AgroFresh Announces Implementation of FreshCloud™ Quality Inspection by Westfalia Fruit to Fight Food Waste
23 February 2022 - 2:34AM
AgroFresh Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: AGFS), a global AgTech leader in
produce freshness solutions devoted to fighting food loss and
waste, today announced that Westfalia Fruit, a leading
multinational supplier of fresh fruit to international markets,
will utilize FreshCloud at its Westfalia Fruit USA operation
transforming its quality management systems to support the largest
avocado-growing footprint in the world.
FreshCloud Quality Inspection is AgroFresh’s proprietary
cloud-based platform that digitizes the formerly manual quality
control process by capturing, organizing, and analyzing quality
metrics in real time. With all necessary inspections and actions
conducted on mobile devices, FreshCloud will allow Westfalia to
track and scorecard the quality metrics of their avocados
instantly, streamlining and providing complete visibility to the
fruit-quality inspection process. Ultimately helping to reduce food
waste by lowering rejections and improving the consistency of the
avocados that flow through Westfalia’s site.
“At AgroFresh, we’re honored to be collaborating with global
leaders like the team at Westfalia Fruit to put a truly innovative
and powerful agriculture technology solution directly to work,”
said Kim Bui, Global Head of FreshCloud for AgroFresh. “FreshCloud
Quality Inspection provides transparency and collaboration from
field to market, while moving quality-control (QC) inspection to
the digital age. Our platform combines AI and digital insights to
help our customers to make real-time decisions to reduce food
waste, manage supply chain challenges and ultimately deliver the
highest quality and sustainable produce to the world’s
markets.”
“We are proud to work together with a company that puts the
importance of sustainability at the forefront of their work, just
as we do at Westfalia Fruit,” said Ryan Larkan, Director of Food
Safety and Compliance at Westfalia Fruit USA. “Our alignment with
AgroFresh and the implementation of FreshCloud into our operation
shows the industry at large our dedication to providing the highest
quality product to our consumers.”
The FreshCloud digital service platform is backed by AgroFresh’s
more than 40 years of post-harvest expertise. FreshCloud Quality
Inspection is part of AgroFresh’s FreshCloud suite of digital
monitoring and analytics tools that use machine learning to enable
advancements in supply chain sustainability and AgTech innovation.
Other digital solutions include FreshCloud HarvestView fruit
maturity assessment and orchard management tool that captures
pre-harvest quality metrics.
To learn more about FreshCloud, watch this
video and connect with us at AgroFresh.com.
About AgroFresh
AgroFresh (Nasdaq: AGFS) is an AgTech innovator and global
leader with a mission to prevent food loss/waste and conserve the
planet’s resources by providing a range of science-based solutions,
data-driven digital technologies and high-touch customer services.
AgroFresh supports growers, packers and retailers with solutions
across the food supply chain to enhance the quality and extend the
shelf life of fresh produce. The AgroFresh organization has 40
years of post-harvest experience across a broad range of crops,
including revolutionizing the apple industry with the SmartFresh™
Quality System for more than 20 years. This is powered by a
comprehensive portfolio that includes plant-based coatings,
equipment and proprietary solutions that help improve the freshness
supply chain from harvest to the home. Visit agrofresh.com to learn
more.
About Westfalia Fruit USA
Established over 85 years ago, Westfalia Fruit USA is a global,
vertically integrated company and market leader in growing,
ripening, processing, shipping and distributing the product.
The company is committed to sustainability by developing a thorough
strategy, which prioritizes the environment, local economies, and
most importantly, their people. Westfalia Fruit USA is devoted to
producing safe, high-quality food whilst ensuring the sustainable
and responsible management of its bio-resources, communities and
environment in which they operate. The company is the global leader
in varietal and root stock development, protecting the produce
industry, now and for the future. To learn more about Westfalia
Fruit USA, visit www.westfaliafruit.com/.
Media Relations Contact
Michael Wolfe, (475) 747-8015, Michael.Wolfe@icrinc.com
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