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Holiday Hours as We Cheer In the New Year

Company News & UpdatesBy Jason BoistureDecember 23, 2020

We would like to wish a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a warm, safe holiday season to everyone we have served and come into contact with over the course of this rollercoaster of a year. What a journey 2020 has been! We would also like to let you know that, once again, we will…

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Can COVID-19 Live on Frozen Food Packaging? China Says Yes

IndustryBy Jason BoistureNovember 30, 2020

Officials in China claim they have repeatedly found the coronavirus on packages of frozen food imported from nearly two dozen countries and have thrown out product and disinfected more than 100 cold storage facilities, according to multiple reports. Packaging initially became a suspected cause of virus transmission in June at some wholesale food markets, when…

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Garlic Cold Storage Season in China Kicks Off Period of Price Instability

ProduceBy Jason BoistureOctober 30, 2020

No one grows more garlic than China, which exports twice as much of the edible bulb as the rest world combined. Suppliers there begin putting garlic in cold storage in September to prevent garlic bulbs from germinating, preserving them for sales into the winter and spring months. While in cold storage, garlic is usually kept…

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Our Tracking and Tracing Keeps Everything in Order

AmenitiesBy Jason BoistureSeptember 30, 2020

At Washington Cold Storage, we understand the strict requirements related to the dating, tracking and tracing of the products we store in our facilities. Our online inventory is an important amenity to many of the customers who choose to partner with us. Many of our customers must have instant access to a real-time count of…

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Could the Need for Extreme Cold Storage Hinder Vaccine Rollout?

DistributionBy Jason BoistureAugust 31, 2020

Biotech companies are racing to push their candidates for a coronavirus vaccine through clinical trial stages. And, if successful, these companies have promised large scale supply rollouts. But, according to Fierce Pharma, two frontrunners for a vaccine may be have a difficult time generating the many millions of doses promised due to a need for…

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Sudden Online Ordering Boom Impacting Cold Chain Future

IndustryBy Jason BoistureJuly 31, 2020

The sudden increase in online sales of essential goods in 2020 has caused suppliers to scramble for warehouse space and think again about how their supply chains need to be modified to meet growing demand, the real estate services company JLL said in a recent report on the changing landscape of industrial real estate. Online…

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Why Are Beekeepers Buzzing About Cold Storage?

IndustryBy Gabe TurnerJune 29, 2020

When you think of goods being checked into cold storage, you typically think of chicken and cheese, berries and beef. We even devoted a blog post to the subject, where we revealed refrigerated warehouses like ours can be in demand to store everything from dairy to drugs. But did we forget anything? How about bees?…

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Where’s the Beef? It’s In Cold Storage

Stock StatisticsBy Jason BoistureMay 27, 2020

Beef is piling up in cold storage facilities across the nation despite processing slowdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Service reported this month that cold storage stocks of beef reached 490 million pounds in April. That’s 13.9 percent higher than one year ago and 6 percent higher…

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Washington Cold Storage Adapts to Coronavirus Pandemic

Company News & UpdatesBy Jason BoistureApril 29, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to change the way we work and relate to one another around the world, business remains brisk here at Washington Cold Storage, and we have adapted the way we work and serve our clients to ensure health and safety is being prioritized first and foremost. For drivers who come into…

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Food Supply Chain Humming Along as Coronavirus Tests Limits

LogisticsBy Jason BoistureMarch 30, 2020

While the coronavirus has slowed business activity — in many cases, to a halt — the food supply chain has been working overtime to get food to grocery stores as demand is clearing shelves. Agriculture producers and processing plants are putting in extra hours to get food to market, according to the Wall Street Journal,…

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