STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 5, 1950
The famous Ginaca machine, named for an employee of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. who invented it in
1913, removes the shell, core and ends of a pineapple, leaving the fruit in cylindrical form. The fruit proceeds
to trimming and packing while the other pieces go to the byproducts mill. The Ginaca machine can
process 85 to 105 pineapples a minute.