First Food Hub tenants to have high-tech cold-room facility

Singapore

THE three food-processing businesses which inked tenancy agreements with JTC on Monday will have first dibs on the technology in the integrated cold room and warehouse facility (CWF) in the JTC Food Hub @ Senoko.

This CWF will offer, as part of its suite of services, a high-pressure processing service, a first in Singapore.

Third-party logistics provider StorBest, the appointed operator of the CWF, said high-pressure processing can extend the shelf life of foods by three to eight times.

Timothy Fang, its business manager, said: "This provides a new way of processing and reduces wastage of certain types of food…