Ground has officially been broken on substantial improvements to an Oliver packing, that should make the facility an industry leader in efficiency. A July 5 ceremony initiated a project that will see the BC Tree Fruits plant size almost double with improvements coming in robotics, packaging and grading equipment, increased storage capacity and health and safety standards.
Warren Sarafinchan, president and CEO of BC Tree Fruits Cooperative: “The investments will take approximately two years, and so for the 2024 crop we are expecting to have a good part of the work done. The new technology that we are putting in place is second to none . . . we are confident that the packaging lines and grading lines that we are putting in, there will be no one in the industry that will be as efficient as us, and we know that.”
The ground-breaking event was attended by numerous Oliver town councillors; Roly Russell, MLA for Boundary Similkameen; Richard Cannings, Member of Parliament for the South Okanagan, and the BC Tree Fruit Cooperative’s team.
Source: castanet.net
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