The fruit processor Tree Top, Inc., has opened a new facility for processing fresh-sliced apples at its main location in Selah, Washington, and has closed down its plant in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, where it used to slice the apples. Laura Prisc, corporate communications manager, said the Milton-Freewater facility used to house a blanched-frozen line and a cherry processing line, as well as the fresh-cut line. The aging facility could not be expanded and was not on the company’s normal traffic routes. In the case of fresh slices, the product was shipped from the Wenatchee or Yakima areas of Washington State to […]