Supply Chain
Supply Chain
Our research team is focused on post-harvest activities targeted at understanding and improving the quality of fruit and vegetables while in storage and during transit to markets.
The team investigates different storage approaches such as modified atmosphere and ethylene management techniques.
The research is undertaken both in commercial cool stores that reflect normal packhouse operating conditions and a number of smaller purpose bult cool rooms where proof of concept trials can be undertaken in tightly controlled storage conditions.

Our equipment and facilities including access to commercially run coolstores enable us to replicate real world supply chain conditions.
Test technologies to enhance storage life of kiwifruit, for example through modified atmosphere packaging and ethylene management
