Frutos de los Andes is the brand name for 100% natural tropical dried fruit produced and processed in Colombia. Our product is 100% natural. The tropical fruit is grown, hand-cut and naturally dried, without any added sugar or preservatives.
Frutos de los Andes is produced by Fruandes Ltda, a social responsible company committed to balance between FAIR prices to producers, FAIR payment and treatment of its employees and respect to its clients through quality and natural production.
Fruandes and Entrepreneurs Colombia work together in order to open new markets and ensure the growth and economic sustainability of the company.
Our commitment to Fair Trade
Fruandes is a Fair Trade registered company, which is member of the International Fair Trade Association - IFAT since 2006 (www.ifat.org). This commitment is reflected on its organizational structure, working conditions, company policies and production techniques:
• Fruandes is giving education and housing funds to its employees as part of their benefits.
• The majority of Fruandes’ staff members are mothers, head of poor families.
• Fruandes keeps its salaries 20% above the average salary of the country for similar activities.
• Fruandes has a direct relationship with small producer farmers, paying a fair price for their products.
For example, one of our employees is Maria. She, her husband and two sons were forced to leave their home in rural Colombia due to violence in the region. They arrived in Bogotá with no prospect of employment or housing. Thanks to Fruandes and a Colombian relief & development organization, Maria and her family have now a stable income, health care and funding for both children to attend school. Maria is a trained nurse, but she requires more schooling in Bogotá in order to find a job in that field. Fruandes is working with Maria to supply funding and a flexible work schedule to help her attain this needed training and ensure in this for a better future for her and her loved ones.
Fruandes cooperates with organizations like MCC - Mencoldes Colombia, Level Ground Trading and Entrepreneurs Colombia Ltda. in order to start as a company and strengthen its activities for social development, ecological production and fair trade.
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Entrepreneurs Colombia plays a strong role in the wood business industry getting involved on an important scale into the reforestation process, the CO2 reduction and the exports of semi-processed hard and soft tropical wood and wood applications, from Colombia and other tropical countries.
Entrepreneurs Colombia has joined efforts with experts in the industry to be able to find the best way to conduct its business forward. Through strategic alliances we make sure we can reach our goals for an important contribution to our investors our partners and also to the country’s balanced growth, development and sustainability.
Our international network works with us, as well, to get the best possible support and offer for our projects and products.
Our development and sustainability plans are done trough associative ideas with local and native communities, as well as private investors, in different regions of the country to secure long term plans for forestry management, social contribution, native forest protection, carbon credits commercialization and wood sourcing.
What we do
Reforestation
Our aim is to continuously reforest all the land what we are able to, as also have a responsible compromise on planting a tree for each tree we sell in processed wood.
CO2 reduction
We develop long term projects based on clean development mechanisms through forestry. Being able to develop a complete forestry plan, from funds sourcing to carbon credits commercialization.
Semi process wood commercialization
We sell specific species of wood from private forestry projects, as well from communities who have government’s approval to a limited quantity of wood from the natural forest based on a reforestation and native forest protection plan of these communities.
We get the logs and do a basic process to them, been able to sell rough squares, decks, floors and some other final products. |
Tropical HARD WOOD from Colombia
- Cariniana pyriformis (Abarco, colombian mahogany, jequitiva red)
- Hymenaea courbaril (Algarrobo, jatobá)
- Myroxylum balsamum (Bálsamo, balsam)
- Humiriastrum procerum (Chanul, chanú)
- Clathrotropis brachypetala (Sapán, tababú, cabarí)
- Cedrela odorata (Cedro, cedar)
- Tectona grandis (Teca, Teak)
- Acacia mangium (Mangium, acacia)
Tropical SOFT WOOD from Colombia
- Carapa guianensis (Cedro güino, carapa, guino)
- Pithecellobium saman (Campano, samán, guango)
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