Sourcing

We take special care in supplying the best quality sunflower seeds as their quality is of utmost importance for our end product.

We at Sunseeds work alongside and ‘in hand’ with the farmers consulting them from sowing the sunflower seeds, harvesting the seeds and their temporary storing in order for us to source the highest possible quality sunflower seeds.

We perform quality tests directly at farmer’s fields before loading the sunflower seeds.

Intake

Intake of the sunflower seeds is strictly monitored at our factory. With our high-end technology and machinery, we have set very high standards for some key parameters such as size of the sunflower seeds, quantity of foreign objects and impurities, moisture and any kind of pest contamination. All these measures guarantee us a long-term storage of the sunflower seeds and top quality of our hulled sunflower seeds.

Our integrated ERP software gives us constant data and information analysis of all sunflower deliveries and their quality at our facility. It also can provide detailed information of the origin of the sunflower seeds for each of our customers.

Storage

Once the sunflower seeds pass our intake inspection and are ready for storage we clean the sunflower seeds from all kind of large and fine impurities before we store them at our flat bottom silos.

On harvest, when sunflower seeds are transported to our facility their temperature is around 30°С. At our silos we gradually cool them to temperatures around 10-15°С, which ensures their long term storage and quality.

Our intake and storage processes are fully automated.

All silo’s conveyors and elevators are equipped with computerized temperature control, which ensures safe and reliable storage and transportation of the seeds within our facilities.

Processing

We process the sunflower seeds in our factory, which is linked to our storage silos that prevent any contamination during the internal transportation of the seeds.

Our factory is equipped with machinery from the most reputable and high-end companies in the world for such machinery and equipment. All our plant’s production lines are fully automated thanks to specially designed customized automation software through which we have 100% control of all operations.

Our technology for pre-cleaning, cleaning, hulling and sorting of the sunflower seeds is unique and is one of the best in the world.

We monitor every single process in our factory with utmost precision, thus guaranteeing premium quality of our sunflower kernels.

Packaging

The packaging of our hulled sunflower kernels is from highest importance due to the vulnerability of the kernels once the hulls are removed. The sunflower kernels are very rich in unsaturated fatty acids, about 85% which is one of the most sought after qualities of the sunflower seeds. Once the sunflower kernels are exposed to oxygen, moisture, sunlight and high temperature they get oxidized quickly, which leads to decrease of their so important for the human health nutrients. That’s why we pack the sunflower kernels right after they are hulled.

Our unique packaging process sufficiently prolongs the best before consumption period of our hulled sunflower kernels, preserves better the nutrients, smell, taste and shape integrity of the kernels as well as offers an immaculate appearance of the packaging.