<p>The debut of Stemlit’s new Thermal Tech Tarpless® ripening rooms at its Miller Street facility in Wenatchee, WA is the companies newest innovative undertaking. The rooms will continue to strengthen the company’s RipeRite® pear ripening program. These rooms uniformly ripen the d’Anjou and red d’Anjou pears with precise control over the temperature and humidity in the rooms. The new patented technology allows for the ripening process to be conducted more efficiently and without the classic tarp covering.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Roger Pepperl, Stemlit’s marketing director, stated, “We are really excited about the addition of the Tarpless® rooms and their ability to deliver an even better tasting pear to the marketplace.” Conditioned pears, like these produced by Stemlit, tend to increase sales for the pear’s category. The journey that brings consumers the ripened pears more efficiently and productively, is the one that will bring customers back to the store providing a quicker return rate and rising profits. With their new program and access to four pear packing lines, Stemilt can practice a considerable amount of flexibility in fulfilling orders for varieties like Bartlett and d’Anjou and specialty varieties like Seckel and Concorde.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Pear locales for the company have proven to be another complimentary element to business. The Upper Wenatchee River Valley and the Entiat River Valley provide<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">environments excellent for pear production. The area is surrounded by alpine mountains that protect trees from the summer heat and also supply the pears with clean water and high-quality air drainage. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>www.stemilt.com</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
