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How every lot is dried, sorted and checked in our factory in Mehriz.

What happens to every lot

Every lot passes through the same steps in our factory in Mehriz before it is bagged and loaded. The photos of each step were taken in the factory.

In-shell pistachios pouring from a conveyor into a bin in the factory hall
Drying, size grading, laser sorting and sample checks, filmed in our factory in Mehriz.
Laser sorting
10,000 tons a year
Opening closed shells
6,000 tons a year
Size grading, two lines
3,000 tons a year
Cold storage
1,000 tons

On the drying yard

The nuts are dried in the sun and cleaned by hand.

  1. In-shell pistachios spread in wide strips on the drying yard

    Drying

    The nuts are spread in thin layers on the open drying yard and dried in the sun.

  2. Workers sitting along a sorting belt under a roofed shed

    Picking by hand

    Workers along the belts pick out foreign material and damaged nuts by hand.

On the processing line

Machines grade the nuts by size, sort them by laser and open closed shells.

  1. In-shell pistachios falling from a size-grading machine

    Grading by size

    Two complete mechanical lines grade the in-shell nuts by size.

  2. A row of laser sorting machines with their control panel

    Laser sorting

    Laser sorters check the nuts one by one and take out those that do not meet the export grade.

  3. Closed-shell pistachios in a stainless tray during water cracking

    Opening closed shells

    Closed-mouth nuts go through a water-cracking process that opens the shell.

Before loading

Each lot is checked for size, then bagged and stored until loading.

  1. Two people counting pistachios on a table next to a scale

    Checking the size

    Samples are counted and weighed to confirm the size in nuts per ounce.

  2. A worker attaching an export bag to the filling machine

    Bagging and storage

    Bags are filled at the bagging station and kept in the warehouse or the cold store until loading.

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