OUR BUSINESS
THE COMPANY
NURSERY
Our citric nursery produces healthy quality controlled plants used in our plantations. They are unique for its agro-ecological characteristics.
The annual production is 100,000 plants for self-consumption, certified by the INASE (The body responsible for implementing the Law on Seeds and Phytogenetic Creations in the Republic of Argentina).
PLANTATION
We have planted 4,000 hectares distributed in the best areas of the foothill in Tucumán. 40% of plants are under 7 years of age and the remaining 60% are in full production. The average age of the lemon trees is 12 years.
45% of the planted area has localised irrigation.
Each one of them thrive under the watchful eye of our experts, applying international standards of production.
100% of our orchards are certified under the international quality standards.
PACKING HOUSE
The lemon packing plant has 17.000 square meters covered and is located on a plot of 12 hectares. It is equipped with modern machinery that allow to adjust the production to the demand of each customer. The production capacity of fresh fruit is 40,000 tons annually.
It has degreening chambers and cold storage facilities in 7.650 cubic meters, assuring an optimum and effective quality of the product.
It also has two pre-sorting lines of 44 tons per hour each and two independent packing lines: a conventional one of 22 pallets per hour production and another of 10 pallets per hour, suitable only for the production of no treatment post-harvest fruit.
INDUSTRY
Our Industrial Plant is located in an area of 15 hectares, surrounded by 200 hectares of lemon orchards. It is equipped with the most modern technology for extraction of essential oil, lemon juice and dehydrated peel.
Our processing capacity is 70 tons of fruit per hour, achieveing to process up to 1.400 tons per day and 210.000 tons in a harvest season.
We have 7 oil extractors, 17 juice extractors, evaporation capacity of 30,000 lts per hour and cold storage facilities with a total capacity of 4,000 tons of concentrated juice (cloudy and clarified).
Juices can be packaged in a wide range of containers: 16 liters, traditional 220-liter drums and bins of 1,000-liter capacity.
Juices can be packaged in a wide range of containers: 16 liters, traditional 220-liter drums and bins of 1,000-liter capacity.
We dry the peel in a different location situated 50 km from the plant, in the middle of a sugar cane plantation. The effluent from dehydrated peel is used to irrigate these ecologically sustainable plantations of over 3,000 hectares.
PLANTATION
In the province of San Juan, the company owns 175 hectares, 35 of them covered with an anti-hail mesh, wind and sun protection.
White seedless table grape (Imperial Seedless) and red grapes (Red Globe) are our main production. The Flame and Black Seedless varieties complete our production.
Pressurized system using meltwater irrigates three fields, located in an early harvest area in the Tulum Valley at the foot of the pre Andes Mountains.
The result is the production of 2,500,000 kg of table grapes intended to the international and regional market, as well as raisins.
PACKING HOUSE
It is a modern packing plant with an area of 6,200 square meters, equipped with high technology: humification chamber, packing lines, pre-cold tunnels and cold storage facilities.
The packing production capacity is 60,000 kg a day packed in boxes of 8.2 kg., 4.5 kg., and 5 kg. (In Carry Bag and Clamshell packaging).
The cold storage capacity is 400 tons.
PLANTATION
Irrigated plantations of 140 hectares with a predominance of pear cultivation, including the William’s, Packham’s Triumph and D’Anjou varieties, show the excellent response to the ecosystem of these type of fruit trees.
We also grow Red Delicious and Granny Smith apple varieties.
PACKING HOUSE
The packing house of 7,000 square meters (three packing lines, two of them electronic and one conventional) allows selecting different qualities and sizes according to the established parameters. It has a processing capacity of 4,000 tons per year.
We count with five cold tunnels of 42 pallets each and cold storage facility with a capacity of 4,000 tons that allow storing productions to commercialize throughout the year.