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Almost every refrigerated or frozen food product must be stored, transported, and sold with suitable packaging. For manufacturers and retailers, that packaging must enable damage-free transport, ensure stability, be easy to stack, and be lightweight to keep transportation costs low.

The increased awareness, research, and corporate social responsibility regarding our effects on the environment means that now, more than ever, is the time to look for ways to improve energy efficiencies in cold chain transportation.

Why Greenleaf Foods sees ingredient transparency as the future of the plant-based category, and a core tenet of the company's clean-label strategy.

Almost every cold foods facility reaches a crossroads where a decision must be made to either move into a larger, new-build structure capable of handling a company’s business growth, or take the renovations route to update and expand an existing building.

How cold foods companies large and small are managing today's environmental expectations.

As demand for cold foods soared in 2020, so did the hours forklifts were used to load and unload goods. We look at what lift truck technology will help operators continue meeting the challenges of an accelerated cold chain.

Congratulations to the top-five winners in our 2021 Best New Frozen Retail Products Contest! These five companies pulled away from the pack of 20 nominated products in online voting from April 2 to May 2, and will be honored with individual Q&As in our July magazine. The #1 overall winner—Devanco Foods—is also featured in a special contest episode of our Cold Corner podcast. You can listen to Devanco's podcast here. 

New England Cold Storage (NECS) has secured debt financing with Rockland Trust Company for its first cold storage warehouse facility. The $22.9 million loan will go towards their new 120,252-square-foot public refrigerated warehouse that will provide cold storage and logistics services to food producers, processors, wholesalers, and importers. 

Wildgood, a plant-based ice cream and the first non-dairy frozen dessert made with extra virgin olive oil, can now be delivered directly to consumers' doors. The brand is offering nationwide shipping (with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii) for orders placed on the Wildgood website. This expansion comes on the heels of a successful grocery store roll-out in select stores across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region earlier this spring.

Monogram Foods has started construction on a new 135,000-square-foot production facility in Creek Brook Park, Haverhill, Massachusetts. Monogram has plant and warehousing facilities in Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Virginia and Wisconsin. This is Monogram’s 3rd Massachusetts location, and will feature 109,000 square feet of multi-temperature warehouse space, plus a 26,000-square-foot sandwich assembly area. The facility is expected to be completed by mid-2022.