The Crains’ commitment to staying on the cutting edge of the latest available technology led to the purchase of laser sorting equipment. Additional equipment and technology upgrades, including our most recent installation of a “soft-ray” x-ray inspection system, continue to increase efficiency and quality statistics. The corresponding savings in labor costs allows CWS to offer these high end products at very reasonable and competitive prices. Vertically integrated, CWS offers options to purchase product in bulk bins, cartons and retail cello bags.

Our packaging equipment has the capacity to produce both “zip-lock” and pillow bags. Give-away packaging costs are controlled with a highly accurate weight system, eliminating the passed-on cost to the buyer. Ever increasing storage and processing capacity provides the ability to hold the meats in their most stable natural in-shell state until it is ready to be processed for year-round delivery.

Crain’s Vacuum Fumigation and Propylene Oxide (PPO) sterilization chambers can achieve virtually any micro-biological requirement, export protocol and 5-log kill. Certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), this single use facility is the largest of its type in California.