Stemilt has long been at the forefront of packing technologies. In the early 1960s, Stemilt founder Tom Mathison built a packing facility atop Stemilt Hill. By 1975, Stemilt began construction on its state-of-the-art Olds Station facility, now one of the largest fruit warehouses in the state. Finally, in 2008 Stemilt completed a multi-million dollar expansion of its Miller Street facility, resulting in the newest, most advanced pear packing plant in the United States.
Today, Stemilt has three modern packing facilities in Washington and one in California. Each facility was carefully designed to store, wash, sort, size and pack our apples, pears, cherries and summer fruits. No matter what the season, you can be assured that Stemilt fruit is packed with the latest techologies and according to the highest standards. Examples of Stemilt's packing innovations include:
- First to market cherries in bags
- Rapid C.A. rooms
- C.A. storage
- Display-ready cartons
- Consumer packaging solutions
- Customize packaging solutions
- Temperture pull-down rooms
- N.I.R. technology
- SmartFresh
- Presize facilities allows for availability of products
- Fresh packs result in higher pressures = "CRUNCH"
- Hydro-cooling
- In-line hydro-cooling
- Modified atmosphere packaging
- Commitment to gentle packaging and handling
- Refrigerated loading docks
- Color, defect & size sorting
- Pear ripening rooms
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All of this technology would not work without great people who have a passion for qualtiy to pull it all together. |