For reasons too boring to go into now, can someone tell me where it comes from. I presume it’s cartoned up in the UK, but whereabouts ?. Does it come from Spain ?. Is it by road tanker or containers ?. Who does the UK distribution ?. Can anyone settle an argument for me ?.
I buy it at Tesco
Ex Haulier:
For reasons too boring to go into now, can someone tell me where it comes from.
I may be able to help you here.
It comes from oranges.
I really should know the answer to this 
…but i dont
culina does the chilled distribution and walkers crisps does the bottled stuff you get in pubs
We ( culina ) do the distribution but it doesn’t come from our depot its either Milton keynes or haverhill, I can find out Monday if you want to know exactly.
Why do you ask ex haulier ? Bore me with the details.
I don’t know for sure and don’t quote me on this but SunJuice at Llantrisant, South Wales used to do a variety of fruit juices for all and sundry!
However…Just found this…
Tropicana Products is an American based company, and was founded in 1947 by Anthony T. Rossi in Bradenton, Florida, U.S. Since 1998, it has been owned by PepsiCo, Inc. Tropicana’s headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois.
Tropicana works with more than 12 established Florida groves, which are selected for sandy soil conditions and advanced irrigation practices. The company is the largest single buyer of Florida fruit and processes about 60 million boxes of fruit. Once the fruit is picked, oranges are hand graded and any fruit that doesn’t meet quality inspections is removed.
The oranges are then washed and the orange oil is extracted from the peel to capture the from-the-orange taste, which are later blended into the juice for consistent quality and flavor. The oranges are squeezed and the fresh juice is flash pasteurized. Tropicana developed flash pasteurization to minimize the time the orange juice is exposed to heat while providing maximum nutrition and flavor.
Oranges have a limited growing season, and because there is demand for juice year round, an unspecified quantity of juice (some or potentially all) is deaerated and then stored for future packaging in chilled tanks to preserve quality. The aseptic tanks protect the juice from oxygen and light and hold the liquid at optimal temperatures just above freezing to maintain minimum nutrition. It has been reported that deaerated juice no longer tastes like oranges, and must be supplemented before consumption with orange oils and Ethyl butyrate (ethanol and butyric acid). Tropicana also uses orange juice from Brazil to supplement the Florida crop. Pulp may be blended in at this point, too, depending on the product.
Tropicana’s carton and plastic packaging are engineered to maintain quality and freshness. The company’s packaging materials ensure the juice stays fresh inside the package by preventing outside moisture and light from affecting its quality.
Bob
Ex Haulier:
For reasons too boring to go into now, can someone tell me where it comes from. I presume it’s cartoned up in the UK, but whereabouts ?. Does it come from Spain ?. Is it by road tanker or containers ?. Who does the UK distribution ?. Can anyone settle an argument for me ?.
Tropicana uses oranges from Florida and Brazil,i only know this because it says so on the packet 
Its packaged at Tropicana Looza, Near Beauvais in Northern France and has been
for some years…!!
lumpygreenpoo:
I don’t know for sure and don’t quote me on this but SunJuice at Llantrisant, South Wales used to do a variety of fruit juices for all and sundrySunjuice used to do innocent stuff but now they don’t, I think they might have shut down.
The Llantrisant plant / packing was moved to JR Harding in somerset…
and a lot of that comes in Via Vlissingen…Ex Brazil in drums.
All to do with the diffrent types and grades of juice it seems… and of course price.
washy jnr:
Ex Haulier:
For reasons too boring to go into now, can someone tell me where it comes from. I presume it’s cartoned up in the UK, but whereabouts ?. Does it come from Spain ?. Is it by road tanker or containers ?. Who does the UK distribution ?. Can anyone settle an argument for me ?.Tropicana uses oranges from Florida and Brazil,i only know this because it says so on the packet
They use “not from concentrate”
Neville:
Its packaged at Tropicana Looza, Near Beauvais in Northern France and has been
for some years…!!
Never knew that I thought it was made here, must get shipped over to either M K or haverhill then.
Thats exactly right… Carried many loads into both during my days at Heritage Transport
and its a good clean load with late loading and flexible delivery.
All on pallets… no exchange needed at either end… !
Take a padlock if you load there as you will be turned away otherwise.
It is bottled in Suffolk at Boxted for sure, as one of the bottling plants anyway, as my stepson works there as an engineer and keeps the machines working 24/7.
Not always bottling orange juice as they do apple and other juices and stuff depending on what comes in.
Copella, Tropicana, all owned by pepsico.
Neville:
Thats exactly right… Carried many loads into both during my days at Heritage Transport
and its a good clean load with late loading and flexible delivery.
All on pallets… no exchange needed at either end… !
Take a padlock if you load there as you will be turned away otherwise.
Shame we can’t go and collect ourselves that’ll be right up my street.
funnily enough mate of mine on containers tipped in somerset yesterday tank in back of container lift suspension on unit drop on trailer piped out of back container fron felixstowe.
sammy dog:
funnily enough mate of mine on containers tipped in somerset yesterday tank in back of container lift suspension on unit drop on trailer piped out of back container fron felixstowe.
Probably gerber or framptons then.
about 10 to 15 trailers nearly everyday are shipped into purfleet from zeebrugge and then it goes to culina at haverhill. as for the plant in boxford suffolk that is were copella juice comes from and that goes to haverhill aswell
Dunno about the UK,but our firm transports loads of it (pardon the pun) from Belgium to France and France to Belgium.
We load it at Wauthier Braine just south of Brussels and used to take it down to St.Rambert d’Albon,just off the A7 south of Lyon,although it’s moved to another place now even further south.
We’d unload,then move across a couple of doors and reload.Then take it to Wauthier Braine or Borgloon.
At both Wauthier Braine and St.Rambert they simply re-package it.
It makes you laugh,because on the carton it say’s keep chilled,but we transport it in curtainsiders in the middle of summer,and even the warehouses aren’t chilled.
We transport it from Belgium to various supermarket RDC’s in France.
We also transport it from right next door to our depot in Borgloon,at Tropicana Looza.
Here the stuff arrives by road tankers,mainly Italian.It used to be delivered by H&S Transport from Barneveld who used to load it at the juice terminal in Rotterdam or Amsterdam.
The factory near Beauvais is at Hermes.We take frozen drums of juice there from Borgloon or Zeebrugge.
Tropicana Looza is part of the Pepsico group.