Our company
+40
countries
2010
alliance with La Costeña
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Presence in more than 40 countries:
Aconcagua Foods has established strategic alliances with companies in the food industry, maintaining close, productive relations with high service levels.
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Business partners:
Since 2010 we are part of the international holding, La Costeña; one of the world leaders in the sales and distribution of canned products. Thanks to this we have been able to increase our portfolio nationally and internationally.
8
own fields
6
production plants
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Over than 100 years supplying the food industry:
Since 1897 Aconcagua Foods has supplied the national food industry, bringing products of the highest quality to the table of all Chileans.
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Growth:
Aconcagua Foods has managed to establish an industry that has 8 of its own fields with more than 600 hectares of cultivation, 6 of its own production plants and an autonomous distribution chain. With this we have obtained the knowledge to understand each of the processes involved in bringing the field to your table.
180k
tons of annual fruits
70%
of all the peaches in the country
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Canning industry:
With a processing of more than 180 thousand tons of fruit annually, we have become the national leader in the canning industry and the world leader in the canned peach production unit.
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Innovation and development:
We are pioneers in the introduction of new technologies for the optimization of crops and the traceability of our products. Likewise, we constantly develop new products to keep our catalog updated to the needs of our customers.
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We control 100% of our production chain:
From the moment we harvest, collect and send to our plant, until the moment the products are shipped in their respective labeled containers to the point of sale, we maintain constant monitoring of each one of them. our products.
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Rigorous health surveillance service:
Being a Chilean company, we have one of the strictest health surveillance services (SAG) worldwide. This forces us to always maintain high levels of quality in our production, so that they live up to national and international demands.
Events around the world
June 11th, 2023
We were present at the National Restaurant Association Show!
One of the largest Food Service events worldwide, which brings together more than 2,100 suppliers and 65,000 experts in restaurants, hotels and coffee shops.
Our brands
Because we are more than peaches and more than preserves, at Aconcagua we respond to the need of our clients and consumers. Learn about all our brands and their product portfolios here:
Aconcagua
Aconcagua Sabores
Aconcagua Balance
Aconcagua Professional
El Vergel
La Costeña
El Vergel
Our fields
1482
Acres
8
Fields
Aconcagua Foods owns around 1482 acres (600 hectares) of its own fields, planted with canning peaches.
GLOBAL GAP LOGOS - GRASP All of them have GRASP certification issued by GLOBAL G.A.P., which guarantees the food safety and security of our agricultural production; the traceability management of our peaches and compliance with social responsibility with agricultural workers.
We also have an agricultural technology transfer alliance between Chile and Argentina, which has allowed us to innovate in the field and increasingly seek processes that contribute to efficiency and production.
Technical management
Greater productivity per tree.
We have incorporated new varieties of trees from Spain and South Africa. Due to their natural characteristics, they allow us to increase the volume of harvest that without affecting our high quality standards.
Harvest optimization
Our management strategy allows an optimal harvest and natural development of the plant, giving it space for correct growth and producing larger size and better quality peaches.
Advance and permanent production
Low-lying orchards make harvesting easier. Likewise, its high density gives us more plants and fruit of greater caliber and quality, although in smaller quantities.
Care and good use of water
We use telemetry to monitor variables such as temperature, pressure, level and others, which has allowed us to increase production efficiency in our fields. In this way we also maintain balanced nutrition of our fields, based on analysis of the water, soil and plant.
Monitoring and justified control
Our focus is to minimize the use of chemical pesticides and promote the biological balance of the soil, plants and environment. For this we use justified monitoring and control (only applied if pests are present). This leads to a low level of residues in fruit and therefore less contamination of it.
5 cornerstones
Through these five cornerstones we can summarize our responsible and high-quality production of peaches and other canned fruits.
Our plants and facilities
Canning plant
Our canning plant concentrates its production between the months of December and March. It receives more than a thousand collaborators, who dedicate their efforts to the production of peaches; as well as strawberries, peas, among others.
Sauces and jams plant
This plant produces tomato derivatives throughout the year, such as ketchup, pizza sauce and tomato sauces in different varieties and formats.
Frozen products plant
Our frozen plant produces IQF (Individual Quick Frozen) fruits and vegetables.
Today we process tomatoes, peppers, onions, among others.
Pulp plant
In it we produce more than 17 thousand tons of pulp per year. Our main products are fruit pulps such as peach, apricot, apple, pear, plum and strawberry, among others.
Packaging plant
Here 80% of the packaging we use in the production of our preserves is produced.
L.I.W. plant
This plant has a biological purification system, which allows us to treat our liquid industrial waste resulting from production processes.
During the canning season, this plant returns up to 11 thousand cubic meters of water per day to the Paine Canal.
Vertical integration in detail
We control 100% of our production chain, from the field to the point of sale.
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Owned fields
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Harvest
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Delivery
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Selection
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Processing
6
Canning
7
Labeling
8
Shipping to POS
Research and development
R&D
In 2020, continuing with our goal of remaining a leading company in innovation, we decided to remodel and restructure our Research and Development laboratory. In it we continue developing new products to respond quickly and effectively to the needs of both the national and international markets.
Quality is our commitment and the only way to maintain our high standards is to keep working hard to reach innovation in products, processes and technologies that contribute positively to our clients and consumers.