VOG Products, the innovative fruit processing company from Trentino-South Tyrol, is known for its apple juices and purées. The company now offers an even broader spectrum of healthy natural products, primarily targeting the baked goods and sweets industries, alongside the vinegar industry.
Thanks to continuous investment in new technologies and work on innovations, VOG Products successfully develops customer-specific solutions and products. “As experts in apple processing, we intensively explore the spectrum of product innovations that we can use to satisfy our customers’ specific needs even better or address new customer segments,” explained Christoph Tappeiner, CEO of VOG Products.
This year, the fruit processing company headquartered in Laives (South Tyrol – Südtirol) produced a base for apple vinegar (cider) for the first time. After all, a current development in the market shows that the trend is moving from balsamic vinegar towards apple vinegar. For apple vinegar, VOG Products has special tanks for fermentation. Concentrate and juice from high-quality raw goods are used as base for the cider that is further processed by the vinegar industry.
Another new addition to the VOG Products assortment: apple flour and dried apples in the form of rings or cubes – as our customers wish – from various apple varieties. With these products, VOG Products primarily targets the baked goods and sweets industries, as well as granola producers and suppliers of fruit preparations.
The continuous availability of premium raw goods, traceability and the highest quality and safety standards are important components of VOG Products’ recipe for success. At the same time, the fruit processing company established in 1967 values innovation and further development highly. VOG Products now belongs to 4 producers’ organisations from South Tyrol and Trentino plus 18 cooperatives from South Tyrol with a total of around 10,000 members.
Practical bag-in-box
VOG Products provides healthy, safe and high-quality products that are individually adapted to customer requirements and wishes. That principally applies to the company’s products, but includes packaging as well.
VOG Products recently acquired an aseptic filling plant for small containers (bag-in-box). After all, bakeries, pastry shops, ice cream manufacturers, catering companies, cafeterias and many others often require small packages in order to produce desserts, ice cream or other products and dishes based on fruit.
After successfully completed tests and product validations, VOG Products launched the first filling processes in late summer of this year. Direct juice, concentrate, purée or chunky products can now be filled into small containers of 3 to 25 kg.
Alongside apples, VOG Products processes and refines pears, kiwi, peaches and apricots for filling the small containers. Depending on customer requirements, all products are available from integrated production or organic cultivation, monovarietal or combined.
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