Belgium: "Cucumber growers would be crazy not to install the crop belt system"
The firm Alubo installed an internal transport system with harvest belt at the firm Van der Linden in Oud-Beijerland, Holland a few years ago. This saved significantly in labour at the company. Employees walk through the various crop paths, behind a small harvest cart. There is no more lifting boxes or multiple harvest carts in the rows. All they have to do is put the cucumbers down in front of them, on their harvest cart's conveyor belt. 
"You do it without looking eventually. You don't have to watch where you're putting the cucumber any more, like you had to when putting them into boxes. You can concentrate on the next fruit.", says Floris van der Linden. The belt takes the harvested cucumber down slowly. There they go onto a transport belt under the hanging gutter. The fruits are then taken to the sorting machine by transport belt.
The crop belt system at Van der Linden, developed by Alubo, is for the better part a combination of existing systems, which have all proven their worth long ago. The harvest cart has been built especially for cucumber growing with a feeding belt to the conveyor belt under the gutter. The harvest cart is built so two empty crates can also be put on it, to put cutt and curved cucumbers in immediately. This then doesn't have to be done by the sorting machine.
"On average we prepare 700 cucumbers per man/ hour, sorting and packing included, according to Floris van der Linden. Van der Linden has calculated that he's saving 3 Euro per year per square meter. This means the investment in the crop harvest belt will easily pay for its self.
Contact:
Herman De Keyzer
Alubo NV
Tel: +32 15 31 69 49
Fax +32 15 32 18 02
www.alubo.be
Publication date: 6/8/2010
Author: Nichola Watson
Copyright: www.freshplaza.com
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