Intralox Case Study: Washington Fruit & RH Brown | Intralox Customer Objectives Washington Fruit Company grows, packs, and ships premium produce to customers around the world. When the company built a new apple-processing facility more than five years ago, it turned to R.H. Brown Co.—a Seattle-based material handling integrator with more than 100 years of industry experience— to handle the design and layout of its conveyance equipment. Recently, the two companies partnered again to develop a new facility that would handle high-volume fruit distribution in Yakima, Washington. The project presented unfamiliar challenges. The apples were to be packaged into cartons that measured 22 in x 16 in x 14 in (55.9 cm x 40.6 cm x 35.6 cm) and weighed approximately 40 lb (18.1 kg) apiece. To achieve su

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