Tree Top Offers Contract Manufacturing

Selah, WA - At a time when food and beverage companies are increasingly looking to outsource production, Tree Top, Inc., announced it is offering the professional services of its production facilities and staff to other food, beverage and ingredient manufacturers for contract manufacturing. Because Tree Top produces and distributes its own retail brands, it has the resources and experience to help food marketers with product needs as varied as concept ideation and distribution.

"While many contract manufacturers only offer blending, packaging and manufacturing services, Tree Top can help take an idea and make it reality," says Terry Morgan, Tree Top Contract Manufacturing Director. "Our development team has backgrounds in food science, chemistry, microbiology, nutrition, sensory, culinary and engineering, which they share with our contract manufacturing customers to help them create innovative beverage and fruit products."

Capabilties
With six modern processing plants on the West Coast, Tree Top can manufacture a wide range of fruit and beverage products and package them as desired in PET, polypro, glass, tin, composite cans, cups, aseptic juice boxes, pails, drums or totes. Tree Top's engineering and packaging experts can recommend packaging designs to ensure product integrity is maintained throughout product life cycles. Design recommendations consider ease-of-use and packaging appeal for the consumer.

Tree Top has the capabilities to manufacture allergen-free, organic, kosher and halal certified products. Quality standards are maintained using internal controls and third-party audits conducted by the American Institute of Baking (AIB) and the National Food Processors Association (NFPA) Safe Audit. "All of our plants have been rated, ‘superior,' by AIB," says Morgan.

Tree Top's years of experience in sourcing ingredients, packaging material, just-in-time manufacturing, production scheduling, inventory management equipped with electronic tracking, order processing, and transportation and distribution. Manufacturers can have projects managed from start to finish or they may choose from the following menu of services:

• Concept Development
  
• Formulation
  
• Package Design
  
• Manufacturing
  
• Quality Services
  
• Supply Chain Management

SOURCE: Tree Top, Inc.