Blue Skies has been proud and privileged to work with PerfoTec for many years to help develop its remarkable technical innovations in the business of produce processing and marketing. The businesses collaborate in two areas: one is the extension of life for fruits stored at the Blue Skies factories in Africa and the other is extension of life for finished prepared fruit products that are sent to European retailers. Both of these areas are critical to reduce food waste and increase food production and distribution sustainability. Extension of the time for which Blue Skies can store fruits used at the factory in Ghana by clever manipulation of gas concentrations reduces the amount that is sent to their compost site before processing. Additionally, this approach increases the quantities that Blue Skies can use from West African sources so that they do not need to import expensive fruits from Brazil and South Africa that take a long time to reach Ghana and have lower yield figures when processed. Use of ozone as a sanitising agent for finished products may improve food safety and extend the time that the product remains visually acceptable to the consumer thus reducing waste at the point of sale. This has long been a holy grail in the industry and PerfoTec have developed a system that permits this use of ozone gas in a populated environment.