application is widely used, to demonstrate the storage results of different varieties of pears after 5 months from harvesting.

We therefore invite everyone who is interested, to the meeting on December 6th c/o  Les Fruits de Bourgogne "(Montbellet - 71260 - France) from 15:30 to 17:30p.m.

We attach the JANNY MT invitation form to fill in and send to the fax number 0033.3.85.36.96.58 / 0030.3.85.23.96.29 or by e-mail: mattiempoexp@orange.fr

It will be an opportunity to "touch" the good results of the Janny MT system.

FRUIT CONTROL EQUIPMENTS is present at the international trade fair MACFRUT in Cesena from 5th to 7th October - in Hall D Stand 2.

We look forward to seeing you!

May 2011-Granny Smith under SWINGLOS!

After the success of the last two years, OP COZ in Zevio, (one of the most important Granny Smith growers’ associations in Verona province) will continue the collaboration with Fruit Control Equipments amplifying the number of chambers in DCA with the construction of 4 new rooms.

Fruit Control Equipments announces that last April the Agrintesa group in Faenza chose our company as sole supplier for the new ULO controlled atmosphere plant in Bagnacavallo.The plant will consist in 44 ULO chambers, of which 16 will use our Swinglos dynamic atmosphere.

Fruit Control Equipments is honoured by the confidence demonstrated with this collaboration.

The last DCA (Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere) cold-store containing Red Delicious apples from the Melinda 2010 harvest, was opened 27th April 2011, at the AVN warehouse in Casez with great results.

The DCA plant at this coop. Is licenced “Swinglos”! / the DCA plant uses our Swinglos technology

The goods had a perfect deep green background and brilliant red colour, excellent firmness and crunchiness and a shelf-life that exceeded 15 days.

These results are obtained by good teamwork!

L’Italiana Fruit Control Equipments collabora adesso con la Francese Janny MT che ha messo a punto un'innovazione che rivoluziona la conservazione dei frutti, verdure, funghi e fiori.