The banana industry is still the agricultural business driver in the Canary Islands. The numbers of this industry show, year after year, the great state it is in. One of the leading cooperatives in Tenerife dedicated to this industry is Coplacsil S.C.L., for which INGENUT, Industrial Engineering Company in Tenerife and the Canaries, has developed another service for their banana packaging facilities.

Banana packaging facilities

The cooperative, headquartered in Arona (Tenerife) and dedicated to packaging and processing, needed to expand the facilities dedicated to empty boxes because they installed an additional production line. Facing this need, INGENUT, Industrial Engineering Company in Tenerife and the Canaries, expanded the attic, as well as the whole automatic system that fed empty boxes to production.

Banana facilities maintenance

Coplacsil, dedicated to the banana industry for almost three decades, processes around 7,500 tonnes of bananas per year. It was born thanks to the drive of a few farmers to package bananas in the same area as their agricultural exploitations in the south of Tenerife. This industry is still doing good as, in the Canary Islands, a total of 400,000 tonnes of bananas is produced each year. In that sense, the island of Tenerife can brag of having the biggest production, with more than 42% of the total, followed by La Palma, with 34%, and Gran Canaria, with 22%. La Gomera, El Hierro and Lanzarote represent around 2%. The activity generated by the banana growing industry cannot be compared to any other agricultural subsector. This is because the weight of bananas in the economy of the Canary Islands influences related industries (cardboard industry, banana facilities maintenance, pallet manufacturers, machinery importation, etc.), as well the job positions it generates and the number of families that live off of these crops. Choose bananas from the Canary Islands!