Handwashing stations with turnstiles. Rollers that line up pears for infrared sorting. Automated refrigerated storage retrieval.Mount Adams Fruit has all that and more, as the Bingen, Washington, fruitcompany moves ahead with a new pear packing facility that replaced the one destroyed by fire in 2017. Meanwhile, other pear packing houses are following suit with similar investments.New technology, the kind that has boosted efficiencies and improved consistency and quality in apples and cherries, is on the wish list and business plans of many a pear packer. In fact, Mount Adams had installed a new line, which was lost, about 18 months before the fire andhad been contemplating a new building within the next 10 years.
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