VICENTE TRAPANI SA Argentina

Agricultural Production The production center and administration are located in Los Nogales, Tucuman, the heart of the citric area. The company was founded in 1935. It started like a small citric farmstead, and it managed to strengthen a company devoted to the integral exploitation of the lemon, achieving international importance. The company currently has 1,800 hectares grown with lemons, and this figure is increasing at an annual rate of 4 percent. The cultural techniques used are friendly to the environment. Industrial Production The industrial plant has an annual capacity of industrial processing established in 100,000 tons of lemon. The products Essential Lemon Oil, Concentrated Juice, Dehydrated Lemon Peel and by- products. 95% of this production is for export, the rest being traded in the domestic market. The main markets abroad are: USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Japan and Israel. Selected fresh lemons. The company has a modern packing line totally automatized and computer controlled with an annual capacity of 45,000 tons of fruit packed (2,500,000 boxes)?going 85% of this total to the European Economic Community, the Scandinavian countries, Poland, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore.