Mr. Tate Mathison, President, Stemilt
Growers and Mr. William P Young, Export Manager, Stemilt Growers, during their
visit to India inaugurated IG International’s newly acquired facility in
Mumbai.
This cold store facility was earlier
being operated by a leading cold chain company named ‘Kelvin’ and IGIPL will be
using it for the handling and storage of fresh produce. The 4000 pallet
facility has an area of 5000 square metres located in a 7000 square metre plot.
It can maintain temperatures inside ranging from -20 to 20 degrees.
With this 16th cold store facility IG
becomes the second largest cold chain company in India, said Mr. Tarun Arora,
Director, IG International Pvt. Ltd. Looking at the yearly growth in the fresh
produce sector, goal is to become the largest cold chain company in India in
Fresh Produce industry by the year 2020 with a total capacity of 65000 pallets,
he added.
Stemilt Growers is proud to be
invited to participate in the inauguration of IG International’s newest cold
storage facility in Mumbai. IG’s leadership in cold-chain maintenance continues
to allow us to provide the best quality Word Famous Fruit for the eating
pleasure of the Indian Consumer said Mr. William P Young, Exports manager,
Stemilt Growers.
Until now, the company has facilities
in Mumbai, Panvel, Bangalore, Chennai, Amravati, Jaipur, Ganaur, Chandigarh and
this is the fourth facility in Mumbai.
Future plans include the upcoming
project at Krishnapatnam which will be up and ready to use by March’18, the
other ventures include facilities at Kolkata and Delhi.
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