FreshPak Inc. has installed a new Spectrim grader from Compac Sorting Equipment, said Jackson Hall, partner at Hoople-based Hall’s, which owns H&S FreshPak with O.C. Schulz & Sons Inc., Crystal, N.D.
Retailers saw a jump in sales of packaged produce when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted and shoppers tried to avoid picking up product that others may have touched. Now there’s another reason to buy packaged product.
This year, bolstered by funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a record $703 million to ports through the Port Infrastructure Development Program.
