Located just 10 km from Swellendam in the heart of the Western Cape, Arisa has evolved into a premier multi-varietal packhouse, built to serve growers with efficiency and expertise. Originally operating as Swellenfruit and specializing in persimmons and avocados, the facility underwent significant expansion following its joint acquisition by ANB Investments and later Lucerne Agri Investments. Today, Arisa stands as a cutting-edge packing hub, expertly handling hard and soft citrus, avocados, stone fruit and other fruit, offering growers seamless service, advanced technology, and a commitment to quality at every stage.
The packhouse is operational 12 months of the year:
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Why choose Arisa?
We have long-term relationships with top marketing and branding, and exporting companies, including Fruitalyst, Core Fruit, Citrex, WP Fresh and Safpro.
Contact us if you’re interested in joining forces.
Stronger together for your benefit
Thanks to our close partnership with five major packhouses across South Africa, we’re able to unlock real economic advantages that flow straight back to you, the grower.
Through this network, we tap into specialist expertise, advanced quality control systems, and the latest in agri-tech and data-driven decision-making. With continuous R&D, we stay at the forefront of innovation, driving efficiency and best practice from nursery to farm and beyond.
Our standardised Guides for Operational Excellence make global compliance and accreditation simpler, helping us stay aligned with world-class standards.
By pooling our resources, we harness collective bargaining power to keep input costs low. From negotiating better prices on bulk inputs to sharing the capital load of large-volume purchases, we ensure growers have cost-effective access to packing materials and more.
- One standout benefit: guaranteed availability of transport and storage space at ports, secured through high-volume agreements.
As part of the ANB Group, we’re also aligned with broader impact goals, supporting employment equity, upskilling, and BBBEE initiatives. These commitments strengthen our social, ethical, and environmental accreditations, opening doors in international markets.
At Arisa, our collective strength becomes your competitive advantage.
Our Facility
- Total roofed footprint of 15 000m2 on a 3-hectare site
- 7000 empty bin capacity
- Three Degreening rooms with expansion planned
- Cooling capacity: 8000 bins total, 320 pallet room, Smartfresh facility, forced cool facility.
- Extensive dry stock storage area enables us to serve growers cost efficiently (economy of scale procuring benefits) and ensures a fast flow-through from arrival to distribution
- Drenching as standard procedure as required.
- Our 4-lane Compac line and our 6-lane Maf Roda line can handle volumes across all commodities including:
- Citrus
- Avocados
- Stone fruit
- Other (kiwi fruit, pears and other fruit under development)
- Sister packing facility in close proximity offer additional capacity to handle overflow:
- CAPAC, with its total roofed footprint of 20 000m2, is equipped to pack some 42 000 tonnes of citrus per season. Its highly experienced team, and facilities including degreening rooms and a cooling capacity of 1 200m2 ambient area.
Additional benefits to growers
- Immediate feedback to growers impacts farm-level decision making.
- Our extension officer provides real-time on-farm input that results in optimal packouts.
- Fast turn-around time on repacking
- Staging of produce
- Multi-variety loading
- Multi-brand labelling, bagging, storing and release upon market demand