Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 15 2017 | Page 20

Fresh Vegetable Peeling, Hungary Fevita Hungary is one of the its products meet strict food safety that we efficiently process the fresh country’s largest frozen food and quality standards. produce arriving onto our production producers and a global exporter, with 200 employees processing more Fevita prides itself on high- line, such as sweetcorn, peas, beans, carrots, parsnips and potatoes. than 32,000tn of vegetables every quality and locally sourced year. produce, continuously improving from analysing and removing defects its processing and dedication to to peeling, cleaning and dicing. Established in 1967, the company has a 22% market share domestically customer satisfaction. Processing could mean anything “Our ambition is to become a global and has built a network of customers PEELING SOLUTION AT FULL exporter to hundreds of markets and across 20 markets including CAPACITY to do that we knew we needed to Germany, Israel, and Japan. Project engineer at Fevita Hungary Fevita’s high-profile customers Peter Hegyi says: “We have been include international supermarket processing high-quality vegetables chains Lidl, Aldi, and Tesco, as well and fruits for 50 years and have as Hungarian retailers Spar, Co-op, and CBA. The company is expanding into more markets every year, so it is becoming increasingly important that 20 FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk firmly established ourselves as a increase our capacity. The processing line was running smoothly but had reached its full capacity just as we saw rising demand for carrots and many of our other products. leading brand. “To achieve our objectives, we “It’s very important for our business with a partner organization that looked for a long-term investment