CARZALIA VALLEY PRODUCE INSTALLS STATE OF THE ART COMPAC SORTER

Columbus, NM - Carzalia Valley Produce, home of the “Carzalia Sweet” onion, continues their commitment to improving the sweet onion image and consumers’ satisfaction with the purchase and installation of the Compac sorting system. This shift from mechanical to computerized equipment will insure our customers and the end consumer with the best quality of “Carzalia Sweet” onion.

Compac’s InVision 5000 sorting technology uses cameras and computers with color recognition software to identify color and shape of the onion, grading it accordingly. This sorter will achieve improved sizing accuracy by use of average equatorial diameter measurements. The electronic accuracy results in much finer grading parameters than conventional screen sizers, increasing the accuracy of the onion sizing and bag weights.

Carzalia Valley Produce’s sorter will be the first of its kind in New Mexico and will incorporate a 6-lane high speed sorter with 20 drops, 2100 bags per hour. “Our new sorter will handle the onions as if they were peaches, not bruising or damaging the onion in any way, insuring consistent quality and most important, consumer satisfaction,” Bill Johnson, president of Carzalia Valley Produce. “It will also improve our accuracy in packing weights, providing our customers with a very consistent product.”

Carzalia Valley Produce has made a commitment to the sweet onion industry to keep pace of the ever-changing produce world while basing all decisions on the sound, family-oriented values used to establish this farm over four generations ago. Carzalia Valley Produce has been supplying consumers with a superior onion since 1953 and have demonstrated their ethics and responsibility to the produce industry. From this obligation to the industry, the “Carzalia Sweet” was born. The “Carzalia Sweet” season runs from June through September, grown only in the high deserts of New Mexico. The “Carzalia Sweet” is sold exclusively by Griffin Holder, (800) 525-5397. Other produce grown by Carzalia Valley Produce includes green chile, watermelons, and pumpkins.

For additional information contact Bill Johnson at (505) 531-2219 or Chaddy Robinson at (505) 647-4852.