Houweling’s Group features paperboard top-seal punnets
With greenhouse farms in Camarillo, Calif., Mona, Utah, and Delta, British Columbia, Houweling’s Group featured paperboard top-seal punnets at its virtual booth at Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit 2020.
The packaging uses 90% less plastic compared to traditional 1-pound clamshells.
The company grows tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers at its farms, plus with partners across North America.
Houweling's Group booth staff also discussed a partnership with Apeel Sciences for plastic-free English cucumbers.
Every 500,000 cases of Apeel English cucumbers shipped eliminates the equivalent of 820,000 single-use plastic water bottles.
It reduces greenhouse gas emissions that would be equal to planting 790 trees, according to Houweling’s.
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