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16th April 2025

Celebrating the second most consumed fruit in the world!

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.

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17th March 2025

AgroFair will be present at the Fruit Attraction in Madrid

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!

20th February 2025

Plastic recycling factory in Peru celebrates it’s 3-year anniversary!

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.

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5th April 2023

Fairtrade pioneer AgroFair becomes first Dutch multinational to gain Fair Tax Mark

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.

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24th February 2022

Inauguration of the plastic recycling factory Ecoban

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.

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7th May 2021

AgroFair celebrates 25 years of Fairtrade bananas. Interview with Fairtrade International

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.