Asia Fruit Logistica preview: China, Part Two

Pagoda

China’s top fruit retail chain Pagoda sees Asia Fruit Logistica as a meaningful window connecting to the global fruit industry. The retailer will take the opportunity to showcase its achievements over the past year at the event.

“Pagoda is not just a leading fruit retail chain brand, but also a comprehensive service provider for the fruit industry, with a global perspective and international competitiveness,” says Peter Zhu, Pagoda executive director and senior vice-president.

Pagoda will have its core products and diverse category fruit brands on show at its stand, with a special focus on customised fruit gift boxes. These offerings cater to consumers’ needs in various consumption scenarios and fully demonstrate Pagoda’s latest achievements in supply chain management and category brand development.

The progress Pagoda has made in B2B and overseas business will also be highlighted at its stand. Over the past year, Pagoda has actively explored market demands overseas, established a reliable supply chain system, and enhanced the strength and competitiveness of Pagoda’s export business.

AgroFresh

AgroFresh is a leading post-harvest specialist providing quality and freshness solutions. With a legacy of innovation that stretches back more than 40 years, AgroFresh addresses fresh produce supply chain challenges, offering a full suite of integrated storage, packing line, and digital solutions. At this year’s event, AgroFresh is excited to spotlight a range of innovative products and solutions, including the powerful combination of Uvasys and SmartFresh for table grapes, and Berrisys and SmartFresh for blueberries.

The company will also be promoting Tomasys for tomatoes and highlighting SmartFresh’s capabilities. This includes its benefits for grape penetration, especially for long-term storage, as well as developing solutions for new growth crops like peaches and cherries.

Xianfeng Fruit

After 27 years of development, Xianfeng Fruit has become a global enterprise integrating new retail, intelligent cold chain logistics, and supply chain B2B platform. Currently, Xianfeng Fruit has over 2,000 chain stores nationwide and possesses five central distribution centre logistics parks and 16 regional distribution centres. Additionally, it has dispatched over 200 procurement experts to more than 300 high-quality fruit production bases worldwide.

This year, Xianfeng Fruit will bring a variety of fruit products to Asia Fruit Logistica. “These high-quality, consistent products will provide clients with strong competitive differentiation,” the company says. “We hope to help brands comprehensively reach end consumers nationwide, while also enhancing the recognition and influence of international fruit brands in the Chinese market.”

Well-Pack

Established in 2006, Well-Pack serves a growing customer base in the fields of electronics, agrochemicals, cosmetics, food and beverage, and fresh produce packaging, both domestically and globally. At this year’s Asia Fruit Logistica, the company will primarily promote its fresh-keeping modified atmosphere packaging bags for fruits and vegetables. The specially designed ethylene-absorbing film effectively slows down the deterioration and decay of fruit and vegetables by absorbing the concentration of ethylene released during transport or storage, thereby extending their shelf-life.

Well-Pack says Asia Fruit Logistica provides a platform for the company’s original vision – ”reducing resource waste, minimising environmental damage, and contributing to the sustainable growth of the earth” – which it plans to showcase to a global audience at the event.

SPM Biosciences (Beijing)

SPM Biosciences (Beijing) is a fresh preservation specialist. The company will promote its 1-MCP powder, tablet, sachet and fresh-keeping card and other products at the show. In addition to its post-harvest solutions, SPM has also developed pre-harvest products in recent years with great feedback following field testing. The company believes they will be in demand among fruit growers around the world. For SPM, Asia Fruit Logistica provides the team a good opportunity to meet with a large number of companies that focus on the Asia market.

BoBen Environmental Control

BoBen Environmental Control is a Chinese company that provides post-harvest quality solutions. Over the past decade, it has focused on post-harvest management of fruit and vegetables, food factory design, and cold chain logistics EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) services. BoBen has formed a strategic partnership with the quality testing company ACC and jointly operates the Sanya Yazhou Bay Tropical Freshness Application Research Laboratory with The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.

This collaboration links post-harvest preservation management practices to develop localised and customised post-harvest solutions. The laboratory, spanning over 6,00m2, has become one of the world’s largest research centres on tropical post-harvest applications, providing optimal post-harvest quality solutions for fruit and vegetables.