Wenatchee, WA – CMI, one of Washington State’s largest grower/shippers of premium quality conventional and organic apples, pears and cherries, announces that one of their owners and growers, McDougall and Sons has broken ground on a new state of the art facility.
CMI’s expansion project will be done in two phases and is projected to be open for business starting on September 1st of this year. The first phase will be comprised of 45,000 bins of CA (controlled atmosphere) storage for harvested fruit, which equates to approximately 900,000 boxes of packed fruit, an 11 dock shipping area with setup space for 17 truckloads, and a racked storage room with capacity for over 80,000 boxes of packed fruit.
The second phase of the expansion project is scheduled to be operational in May of 2014. In this phase a state-of-art packing line will be opened, combined with an additional 8,400 pallets of racked storage for packed fruit, and an additional 4 loading docks. McDougall and Son’s packing line capacity will double in this phase, in comparison to the current McDougall and Son’s Olds Station warehouse. This new facility will offer the flexibility to fill multiple packaging types and to do so quickly and with quality care every step of the way. The mere size of the shipping area will allow for consolidation of multiple shipments for customers, so that trucks can make fewer stops which helps get fruit on the shelves as quickly as possible and greatly assists in maintaining the cold chain.
The end consumer benefits when they are delivered the freshest fruit possible. CMI’s passion for continually advancing and growing its offerings is what has led to its growing business year after year. When asked why customers should be excited about the new facility, Bryon McDougall, Director of Operations for McDougall and Sons commented, “Our new facility has the production capacity to meet our customers’ needs. It incorporates the best fruit handling and sorting technology available and the shipping and setup area is large enough to consolidate each load for one easy pickup.”
Source: Columbia Marketing International
