Beating the odds to get Hex grapes out into the world
Hexkoel, the cold store for a good quarter of South Africa’s grapes, describes itself as a co-op still, the way they started forty years ago. Today the Western Cape facility has become indispensable, cooling and storing three-quarters of the grapes coming from 250 packhouses in the Hex and surrounds.
Hexkoel
Not only grapes, but since Covid Hexkoel has taken in pallets
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