Holtzinger Fruit Company has installed a state-of-the-art packing line specially for Rainier cherries. Holtzinger Fruit Company in Yakima, Washington, has installed a state-of-the-art packing line for Rainier cherries that includes optical scanning for color sorting and sizing and speeds up the packing process. The company is also testing new equipment for defect sorting and hopes soon to have equipment to determine cherry sweetness as they go across the line. Scott Hanses, sales manager, said many packers still sort and size Rainier cherries by hand because of how fragile the pale-skinned variety is, compared with red cherries. However, Holtzinger’s new equipment […]