Cultivation practice:

• No artificial irrigation required for cultivation
• Short distances between fields and processing factory, lower CO2 footprint
• Cultivation to harvest takes approx. 14 months

Resource-saving processing & circular economy

• Pineapple cleaning with treated rainwater
• 25% of the electricity and 95% of the heat required for drying ovens from our own biomass production
• Non-recyclable peel parts are used as fuel
• Strictly controlled quality standards for the products
• Pineapple peel composting as fertilizer for the fields
• Processing the stalk into pineapple flour

Social responsibility

• Support for local small farmers with 1-3 hectares of land
• Added value and job guarantee through purchase guarantee from Seeberger
• Transportation and meals during working hours for employees
• Company-owned kindergartens and preschools
• Further training opportunities in various areas, including cooperation with universities and special support programs

The processing methods on site have been optimised so that every resource can be used or reused as efficiently as possible. Treated rainwater is used to clean the pineapples, helping to conserve valuable water resources.

The outside of the fruit matters too: pineapple peel residues are fermented into biogas, which is used to generate electricity and heat. This can cover 25% of the electricity demand and 95% of the heat demand of the drying ovens. Even peel parts that cannot be used in any other way are put to good use as fuel. The hard pineapple core is processed into pineapple flour, which can be used as a separating agent in food production. This enables us to keep environmental impacts as low as possible while maximising the efficiency of our production processes.