Formats for avocado, where one mark on the skin is worth a rejection.
Avocado is the crop where the pack can cost you the sale by itself. The fruit is sold by count, handled repeatedly on its way to the shopper, and graded on how the skin looks when it arrives. A net that presses a grid into the skin does not just look bad — it fails at the receiving dock, and the mark does not go away.
So the question with avocado is less about ventilation and more about how the load is spread. A net that gives where the fruit is widest distributes the pressure; one that holds a fixed shape concentrates it on a few points of contact.
Same crop, different trade-offs. What separates them is how much air, how much print area and how gently the pack holds the product.
Avocado is sold by count and handled repeatedly before it reaches the shopper. The header gives you room for ripeness guidance and PLU information, and the body can be specified soft enough not to mark the skin.
See Header Bags specifications →Avocado is handled repeatedly and inspected closely. A sealed closure comes out even every time, with nothing protruding to catch or mark the fruit.
See Heat Sealed Mesh specifications →Avocado skin marks under pressure and the mark does not go away. Knitted net gives where the fruit is widest, so the load spreads instead of concentrating on a few points of contact.
See Knitted Net (Soft Woven) specifications →Counts sold in a net rather than a bag, where the fruit has to be visible and the pack has to hold its shape on a display.
See Vexar Mesh specifications →Knitted soft-woven net, in most cases. It stretches and settles around the fruit, so the load spreads instead of concentrating. Extruded net is tougher and cheaper, and it is the right answer when the fruit is going into processing rather than being graded on appearance.
An extruded net holds a fixed shape. When the fruit presses against it in transit, the grid transfers to the skin. Knitted net gives at those contact points, which is the whole reason it exists.
A header bag gives you a printed header for ripeness guidance and PLU information, with a body that can be specified soft enough not to mark the skin.
Heat sealed mesh closes with heat and leaves nothing protruding, which matters on fruit that is inspected closely and handled repeatedly.
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