UNITEC is an international group specializing in the design and manufacture of innovative solutions for the handling, sorting, quality selection and packing of fruit and vegetables.
What sets it apart on the market is its know-how built up over more than 100 years of history. This wealth of experience has not only made UNITEC a leader in innovation in the fruit and vegetable sector, but has also allowed the company to export the value of Made in Italy to the world’s major markets, helping to strengthen Italy’s image as a leader in mechatronics, automation, and robotics applied to the agro-industry.
Today, as in the past, UNITEC continues to invest in research, development, and sustainability, offering its customers tailor-made technological solutions capable of meeting the challenges of the global market with efficiency, reliability, and vision.
UNITEC at Macfrut
Macfrut 2025 is an opportunity for UNITEC to present its latest technological innovations and, above all, to strengthen its ties with the market. We come from the region of speed engines, and this DNA contributes every day to work with an innovative boost with a very clear mission: to provide concrete solutions to the global fruit and vegetable industry, helping it to be increasingly competitive, both in terms of distribution channels and in surprising consumers with products that are always in line with their taste expectations based on the needs of different markets, including international ones.
Ours is an “Italian marketing”, based on listening to the customer, designing customized and service solutions that are close to each customer: technology without people and without reliability does not make the market grow.
Thanks to patented technologies customized for each stage of the production process, UNITEC improves the efficiency and profitability of thousands of packing houses in over 65 countries around the world. Our solutions adapt to all types of fruit and vegetables, responding to the challenges of a constantly evolving market.
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Every day we innovate, simplify, and optimize. Because behind every piece of fruit, there is a piece of technology that makes the difference. Numbers that speak for themselves: over 400 billion pieces of fruit sorted each year by UNITEC technologies: approximately 50 pieces of fruit per year for every person in the world. On average, 12% of sorted fruit does not meet the fresh market standards. Thanks to our technologies (UNITEC and Unisorting brands), these fruits can be used for other purposes, reducing waste. 48 billion fruits revalued every year.
With our patented Cherry Vision solutions, we prevent the waste of approximately 20 billion cherries every year, across 5 continents. That is twice the number of cherries exported by the United States in a year. Every year, we prevent the waste of 19 billion blueberries: the equivalent of 5,000 full containers. We reduce the waste of about 2 billion apples per year: with the apples “saved” from food waste, we could circle the Earth four times.
All UNITEC solutions are entirely made in Italy and are developed to provide continuous solutions for the entire fruit and vegetable handling cycle: from mechanical design to the production of advanced systems of automation, robotics, traceability, and internal and external quality selection, through high-definition vision, with the use of AI in every sorting process.
Pioneers of quality: we were the first in the industry to obtain certifications for: quality, occupational safety, and environmental management.
Technology that looks inside
The exclusive UNI TRACER software package, entirely designed by UNITEC, allows you to record and manage the traceability of different batches throughout the entire process. UNITEC installations equipped with the UNIQ and VISION systems allow for the internal and external quality selection with high reliability, fully safeguarding the integrity of each fruit. A concrete response to the ever-growing need of final consumers to combine the “beautiful” with the “good”.
By the side of the company at every stage
UNITEC technology takes care of the fruit from post-harvest to palletization through the action of various machines with combined and sequential technology. From the crates arriving from the fields to the feeding of the lines with extremely gentle processes to preserve the quality of the fruit, with total traceability of the entire process. UNITEC solutions are 100% Made in Italy, manufactured in-house and they cover the entire fruit and vegetable handling cycle: from project definition to the manufacture of mechatronic and electronic components, software, automation systems, robotics, traceability and external and internal quality selection, with high-definition vision systems.
The UNITEC Group is organized into operating units to closely monitor all the main stages of the production chain, right through the after-sales phase, with a professional and efficient after-sales service. Our proximity to our customers translates into structured support with a network of 20 operating headquarters in some of the most important countries in the fruit and vegetable sector (Washington, California and Oregon in the US, France, Spain, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Turkey, Australia and Canada) and a commercial structure that allows the UNITEC Group to connect with the individual needs of Customers in the more than 65 countries in which it works. We stand by the side of our customers as a technological partner capable of helping them improve their business, both now and in the future:
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