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Fruits and vegetables
A convenient containers for handling, transporting, and marketing fresh produce.
Plastic stretch film
-Stretch Film is an elastic plastic used to secure boxes and pallets, keeping them together and protecting them from water, moisture and dust.
Pallet Bins
-Substantial wooden pallet bins of milled lumber or plywood are used to move produce from the field or orchard to the packing house
Wire-Bound Crates
-wooden wire-bound crates are used extensively for snap beans, sweet corn and several other commodities that require hydrocooling.
-Wire-bound crates are sturdy, rigid and have high stacking strength, unaffected by water.
Wooden Crates and Lugs.
-Wooden crates, extensively used for apples, stone fruit, and potatoes have been almost totally replaced by other types of containers.
Wooden Baskets and Hampers
-Wire-reinforced wood veneer baskets and hampers of different sizes for a wide variety of crops from strawberries to sweet potatoes
Corrugated Fiberboard
-Corrugated fiberboard (cardboard or pasteboard) is manufactured in many different styles and weights.
Pulp Containers.
-Containers made from recycled paper pulp and a starch binder are mainly used for small consumer packages of fresh produce
Paper and Mesh Bags
-packs of potatoes and onions, cabbage, turnips, citrus, etc., and some specialty items.
Plastic Bags
-Plastic bags (polyethylene film) are the predominant material for fruit and vegetable consumer packaging.
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A large number of horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices and root crops, are produced for sale as fresh foods.