Stemilt Inaugurates IG International’s newly acquired cold store facility

Mr. Tate Mathison, President, Stemilt Growers and Mr. William P Young, Export Manager, Stemilt Growers, during their visit to India inaugurated IG International’s newly acquired facility in Mumbai.

This cold store facility was earlier being operated by a leading cold chain company named ‘Kelvin’ and IGIPL will be using it for the handling and storage of fresh produce. The 4000 pallet facility has an area of 5000 square metres located in a 7000 square metre plot. It can maintain temperatures inside ranging from -20 to 20 degrees.

With this 16th cold store facility IG becomes the second largest cold chain company in India, said Mr. Tarun Arora, Director, IG International Pvt. Ltd. Looking at the yearly growth in the fresh produce sector, goal is to become the largest cold chain company in India in Fresh Produce industry by the year 2020 with a total capacity of 65000 pallets, he added.

Stemilt Growers is proud to be invited to participate in the inauguration of IG International’s newest cold storage facility in Mumbai. IG’s leadership in cold-chain maintenance continues to allow us to provide the best quality Word Famous Fruit for the eating pleasure of the Indian Consumer said Mr. William P Young, Exports manager, Stemilt Growers.

Until now, the company has facilities in Mumbai, Panvel, Bangalore, Chennai, Amravati, Jaipur, Ganaur, Chandigarh and this is the fourth facility in Mumbai.

Future plans include the upcoming project at Krishnapatnam which will be up and ready to use by March’18, the other ventures include facilities at Kolkata and Delhi.