SERVICES
Packaging Development & MAP
Packaging, along with a carefully managed cold chain, plays a key role in ensuring that your produce reaches consumers as fresh as possible. Perfecting your packaging system can help you gain a significant edge over your competitors.
Postharvest Hub possess extensive practical experience in packaging engineering, whether you are using MAP (modified atmosphere packaging) or not.
Understanding the physiology of the specific commodity and looking at the logistics involved from farm to fork allows Postharvest Hub to design and implement the ideal packaging alternative to maximize your return.
The demand for innovative packaging is greater than ever before. Consumers demand the convenience of prewashed and cut fruits and vegetables, while disruptors such as Amazon, Blue Apron and others are shaking up conventional wisdoms about how food is delivered. To meet these new challenges, engineers are developing sophisticated new machines and materials to ensure freshness all the way to consumers’ refrigerators.
Postharvest Hub, with both experience and fundamental knowledge in the fresh cut retail category, makes it a priority to keep up on the latest developments in order to recommend the best solution for each individual client.
Technology & Machines
Postharvest Hub strives to remove bottlenecks within your overall operations and identify flaws in machine design and processes that may compromise the quality of your product.
During his many years in the global postharvest industry, Shay Zeltzer has built an extensive network of engineers and other professionals on which he calls to assist in finding and implementing tailored solutions that increase your productivity, improve the quality of your delivered produce and maximize your return on investment.
Shay is passionate about what he does. He is a consummate professional in his approach and a gentlemen in respect to his interactions with people at all levels in any organization.
-- Don Stidham, Director BT9
Operations and Processes Audit
PostharvestHub, led by Shay Zeltzer, brings many years of experience and sensitive eye for operation pot-holes and inefficiencies in operations, freshness protection, produce handling and food safety enables him to conduct expert audits for high-investment operations, small family farms and Co-ops.
In audit visits PostharvestHub's specialists identify ways for the operation to improve. The resulting audit report presents the as-is situation, suggests the best scenario and presents practical ways to get there.
Operations that have successfully used PostharvestHub's audit service are growers, packers and distributors including Dole, Gourmet Trading, SunFed, VinEco, J&J Produce, Alpine Fresh, 2BFresh, GloriAnn (Prima Bella) and others.
Food Safety
Implementing certification programs to improve food safety is essential, but as anyone in the industry knows, certifications alone are not enough to fully prevent outbreaks of foodborne illnesses caused by harmful pathogens.
True food safety goes beyond paperwork. It requires a proactive approach—rigorous daily hygiene practices, clear protocols, traceability systems, and hands-on training for staff at every level of the operation. From the field to the packing house, prevention must be embedded in every stage of the process.
With many years of practical experience, PostharvestHub provides comprehensive, tailored solutions to help reduce microbiological risks and ensure that pathogenic bacteria don’t compromise your brand.
Sustainable Agriculture
The reality is that in most areas where crops are grown, water is scarce and the cost of fertilizer has increased. A successful producer is one who will be able to grow more using less. On another front, controlling pests and disease has become increasingly challenging as insects quickly develop resistance to existing pesticides.
Postharvest Hub employs novel production processes and their supporting technologies along with environmentally stable pest control methods to cut water usage, reduce fertilizer application and control insect damage while increasing crop yield and profitability.
Shay is a breadth of knowledge, reputable, reliable, and a great person all-around.
-- Matt Mandel, VP Operations SunFed
Quality Control and Quality Assurance Staff Training for Postharvest Excellence
Empowering your frontline team to protect your product and reputation.
At PostharvestHub, we believe that the people on the ground make or break postharvest success. That’s why we offer tailor made training programs for quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) teams, packing house supervisors, and cold chain managers – all tailored to your crop, market, and logistical challenges.
What We Offer:
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Hands-on workshops in sorting, grading, sampling, and quality reporting.
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Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) customized to your export market requirements worldwide.
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Training in real-time decision making, including fruit rejection criteria, documentation, and traceability.
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Postharvest physiology basics – The various factors affecting your produce.
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Digital tools and visual aids to improve consistency in quality assessments.
Why Invest in Quality Team Training?
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Protect your brand
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Reduce rejections and claims at the destination.
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Improve uniformity across packing shifts and locations.
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Build internal capacity and minimize dependency on external inspectors.
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Increase the confidence of your buyers in your quality assurance process.
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Improve QC related communication internally and externally
From seasoned teams with many years of experience to first-time packers, we've trained professionals across the globe, delivering measurable improvements in operations and building a shared quality language that becomes part of our customers’ DNA.
Empower your team to elevate your brand and drive postharvest excellence.
Contact us now for a customized training plan.
Training Programs in Postharvest and Storage Management
Empowering teams across all levels, from management to the packing house personnel and growers.
At PostharvestHub, we offer practical, science-based training programs designed to upgrade the knowledge and capabilities of managers, supervisors, operational teams, and general workers involved in postharvest handling and cold storage.
Whether you’re managing a high-volume export operation or a local packing house, your team’s understanding of fruit's general and specific requirements, temperature sensitivity, and process control is key to maintaining quality and reducing loss.
Our Training Programs Cover:
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Harvest and fruit receiving protocols: what to check, when, and why.
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Postharvest physiology essentials: respiration, moisture loss, chilling injury, ethylene effects.
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Storage design and cold chain management: temperature zones, airflow, packaging compatibility.
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Daily QC routines: sorting standards, sampling, documentation, hygiene, and compliance.
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Roles and responsibilities: who decides, who monitors, and how to develop accountability.
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Problem-solving in real time: identifying causes of softening, mold, internal breakdown, or shriveling.
Why Choose Postharvest Hub?
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Training adapted to your crop, infrastructure, and destination market.
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Delivered on-site or online, with multilingual support as may needed.
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Designed by experts with global, hands-on, proven record.
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Measurable results - Reduce loss, improve consistency, boost team confidence, strengthening your brand.