UTE Miatech

30/01/2023

Interesting exercise...

Produce cartons... Huge debates for donkey years. Continuous discussions... I have a nice exercise for you! Call in your management people responsible for…

03/06/2021

My latest article on LinkedIn... Read it, it will open your eyes.

Some twenty-five years back, I made a statement that to date still reverberates in the industry: “If you put s**t in a cold room you get cold s**t out.” That statement is still valid, but people do not seem to understand the full meaning of it.

26/03/2020

Dynamic Fruit Respiration – DFR measures the respiration ratios of fruit and vegetables (O2 consumption and CO2 production). A simple calculation shows whether the oxygen level in the cold store is too high or too low, so that immediate action can be taken.

26/02/2020

Which direction do you, and in fact the industry as a whole, are going or want to go with your harvest(s) in the future? You grow the best possible quality fruit in your orchard, that’s 95% of your work done. That still leaves 5% do be done.

28/01/2020

Table Grapes suffer water loss after harvest. Green stems are our trademark. UTE: Tried. Tested. Proven. Simple. (www.umhwebo.com)

The water loss in table grapes that occurs during postharvest handling can lead to dry stem, stem browning, berry shatter, and wilting and shriveling of the fruit. These are the symptoms of water loss from grapes: First to appear are shriveled stems that usually become brittle and break easily when

27/01/2020

Must read...

I came across this very interesting statement recently: “Science is the foundation of progression. There is no substitute for generating knowledge.

20/01/2020

Selling fruit and especially Table Grapes into China is somewhat of a daunting task for all countries around the world. This process is governed by an “In Transit Handling Protocol” called HP34G.

08/01/2020

Nature never ever breaks her own laws, that's a fact, whether you like or not. Talk to us, we are the only focused Applied Post harvest Specialists on the continent and are of course willing to share our knowledge worldwide! www.umhwebo.com

Early May, I was invited by HEIA in Egypt to come and talk on Post harvest technologies on what to do to preserve the quality of the excellent Egyptian fruit after harvest. This visit was so well received that the farms started talking between each other and asked the Horticultural Export Improvemen

20/12/2019

The abovementioned phrase is not from us but from Leonardo da Vinci, who at the time did a lot of things but applied postharvest technologies were not one of them. But what he said is true and especially applies here.

03/12/2019

Tried. Tested. Proven. Simple. UTE:

Enough about ruffling feathers. There is no “I” in TEAM, and often people forget this.

26/11/2019

Fruit Carton Design a different kettle of fish...

So apparently, we ruffle feathers by showing the industry what is happening in real life in the postharvest treatment trajectory. Let’s tackle another issue and scrum it out, seeing that our Springboks are good at that… Fruit cartons and airflow principles.

26/11/2019

So apparently, we ruffle feathers by showing the industry what is happening in real life in the postharvest treatment trajectory. Some pictures, of which I have many over the years, of the dry stem with table grapes in a real-time situation on the supermarket shelves, sparked some reactions.