Articles Tagged with ''cold storage''

The new state-of-the-art facility is designed to support the movement of fresh produce from field to table, and will employ renewable energy and automation to maximize throughput, extend produce shelf life, and minimize costs. 

For our coverage of Fabulous Food Plants this year, we decided to do something a little bit different in honor of “plants,” aka flora. When we think of food plants, we almost immediately think of processing facilities, but there’s so much more to food production than the processing plant. So, seeing how plant-based foods are altering the ways consumers think about protein, we decided to alter the way we think about food plants.

An open house for the Sturbridge, Mass., facility was held on October 20.

The company announced an energy-efficient heating, cooling and freezing solution that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels.

The service provides fresh storage options for major importers, grocers, and producers of fresh fruit and produce.

Aurora selected Westfalia to design, manufacture and install a second AS/RS within their new Columbia cold-storage warehouse, whose location was a greenfield site, offering flexibility in square footage, capacity and solution design.

Americold announced the grand opening of its newest facility in Dunkirk, N.Y. 

While market factors are driving rising demand for cold buildings, there are also practical reasons behind the need for newer, taller cold storage facilities.