We very much want to wish everybody a “happy banana day”!
The banana is a true world food, consumed universally as a necessity of life and recognised in the developed world as a healthy and nutritious convenience food.

This year, AgroFair will be present at the Fruit Attraction 2025 in Madrid www.ifema.es/en/fruit-attraction, with an own stand, in Hall 12, standnumber 44.

Date and time: 30 September – 02 October from 09:30 – 19:00 CEST.
Location: IFEMA MADRID – Recinto Ferial, Av.

We hope to see you at our stand and in the panel!

This February, ECOBAN’s plastic recycling factory in Peru celebrates it’s 3-year anniversary! With great dedication and sacrifice, they have been clearing banana plastic and turning it into corner board for 3 years, with increasingly better results.

ECOBAN is striving to make an even stronger corner board. In the PDF you can clearly see a very big improvement from the cornerboards from 2022 to now.

AgroFair has been awarded the Fair Tax Mark, becoming the first multinational head-quartered in the Netherlands to secure accreditation to the gold standard of responsible tax conduct.

Grupo ECOBAN’s banana plastic recycling plant was inaugurated on 10 February. Plastic used in the production is collected, cleaned, granulated and melted into corner boards. More than 2,000 containers can be exported with corner boards made of recycled plastic, each year. Worldwide, an estimated 500 thousand hectares of bananas are grown for export, which equates to 1 billion plastic bunch bags hung around the bunches (about 20,000 tonnes), each year.

It’s a quarter of a century since Fairtrade bananas first appeared on supermarket shelves in Europe. They were imported by AgroFair. CEO Hans-Willem van der Waal reflects on 25 years of partnering with Fairtrade – and why, despite the challenges, he’s optimistic about the future.