Rio Santo Quality, Safety and Environmental Policy With;
“We believe in healthy based products which to build the future on with consistent highquality and continuous satisfaction.”
Yonca Food uses only most selected raw materials preserved in oil or slightly seasoned in a natural way through Yonca Food Industries Inc’s high technology to enhanceuniqueness and taste following the Mediterranean culinary tradition.Yonca Food uses only most selected raw materials preserved in oil or slightly seasoned in a natural way through Yonca Food Industries Inc’s high technology to enhanceuniqueness and taste following the Mediterranean culinary tradition.
Behind the brand there is innovative, young and solid Yonca team with more than 40 years of experience on both production and trade. Determining the needs and expectations of the customers, the team provides the continuity on product and service quality. They are in closecooperation with all their suppliers in order to follow-up the “Best Quality Standards” during all the steps to be taken.
The company, creating its own standards in terms of quality since it was established, puts itsproducts into stages of quality control from the entry of raw materials to the delivery of products to consumers. Accordingly, Yonca Food continues its production without depriving itself from quality with its certifications such as BVQI ISO 9001 quality management system certification for oil industries and cannery, BVQI FSSC 22000 and BRC (Grade A) and IFS (Higher Level) certificates for canneries.
This made Yonca Food brand fully stands behind Rio Santo’s “Certified Quality” of its products.
History and Tradition
Yonca Food Industry Inc. Vegetable Oil Industries were established in Manisa Organized Industrial Zone in 1981. The vegetable oil production facility doubled its capacity in 1985 and increased it up to 100 tons per day. The company also started processing canola, soy and cotton seeds besides the sunflower oil upon the initiation of a new crushing facility with a daily seedprocessing capacity of 400 tons in Manisa Organized Industrial Zone in 1997. In 2009, the brand of Yonca became a food company with an oil seed processing capacity of 700 tons and a refining capacity of 450 tons per day.
The production of tomato paste was initiated in Manisa Organized Industrial Region in 1989. Canned Foods and Sauces Industries Facilities were moved to the new facilities in Karaağaçlı, Manisa in order to meet the increasing demand of tomato products and in 1997 the product range was expanded with the pickle production as well.
Yonca Food, continuing its production activities with the Oil Industries in Manisa Organized Industrial Zone and the Canned Foods and Sauces Industries Facilities in Manisa-Karağaçlı, has obtained the biggest pickle production capacity in Turkey upon the incorporation of PickleProducts Industries Facilities in Manisa-Saruhanlı in 2010.
Using only special hand selected finest raw materials; it’s procuring total demands for fresh fruits and vegetables from farmers who make seasonal agreements with the company in Aegean and Mediterranean Region. Through its special agreements, the company is co-operating with growers not only to keep the production processes under maximum control within the plants, as well as the processes in the fields.
All selected fruits and vegetables products are filled into glass jars or cans in the automated lines, then pasteurized under pre-determined high quality Standard, all in a totally hygienicenvironment. Thus made Yonca Food Industries Inc, fully stand behind the “certified quality” of its products with strong gastronomic tradition of its land and roots.
Today, Yonca Food continues appealing to the taste buds and cuisines of both Turkish and Global consumers under its own brand and Private label, with its wide product range consisting ofsunflower, corn, canola, soy and olive oil, canned products, ketchup, mayonnaise, tomato paste, various tomato products, sauces of different tastes and pickle types in the sector which it entered with oil production.
