Sierra Pacific Refrigerated Services and Traina Foods formed Traina Pacific to buy a 100,000-square-foot refrigerated warehouse, other warehouses and the repackaging area, according to Sierra Pacific Chief Executive Officer Chris Murphy.
Murphy said Sierra Pacific and Traina Foods will continue as separate businesses and operate independently. "We are each going to expand our existing businesses into this new space we purchased," Murphy said. He declined to reveal the sales price.
Patterson Vegetable Co. closed in June after union workers rejected cuts in wages and benefits to pay for plant upgrades, according to company CEO Eric Schwartz. Traina Pacific bought part of the facility from San Francisco-based auction house Rabin Worldwide, which had taken over the closed plant.
Sierra Pacific has facilities in Patterson, Turlock, Stockton and Modesto and provides refrigerated warehousing services to national food service companies, such as Sysco. Its 140,000-square-foot warehouse in Patterson is next door to the Patterson Vegetable Co. facility, but Murphy said his company has outgrown the site.
Traina Foods, also based in Patterson, grows, sun-dries and packages fruit and vegetable products, including sun-dried tomatoes. The business was started in 1926 and serves industrial food ingredient and food service companies.
