Macfrut Innovation Oscars awarded

The ceremony was one of the most awaited events at the international fruit and vegetable exhibition, which took place from 24 to 26 September at the Fiera Cesena premises. The awards went to novelties developed for the fruit and vegetable supply chain, and were divided into four categories defined by a professional jury. A further Oscar was assigned based on the visitors’ votes.
Here is the winners list: The winner in the packaging category is the multi-variety Christmas package realised by the VOG Consortium for Marlene apples. For the machineries and sorting-packaging technologies category, the award went to Turatti with its strawberry capper Frazer model, while the company Gaiago was voted the best in the logistics and services category with its “Soleil’ Meilleur”. The winner in the seeds and fruit and vegetables category is San Lidano with “Orti Laziali”. Finally, the visitors who attended the 3-day Macfrut edition chose Ortoromi with its “Insal’Arte” as their special winner.

In 2014, Macfrut hosted an increased number of visitors and exhibitors, and is now working on the new project that is being developed for Macfrut International 2015. One of the most surprising announcements at this year's edition was the statement of President of Cesena Fiera Mr. Domenico Scarpellini, who announced that this edition (the 31st since Macfrut was first launched) will be the last one under his management: “This is going to be my last Macfrut edition. Working at Macfrut has been a deeply rewarding experience, both at the professional and at the personal level. I wish to thank all my colleagues of the board of directors, as well as all employees. One of our goals has always been to make Macfrut as efficient and well-functioning as possible: it was a joint enterprise, to which we all contributed. I want to express all my wishes to my expected successor”.

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