Carina West - Processing Operations
Site Information
- Site occupies 100 hectares of land
- Commissioned in 2008 at a cost of $40 million
- Hulling and Shelling capacity is 22,000mt (6 months)
- 36 hectares of stock pad capacity (limestone for product storage)
- Climate controlled warehouse
- Laboratory, Administration / Amenities complex
- 45,000mt hull storage area
- ALMADS customised stock control & traceability system
- Approx. 120 employees during peak season
Storage
- Each load received is assigned a barcoded huller ticket at the weighbridge
- KCI Elevator is used to reduced damage
- All piles are segregated at all times by farm lot for traceability
- All piles are covered prior to predicted rain events
- Fumigation is used for long term storage as needed
Hulling and Shelling
- Hull and shell capacity of 10t/hr (kernel weight)
- First sorter is a Satake colour sorter which removes any mould and foreign material
- Second sorter is a Best Helius laser sorter which removes splits, brokens, insect damage, mould
- All product is metal detected, sorted, sized and packed into one tonne bins
- All bins are QA tested and then stored in the warehouse
- The facility has the capacity to process ‘inshell’ which is diverted from the hulling plant to a segregated bank of colour sorters before being packed into 50lb bags
Sorting and Packing
- There are 2 colour sorters in the Packing Shed
- The packing line has a capacity of 6t – 10t/hr depending on carton/bag size
- Pack sizes are: 5kg – 2.68kg cartons, 500kg – 1000kg bulk bags
- The packing line is fully automated
- Carton erector, filling, metal detection and robot pallet stacking
- The bulk bag line fills the bags to a required weight and then palletised
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Product is then pasteurised before being dispatched
Warehouse
- All kernel and finished goods are stored in a climate controlled Warehouse between 16 & 18 degrees Celsius
- This helps with keeping the product fresh, and also breaks the life cycle of any infestation (moths)
- The Warehouse has a capacity of 13,000 bins and 300 pallets of finished goods
Fumigation
- Fumigation chambers have a capacity of 145 bins each
- Chambers can fumigate kernel bins and finished goods
- Profume is used to fumigate the product, this is transferred into the chambers using a state of the art automated system
Company Certifications
Select Harvests is committed to maintaining the very best standards of producing, processing and distributing almonds.
AQIS Certificate
SQF20219
HALAL Certificate
HALAL GSO Certificate
KOSHER Certificate
UNILEVER Sustainable Supplier Diploma
HACCP Certificate
Quality and Food Safety
