INDULLEIDA, S.A. is a company whose business is the manufacture of juice and fruit products and whose plants are set up in Alguaire (Lleida). Its production installations cover up a surface of about 34.000 m² inside a terrain of 200.000 m². Placed in Catalonia, it is about 150 km from Barcelona and 150 km from Zaragoza, it is established in one of the most important fruit producer area of Spain. Its partners are fruit cooperatives and producers; altogether more than 140 producer enterprises which comprise more than 12.000 farmers of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, La Rioja, Castile-La Mancha, Andalusia, Portugal and the south of France. Nowadays, Indulleida, S.A. roughly transforms 160.000 t of fresh fruit every year and it becomes a leader group in Spain of the manufacture and delivery of semi-elaborated fresh fruit. At the beginning, in 1980, Indulleida S.A. took exclusively up the elaboration of apple and pear clarified concentrate juice. From this time, consecutive expansion has been done in order to increase both the production capacity, the product quality and the environmental respect of its production:             1986:Puree elaboration line             1990: Fruit fibre elaboration line             1992: Orange juice elaboration line             1998: Blending room                      Wastewater treatment plant             1999: Cogeneration installation             1999: Tangerine juice production line             2000: Pulp drying line                      Increase of concentrate line capacity             2001:Duplication of puree elaboration line                     Extension of orange juice production line. Nowadays, Indulleida, S.A. exports to almost all the countries of the European Community, Japan, Canada, … and the export volume means near 50% of the whole sales. The share of “national market” that Indulleida, S.A. has nowadays is about 25% on some products (as the ones elaborated from apple and pear,) and 10% in others (as the ones elaborated from peach, apricot, orange, mandarin and strawberry). The number of workers ranges from 110 to 140 depending on the season of the year. These ones are organized in three shifts of work. Several engineers, bachelors and Industrial technicians compose the technical team, which permits and optimal technical assistance. Indulleida owns a laboratory, which is basically used for quality control works and plant working supervision. Moreover, it is charged of doing experiments on Research and Development (I + D) when they are necessary. Indulleida also owns a cogeneration plant, in which all electric and thermal energy (steam, etc) necessary for plant operation is generated. Inside its services installations, a wastewater treatment plant is available, which permits to assure a correct wastewater discharge to public sewage, on its return to the water cycle after its use in plant. The current range of elaborated products is: · Clarified concentrate: apple, pear, peach, grape, strawberry, lemon, orange, mandarin and carrot. · Cloudy concentrate: apple, lemon, orange, mandarin, grapefruit, tomato and carrot. · Puree: apple, pear, peach, nectarine, apricot, tomato, plum, strawberry, medlar, quince, carrot. · Single strength juice: orange, mandarin, lemon, apple. · Fruit fibre: apple, peach, lemon, orange. · Essence: apple, pear and lemon · Essential oil: orange, grapefruit and lemon. · Fruit pulp: orange, apple and pear. · Dehydrated pellets: apple/pear, citric fruits · Grape juice bitrartrates On customer’s request, Indulleida has the capacity to perform blendings of juices with addition of arome and vitamins to them.