McCain Foods Australia and the storage and logistic giant NewCold signed a 10-year agreement to store the frozen food company’s products at a new Truganina warehouse, a rural-urban fringe suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

McCain Foods supply chain director Taso Kourou said the deal would significantly improve distribution, making it possible for the company to better meet demand from domestic and international customers.

“The storage and handling of McCain’s frozen products in the new automated facility will give us a more stable temperature regime and highly accurate stock control,” he said, according to the local press.

A new warehouse will use unmanned stacker cranes, conveyors and automated truck unloading systems to handle more than 11,000 pallets of food products a day.

The NewCold warehouse is currently under construction, and is due to open for business by July this year.

The USD100m Truganina build will also house the NewCold Asia-Pacific headquarters, with more than 120 full-time positions, once the building at the corner of Robinsons and Middle roads opens.

Source: http://www.starweekly.com.au/news/cool-storage-hot-deal-for-mccain/