WECO partners with Azcaval to provide weighing and filling machines for the blueberry industry in the US and Mexico

WECO is pleased to announce that we have created a partnership with Azcaval Packaging Engineering of Seville, Spain, to provide the blueberry industry with state-of-the-art weighing and filling machines. WECO will sell and service the new weighing and filling machines with our current and expanded service team from our eight US service facilities strategically located near each berry growing region.

“WECO will provide the same level of service that our customers have come to expect,” said Eric Horner, vice president of WECO. “Our customers have been asking us for the past few seasons to provide an end-to-end sorting and packing solution, and by adding the Azcaval w/f machine, we are one step closer. WECO's engineering team will continue to innovate and develop our optical sorting lines. The service team will support our customers at every step of the process.

Azcaval is a five year old engineering and manufacturing company based in Seville, Spain. President and founder Enrique Azcarate said: “Our weigh and fill machines, along with an innovative vacuum defroster and easy-to-operate software, will provide the speed, accuracy and reliability that blueberry packers need during harvest. With the push of a button, the machine automatically adjusts to pre-programmed container sizes, minimizing changeover time. Our engineering team has gone to great lengths to provide the best weigh and fill machine available, and we will never stop innovating.”

Eric Horner said: “After meeting Enrique and discussing the opportunity and his experience with him, it was an easy decision. Enrique has the passion that one looks for when building a partnership. Azcaval already has blueberry packing experience working with our South American partner, Pack-Man LTDA. President Bernardo Moltedo and his sales team officially partnered earlier this year and introduced the next generation of the lower drop w/f machine to Chile and Peru with great success.

For more information on WECO and Azcaval, please contact a regional sales manager.

About WECO

With over 30 years of optical color and sorting experience, California-based WECO (Woodside Electronics Corporation) is a world leader in our industry. We have been designing, manufacturing and servicing electronic sorters for more than three decades, and thousands of our units are deployed around the world. WECO equipment serves various sectors of fruit and nut processing: sorting of tomatoes in the harvester, in-line sorting and drying of nuts, humidity monitoring in the hop oven, and sorting of small fruits of blueberries, olives, cherries from coffee and wine grapes.

About Duravant

Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL, Duravant is a global engineering equipment company with manufacturing, sales and service facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Through its portfolio of operating companies, Duravant offers trusted end-to-end process solutions for customers and partners through expertise in engineering and integration, project management and operational excellence. With sales distribution and service networks around the world, they provide immediate and lifetime after-sales support to all markets they serve in the food processing, packaging and material handling industries. Duravant's market leading brands are synonymous with innovation, durability and reliability. For more information, visit www.duravant.com.

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Eric horner

eric@wecotek.com

www.wecotek.com