Conrad & Adams Install New Packing Line in Time for Early Apple Season
GRANDVIEW, WA - Get ready for more apples, faster. Conrad & Adams Fruit, the grower-shipper based in Washington state, has officially installed a new apple packing line that will substantially increase the number of bins per hour produced.
“We literally finished packing on a Friday, and they started deconstructing our old line on Saturday so we’d be ready for new crop apples in August,” said Conrad & Adams Fruit Salesperson Carrie Koerner. “Time was of the essence, as the apple crop harvest about 10 days earlier than normal so we didn’t have any wiggle room in the construction process.”
Construction of the new line started this May 1, right after the company finished packing apples from the 2014 harvest, according to a press release. Incorporating the latest internal and external sorting technology, this new technology is expected to double the amount of bins per hour the company can run.
Formed in 2008, Conrad & Adams has been a grower, packer, and shipper of conventional and organic apples, conventional and organic pears, cherries, peaches, nectarines, Italian prunes and plums out of the Yakima Valley. The company operates in the former Snokist and Andrus & Roberts warehouses in Grandview and Sunnyside.
