Madisonville is one of nine Monterey Mushrooms growing operations located across the country. Their fleet of trucks and refrigerated trailers service all of Texas and ships east to New Orleans, Louisiana, west to Phoenix, Arizona, and north to Denver, Colorado.
This new "green" packaging replaces the polystyrene foam packaging used in the industry for decades. A mixture of peat moss, limestone and water is applied to the top of the tray. The spawn starts to grow in the mixture and, in a few days, the environment is carefully controlled to encourage the mushrooms to reach maturity.
The mushrooms are then picked, according to size and maturity, and hand sorted into baskets. The compost is used for three growing cycles before being sold to local organizations. The entire process takes about seven to eight weeks from first making compost to picking mushrooms. Packaging thousands of pounds of mushrooms every day is no small feat. To aide in that process, the company embarked on a renovation plan two years ago to add new dry storage space, new cooler and additional docks, as well as redesigning its packaging lines for improved efficiencies.
As part of the new packaging lines, Monterey Mushrooms selected a mix of nearly 30 AquaPruf and AquaGard sanitary conveyors from Dorner. The conveyors are part of a four-lane packaging line, each stretching about 50 feet in length.
Several weight stations are positioned alongside the conveyors to allow employees to pack and weigh containers of mushrooms. Since the application called for the conveyors to be used both before and after mushrooms are wrapped and packaged, different levels of sanitary requirements were needed in the conveyor system.
On the pre-packaged side, conveyors are required to be fully washed down and sanitized daily; conveyors used for moving wrapped mushrooms require a less stringent level of. Redd worked with Steve Averdick from Belcorp, Inc.
The AquaGard platform of stainless steel conveyors offer flexibility for a wide variety of products and applications, while increasing throughput and reducing product loss. Overview We provide all major US cities with fresh, locally-grown mushrooms year-round. Our products include vitamin D, certified organic, whole and sliced.
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