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The latest offering from Sutter Home has the evening news talking. Packaging like that shown in this clip is well within CNP's aseptic manufacturing capabilities.
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A profile of California Natural Products from Food and Drink Quarterly.
Interview With Chief Operating Officer Marc Weinstein
CNP produces a broad range of aseptic beverages and food ingredients from both conventional and organic rice, soy and fresh vegetables. An aseptic product is defined as commercially sterile (sterilized product combined with sterilized packaging under sterile conditions), explains company Chief Operating Officer Marc Weinstein.
“The product tastes great, requires no refrigeration and lasts a very long time, until the package is opened,” he adds. The company produces and/or packages many products in aseptic packaging, including wine, rice beverages, soy beverages, teas, soups, broths, nutritional drinks, and meal replacement products. Ease of opening and re-closing, along with ease of storage and disposal, are additional benefits.
Offerings
CNP also offers in-house electrical, mechanical, drafting and process engineering, which enables rapid production scale-up. “Not many companies offer these services in-house. Many times customers have to go outside for them, which adds to response time. We can save our customers valuable time,” Weinstein explains.
It’s these offerings, along with the company’s extraction, processing/packaging, food science, manufacturing excellence and cutting-edge research and development, that Weinstein believes sets CNP apart from its competitors. “We can help customers meet their target markets for development,” he says.
“For example, some of our customers were limited to making products using the ingredients available to them. We have the capability to create formulas and make ingredients for our customers. So if a customer wants to make a new protein drink, we can make the right ingredients available, or if a customer wants a product with a longer shelf life, we can help them achieve that goal. ”
CNP
has also been able to attract workers from Fortune 500
companies, bringing “experience
to our company that our competitors don’t have,” Weinstein
says. All of these features, Weinstein believes, add to the company’s
attractiveness. “We
want potential customers to know that we have a passion
to achieve benchmark performance. We are committed to being the
best in the industry, and we will achieve our customers’ desired
results.”