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Company
After nearly five decades, ASPIS has become one of the largest fruit processors in Greece.
About Aspis
ASPIS produces a great variety of fruit juices and purees, aromas and oils, fruit preparations and canned products.
Our high quality and innovative products support a great number of private brands of well known and recognized retailers.
In all these years, with hard work and commitment, we succeed to serve more than 70 countries all over the world.
Our goal is to expand our product portfolio and reach every attractive new market that we didn't have the chance to be a part of until today.
We operate with processing plants in two different regions in Greece. The first one is located in Argos city in Argolis region, Southern Greece, where we process citrus and deciduous fruits and vegetables, producing juice and purees, citrus oils and aromas, fruit preparations and mixtures. In Argos, we also produce animal food from citrus peel.
The second processing plant is located in Irinoupoli of Imathia region, northern Greece, where we process deciduous fruits and vegetables, producing juice and purees, aromas, fruit preparations and mixtures. In Irinoupoli, we also produce private label fruit and vegetable juice in TetraPak® packaging as well as fruit halves, slices or dices in cans or aseptic drums.
Products
Producing a wide variety of high quality fruit products, we manage to serve the most well known and recognised customers in all over the world.
Our product portfolio aims to meet our customers' demands and expectations, providing personalized and quality customer experience, delivering always the right products and services, at the right time.
Purees + Concentrates + Juices
The Purees and Fruit juices are obtained from the edible part of fruit, which is sound, ripe and fresh, having the characteristic color, flavor and taste, typical of the fruit which it comes from.
The Concentrated Juice and Puree are obtained from fruit juice by the physical removal of a specific proportion of the water content, maintaining the essential fruit characteristics.
Packing
Bulk, Frozen in Drums, Aseptic Bag in Drums, Aseptic Bag-in-Box (10-1000L), Aseptic Bag in boxes or Returnable Containers (10-1000L), Carton Boxes 1000L
Aseptic Fruit Pieces
The products obtained from the edible parts of fruit.
For citrus fruits, pulp or cells are obtained from the endocarp. For stone fruits, fruit dices obtained after destoning, peeling and cutting in several sized cubes, halves or slices.
The products can be delivered as solid pack with no-liquor added or with added liquor.
Packing
Aceptic Drums, Aseptic Bag-in-Box (10-1000L), Aseptic Bag in boxes or Returnable Containers (10-1000L), Carton Boxes 1000L
Canned Fruits
Stone fruits, peaches and apricots, in various cuts (halves, slices, dices), types of sugar syrup (heavy syrup, light etc) or juice and grades (Standard, Good Standard, Choice, Fancy) are delivered from our company.
Our canned fruits come from sound, healthy, wholesome, undamaged, washed fruits and prepared from freshly harvested and properly ripened fruit from the Greek territory.
Lid Types
Standard (std), Easy Open (e/o)
Packing
The products are available in various can sizes - A2 ½ (1kg), A9 (3kg), A10 (3kg), A12 (5kg) and secondary
Oils + Aromas
Citrus oils are essential oils produced by cells within the peel of the fruit. It is extracted during citrus juice production by centrifugation, producing a cold-pressed oil.
Cold-pressed oils retain all their flavor, aroma, and nutritional value and can be used in many applications in cosmetics and food industry.
During our main production processes of juice and puree products Aromas and Flavors can be extracted.
Packing
Bulk or in Metal Drums
Co-Packing
Our Company offers beverage filling and packing on a private-label basis.
Using the newest technology of filling machines, we have the possibility of packing juice in a fully ISO-approved procedure corresponding to the precise specifications (co-packing) of our clients into aseptic TetraPak® packages.
Our continuous commitment to quality combined with our high production capacity, as well as the knowledge and expertise that comes with almost 50 years of experience in the field of juice production, allow us to pack premium quality and profitable products for our co-packing and private-label clients.
Packing
1L, 750ml, 330ml, 250ml, 200ml
Cattle Feed
Our company, with many years of experience in food production and guided by the utilization of raw materials, sustainability and the circular economy, has proceeded to the production of feed products.
Our feed is produced from the processing of citrus peels and pulp with different processes, covering the needs of our customers.
Recognizing the importance and linking the production of safe feed with the production of safe food, we provide feed products of high energy and nutritional value.
• Citrus Silage
• Citrus Molasses
• Dry Citrus Peel Pellets
• Fresh Citrus Peel
Packing
Big Bag (1t), Big bag (500kg), bulk, IBC tank, drum (260kg)
Biogas Raw Materials
Our company, through its production processes, aiming at the sustainable management of raw materials and products, is able to provide a range of raw materials for biogas production.
• Citrus Molasses
• Citrus Silage
• Fresh Citrus and Other Fruits Peel
Packing
Bulk
Quality and Food Safety
Our integrated Quality and Food Safety Management System quarantees the upper quality in all we do and supports our core commitment to produce and deliver wholesome, safe and legal foods that meet the quality expectations of our customers throughout the world.
To accomplish that, it is vital for us all to follow the procedures, guidelines, and standards governing our quality system. This way, we assure our consistency to regulatory requirements, our customer expectations, and the goals of our company.
R&D
One of our most valuable assets is our Research and Development department.
Our R&D team is assigned to satisfy the Company's main goal, which is to achieve an excellent quality in all our products by improving the existing and innovate by creating new that will satisfy our customers' needs and expectations.
Almost 50 years of experience and expertise in fruit juice and canning industry are capitalized by making us competent to use all available and advanced technologies in food processing, in order to improve our production effectiveness and develop innovative products.
Our research and development team collaborates regularly with universities, institutes and other companies and organizations. The R&D team also involved in the development of programs of the EU in related activities concerning Research and Technological Development in the Food Industry.
Our People
Our people... our power engine.
Our people are our most important and valuable asset and investing in them is a grand for the future and the long-term prospects of our company.
Human Resources
Motivate, empower and support the growth of our people.
Work together as a team to meet our company's goals and demands.
Health and Safety in our working environment is a fundamental value of our company. All our activities aim to ensure health and safety work conditions, preventing accidents and encouraging the cooperation of all employees for this purpose.
The company monitors and applies European and National legislation on health and safety at work, as well as international good practices to reduce work-related risks.
We conduct our business activities in an environmentally responsible manner that will preserve natural resources and minimize adverse impacts or health and safety risks to our employees, contractors, customers and the community.
For many years now, we are member of the non-profit organization SEDEX (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange).
SEDEX organization is engaged on improving practices relating to ethical and responsible business practices applied to the global supply chain.
All our production sites are audited from a third party certification bodies on SMETA-4-pillar audit scheme, having excellent results that are proving our commitment to our values and policies.
The SMETA 4-pillar audit scheme include the followings:
- Working Conditions and Standards
- Occupational Health and safety
- Business Practices and Integrity
- Environment
Sustainability
All of ASPIS's core values embrace a sustainable framework.
We are committed to work towards to a sustainable development that will fulfill the needs of today without shortening the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
In order to achieve our goals, we structured our Sustainability Strategy under the three-pillar model:
People - Environment - Performance
The three-pillar model embeds our policies, our engagement and actions, which are planned, monitored, measured and controlled throughout all our operations and is annually reviewed.
The model is integrated and structured on the basis of the general principles governed by international human rights frameworks, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the guidelines of SAI Farm Sustainability Assessement, SEDEX, SMETA 4-pillar based principles, ISO 14001 and other international recognized standards.
People - Environment - Performance
People
- Recognizing the value of our people to our business growth
- Protecting human rights rights as governed by international human rights frameworks (UDHR) and (ILO)
- Creating a workplace that values diversity and improving productivity
- Providing a safe and healthful workplace
- Promoting employee improvement opportunities through trainings
- Collaborating with suppliers on better environmental and social performance
- Helping our customers meet their sustainability goals
- Collaborating fairly with national and international authorities and govermental bodies
- Invest and contribute in our local communities
- Implement ethical business practices throughout our supply chain
Environment
- Setting measurable goals for our environmental performance
- Improving our energy and water consumption
- Reducing fuels used in our operations
- Increasing operational efficiency and reducing impacts
- Supporting and promoting sustainable agriculture
- Reducing packaging and operational waste
- Increase the re-use and recycling rate
Performance
- Improving company's financial performance
- Continuing promotion and improvement of our corporate governance
- Strict implementation of our investment program
- Strict implementation of our bussiness goals and financial targets
- Driving through our innovation and product development goals
- Full compliance with all applicable laws and legal requirements
- Full compliance with our internal procedures, policies and company's requirements
Partnerships and Memberships
We endorse the development and implementation of the Fruit Juice CSR initiative of European Fruit Juice Association (AIJN) which is specifically established for the fruit juice industry.
We are aligned with the AIJN Code of Conduct which is based on the Six Fruit Juice CSR Principles of the CSR Sector Roadmap based on United Nations Global Compact Food and Agriculture Bussiness Principles (FABs).
We participate and follow the framework of SEDEX (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange), which is a non – profit membership organization dedicated to driving improvements in ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chain. All our production sites are audited on SMETA-4-pillar audit scheme on Working Conditions, Occupational Health and Safety, Business Practices and Integrity and Environment.
We participate in Voluntary Control System (VCS) of SGF International and we are audited annually in order to confirm compliance with the food Regulations and Industrial Standards (AIJN/CoP) and the rules of the Control System with regard to Sustainability, Safety, Hygiene, Authenticity, Traceability and Labeling.
We participate in ECOVADIS an electronic platform providing CSR Ratings and Scorecards and evaluated and granded with a certificate which is based methodology covering 21 criteria across four themes: Environment, Fair labor practices, ethics/fair business practices, and supply chain.
We are members of the Hellenic Recovery Recycling Corporation, which is an initiative taken among Greek companies active in packaging production and the trading of packaged goods, aiming to meet more effectively their legal obligation for the recycling of packaging waste deriving from their products through the self-administration of their funds, within the framework of the National and European legislation.
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Contact
Hellenic Juice Industry C. Dedes ASPIS S.A.
4th Km National Road Argos - Korinthos
212 00 Argos - Greece
Tel: +30 2751 0 28000
Fax: +30 2751 0 66022
Zervohori 590 34 - Imathia - Greece
Tel: +30 2332 3 03100
Fax: +30 2332 0 47273
Ε-mail:
info@aspis.gr