HeaterMeals News

HeaterMeals & Red Cross Ship
1.3 Million Meals for Haiti Relief

1/20/10 - Forklifts are loading pallets of HeaterMeals onto waiting semis at our Cincinnati warehouse this week.  HeaterMeals is shipping 1.3 million meals as part of the effort to provide relief after the devasting earthquakes in Haiti.  Those meals are part of a stored inventory kept at the HeaterMeals warehouse by the American Red Cross.  The 1.3 million meals are part of a larger, 3 million meal shipment that the Red Cross, and the International Red Cross, will donate to the World Food Programme (WFP).  The WFP will then handle the logistics of transporting those meals to Haiti.       Trucks have been loading meals and rolling out of our warehouse since January 19.  By the end of the week, forty-six trucks will have picked up the 1.3 million meals and moved them to Antillean Marine Shipping in Miami, Florida.  There, the WFP took possession of the cargo and prepared it for shipping to Haiti.

      On January 18, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said in a released statement, “Within the next week, WFP (World Food Program) aims to move the equivalent of 10 million ready-to-eat meals so that [the Haitian] people whose homes have been destroyed, and who have no access to cooking facilities can feed their families.”  HeaterMeals has played a significant part in providing emergency meals to help accomplish that objective.

     Tim Zimmerman, President of HeaterMeals commented, “We’re very pleased and proud to assist in the effort of getting these meals to Haiti.  We value our relationship of over a decade with the Red Cross, we really believe in and support their efforts to assist those disadvantaged in Haiti.”

            HeaterMeals is part of Innotech Products Ltd., inventors of the Flameless Ration Heater (FRH) in 1990  Since that time, their patented TRUETECH™ Self-Heating Technology has heated over 1.5 Billion Meals Ready-To-Eat (MRE's) for the U.S. Armed Forces. 

     Over the last 16 years, our HeaterMeals, Self-Heating Meals, have made over 50 million meals for…..emergency preparedness and disaster support, etc.