Packing

From orchard to box, prepared with care.

Zonnehaven’s vertically integrated farming and packing model ensures that fruit moves seamlessly from orchard to packhouse, maintaining quality, traceability and freshness at every stage. Our shareholder producers operate advanced packing facilities with integrated cooling and controlled atmosphere (CA) storage systems that allow fruit to be handled, packed and stored under optimal conditions. These capabilities support efficient post-harvest management, extend shelf life and enable the consistent delivery of premium fruit to global markets within carefully managed supply windows.

Storage and cooling infrastructure

Zonnehaven’s vertically integrated farming and packing model ensures that fruit moves seamlessly from orchard to packhouse, maintaining quality, traceability and freshness at every stage. Our shareholder producers operate advanced packing facilities with integrated cooling and controlled atmosphere (CA) storage systems that allow fruit to be handled, packed and stored under optimal conditions. These capabilities support efficient post-harvest management, extend shelf life and enable the consistent delivery of premium fruit to global markets within carefully managed supply windows.

DOORNKRAAL AGRI

RA (Regular Atmosphere): 5000 bins
CA (Controlled Atmosphere): 25 000 bins
DCA (Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere): 16 000 bins

HOWBILL FARMING

5 Regular Atmosphere (RA) rooms for bin pre-cooling and pallet cooling of packed product: 11 376 bins
34 Controlled Atmosphere (CA) rooms
Total bin storage capacity: 43 130 bins

KALOS FARMING

Five rooms constructed to basic atmosphere standards and operated under RA conditions
Four RA rooms with a capacity of 1 200 bins each
One smaller room primarily used for holding half pallets

Packing capacity and infrastructure

DOORNKRAAL AGRI

Two packing lines:

Apple Packline: 8 lane cup sizer with Ellips quality and colour grading
Pear/Apple packline: 6 lane cup sizer with Ellips colour grading

HOWBILL FARMING

Three packing lines each with distinct capabilities

KALOS FARMING

Two packing lines:

Lynx packing line (cup sizer) with a packing capacity of 3.5 to 5 tonnes per hour
Packman packing line with a packing capacity of 5 to 9 tonnes per hour