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Port of Chelan
Cashmere
The Port of Chelan County acquired the derelict Cashmere mill site
in 2008. After years of work, remediation and investment, the site
is now home to a thriving modern industrial park. Several tenants
have already made a home in the port’s buildings, including Hurst
International, maker of machines to produce labels for fruit.
Port of Chelan Business
Development Director Craig
Larsen on the floor of one of
the port’s two new business
park buildings.
Production Manager Alfredo Cruces started working
at Hurst International in shipping and receiving in
1986, and has worked with the printing field called
flexographics all his life. Based in California, he is in
Washington to train locals on use of this and other
machines that can print 10 to 12 million fruit labels a day.
“It’s a good machine,” Cruces said. “Very well made.”
Cory Murdock, area regional manager for
Hurst International, points to the labels
that his company’s machines can create,
with unique scannable codes that allow any
consumer with a smart phone to track the
date and place the fruit was harvested.