Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-25
Exehange Builds
Juice Canning Plant

The Exchange Board of Directors
approved plans on January "a for
an orange juice canning plant to
be added to the facilities of the
Exchange Orange Products Com
pany at Ontario, California.
Your reporter stopped by there
one day last week to see how the
plant was coming along, and to
learn more about it.
If you've never visited "Orange
Products" you're going to be i'm
pressed when you do! The buildings,
tanks, machinery and loading docks
take up the better part of city
block. Makes you realize that the
processing of products fruit is a
large business in itself, and an i'm
portant part of the Exchange Op-
Grafton.
The new plant is going in just
south of the present buildings
and from the size of the excavation
and huge concrete piers already
poured. it was plain the finished
structure would be pretty imposing.
Counted Al of these big piers, nee
essary to support the heavy machin-
cry for extracting, pasteurizing and
canning orange juice.
By the time you read this the
building itself should be going up.
It's hoped the plant will be ready to
operate on or about July 1.
What interested your reporter
most was to find out Just why the
Exchange should be building a juice
canning plant, and especially at this
time.
One reason, according to H. S.
Bailey, manager of the Orange
Products Company, is that the de-
mand for citrus products is now ex-
tremely heavy, not only for govern
ment but for civilian use,. and this
expansion of facilities will enable
the Exchange to fill a larger share
of this demand.
But the main reason, the basic one,
goes back to the purpose of The
Exchange itself, iDItich is to secure
for its members, at all times, the beSt
possible return for their fruit. That
inpolDes, first OF all, selling their fruit
through fresh fruit channels at the
best possible prices. But 1t also means
that the best possible return must be
secured for the fruit that cannot be
sold II, fresh fruit channels.
The entire production policy of
the Exchange Orange Products
Company is planned to that end.
For example, the company recently
installed equipment for manufac-
turing molasses from which alcohol
is made. This helped meet big
wartime need, made use of waste
materials of oranges which were
formerly a disposal prOblem-and
increased the growers return. It's
because the company goes at things
this way that to date they've been
able to return over $20,000,000 to
Exchange growers.
Today canned orange juice gives
every indication of becoming a
large selling, big volume item. De-
mand has increased very greatly the
last few years. To assure the best
possible return on products fruit in
the future, Exchange growers want
to be in position to use for canned
orange juice grades and sizes not
desired by the fresh fruit market.
The new plant will provide excellent
modern facilities, from which the
Exchange can expand if the grow
ers' interests so require.
Just another example of the way
growers can insure their future by
working together through the
Exchange.
Merit report. in this paper t,oo
toeeks from today.
California Fruit Growers Exchsne.
sunkist Building, Los Angeles 50, caiifornL.
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