Washington-based Stemilt Growers LLC is introducing two new ripening rooms to its Miller Street packing facility, The Packer has reported.
The rooms can handle a combined 88 pallets, or 5,000 boxes, at any one time, the group revealed.
Stemilt has been conditioning pears for around seven years, the group's communications manager Brianna Shales told The Packer, adding that conditioned pears increased sales by 10-15 per cent compared with unconditioned fruit.
'The rooms allow the pears to be conditioned in a very even way and a lot quicker then we were doing before,' she said.
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