MACView - Ethylene Postharvest Analyser

Postharvest monitoring
Ethylene (ISO-name ethene), is a plant hormone that is produced by trees, plants, vegetables, fruit, flowers and tulip bulbs. Several cultivars of these vegetations are extremely sensitive for the presence of ethylene in air. Ethylene cause a trigger of ripening and is thus a stress-hormone that can cause irreversible damage to the stored product. Monitoring of ethylene gives information about ethylene production. This information can prevent unexpected rising of ethylene levels that are higher then the harmfull level that a product can handle. The MACView®-Ethylene Postharvest Analyser is a helpfull instrument that helps interpreting what has happened during the storage of your valuable product.

The markets that have direct advantage of the MACView®-Ethylene Postharvest Analyser are fruit producers (growers), storage facilities,
distributors, flower growers, greenhouse owners and research laboratories.

Most customers that use the MACView®-Ethylene Postharvest Analyser says that the value of the instrument is that you can see what happens with the product and that you got the feeling with the process. You will see things that you have never seen before and can relate the change in quality with situations that occur. To prevent rising ethylene, ventilation or scrubbing the ethylene is an important automatic coupling that can be made. Ethylene can be measured 24 hours a day and can be controlled by external (climate) computers. For example in storage cells for fruit, the ethylene can be reduced by scrubbing out the ethylene by filters. It gives on long term a better quality of fruit. An other application is ethylene dosing for potato storage. Dosing ethylene improves the quality of potatos. In several flower types very low levels of arround 50 ppb will damage the flowers. For example, roses or phalaenopsis are very sensitive, and any increase of ethylene must be avoided.