The fruit giant will add a 300,000 square foot apple packing facility to their location on River Road in Yakima.

“We’re adding more packing capacity to handle our future growth and to ensure that we’re on the cutting edge of packing technology, not just with fruit quality in mind but food safety as well,” said Tommy Hanses, operations manager. “We’ve been running 20 hours a day, seven days a week on our existing line and want to maintain our ability to pack the crop to our customers’ exacting standards in future years.”

The new apple line should be complete by December 2015.

The expansion is part of a long-range expansion of the property that also includes controlled atmosphere storage, cherry packing and shipping facilities. Washington Fruit is also building a new headquarters onsite that will house their entire office staff as of October 2015.

 

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