Our story
Welcome to Crop's, where the fruit expertise grows
Crop’s started back in 1977 as a family-owned Belgian company. Decades later, we’re still the same, only bigger. You can find us all around the globe, growing the world's finest fruit and building communities in the places where we set our fields and factories.
Staying hands-on is how we’ve built our expertise and heritage. Rather than outsourcing our ingredients, we choose to grow them ourselves in close cooperation with thousands of farmers. We’ve discovered the best terroirs around the world and decided to locate our sustainable fields and factories there, working closely with the local experts.
Thorough knowledge of soils and ensuring biodiversity is how we make sure we grow the highest quality of fruit varieties selected for diverse applications within the food industry. Finally, we preserve fruit in its purest form: by flash-freezing it at peak ripeness within a very short time from harvesting, we can share fruit of a naturally perfect colour, taste and texture.
Thanks to the full control of our production and supply chain, we can easily point the places our fruit comes from. That’s important not just for the quality and the guarantee of seamless distribution. It’s also crucial for transparency of sourcing and fair relationships with the people we work with. In the sunny hills of Costa Rica, Moroccan plantations, fields at the heart of Serbian mountains and the Polish countryside, we feel at home. And that’s how we want everyone to feel about working with and for Crop’s.
As a producer of frozen fruit solutions ranging from single and mixed fruit, fruit purees, coulis and smoothie mixes, we respond to the needs of all food professionals and consumers. Our quality managers, in-house chefs and application experts analyse different fruit varieties and cut sizes to develop the best match for all kinds of applications, suited for demands of big-scale wholesale and industry specialists, as well as food professionals operating on a smaller or local scale.
Our fruit solutions, packaging and product formats are designed to give food professionals full confidence in the ingredients they use and to simplify the ways they use them.
All our know-how is set to help our clients grow, beyond limitations
Expert in growing and producing frozen fruit
5 fruit production units in the best terroirs
Expertise
From growing to knowing world's best fruit
We are the fruit experts on all levels. From growing fruit in our own fields, to technological excellence when it comes to processing and freezing it, we make sure that you get the highest quality. But it doesn't stop there. Crop's dedicated agronomists, R&D specialists and commercial team work on innovation and tailor-made solutions for any fruit question you may have. Have a taste of the possibilities.
The world of crops
Tracing every fruit back to our fields and factories
We grow our fruit in full sun and deliver it to you in full transparency.
Quality & Food safety
100% traceability
To make sure our fruit is handled with the best of care, we cultivate our own fruits on the best terroirs and we build longstanding and loyal partnerships with local growers. Furthermore we see to it that all work is carried out with respect for the environment. The quality & food safety of the fruit are determined by the presence of nutrients and absence of contamination. 100% of our productions sites and external partners' facilities are GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) certified. A fully traceable supply chain puts us in full control and gives us access to data and a journey of every product we offer.
At Crop’s we guarantee levels of pesticide residue and pathogenic bacteria, compliant with EU legislation on food safety. But we aim even higher. Our goal is to bring food from our fields to your fork, without any hazardous contamination at all.
from our fields to your fork
01.
Agronomy
& Cultivation
The Crop’s agronomists work with their (local) partners, always striving for quality, perfection and keeping sustainability in mind. They identify the perfect and resistant varieties and develop a precise drilling plan, to spread and synchronize the harvest. The seeds are sown according to precision techniques, such as GPS and sections steering. The agronomists use state-of-the-art technologies to map the characteristics of the soil and to enable more precise application of natural pesticides and fertilizers.
02.
Picked at
full ripeness
And processed within a very short time from harvesting.
03.
Quality control
at our production facility
Intake control on
- Sensory attributes
- Physical parameters (presence of core & skin,
brix, foreign bodies, ripeness) - Microbiological parameters
- Control of contaminants
04.
Freezing, packing & shipping
After freezing (individually quick frozen) and packing, the fruit is shipped in the most sustainable conditions. Temperatures are constantly registered with 2 temperature recorders, installed in front and at the back of the container and trailer.
05.
Second quality control
in Crop’s Ooigem
- Temperature registrations
- Brix, size, presence of skin, pits & core
- Presence of foreign bodies
- Physical parameters and taste
06.
Independent
laboratory
Next to internal quality controls, incoming and outgoing products are also regularly checked on microbiology by a certified independent laboratory.
07.
Delivery
last check
A last control takes place at
the moment of delivery according to the customer requirements.
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