Today, with the help of producers and traders, it is easier to place top quality products in demanding markets, such as: United States, Europe and Asia.
Get rid of the scarring problems that lead to fruit rejection, protect your product during transportation and make sure reduced harvest is lowered, obtaining significant improvement in fruit formation and ratio increase.
In Prodex, we manufacture polyethylene foam with adequate texture, density and thickness enabling fruit protection. Our closed cell polyethylene foam avoids scarring during the growth stage, bruising during the harvest process and latex stains. Thanks to its versatility, we are able to attain various applications in terms of shape, thickness and colors that adjust to the multiple needs of the banana sector.
Early Protection Sheets
Bib sheet or nun’s collar
Tray Protection Sheet
Treated Mini Discs
Special Packaging
Early Protection Sheets
Low thickness sheet, designed to protect the fruit, from its early development stage. It is placed in the second week and removed once in the packaging site.
- Improves fruit formation
- Increases weight by microclimate
- Reduces Early Scarring up to 95%
- Lowers harvest time and reduced harvest
- Significantly increase the ratio
Bib sheet or nun’s collar
Polyethylene bib sheet in different thicknesses, with or without lining. It is placed in the harvest stage, protecting the fruit during its transportation to the packaging site.
Tray Protection Sheet
Smooth polyethylene sheet adapted to tray’s shape protects fruit from damage caused by rubbing or friction on tray’s rough surface during the packaging process.
Treated Mini Discs
Discs made of 100% polyethylene green foam, treated with BAI (Botanical Active Ingredient) that protect the banana bunch from its development to its harvest.
OAI: ORGANIC ACTIVE INGREDIENT
Botanical substances made from plant extracts such as capsaicin, allicin and/or eugenol dissolved in a base of soybean oil.
These products cause repellency, disorientation and hypersensitivity in insects, reducing and eliminating their attacks on the fruit.
Treated Mini Discs with OAI for Pest Control
| Common Name | Scientific name |
| Flower thrip | Frankiniella párvula |
| Red rust | Chaetanotphohrips sp. |
| Mealybug | Pesudococcus elisae |
| Pink scavenger worm | Pyroderces rileyi |
| Stingless bee | Trigona sp. |
| Fruit and leaf scarring beetle | Colaspis hypochlora |
| Pink scavenger worm | Pyrodercis rilleyi |
| Aphids | Pentalonia nigronervosa |
| Sooty mold | Capnodium sp. |
Advantages
- Reduces fruit loss from attacks by thrips, mealybugs, scales, wasps, etc.
- It protects the bunch throughout its development.
- Prevents the pass of insects that reach the first bunches, intermediate and lower parts.
- Prevents the entrance of insects from transportation of neighboring leaves, by air and through other vectors.
Why use the treated mini discs?
Because during the entire development stage, the fruit is subject to constant attacks from various pests, such as:
| Thrips | Bees |
| Scales | Worms |
| Mealybugs | Wasps |
| Mites | Saprophytic fungi |
Special Packaging
As manufacturer’s in the region, our closeness to the banana sector has allowed us to know the plantations, their needs regarding fruit protection, thus becoming a company that offers a wide variety of products to meet the market’s specific needs.
