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Milne
Fruit Products, Inc. has continued it’s “Concentrated
Excellence” approach to operations by constantly
updating it’s various facilities over the forty-five plus years
of growth.
Today, Milne’s facilities are modern, strategically
equipped with state-of-the-art technologies in a unidirectional, continuous-flow
manufacturing process and a plant design that assures proper sanitation.
This guarantees favorable production efficiencies, quality product processing,
and continual development of a low-cost operation.
Milne operates from a single production site and the
facilities include the following:
- 8.5 acres of land. Click for facility site map
and building list.
- Located in south central Washington State, in the city of Prosser
on the Yakima river and 25 miles north of the Columbia river.
Click for location map.
- About 140 miles from the export facilities of Seattle, WA and
Portland, OR.
- One mile from I-82 (exit #80); 80 miles from I-90 @ Ellensburg,
WA and 40 miles from I-84 @ Hermiston, OR.
- Situated on a main railroad line of the BNSF.
- 2.5 million gallons of refrigerated tank storage
- Including 46,000 gallons in the blending room area.
- 40,000 sq.ft. of processing space
- Including 10,000 sq.ft. devoted exclusive to custom blending
and premixes.
- 17,500 sq.ft. of freezer and shipment staging area.
- Ample open paved spaces for:
- the egress and ingress of commercial truck traffic.
- the tempering and preparation of raw fruit for dumping at the
stainless steel receiving hopper.
- Licensed / commercial grade truck scale for actuate accounting
of in & out shipments.
- All major production processes are fully computer automated, from
the raw fruit receiving function to the evaporation process. All are
set up with touch screen computer technology.
- Utilization of a preventive plant-wide maintenance and cost control
software system (“Maximo”) to guarantee continual updates
and scheduled repairs, while developing accountability and traceability
of parts and labor spent.
- A unique combination of equipment and processes for the wide variety
of the10-plus fruits produced are:
- For juice: drag screens, primary presses, leaching presses,
Westphalia decanters and centrifuges, pressure leaf filters, and
micro-filters.
- For purees, tightly specified in-series finishers
- Also, modernized evaporators with superior essence recovery
capabilities for purees and juices.
- Please review our puree and juice process flow chart for the
equipment’s functionality.
- Company, process, and product attributes:
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