Parlier, CA, November 15, 2022 – USDA-ARS researchers evaluating the efficacy of a hypobaric system as a solution to control spotted wing drosophila (SWD) on blueberries have found they can achieve 100% kill in less than a week. USDA has been searching for a chemical-free alternative to reduce the time highly perishable items must remain at […]
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Promising Results in USDA Disinfestation Trials Using RipeLockers to Control Spotted-Wing Drosophila
September 6, 2022 – 5:48 am
Seattle, WA, September 6, 2022 – RipeLocker broadens the use of its innovative system for senescence control and decay suppressant of perishables, to eliminate invasive fruit flies without the application of postharvest fumigants such as methyl bromide or required cold treatments at the port of loading. Disinfestation trials are being conducted by RipeLocker’s research partners […]
RipeLocker Raises $7.5M in a Friends and Family Round Before Its Scheduled Series A Round This Fall
August 15, 2022 – 11:30 am
Seattle, WA, August 15, 2022 – Growing sales combined with successful efficacy trials on several additional high-value commodities has excited the agricultural community and thrilled the company’s existing investors resulting in a small pre-Series A raise being over-subscribed. “Our goal was a small Friends and Family Raise to buy us time to complete our much […]
RipeLocker Closes Its First Multi-Unit Sales Deal with The Queen’s Flowers to Prolong Freshness of Fresh Cut Flowers
June 14, 2022 – 9:06 am
Seattle, WA—June 14, 2022 — RipeLocker announces it has closed its first purchase agreement with The Queen’s Flowers, a floral importer and grower in Colombia and Ecuador with wholesale and distribution warehouses across the U.S. An early adopter of RipeLocker’s green technology, The Queen’s Flowers saw the immense value created during initial commercial trials conducted […]
RipeLocker Partners with Wageningen University to Conduct Extensive Efficacy Trial Work in Europe
April 22, 2022 – 1:27 pm
RipeLocker is pleased to announce it has sent both commercial and R&D containers to Wageningen University & Research (WUR, the Netherlands) for extensive efficacy trial work in Europe on a variety of perishables. WUR has over 80 years of experience in post-harvest management and uniquely combines expertise in the field of physiology, cold chain technology, […]
Sorbatto Fresh to Scale Up RipeLocker Container Use – RipeLocker Containers Created Value from Otherwise Wasted Fruit
January 24, 2022 – 10:03 am
Seattle, WA—January 24, 2022— RipeLocker, an innovator in extending the postharvest life of perishables ramps up commercial sales of its containers to Sorbatto Fresh (formerly Blueberry Hill), an early adopter of the technology. As a heatwave hit Eastern Washington over the summer, it effected the blueberry harvest and flooded the market with fruit that yielded lower […]
What’s Being Done to Tighten Up the Supply Chain in the Food Industry
November 1, 2021 – 8:00 am
The current state of postharvest, as is often the case, revolves around three food issues — safety, quality, and waste. And then there is the current state of the world. “All these pressing issues in our pandemic world are accelerating investment in innovations for the postharvest packinghouse,” Ernest “Boomer” Cardinale, U.S. Director of Marketing and […]