04Mar2010
Vendor Profiles
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Zero Mountain, Inc. is a service organization whose purpose is to allow our customers to fully utilize their production capabilities to produce food products. Our responsibility to our customers is to anticipate our customer’s needs, maintain inventories accurately, maintain product integrity, and solve shipping and receiving problems before our customers are aware that a problem exists. To accomplish these goals we must know our business better than anyone else in our industry, and we must know our customers’ business in order to anticipate their current and future need. Today’s modern food industry would not be possible without both the storage and distribution capabilities of lowtemperature storage and distribution facilities. In 1955 at Johnson, Arkansas, Zero Mountain undertook operations as the first commercial cold storage facility in Northwest Arkansas and one of the earliest in the nation. Beginning in what had been a limestone mine with 25,000 square feet of freezer space, the company has grown to more than 30 million cubic feet of below zero capacity with locations in Fort Smith, Johnson, Lowell and Russellville, Arkansas.
From the outset, Zero Mountain focused on superior performance in every area of its operation including quality and safety procedures to tracking and shipping systems. This has led to the company occupying a strategic position in the growth and development of the frozen food industry including blast or quickfreezing which can reduce food temperature from +40° F to 0° F in 48 hours. Currently, Zero Mountain freezes, stores, and ships an estimated two billion pounds of frozen food and meat annually for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Temperature control – All Zero Mountain storage areas are digitally controlled and kept within one-degree of required temperature at all times.
Inventory Control – Zero Mountain ranks at the top of the industry in inventory control. Products are stored exactly where they need to be in terms of temperature, need to recover, proper stacking and accessibility.
Quick Turnaround – Loading and unloading operations on low temperature docks are among the fastest and most accurate in the industry.
Cleanliness Certified – Zero Mountain consistently achieves the highest ratings available from the Independent American Sanitation Institute and meets all U.S.D.A. regulations.
Phone: 1-800-691-1010
Website: www.zeromtn.com
