Month: October 2013

Recently Tom and Mark visited Almond growing areas of California to look at Hulling and Shelling facilities and research options to improve the operation at Laragon.  Some excellent ideas on pre hulling, waste removal as well as computerised sorting were observed.  With a record season of production tonnes in 2013, new ways of improving throughput, whilst maintaining the highest quality […]

2013 proved to be the greatest tonnage and longest processing season Laragon has ever completed.  Just under 10,000 tonnes of almond kernels were hulled/shelled by early September.  Ideally, Laragon would like all processing to be completed by the end of July each season, to support higher quality outcomes.  This year significant amounts of high moisture hulls slowed the process down […]