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P r o d u c e S h o w D a i l y 6 3 F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 2 3 , 2 0 1 5 SAN ANTONIO NOW HAS NEW WHOLESALE PRODUCE HUB The City of San Antonio, Texas is booming, and San Antonio Wholesale Produce Market is well positioned to make the most of the produce indus- try's next likely hot spot. San Antonio serves as a perfect regional hub for the distribution of fresh produce to all over Texas and central eastern United States due to its geographic location in relation to Mexico, where most produce imports come from, as well as its highway con- nectivity that facilitates the consolida- tion and distribution of north bound and south bound cargo. San Antonio finds itself the seventh-fastest growing city in the United States. Despite being neighbor to Austin and Houston, San Antonio has a vastly underserved met- ropolitan market without similar cold storage and distribution projects. Demand for fresh produce in San Antonio is in part fueled by the hospi- tality industry and food-related busi- nesses that serve the more than 26 mil- lion tourists the city receives each year. Different from current biggest Mexico/USA produce hubs that are McAllen, Texas and Nogales, Arizona, produce imports from Mexico can reach San Antonio through different ports of entry such as Pharr, Laredo, Eagle Pass and even El Paso. As high- way infrastructure improves in Mexico, connectivity of main pro- duce production regions with the United States, specifically with Texas, increases. This brings higher demand for storage and services on this side of the border. The San Antonio Wholesale Produce Market has seen great oppor- tunities to expand its business model beyond McAllen, Texas, were it has been successful for more than 20 years. San Antonio was the company's first and most promising expansion target. With this facility in San Antonio, the company allows produce importers, wholesalers and merchants to be closer to the biggest consumer markets in Texas, such as Houston, Austin and Dallas. It expects that the value added will have an effect on pricing for the benefit of the sellers that are setting their product apart from the competi- tion right on the border. The new San Antonio Wholesale Produce Market is strategically located right on South East Loop 410 that con- nects the city and provides easy access to Interstate 10 to get to Houston, Interstate 35 coming from Laredo, passing through Austin and Dallas all the way to Canada, and Interstate 37 coming from McAllen/Pharr and Corpus Christi. To learn more about San Antonio Wholesale Produce Market, visit booth #2715 at PMA Fresh Summit. Visit www.sawpm.com/en or call Luz Moreno at 210.865.0683. IMAGE PLASTICS AND PACKAGING JOINS PEAKFRESH USA Image Plastic and Packaging's (IPP) complete line of packaging products for the produce and food industry is being featured this year. Since 2002, IPP has supplied packaging to a variety of industries across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, with a strong presence in the food industry. For seven years, IPP was the only U.S. manufacturer of RPCs. The company started working on RPC film with Kroger in mind. The only product available was from over- seas with low quality and high field waste. IPP created a film that could stretch, yet not tear, and would have memory in the elasticity to return to the original shape after placement on a container. Because of competitiveness in pricing from Asia last year, the com- pany partnered with an overseas manu- facturer to create the same innovative, reliable product at a lower cost for cus- tomers while maintaining the quality and little to no field waste that they came to expect. Knowing that many produce com- panies are expanding their offerings to increase competitiveness, IPP expand- ed offerings to provide you ease and one-stop shopping. IPP features a com- plete line of stand-up pouches that can be used in the fresh produce and food industry. The company offers a rein- forced single-ply header pouch which can be used with a zipper and slider, a large freezer pouch line – either in stand-up or flat with zipper or plain; high clarity Modified Atmosphere (MAP) stand-up pouches; bar- rier pouches and cooking-bak- ing bags, as well as microwave, steam and soup- pouch bags, which are very popular in the U.S. and Europe. IPP also has expanded its capabilities to supply, at competitive pricing, an extensive line of thermal transfer, direct thermal, color and specialty labels and thermal transfer ribbons for the produce and food industry. IPP recently teamed up with one of the largest stretch film manufacturers in the U.S. and now offers a full line of machine and hand-held stretch films for all your needs. Since the last PMA show, PEAKfresh has increased its sales in all pallet cover styles, vented and non- together with fully closed for longer berry storage. The strawberry industry has always been a large share of IPP's business; however, now it has expand- ed to provide a variety of produce suppliers with vented covers for mixed loads, exotic fruit, greens and many other products. Not only do they provide longer shelf life, but PEAKfresh pallet covers cre- ate the high humidity levels that pro- duce needs to survive longer hours in refrigeration and breaks in the cold chain during transport. Our PEAKfresh Box Liner busi- ness is expanding with re-packers and growers for long distance shipping. And the company now supplies many farm-to-home-type shippers with its liner products and small home-use bags for their most delicate products like berries and greens. For more information, visit booth #4632, go online to www.peak freshusa.com or visit www.image plasticsandpkg.com. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF ALL INVENTION: THE C3 SAFETY ROPE FOR COMPLETE CART CONTROL A typical supermarket must retrieve over 5000 shopping carts from the parking lot each week – and that's if only 33 percent of customers use a cart (based on 2013 FMI Supermarket Facts: A median week- ly sales of $482,160 per supermarket with an average of $30.62 in sales per transaction). Unfortunately, cart attendants rou- tinely injure themselves from the physi- cal strain of pushing and especially turn- ing a heavy line of shopping carts. Also, shopping carts routinely get away from attendants, occasionally striking cars or people. The C3 Safety Rope for Front-end Operations The patented C3 Caster-lift Shopping Cart Safety Rope is an elegant, innova- tive solution to serious issues associated with shopping cart retrieval, which is labor-intensive, physi- cally demanding and hazardous to property and guests. The C3 Safety Rope was developed with the cart attendant in mind, to make their job easi- er, safer and more pro- ductive. The Benefits of the C3 Safety Rope The patented C3 Safety Rope has become an industry standard among the nation's leading grocers and retailers thanks to its compelling benefits. It reduces costly wear-and-tear on non-pivoting casters (flat spots created by scraping a line of casters laterally while maneuvering them). It increases pro- ductivity – thanks to reduced fatigue and the fact that more carts can safely be retrieved per trip. It reduces the likelihood that an employee will sustain a strain-induced injury from pushing a line of carts. It reduces company costs related to runaway shopping carts. For more information and to try the C3 Safety Rope today or go to C3LLC.com. including carry handle, zippered and die- cuts, finding the right bagging solution is important. Engineered for easy servicing and quick sanitation, WeighPack's R2B HFS for roll-stock film and Swifty Bagger for pre-made pouches offer mid-range to high speed production rates. Operators will appreciate the straight flow design of both the R2B and Swifty Bagger, as it allows for complete visibility and acces- sibility of parts. Large removable access panels in both the front and back of the machines make them extremely easy to set up and clean. The Swifty Bagger is designed to open, fill and seal pre-made pouches. Available in three models, the affordable Swifty Junior is for small and medium requirements and the Swifty 1200 and 3600 series are for high performance applications. The R2B Horizontal Form, Fill and Seal Bagger significantly reduces materi- Solutions (Cont'd. from p. 1) al cost by using laminated roll stock film. Capable of reaching mechanical rates of 100 cycles per minute, this high perform- ance servo-driven HFS bagger is avail- able in two different models. The R2B 1200 is capable of producing a 6 to 12 inches wide by 8 to 18 inches long bag, while the R2B 3600 can produce a 3.5 to 8 inches wide by 6 to 11 inches long bag. About WeighPack Systems WeighPack, a Paxiom Group company, is a manufacturer and systems provider of state of the art quality packaging solu- tions that include filling, bagging, wrap- ping, conveying, case erecting and robot- ic palletizing. For more than 20 years, WeighPack Systems has delivered thousands of packaging systems throughout the world for varied and diverse applications. From line layout design, manufacturing, instal- lation, training and after sales technical support, WeighPack provides its cus- tomers complete system responsibility and accountability.