CPK - August 2018

Canadian machinery manufacturer

Nuspark setting fast pace for industry’s automation transformation

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GATEWAY TO A SMARTER FUTURE

The Internet of Things is transforming manufacturing operations on the factory floor – and we’ve developed a solution to accelerate its adoption. The benefits of internet enablement in manufacturing industries are well known.The Internet of Things (IoT) can bring production equipment online so that, once isolated machinery, can now be interrogated, monitored and managed remotely or from a central control point on-site.

However, many industrial plants haven’t caught up with the digital age yet.What’s needed is a simple and streamlined approach to the introduction of this new technology – and that’s just what the IoT Gateway from Rexroth aims to provide.

The IoT Gateway works with OPC UA, the open Industry 4.0 standard. It sits between devices such as sensors and process controllers on the one hand and processing applications on the other. It’s a building block that enables machine builders to add knowledge and connect equipment that can then be sold to their manufacturing customers.

USING THE IOT GATEWAY

The technology is already being applied or tested in several sectors, including automotive, furniture and consumer manufacturing. One of our customers in the packaging industry, Bosch Packaging Technology, has been using the IoT Gateway to monitor equipment performance and make small remote adjustments to improve productivity, quality and efficiency.

A team of experts scoped the project, embedded the sensors, installed the IoT Gateway, configured the network, tested connections and commissioned the solution.

The IoT Gateway itself, comprising the host hardware, bus housing and peripherals, gathers the sensor and controller data, filters it as required and forwards it to a central control point for analysis of parameters including torque, safety clearances, acceleration data, humidity and temperature. The system then compares performance against target production values and recommends a course of action as required: for instance, the callout of an engineer for service or re-

pair. This analysis is conducted not just for live data but over time, so trends can be identified to make continuous improvements.

LOOKING AHEAD

Our plan is to provide connectivity to machinery in all areas of factory automation, and we have a worldwide infrastructure of experts, services and support that can work with equipment manufacturers everywhere to make IoT enablement a reality.

“Now machine builders will be able to offer something new to their customers that’s powerful, productive and smart,” says Hans Michael Krause, our Director of Market and Product Management PLC and IoT Systems.

Article by Hans Michael Krause, Director of Market and Product Management, PLC and IoT Systems

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ROGUE TRADER JUST GETTING STARTED

It may have been slightly amusing and entertaining at first, but the U.S. president Donald Trump’s intensifying efforts to disrupt continental and global trade flows through heavy-handed imposition of punishing tariffs on just about every conceivable essential commodity and manufactured goods has long lost its early charm of shock value.

Seeing that the widely reported 10-percent spike in the price of Coca-Cola cans in the U.S. itself—a direct consequence of hefty tariffs applied to imported aluminum and steel—was never going to be enough to entice this White House administration to give its trade policy a sober second thought, Canadian companies weaned on export sales to the U.S. will be wise to prepare themselves for some serious turbulence and market share erosion in the months ahead.

This is particularly true for Canadian exporters of steel and aluminum—slapped with hefty 25- and 10-percent tariffs respectively—along with producers of softwood lumber and uncoated newsprint, who will have to find ways to cope with tariff hikes of up to 20 per cent. And things are likely to get far worse if and when the widely rumoured 25-percent tariffs on cars and auto parts come into effect, as promised.

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Given the country’s less-than-rosy full-time employment numbers, fickle consumer confidence and virtually no real growth in disposable income, this rather unfortunate series of events may yet manifest itself in a made-abroad consumer recession that is the very last thing the country needs right now.

According to a new report from leading U.S. market research firm The Freedonia Group, the real effect of Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs so far is largely symbolic, and symbolism, we all know, does not really pay the rent at day’s end.

“Though Canada taxed additional goods largely to meet U.S tariffs with equal force, in general the country focused on consumer goods in an effort to strike at the heart of U.S. consumerism in hopes economic stress will incite the public to pressure the U.S government to end its current tariff policies,” says The Freedonia study, titled U.S. & Canada: Tariff Impact Report. “More specifically, it sent a direct political message to important senators, congressmen, and members of the Trump administration by targeting products sourced from their states and districts.”

This may or may not work in the long run, but with the U.S. mid-term elections now only a few weeks away, let’s at least give hope a chance, eh?

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While Ottawa’s response has so far been reasonably measured in the grand scheme of things, most of the countervailing duties it has enacted so far have been limited to consumer goods—household appliances, yogurt, whiskies, non-alcoholic beverages, beef, plastic bags, paper/paperboard and personal-care items—meaning that average Canadian consumers will bear the brunt of the inevitable price inflation.

COVER STORY

17 GET CRACKING! by George Guidoni

Relentless innovation and meticulous attention to detail help Toronto-based packaging machinery manufacturer accelerate its brisk growth in global markets. Cover photography by Naomi Hiltz 5 UPFRONT By George Guidoni 6 NEWSPACK

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Packaging news round-up.

8-10 NOTES & QUOTES

Noteworthy industry briefs.

12-13 FIRST GLANCE

New solutions for packaging applications.

14-15 imPACt

A monthly insight from PAC, Packaging Consortium

83 PEOPLE Career moves in packaging world.

83 EVENTS

Upcoming industry functions.

36 CHECKOUT By Elena Langlois

Hardworking Quebec dairy product manufacturer literally captures packaging lighting in a bottle with new premium

30 A BERRY GOOD IDEA By Pierre Deschamps

Organic dairy farmer aims to extend its market reach for premium-quality yogurts through thoughtful packaging line automation.

34 BUILDING A FORTRESS By George Guidoni

Canadian metal detection technology innovator serves up a masterclass of cutting-edge technological prowess and worldclass customer service.

38 HAPPY ENDINGS By George Guidoni

Quebec manufacturer of stretchwrapping machinery makes impressive market inroads despite being a relative newcomer to the industry.

40 DAY AT THE RACES By George Guidoni

Automation giant Schneider Electric eager to set the pace and agenda in the unfolding digitalization renaissance.

45 PLEASED TO MEAT YOU!

Leading meat industry stalwarts team up to serve up a sizzling display of new-generation processing and packaging technologies.

47 THE SPICIER THE BETTER

Leading Canadian packaging and graphic arts distributor just keeps getting better with age.

BON APPETIT! By George Guidoni

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LEADING TORONTO CRAFT BREWER MAKING CLEAR CASE FOR MORE PRODUCT TRANSPARENCY WITH A VIBRANT PACKAGING REFRESH

Beer is beer, some may say, but with Canadian brewers allowed to use over 100 different ingredients to make their studs, how can consumers really be sure about what they are in fact consuming over a cold one, or not?

For Toronto-based craft brewing stalwart Steam Whistle Brewing, such ambiguity has no place in a market increasingly driven by consumers’ demands for greater product transparency, and its latest packaging update is a telling testament to the privately-owned company’s nothing-to-hide mindset.

Launched in early July, the new packaging look for the company’s flagship Steam Whistle Pilsner features what’s claimed to be the first nutritional and ingredients label for a beer product—applied to the secondary packaging— along with a streamlined and more prominent display of the iconic steam whistle graphic as the centerpiece of the company’s logo.

“Canadian brewers are not required to list their ingredients on their label, but we are proud of what goes in our beer and, almost more importantly, what doesn’t go into our beer,” says Steam Whistle’s director of marketing Tim McLaughlin.

“The government may permit brewers to use up to 109 ingredients in the making of beer, including foam enhancers, corn syrup, filler, additives and artificial flavors,” McLaughlin points out. “It makes you wonder, ‘If no one else is listing their ingredients, then what is in your beer?”

Now incorporating platinum as a complementing brand color to enhance the brand’s traditional bright-green backdrop, the label also features a newly added Canada’s Premium Pilsner tagline to reflect the use of top-quality ingredients, according to McLaughlin.

“We have also introduced platinum-colored caps to our beer bottles and platinum rims to our branded glassware,” he notes, “but the most notable changes have

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been made to our cans and beer cases, which is where consumers will find our all-new, voluntary ingredients disclose and nutritional information.”

While the company used in-house creative talent to update the 355-ml and 473-ml can graphics, it also collaborated with the Torontobased studio Blacksmith Design Co. Ltd. to extend the message and additional product information onto the company’s secondary packaging— namely the pre-printed stretch film used for canned six-packs, and the signature briefcase-style corrugated cases with built-in carrying handles. (See Picture)

Produced and printed for Steam Whistle by the brewer’s long-time packaging partner Packaging Technologies Inc. (PTI) in Concord, Ont., the cases now feature a standard Nutrition Facts box—mandatory for the vast majority of food products sold in Canada—and an accompanying product disclosure proclaiming the absence of any GMOs (generically-modified organisms), artificial preservatives, corn syrup or foam enhancers from the products.

While incorporating a more playful graphic display of the white steam clouds and brand lettering, the eye-catching briefcase—assembled without using any adhesives—also features a special velvety ‘soft touch’ finish to play up the brand’s premium status.

“The cleaner appearance connects directly with our beer—all-natural, nothing added, nothing watered down, and nothing to hide,” McLaughlin states.

“It makes for a more pure pint of pilsner, and you will see the difference in the taste.”

Says McLaughlin: “Our ultimate hope is that the federal government will eventually mandate ingredient labeling on all beer packaging.

“There is no valid logical reason why such a big part of the food-and-beverage industry should be exempt from rules that apply to everyone else,”’ he reasons.

“Doing so would definitely benefit a company like ours and other smaller beer producers who only use all-natural ingredients to make their product the right way, without any short cuts.”

NEW ARMOR ALL BEAUTIES A BREATH OF FRESH AIR AND INSPIRED PACKAGING

Squeezed in between bitter cold Canadian winters and increasingly hot and humid summers, the fresh natural scents of spring— such as lavender, vanilla, citrus and eucalyptus—have a relatively brief window of opportunity to refresh and reinvigorate Canadians with the pleasant smells of spring-time flora.

But thanks to the innovative Armor All Essential Blends line of air fresheners from the Mississauga, Ont.-based car-care products distributor Spectrum Brands Inc., Canadian drivers can now easily spruce up the way their car interiors smell at any time of year with one of the brand’s many scent varieties packaged in vibrant colors and high-impact graphics.

Formulated to last up to 30 days, the 2.5-ml oil concentrates come in plastic round domes dome with special vent-clip attachments for instant enjoyment inside the vehicle.

Packaged in cheerfully-colored paperboard sleeves adorned with lush botanical graphics designed by Pleasantville, N.Y.-based studio LAM Design, the Essential Blends air fresheners are infused with essential oil blends of lemon bergamot, eucalyptus mint, pink grapefruit, citrus pomegranate, and vanilla lavender to offer something for everyone, according to Spectrum Brands.

“The inspiration behind Essential Blends came from looking at the average person’s daily to-do list and thinking of how we could make those little in-between moments relaxing,” says Megan Currie, Spectrum Brands director of marketing for the Armor All product range.

“A lot of people are spending time in their cars for a good portion of their day, whether they are commuting to work or doing errands.

“We wanted to transform that daily routine into a comforting experience,” says Currie, noting that essential oils are well-known for their refreshing and restorative properties, with some touted benefits extending to relieving headaches, relaxing the mind, and even energizing the body.

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NOTES & QUOTES

nSt-Hyacinthe, Que.-headquartered pork and poultry processor Olymel L.P. has completed the acquisition of Triomphe Foods, a prominent Quebec producer of deli meats and specialty hams employing over 250 people at production facilities in Laval, Blainville and Québec City, along with two distribution centers in Blainville and StLéonard. With the acquisition, Olymel becomes the owner of popular national brands such as Tour Eiffel, Chef Georges and La Belle Bretagne (hams and pâtés), Nostrano (Italian deli meats), Alpina (Eastern European deli meats), Bilopage (cretons and head cheese), and the Mother Hen range of baby foods that includes meat purées and organic fruit and vegetable purées. “Olymel is proud to acquire a Quebec company renowned for the quality of its products and thus broaden our presence in several market segments, including baby food in particular,” says Olymel president and chief executive officer Réjean Nadeau. “Through this acquisition and our own brands, Olymel will now have an even wider and more diversified range of value-added products, enabling us to serve a broad customer base, in addition to increasing our production capacities.”

nLeading German beverage production and packaging equipment manufacturer Krones AG has opened up a five-hectoliter, state-of-the-art on-site brewery at the company’s manufacturing facility in Freising to give the company’s beer industry customers a state-of-the-art option for collaborative brewing, conducting trials, and testing new technologies. Comprising five different vessels, the $3-million Steinecker Brew Center features the latest in IT (information technology) networking and digitalization capabilities—integrated by the company’s subsidiary Syskron—to help clients develop new products faster and to test them under real-life conditions, according to Krones. “While the system is small, it offers maximum flexibility by combining different technologies to demonstrate the large band-

width of solutions offered by Krones,” says Krones project manager Konrad Müller-Auffermann. “We can, for example, reproduce an ultra-wide range of internationally employed processes on the one hand, while also familiarizing our own commissioning engineers and clients’ staff with the technologies concerned on the other.”

nW. Amsler

Equipment Inc., manufacturer of all-electric linear PET stretch blowmolding equipment and auxiliary technologies, has completed the move of its headquarters and manufacturing operations from Richmond Hill, Ont., to a new 34,000-square-foot facility at 31 Parr Boulevard in Bolton, Ont., to accommodate the company’s brisk growth. “We’ve experienced rapid growth over the last five years and we’ve outgrown our current space,” explains the company’s marketing manager Heidi Amsler. “The new stand-alone facility will provide room to grow and more space for collaboration with customers, while also housing business development and project management activities, as well as all our sales, engineering, manufacturing, and service personnel.” Tel. (905) 951-9559

Olymel president Réjean Nadeau (left) with Triomphe Foods president Mélissa Latifi.

Krones customers and other guests mingling during the inauguration ceremony marking the opening of the Steinecker Brew Center brewing pilot plant earlier this summer.

CASCADES INNOVATIVE PACKAGING SOLUTIONS

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REDEFINING PACKAGING WHILE PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT. Cascades relies on facilities and equipment that are at the cutting edge of technology. We pride ourselves in making high-quality products designed to match our clients’ needs and expectations and we do all that while continiously surpassing our ambitious goals in our efforts to preserve our planet. So when you choose to do business with Cascades, you also become greener, naturally.

NOTES & QUOTES

nAutomated Packaging Systems, Streetsboro, Ohioheadquartered manufacturer of bagging machinery, protective packaging systems, weighscales and other packaging technologies and materials, has received the prestigious the President’s “E” Award for Exports in recognition of the company’s solid track record of growing export sales and opening up new international markets. According to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, “The “E” Awards Committee was very impressed with Automated Packaging Systems’ flexible international sales model, which supported consistent growth in export sales over the past four years.” Considered to be the highest recognition any U.S. enterprise can achieve in recognition of its contribution to the growth of U.S. exports, the President’s “E” Award was introduced in 1961 under then-president John Kennedy’s administration, whereby the revived World War II ‘E’ symbol of excellence was selected to honor U.S. businesses for their success in the world markets.

nGerman packaging machine-builder Gerhard Schubert GmbH has announced plans to launch its first subsidiary in China with the opening of a distribution and service center in Shanghai by the end of 2018. “We want to establish a position for ourselves in the largest market in the world,” explains Gerhard Schubert managing director Marcel Kiessling, noting China is the third-largest export market for German food and packaging machinery after the U.S. and France. “Automation in secondary packaging is becoming increasingly important for Chinese producers of food, pharmaceutical products and cosmetics, and we want to take an active part in shaping the Chinese market, with its constantly growing need for automation. With our highly flexible, robot-based packaging machines, we offer automation solutions that can be used by manufacturers in every industry to make significant increases in productivity and overall competitiveness.”

From Left: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbut Ross presents the President’s “E” Award for Exports plaque to Automated Packaging Systems imports/exports manager Philip Lesniak and director of international business James Hawley.

FIRST GLANCE

LINEAR ORIENTATION

The third generation of MKK and MKR Linear Modules from Bosch Rexroth Canada provides a considerably expanded range of equipment options for the familiar space-saving dimensions of the previous series, according to the company, with ready-to-install linear axes designed to be easily connected to one-point lubrication systems. In the corrosion-resistant versions, the hard chromeplated ball screw drives and ball rails help ensure a high resistance to chemicals. The Linear Modules consist of an anodized aluminum profile body with integrated ball rails and the option of a ball screw drive or a belt drive. As ready-to-install assemblies, Linear Modules reduce the construction and instal-

lation effort in all types of machines and systems, with the one-point lubrication system connectivity helping achieve a longer service life of the axes. For their part, the corresponding components, ball screw drives and runner blocks are also ready for one-point lubrication with liquid grease or oil. The ball screw drive variant of the Linear Module is offered in lengths up to 5,400-mm, while Linear Modules with belt drives are available in lengths up to 9,400-mm. Also, a new switch concept simplifies assembly and saves time because the magnetic field sensors for limit switches fit directly into the profile frame without additional mounting accessories, while the two carriages with variable centerline-to-centerline distance accommodate larger attachments with enhanced system rigidity.

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EASIER HYGIENE

Distributed and serviced in Canada by Shawpak Systems Ltd., the new DLSOHD + EK1600 ERGOLINE hygiene station from German-based Kohlhoff Hygiene Technology comprises a the pass-through sole cleaning machine DLSO-HD and the motor-driven entry control device EK 1600 with a tamperproof, two-hand disinfection stage connected to an unlocked turnstile. Featuring a multifunctional LED light to display updated user information about the level of disinfectant or to convey fault messages, the EX 1600 ERGOLINE boasts a highly ergonomic design that is said to reduce physical exertions by the users’ upper body by about 50 per cent, according to the company, due to the optimally positioned two-hand disinfection assembly that is pointed just under 45 degrees to the direction of movement. Shawpak Systems Ltd.

BUILT TO DELIVER

Designed as a cost-effective and safe product delivery system, the new Synchronized Staging Transfer Model PSST/120 from Propack uses robust uses stepper servo technology to receive randomly presented products from baggers, pouchers and flowwrappers to synchronize product delivery to high-speed cartoning machines. Boasting a maximum packing rate of 120 single packs per minute and up to 80 twin-packs per minute, depending on product size, the intelligent PSST/120 delivery system is designed to monitor and phase products on multiple motion-controlled staging sections to either a single or dual product transfer module. Handling products between four and 16 inches in length and up to eight inches in width, the PSST/120 delivery system can be easily configured to synchronize, stage and transfer single or twin pack product formats with precise product speed and position control, according to the company, while allowing operators to switch to the optional pass-through delivery system for bulk packaging or WIP (work-in-progress) preparation. Propack

NO MARGIN FOR ERROR

Designed for error-free product inspection with improved detection sensitivity to identify even the small-

est contaminants quicker and more reliably, the model X34 X-ray inspection system from Mettler Toledo Safeline features advanced software that enables automated product setup—dramatically decreasing the chance of human error and greatly reducing the number of false rejects. Engineered for high-speed inspection of a wide range of small and medium-sized packaged products, the single-lane system is equipped with a 100-W Optimum Power generator that automatically maximizes detection sensitivity, complemented by a 0.4-mm detector for highly accurate detection of very small contaminants. Programmed with the advanced ContamPlus inspection software to further enhance detection capabilities and enable manufacturers achieve zero FFR (false reject rate) performance, the model X-34 X-Ray inspection system can also be equipped with the advanced ProdX data management tool software that can store the images of foreign body contamination for remote viewing and analysis.

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PUSHING THE BUTTONS

HMI panels per a single PC with an SDL converter, the modular design of the company’s PCs and panel systems allow for any automation panel to be equipped with an SDL4 interface—making it easer to equip expansive machines and systems with multiple remote HMI panels.

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FOR FULL COMPLIANCE

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Designed for manual control of critical machine functions by hand while the safety gate is opened, the new PITjog control unit from Pilz Canada features ergonomically molded plastic housing for comfortable operation with three pushbuttons—including two pushbuttons for two-hand function and one pushbutton for the reset function. Well-suited for a broad range of industrial environments, the device’s coiled cable provides a large operating range across a broad range of applications—including machine setup, servicing work, process monitoring and test operations.

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PANEL DISCUSSION

The fourth-generation SDL (Smart Display Link) 4 HMI (human-machine interface) panel from B&R Industrial Automation is designed to transmit all communication channels between industrial PCc and HMI panels via a standard Ethernet cable independent of operating system and software. Accoring to B&R, this makes it possible to transmit display content and other data over much greater distances of up to 100 meters between PC and display. With capacity to connect up to four

range includes 20 different inks, including the iQMark V463 ink for CIJ (continuous inkjet) printers formulated to meet Japan’s strict Japan ISHL Class 2 Organic Solvent list and comply with the European Printing Ink Association (EuPIA)’s Exclusion List. Likewise, the new iQMark V930 cleaning solution for CIJ printers is a low-VOC (volatile organic compound) formulation developed to meet California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) regulation requiring low-VOC cleaners to improve air quality.

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PAC TO THE FUTURE II, “RETAIL REINVENTED” is a two day event where attendees will learn, be inspired and connected to packaging industry leaders and decision-makers.

The demands of shoppers today have led to a tsunami in the retail, packaged goods and food service market place. How does your business fit in and what are your opportunities? Topics include the business of tomorrow, omnichannels, market leader ambitious 2025 recycling, renewable and composting goals, food service and retail trends, major packaging and design trends, the emerging cannabis market, green and zero waste initiatives, smart packaging and food waste and designing packaging for the circular economy.

Is using 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging reachable by 2025 ...reality or perception?

Since January 2018 several leading brands, retailers, and packaging companies have announced they are working towards their ambitious goals - Amcor, The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble and Unilever will share their goals and call for action.

What will you and your company get out of this important packaging industry event?

Actionable takeaways will come from our international speakers, their thought-provoking presentations, interactive workshops, and fun business networking functions. A great fall day on the golf course or a tour of the 2M Ressources facility will precede the conference on September 25, and enjoy the warmth, Québécois cuisine and joie de vivre in Old Montréal.

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JUST IN CASE

Canadian case-packing machinery manufacturer keeps rising through industry ranks with exemplary work ethic and relentless continuous improvement

Packaging machines are undoubtedly the unsung heroes of the modern packaging business—a critical necessity but far removed from everyday consumer scrutiny, shelf impact and product marketing battles played out in the modern consumer retail marketplace.

For most people making this machinery, though, such behind-the-scenes anonymity does not lessen the professional pride and gratification derived from designing, assembling and launching new-generation technologies to produce an ever-growing array of packaging formats and structures with new levels of speed, efficiency and reliability to help keep the wheels of the global CPG (consumer packaged goods) industries spinning in full motion.

Such pride and sense of self-fulfillment are rarely in short supply at Nuspark Inc.’s lively 46,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in northern Toronto.

Opened up a little over a year ago as the privately-owned company’s new headquarters and production operations, the airy, high-ceiling factory employs about 60 full-time people—including several fully-accredited professional engineers—to produce a steadily expanding range of automatic, high-performance case- and tray-packers; vertical and horizontal cartoners; case erectors and trayformers; and full turnkey line solutions for high-throughput applications in the food-and-beverage, pharmaceutical and personal-care industries.

Founded in 1999 by a closely-knit three-person team comprising Michael Elent and his younger brother Felix, along with long-time family friend and colleague Valeri Bialler, Nuspark has grown in impressive leaps and bounds dur-

Nuspark’s founding partners (from left) Valeri Bialler, Michael Elent and Felix Elent strike a pose in front of a fully-automatic packaging workcell, custom-designed for a U.S.-based nut processor, being tested at the company’s production facility in north Toronto prior its shipment to the customer.

Nuspark’s new headquarters and production facility in north Toronto employs about 60 full-time staff to design and manufacturer a broad range of high-performance case-packing, cartoning, tray-forming and other automatic packaging machinery for clients in the food, pharmaceutical and personal-care industries.

ing its relatively brief time in the Canadian packaging machinery.

Since starting out with a staff of four people, Nuspark proceeded to grow at a brisk rate of over 20 per cent annually right up until the onset of the Great Recession in 2008, with a downward spiral in the automotive sector temporarily stopping that growth in its tracks.

Since the following economic recovery, Nuspark quickly got back to its earlier fast-growing ways, while impressively boosting its packaging industry portfolio—now accounting for about 70 per cent of the company’s total revenues.

“We have seen about 15-percent annual growth since 2011,” co-founder Felix Elent told Canadian Packaging on a recent visit to the plant during a busy summer stretch requiring frequent overtime and Saturday shifts to keep up with seasonal work influx.

“Summers tend to be a busy time for us because that’s when a lot of new customer orders are actually finalized and approved for delivery,” explains Nuspark’s general manager Boris Motskin, adding the new plant currently has capacity to produce over 70 machines per year, in a broad array of designs and configurations to suit the end-users’ specific application requirements.

“All the electrical assembly and wiring is done right here at the factory, and all the machine frames are also fabricated in-house,” says Motskin, who joined Nuspark a few years after graduating with a degree in aerospace engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto in 2008.

“Doing a lot of business in the food industry, we

A custom-designed packaging workcell employs two highspeed Fanuc pick-and-place robots for automatic loading of large plastic bags of almonds inside corrugated trays formed inside the same workcell.

A high-payload palletizing robot manufactured by Fanuc Robotics is used for high-peed stacking of corrugated trays filled with large bags of almonds retailed by a leading Club Store chain.

often get asked by clients about how they (frames) are welded, if they are fully welded, if they’re washdown-ready and so on,” Motskin relates.

“We have decided to make this function an internal process to give our customers a peace-of-mind about all these issues by welding, cleaning and polishing all the frames ourselves,” says Motskin, noting the vast majority of the frames are constructed of high-grade stainless steel to ensure optimal hygienic standards.

Motskin explains that Nuspark has built up a solid network of manufacturing vendors and service providers in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) region to produce about 80 to 90 per cent of the custom-designed parts and subassemblies that go into each machine, using advanced CNC machining, 3D printing, laser- and waterjet-cutting, and other advanced manufacturing technologies.

The rest of the machine contents and related equipment accessories comprise an impressive assortment of best-ofbreed automation components and systems supplied from elite global industrial automation manufactures such as Bosch Rexroth (programmable logic controllers and drives); FANUC (robotics); Schneider Electric (electrical components and relays); B&R Industrial Automation (human-machine interface terminals and distributed I/Os), SMC Pneumatics and Festo (pneumatic components and controls); Omron (safety curtains) and other leading

automation specialists.

“Being in Toronto puts us within easy reach of the best available technologies in the market,” Motskin says, “and we have established some very good relationship with many reputable technology vendors to make sure we assemble the highest-quality machines we can for our customers.

Moreover, Motskin notes that virtually every machine shipped by Nuspark these days comes standard with all the required DNP circuitry and wiring to enable remote machine troubleshooting and diagnostics from virtually any place with an Internet connection.

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• Model NTL-50 top-loading case-packer, featuring a delta-style two-axis robot to perform up to 50 repeatable, high-precision picks per minute;

• Model NTF-25 servo-driven tray-former, equipped with an active blank magazine and an on-board Nordson adhesive applicating system to form up to 25 trays per minute, with higher-speed variants available to handle over 60 trays per minute.

• Model NP-15 Polaris palletizer, outfitted with a four-axis robotic arm, singleor dual-head dispenser, a powered discharge conveyor and other value-added features enabling it to perform up to 15 pick per minute in continuous operation, enhanced with 10-pallet magazine capacity.

• Model VRC-60 vertical rotary cartoner, featuring an innovative vacuum nest design to ensure delicate carton handling at speeds of up to 60 cartons per minute.

• Model NRCP-5 robotic case-packer, featuring an integrated FANUC six-axis robot with a multipurpose gripper that can both erect and load corrugated cases at up to five various-sized corrugated cases per minute.

≠≠As Motskin relates, the company’s familiarity and comfort levels with newgeneration automation technologies is rooted in the extensive combined engineering knowledge shared by the company’s founding partners—acquired at leading technical institutes and academies of the former Soviet Union—who all moved abroad soon after the country’s 1991 break-up and the outset of a chaotic transition to a market economy.

Adds Michel Elent: “We are rather blessed in having so much engineering knowhow at our disposal.

“Whereas the industry norm is having about 10 per cent of the workforces as engineers, our 16 engineers account for 25 per cent of our staff.

“Having such a strong engineering team gives us a competitive advantage in respect to speedy product development and further refinement of the high-quality case-packers, cartoners, tray-packers and many types of custom products we produce here,” Motskin proclaims.

With the U.S. market accounting for about half of Nuspark’s annual revenues, Elent says he is hopeful that the existing NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) framework remains largely in place in spite of the recent trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada, but adds that the company is well-prepared to weather whatever comes next.

“There is no sense in worrying about something that we cannot control,” he acknowledges. “What we can control is the quality of the machines we make, and we believe that best-built machines will succeed in any market, even under difficult conditions.”

To date, Motskin relates, Nuspark has performed machine installations in 14 countries around the world, including China, India, England, Germany and Israel, with a new installation in Russia scheduled for startup later this year.

The yellow Omron safety curtains, along with an attached Omron HMI (human-machine interface) terminal, are an integral machine safety feature on this automotive workcell.

A pair of heavy-duty Yaskawa robots do all the heavy lifting inside a Nuspark-built enclosed workcell designed for high-speed automotive assembly applications.

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“One of the things our customers everywhere seem to appreciate about our machines is the aesthetics factor,” Motskin relates.

“With most of our customers being smaller or medium-sized businesses, at some point they will have to show the machine in action to their own customers, and that first impression can be very important for their business relationship from that point on.

“With our equipment design, there is literally nothing to hide.

“Also, the fact that our equipment comes standard with stainless-steel frames really resonates with our customers,” Motskin adds.

A high-speed cartoning machine custom-designed for the packaging of single-serve coffee pods incorporates a Bosch Rexroth servo motor/drive control system and aluminum structural framing and linear guides to ensure consistently high performance levels with superior precision and repeatability.

A Mettler Toledo Hi-Speed inline checkweigher at the end of a custom-designed packaging workcell assembled at Nuspark ensures full compliance with legal requirements and waste reduction efforts in the food, beverage and pharma industries.

Nuspark machines employ high-quality electrical power supplies and relays from Schneider Electric for ensuring optimal machine performance and equipment uptime.

Close-up of the IndraDrive C converter, integrating an inverter and power supply in one unit, and the IndraDrive M series drive system from Bosch Rexroth incorporated inside many of the packaging machines built by Nuspark.

Beyond the machinery’s clean streamlined appearance, “The simplicity of use is another key selling point,” he states.

“The way we conceptualize and configure all the automation components in the machine is all geared toward optimal operator-friendliness and elimination of manual steps from the process to achieve greater productivity.

“Our equipment is fundamentally very simple,” Motskin states, “because it has to be.

“For about 90 per cent of the machines we build, the operator will use only one screen to monitor the full process, so it’s not even a full-time job for them.”

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tion of continuous improvement and product innovation,” Motskin sums up, “and with the motivated, highly talented workforce at our disposal, there is really no limit to what we can achieve in coming years.

“We have already achieved a lot in a fairly brief time,” he concludes, “but for all intents and purposes we’re really just getting started.”

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To use an example, Motskin cites a U.S.-based national cream cheese processor who installed a turnkey case-packing solution form Nuspark, comprising two lines, that is capably overseen by a single operator per shift, compared to the four people required to do the job before.

Always keen to stay on top of industry trends, Nuspark is also enhancing its machines with the requisite data sourcing and mining capabilities needed for successful Industry 4.0 methodology implementation, which is being increasingly adopted in the industrial machinery markets.

“This is one of the reasons we decided to standardize all our machines with the B&R industrial PC-based HMIs (human-machine interfaces,” Motskin explains.

“It gives users the flexibility to install any auxiliary software they need to upgrade their systems management, be it to implement a new diagnostics software, to hook up to a database, or to process and analyze incoming machine information.

“The thing about Industry 4.0 is that it all comes down to the user—whether or not they see value in having access to all that information,” Motskin opines.

“On our end, our job is to enable them to have that access should they choose to go that route, and we are doing just that with our industrial PC standardization.

“Naturally, it costs us money to build in this extra level of intelligence into our equipment,” he says, “so it becomes important for us to make sure that the customer sees the value in this upgrade, rather than just as another added cost.

“Manufacturers in many industries can achieve good results from obtaining useful real-time machinery data that will maximize their equipment uptime,” says Motskin, “and what we do is facilitate the effective machine interconnectivity they will need to make it happen.”

This machine interconnectivity becomes an even more important consideration as the company moves to provide more customized turnkey solution incorporating machines and subsystems from other manufacturers and vendors.

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BON APPETIT!

Quebec dairy producer captures lightning in a bottle with classy glass jars to make quick impact in the fiercely competitive market for premium yogurt products

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR PHOTOS BT PIERRE LONGTIN

Soaking in sunshine at the Riviera may be a dream holiday for many, but for the industrious folks at Maison Riviera in Sorel-Tracy, Que., work naturally must always come first.

Which is just how it goes for any company operating in today’s fast-growing, but increasingly crowded and fiercely competitive marketplace for premium yogurt products.

So while the privately-owned company is delighted to be approaching its 100th anniversary as an iconic stalwart of Quebec’s ever-evolving dairy industry, it’s been around long enough to know that a proud past is no guarantee of future success in a saturated dairy sector trying to come to grips with rising expectations of modern-day millennial consumers demanding good taste, sound nutrition and ethical brand messaging to come to them in a single package at will.

By any objective measure, though, that’s more or less exactly what Maison Riviera achieved late last year with the winter launch of a new, 40-percent less sugar, lactose free Riviera O% Greek M.F. line of yogurts loaded with rich natural flavors and free of milk fat and artificial sweeteners or additives.

Developed as a worthy follow-up to the company’s multiple award-winning Riviera GMO-Free Set Style yogurts, in addition to well-known distinct single–serving Petit Pot Collection glass jars, the new Greek O% M.F. (milk fat) yogurts check all the boxes for wholesome nutrition, inspired product innovation, and supreme packaging elegance.

Offering rich flavor variety—including raspberry, mango, banana, vanilla and plain—the new Greekstyle yogurts contain 40 per cent less sugar than traditional fat-free Greek yogurts, thereby reducing to caloric intake to 80 calories per 125-gram single serving. And rather than using stevia or artificial sweeteners, Riviera makes sure it uses only perfectly ripe naturally sweet fruit in its products, which is also macerated for a significant length of time before blending to achieve maximum natural sweetness.

Boasting an average 45-day shelf-life, the Greek O% M.F. yogurts are packaged in fully-recyclable 500- and 750-gram plastic tubs decorated with clean simple graphic designed by Montreal-based studio Caroline Reumont Design Inc., which also designed the paperboard sleeves used to nestle the four-packs of 125-gram single-serve plastic Petit Pots topped off with blue colored-flag, foil-lined lidding.

While the company originally decided to use glass 120-gram jars for the Petit Pot Collection yogurts accentuate the products’ premium credentials and authenticity, according to Riviera’s brand manager Kathleen Hébert, switching to 125-gram plastic jars for the Greek O% M.F. line made sense for consumers already having too many jars at home and feeling guilty of putting them in the recycling bin, and from a safety angle, in addition to being able to use the same-sized

of the company’s premium

products such as the reduced-sugar

M.F. product range and the awardwinning Riviera GMO-Free Set Style yogurts, including the single-serving yogurts packed in

Supplied to Maison Riviera’s yogurt production facility in Sorel-Tracy by Geosaf Inc., the high-speed ARP360 CPS 5 system manufactured by French company Automation Robotic Packaging (ARP) is used to place filled Petit Pot Collection glass jars of yogurt into paperboard four-pack sleeves and place them inside corrugated trays formed inside the same workcell.

Maison Riviera’s plant manager Normand Champagne (left) and technical director Pierre Tremblay show off a selection

yogurt

Riviera 0% Greek

classy 120-gram Petit Pot Collection glass jars.

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lids as the glass bottles.

“Some parents told us they would prefer plastic jars to put in the kids’ lunch-boxes in order to avoid any risk of broken glass,” says Hébert.

That said, the original signature Petit Pot glass jars are not going anywhere soon.

As Hébert relates, the 2015 introduction of glass jars into the market was a resounding success for a company that prides itself of always striving to be a dairy industry trendsetter since it rebranded itself under the Riviera banner back in 1959.

(The original Laiteries Chalifoux creamery was founded by Alexandrina Chalifoux in 1920.)

“As a creator of food trends, we wanted to use a unique container that was not the usual plastic cup,” Hébert recalls.

“Choosing glass helped us to reflect the products’ original European inspiration that you’ll find across all our product ranges,” she explains, “while also projecting a sense of a return to the roots, the recipes of the past, and the good old dishes that grandma used to make.

“Glass really captures the promise of a unique taste experience and sheers the pleasure of eating, especially with the sound of the spoon clinking inside the pot,” she adds.

“Moreover, we wanted to create a continuity in the purchase by offering a product experience that’s not only tasty, but also gives a second life to the packaging.

“Our company is very concerned about environment,” Hébert states, “and for a smaller-sized product like that we thought that glass was the most eco-responsible solution.”

To date, the company has already gathered 1,001 tips, posted online, for reusing Petit Pot jars—covering the whole gamut of reusability from small flowerpots to Christmas decorations, candle holders and so on.

“These jars have become a brand emblem that we hope reinforces consumer

A close-up view of the inner workings inside the compact ARP360 CPS 5 station reveals a meticulously designed arrangements of gantry robots positioned to deliver fully-automatic highspeed sleeve overwrapping, case-erecting and case-packing operations in one end-of-line system to take care of all the secondary and tertiary packaging needs for Petit Pot jars in one pass.

Using high-quality hot-melt adhesive pellets supplied by Technical Adhesives Ltd., the model PROblue 7 hot-melt adhesive applicator from Nordson Corporation is connected to the ARP360 packaging station to ensure secure sealing of all flaps of the corrugated trays used to ship the four-packs of Petit Pot single-serving glass containers to the retail customers.

A close-up of the Magelis model HMI (human-machine interface) terminal from Schneider Electric used to control and monitor operation of the high-speed ARP360 CPS 5 machine that executes all the secondary and tertiary packaging functions for the Petit Pot glass jars.

Rows of sparkling-clean Petit Pot glass containers are formed on the highly sanitary accumulation table, made by leading Canadian industrial conveying systems manufacturer Storcan International, before entering the Nova filler and, finally, the ARP360 workcell.

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loyalty well after purchase,” says Hébert, noting that the plastic jars maintained exactly the same shapes as their glass counterparts, along with interchangeable color lids.

None of this, of course, would have been possible without considerable capital investment in new processing and packaging capabilities at the yogurt product area of the Sorel-Tracy plant, a fully HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points)-compliant and SQF (Safe Quality Food Institute)-certified facility that also houses the company’s fluid milk and cheese manufacturing operations.

While Riviera’s entry into the yogurt market is a fairly recent development, the company’s enduring presence in regional markets for milk, cream and a wide assortment of specialty cheeses has earned it widespread industry plaudits and acclaim long before then, according to plant manager Normand Champagne.

“Our dairy products are carried by many major retail chains like Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, etc.,” says Champagne, “as well as the smaller independents and specialty niche stores catering to niche consumer demographic segments.

“We also work with three of the country leading food distributors, strategically located in three different provinces, to ensure we cover the largest territory possible in order to reach most Canadian consumers,” Champagne adds.

Marketed nationally under the flagship Riviera brand label, as well as the Laiterie Chalifoux brand name for the local Quebec markets, the company’s extensive product portfolio comprises fresh cheese parfait, plain fresh cheese (a signature French-style fromage blanc), yogurts, creams, curd cheese, cheddar cheeses, Swiss cheese, Parmesan cheese, organic cheeses, and American mozzarella cheese, among others.

Champagne says the company’s expertise and success in other segments of the dairy industry give it a critical competitive edge in the yogurt category, which

continues to outpace growth in all other major dairy segments.

Says Champagne: “Riviera is clearly an innovation leader in the market, keeping its roots linked to French dairy traditions.

“One of our first rule is to always pick fresh, pure, simple and high-quality ingredients over what can be called ‘short cuts’ ingredients.

“Using fresh milk and the best fruit preparations on the market allows us to produce our sugar-reduced yogurts without using any edulcorants or other lowcalorie sweeteners,” Champagne states.

“Eating healthier should not be sacrifice: with our low-sugar yogurts, it remains a treat,” says Champagne, also lavishing praise on the Petit Pot jar packaging.

Competing is such a market naturally requires optimal production efficiencies, which Champagne is confident of optimizing them at the Sorel-Tracy with a fairly extensive range of new equipment installed over the last three years to boost its yogurt output.

“We have a complete range of processing equipment that includes pasteurizers, homogenizer, separators, RO (reverse osmosis) and UF (ultrafiltration) purifiers, cooling cells, cheese vats and yogurt processors,” Champagne relates.

“On the packaging side, we have installed a VFFS (vertical form/fill/seal) system, a flowwrapper, a vacuum-packer, a metal detector, an X-Ray inspection system, cup fillers, a pail filler, a jug filler, and a bulkbag filler.”

Among most recent installations, Champagne says he is very happy about the arrival of a new Nova volumetric rotary cup filler— manufactured by leading French machine-builder SERAC Group—capable of processing up to 4,000 glass jars per hour, as well as the fully-automatic ARP360 CPS 5 packaging workcell that packs individual jars into secondary-packaging paperboard sleeves to form the finished four-packs of Petit Pot jars at speeds of up to 6,000 units per hour.

“These are two very good machines,” Champagne

states, singling out the ARP360 machine—manufactured in France by Automation Robotic Packaging (ARP) and distributed in Canada by Montrealbased Geosaf Inc.—for special praise.

“It sleeves cups in a pack, prints the pack, and picksand-places the pack into a tray it already has erected, glued ant printed—all in perfectly-timed sequence,” Champagne relates.

“It then stacks the trays and conveys them towards the skid for stacking,” says Champagne, noting that all the corrugated shipping trays are clearly barcoded and printed with the required variable product information applied by an innovative model LCIJ solid wax case-coder manufactured by Markem-Imaje

Using patented hot-melt technology developed by

The Markem-Imaje mode 9028 small-character inkjet printer is hooked up to the ARP360 workcell to apply clean high-resolution product codes onto the paperboard sleeves used to make four-packs of Petit Pot glass jars.

After the filled Petit Pot glass jars have been sleeved four to a pack inside the paperboard sleeves, the two-axis delta robots inside the ARP360 workcell swiftly transfer them to the Cascades-made corrugated shipping trays that have been formed in the other part of the system and conveyed onto the packaging line in a perfectly synchronized timing sequence to ensure unerring placement precision and gentle product handling at robust operating speeds of up to 6,000 containers per hour.

The ARP360 CPG 5 workcell employs a series of energysaving Schneider Electric servomotors to ensure optimal movement precision of the system’s two-axis delta robots.

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Manufactured by leading Canadian recycled paper packaging products group Cascades Inc., the corrugated trays used by the Riviera plant to ship its Petit Pot four-packs of yogurt have the product barcode and other required variable product information applied by an LCIJ solid wax case-coder manufactured by leading product coding systems group Markem-Imaje.

Markem-Imaje, the coder uses a special thermal ink formulation, supplied in so–called ‘wax pucks,’ that dries on contact to generate scannable barcodes.

“It generates very neat and legible printing that all our barcode scanners, as well as those of our clients, can read every time,” says Champagne, praising the system’s cost efficiency compared to paper label applicating.

“For us, it offers significant cost-savings over using a print-and-apply system,” he says, “since there is no need for us purchase labels and to maintain a label inventory.”

As Tony Stryker, Markem-Imaje sales manager for Canada, points out: “This technology represents a big cost-savings over labels.  While labels normally will cost two to three cents per label, the direct printing method adds up to about one-third to half of that cost at most.

“The savings do not mean compromising quality either: these inks can now provide barcodes that pass the GS1-128 standard (commonly used barcode symbology in food retail) for grade C or higher,” Stryker adds.

“Moreover, the wax-based ink is environmentally safe and harmless, with no fumes, toxic chemicals or overspray to worry about.”

Champagne system says the direct printing system provides a nice finishing touch to all the hard work done by the ARP360 workcell.

“For me, the big three attributes that the ARP system provides are precision, efficiency and service levels,” says Champagne, noting that he has commissioned three ARP system installations in the last six years as plant manager.

“Despite a very high complexity of the application, starting it up always feels like a ‘plug-and-play’

to

operation,” he extols, “with every tiny detail taken into account.”

Geosaf vice-president of project development Jean Dion says he is pleased but not surprised to hear great things about the ARP360 system’s performance since it was fired up at the Riviera plant in July of 2017.

As ARP’s exclusive distributor for North America, Geosaf has already sold four ARP360 systems in Canada and eight in the U.S., Dion relates, describing the systems as “perfect robotic solutions” for busy dairy operators large and small.

“Not only does one ARP360 system essentially replace four machines—a lane diverter or partitioner, a sleever, a case-erector and a case-packer—it is also a very flexible system,” Dion explains. “It has special belt infeed that places the jars precisely where they need to be picked up.

“This provides a buffer to accommodate for any little differences in bottle shape of the bottle, since not all bottles are perfectly round.”

According to Dion, it only takes a few minutes to change over from producing four-packs of Petit Pot jars to two-packs, and virtually no downtime time to switch from glass Petit Pots to their plastic counterparts. Likewise, takes only a few minutes to switch from corrugated trays to full-height corrugated cases.

But above all, “A fully-automatic, high-performance robotic machine like this yields immediate dramatic improvements in productivity levels,” Dion proclaims.

“In addition to saving valuable floorspace, with its compact design, the fully-robotic ARP360 system only requires one operator to run it—instead of four people it used to require at Riviera to run the same process with all the different stand-alone machines.”

For his part, Riviera’s Champagne is keen to extend full credit to Geosaf’s technical staff for its expertly executed installation and startup of the new ARP unit, adding that Geosaf also supplied the plant with high-performance cooling cells manufactured in France by Fromfroid

“In both projects, the Geosaf people were of great help by playing a key role throughout the whole implementation process,” he states. “They have very good technical knowledge; they always keep an eye on our startup timetable; and they always do whatever it takes to make sure that our initial expectations are always met in the end.

“It was great working with them on these projects,” Champagne concludes, “and I look forward to the future ones to come.”

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the Maison Riviera plant by Geosaf, the high-performance made-in-France Fromfroid cooling cells are designed to accommodate various sizes of pallets stacked with temperature-sensitive dairy products like yogurt, using speciallydesigned cooling fans to chill the bottled products to the desired temperature and achieve proper consistency, before they are whisked away for shipment to customers in refrigerated trucks.

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GREENER PASTURES

Venerable organic dairy farmer turns to packaging automation to boost output and extend its market reach

BY PIERRE DESCHAMPS

PHTOS BY PIERRE LONGTIN

While full ‘farm-to-fork’ product traceability remains a highly challenging task for many Canadian agrifood companies mandated to have such a system in place, it is largely a breeze for companies blessed full hands-on control of their farming, processing and distribution operations.

Companies like the Ferme Vallée Verte 1912 (Green Valley Farm), a family-owned and operated natural dairy products manufacturer located in SaintJean-de-Matha, Que., about 100 kilometers northeast of Montreal.

Founded in 1912 by brothers David and Samuel Gadoury, the company has aged very gracefully over the past century and a bit.

Meticulously maintained in its natural state by successive generations of the Gadoury clan, the four hundred acres of prime grazing land owned by the family have proved to be a fruitful ground for the manufacture of all-natural, premium-quality GMO-free products such as fluid milk, artisanal cheeses and yogurts.

Making home for a dairy herd of about 60 Holstein cows—renowned as the world’s highest-production dairy animal—and a few lactating Jersey cows, the land is lovingly cultivated to ensure comfortable walking around for the pampered creatures.

Moreover, the herd is fed a highly nutritious blends of hay, grass legume and forage silage, along with special dairy feed during milking, to promote robust all-natural milk production without the use of any chemicals, pesticides hormones, antibiotics, or the aforementioned genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).

When not wondering around outside, the herd is grouped together in a large building where they lay down not on loose straw, as is customary in the industry, but on sand—giving the cows better comfort keeping the unwelcome bugs, insects and parasites largely at bay.

As company co-owner David Gadoury explains, keeping the animals happy and stress-free lies at the heart of the company’s sustainable farming mindset aimed at ensuring reliable production of superior quality finished products that contain no coloring agents, preservatives or artificial flavors of any kind.

Moreover, Gadoury points out that the cows are not

David Gadoury, co-owner of Ferme Vallée Verte, strikes a happy pose in front of the Beltstar C capping and retightening system supplied by renowned Montreal-based packaging equipment manufacturer Capmatic Ltd.

milked at specific fixed times en masse by a big mechanized milking system that can stress out the animals.

Instead, the cows simply head to one of the two milking robots positioned nearby in the building whenever they themselves feel the need to be milked—all part of the so-called ‘voluntary’ milking process lauded as being much more ethically humane than mechanized mass milking.

“Doing things this way greatly reduces the stress of animals at the time of milking,” Gadoury proclaims, “and with two robots in operation, there is never congestion.

“Moreover, each cow is embedded with a unique microchip to collect all the pertinent data on when each of the cows was milked, the time of milking, and how much milk they produced—both in the morning and in the evening.

“Our two robots have definitely made herd management easier for us,” he says, “and we have all noticed that the animals are generally behaving less nervously than before.”

Once the milk has been collected in desired quantities inside large refrigerated tanks, it is sent directly to the company’s on-site dairy shop and processing facility, where it is bottled after being pasteurized at low temperature—without being ho-

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mogenized—or set aside to be used for the production of cheese or yogurt.

Renowned for the superior freshness and wholesome taste of its all-natural products, Ferme Vallée Verte sells its milk—including the 3.8-percent white “milk of yesteryear” and the Choco Milk, made with real cocoa—in custom-made 500-ml and one-liter wide-moth glass bottles topped off with large-diameter tinplate screwcap closures.

Because the milk is never homogenized, there is always a layer of cream forming near the bottle opening, so consumers are advised to give the bottle a good shake before pouring out and enjoying the rich, smooth and wholesome milk boasting luxurious creamy texture and taste profile.

Naturally, the high quality of this milk makes a perfect base for the production of premium-quality yogurts—packaged in 500-ml or 750-ml glass pods—in a diverse array of flavors that includes vanilla, pineapple, blueberry, cherry, strawberry, peach, raspberry, cranberry and plain.

Likewise, the company’s inspired selection of artisanal sweet and flavored cheddars—along with its signature Paramd’Or (parmesan-and-cheddar) offering—make a compelling statement about the virtues of producing delicious dairy products

The Labelstar System 2/2 T double-head labeling system from Capmatic is equipped with a Videojet Dataflex 6420 printer to ensure instant application of variable product information onto the applied product labels.

An SEW-Eurodrive motor (inset) is used to ensure optimal power distribution to the pasteurizing/mixing yogurt vat located in the processing area of the Green Valley Farm dairy plant.

The Ferme Vallée Verte plant uses corrugated shipping carriers and trays manufactured by Uline to ship its product to market.

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without any preservatives, colorings or artificial flavors.

While the sweet cheddars are packaged in 200-, 300- and 600-gram vacuum-packed blocks, the varied flavoured cheeses—including mushroom, beer, pepper, tomato-and-pepper, crushed chilli pepper and garlic-onion-chive—are sold in 125-gram squares, also tightly vacuum-packed in clear see-through plastic to show off the pure natural ingredients to full aesthetic effect.

While the company’s products have long been warmly embraced in the local markets, it has long been constrained in terms of production capacity due to the outdated packaging equipment that it originally sourced from China.

In fact, Gadoury says that Ferme Vallée Verte was only able to use 60 per cent of all the milk its herd produced to manufacture its value-added yogurt and cheese products.

To bridge that gap, while also improving its packaging line efficiencies, the company turned to Montreal-based packaging machine-builder Capmatic Ltd. to come up with a reliable high-performance solution for its packaging needs.

“When we started looking for the new equipment, we initially looked at the machines made in China,” recalls company co-owner Samuel Gadoury.

“But although the pricing was interesting, we had our doubts about whether the quality of the equipment would match our needs and expectations, was the level of what we wanted,” says Gadoury, noting that the original made-in-China equipment rarely performed to his full satisfaction, with many parts of the system wearing out prematurely.

After learning about Capmatic’s stellar industry reputation as an elite manufacturer of stand-alone machines and turnkey packaging solutions the manufacturer supplies to the pharmaceutical, liquid-food and other consumer industries, Gadoury ultimately settled on installing a made-in-Canada solution that also offered impeccable local technical support and servicing capabilities.

“With the manufacturer located Montreal, we felt assured about having quick access to technical support and change parts,” he states.

To get the dairy producer’s packaging operations up to par, Capmatic proceeded to supply several of its high-quality packaging machines, including:

• An eight-head model Accurofill 8 filler—a fullyautomatic inline filling system capable of handling liquid, semi-viscous and viscous products

The Labelstar System 2/2 T double-head labeling system from Capmatic is equipped with a Videojet Dataflex 6420 printer (background) to ensure instant application of variable product information onto the attached product labels.

Each of the eight filling valves inside the Accurofill 8 filler is equipped with a special nozzle to help control the foaming of the product in order to ensure precise fills.

A row of wide-mouth custom-made glass jars pre-packed with fresh orderly makes its way inside the fully-automatic Accurofill 8 eight-headed filler from Capmatic to be filled with freshly-made all-natural yogurt.

containing small particles up to halfinch in size.

Equipped with innovative nozzles designed to ensure optimal control of product foaming for high-precision filling, the Accurofill 8 at the Green Valley plant makes light work of packaging either milk or yogurts in 500-ml and oneliter glass jars at speeds of 20 to 40 bottles per minute.

• A Beltstar C capping and tightening system—a high-speed inline screwcap applicator incorporating innovative servo-drive belt systems for secure tightening of caps with superior gripping and precise torque application—ensuring no damage to the caps.

• A Labelstar 2/2 T double-head label applicator, designed to attach front and back pressure-sensitive product labels, with the flexibility to also apply a wraparound labels in 360-degree orientation, on any round bottles, as well as handling square, rectangular or oval bottles, with no change part required.

For the Ferme Vallée Verte installation, the Labelstar 2/2 T was supplied with an integrated Videojet Dataflex 6420 industrial thermal-transfer coder for instant application of all the required production codes and any other required variable product information.

• An automatic bottle dispenser and a 39-inch bottle accumulation table, manufactured by Storcan International, to facilitate uninterrupted process flow.

Says Gadoury: “These are top-of-theline stainless-steel machines manufactured under the highest quality standards anywhere.

“The new Capmatic equipment perfectly matched everything we were looking for,” he says, adding the new systems will play a key role in helping the dairy expand its market reach.

“It will definitely help us to improve the yield rates from our milk production so that not only we’ll be able to continue supplying our existing markets in Lanaudière and Montreal,” he concludes, “but also develop new markets in other parts of Quebec that we have not been

able to service in the past.”

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Naturally, such praise is sweet music to the ears of Capmatic president Alioscia Bassani.

“Our objective at Capmatic is to continuously challenge ourselves to ascertain and provide the best solution for our customers, such as Green Alley Farm,” Bassani states.

“We take pride in always delivering the best innovations and the latest technology to help companies of all size to reach their full potential.

“Our passion for excellence is our prime priority,” he concludes, “and we’ll always do whatever it takes, at all costs, to help our customers achieve real success in the markets they serve.”

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BUILDING A FORTRESS

Canadian metal detection systems pioneer builds on solid foundations by constantly pushing the envelope of technological innovation and surpassing customer expectations for machine performance and reliability

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

PHOTOS BY NAOMI HILTZ

When it comes to food safety, a fortress mentality is undoubtedly a key prerequisite for a sound peaceof-mind insofar as keeping tiny metal particles and other unwanted contaminants from making their way inside a finished package headed for the retail shelf.

Founded in 1996, Toronto-based Fortress Technology Inc. is an embodiment of this uncompromising approach to product protection in the food industry—having shipped thousands of cuttingedge, high-sensitivity metal detection systems to food manufacturers around the world to help them avoid the unwanted glare of public shame and customer distress caused by embarrassing, yet mostly preventable product recalls prompted by unintentional inclusion of tiny metal particles making their way inside the product contents.

For Fortress founder and president Steve Gidman, who literally hand-assembled his first metal detection system in the family home’s garage to help a U.S. sawmill operator detect and remove metal particles from its manufacturing process, the firm’s steadfast ascent to the upper ranks of the global product inspection technologies business is a highly gratifying endorsement of the unique metal detection methodology he developed along with his original business partner Dino Rosatti.

In fact, the original metal detection system he supplied to the aforementioned sawmill is still in operation today, Gidman proudly pointed out during a recent Canadian Packaging visit to the company’s spacious 55,000-square-foot production facility in Toronto’s northeast suburbs.

Started up as a greenfield manufacturing facility back in 2001, the plant has recently been expanded to twice its original size to keep pace with the company’s robust growth and to provide additional amenities for the company’s highly dedicated 170 employees that manufacture about 2,500 metal detection machines per year, according to Gidman.

While Fortress still builds an occasional custommade system for lumber, plastics, textile and other challenging applications, Gidman says that over 75 per cent of its manufacturing output is now focused on production of metal detectors for the food industry—in a broad variety of configurations and designs as required by end-use customers.

Boasting superior sensitivity levels to enable high-precision detection of the smallest ferrous, nonferrous and stainless-steel contaminants, all For-

tress-metal detectors are equipped with many valueadded features and performance attributes to ensure user-friendly operation and full compliance with all the pertinent HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) hygienic and sanitary requirements.

“Everything we make here has to be simple, reliable and high-performance,” says Gidman, parlaying the company’s fundamental design principle as, “Keep it simple, but make it awesome underneath the hood.”

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As Gidman explains, “Nearly every metal detector manufactured by us is customized to some extent to address the clients’ specific application needs, be it a single stand-alone metal detector sold to a fledgling specialty food startup or several dozen units shipped to a major multinational.

“We are extremely customer-focused—in large part because it is our customers who often help us develop new ideas all the time,” he relates.

“As a result, we have incredibly loyal customers,” Gidman proclaims, citing “exceptionally high repeat business.

“It is very rare for any of our customers not to

Fortress Technology has recently doubled the size of its manufacturing facility and global headquarters in Toronto to cope with fast-growing demand for its metal detectors.

come back to us at some point after original purchase,” he says, “and that goes for our many smallsized customers as well as some of the biggest food companies on the planet.

“Looking out for our customers is the key to our success.”

This success is amply reflected in the company’s expansive global installation base spanning over 50 countries worldwide and formations of two subsidiary companies to handle the overseas markets,

With a strong background in electronic engineering, Fortress Technology president Steve Gidman founded the company back in 1996 in his garage and presided over its remarkable growth over the years, with the company now ranking as North America’s second-largest manufacturer of metal detection systems for food industry applications.

including Fortress Technology (Europe) Ltd. in the U.K. and Fortress Technology Sistemas de Inspecao Ltda. in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

While Gidman notes that there are plenty of the company’s first-generation Phantom range metal detectors plugging away around the world, capably backed up by the manufacturer’s lauded Never Obsolete Commitment guarantee for continual upgrades and service support, the majority of its machines are nowadays sold under its flagship Stealth series of state-of-the-art metal detectors that includes:

• Stealth Gravity metal detection systems for high-speed inspection of free-flowing granular and powdery dry products such as flour, rice, cereals, powders and sugar;

• Stealth Pipeline metal detectors for liquids, meats, dairy, soups, jams, sauce and paste;

• Stealth Big Bag metal detectors for inspecting large 25-kg to 50-kg bags of flour, grains, spices and other bulk products.

• Stealth Vertex metal detectors for high-speed inline inspection of free-falling chips, snackfoods, popcorn, cereal, etc.;

• Stealth Multi Aperture systems for multilane product inspection of baked goods, meats, prepared meal, fresh and frozen foods, confectioneries and pharmaceutical products.

About three years ago, Fortress launched the allnew Interceptor series of custom-made metal de-

Launched three years ago, the new Interceptor series metal

detector was developed to address challenging applications with ‘wet’ products such as meat and dairy.

tectors designed for addressing the challenging “wet product”applications by optimizing the company’s proprietary Simultaneous Multi-Frequency Technology for processing the transmission and reception of multiple frequencies continuously over a broad

spectrum—achieving virtually 100-percent detection of stainless-steel particles as little as one millimeter in size in various bakery, meat, dairy, prepared meals and fresh-food products.

“The Interceptor shares a lot of the common high-performance functionalities with the Stealth systems,” Gidman explains, “but the base technology it incorporates is a lot more sophisticated, with advanced networking capabilities to boot.

“It’s a very high-performance machine that covers virtually every application,” Gidman says.

“This naturally makes it more expensive than Stealth,” he acknowledges, “but there is no need to use the Interceptor for a great many applications with easy products like crackers, cookies or cereals, which can be easily handled by Stealth for a lot less money.

“The Interceptor is intended specifically for the difficult products like meat, dairy, cheese and other such conductive products that inherently produce a signal that may look like metal.

“For example, a block of cheese will produce a signal that is a thousand times bigger than the target we would be looking for, so the challenge is how to separate that from the process in order to avoid ‘false reject’ readings.

“Essentially, the Interceptor brings a whole new level of performance to the table,” he expands, “by allowing you to see the object from many different

CONTRACT PACKAGING OF POWDER AND GRANULAR PRODUCTS MADE

We handle large, small or custom jobs from

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points of view to create a more detailed profiles for analysis.

“And it does an amazing job with this.”

While Gidman concedes that he did not foresee the company’s remarkable growth and success in his “wildest dreams” back in the early days, he always held very firm beliefs about the inevitable rapid growth in market demand for metal detection systems in the food industry.

“It seems virtually a no-brainer now,” he reflects, “but things were different in the food industry back then.

“There were metal detectors there 20 years ago of course, but not for everybody. “They were mainly there used by big-brand food manufacturers with a big reputation on the line,” he relates, “so they could justify the investment.

“But today it is the supermarkets and Club stores who dictate the rules on food safety,” says Gidman, hence their food vendors are literally compelled to install metal detectors at their operation just to retain access the shelf space.

“Supermarkets don’t want any safety issues at their stores, so anything they put up on their shelves will have to pass their food safety requirement,” he says, “with metal detection being a big part of that.”

In fact, many supermarkets are actually doubling down on metal detection by installing units at their stores as well, he relates.

“Today’s consumers may not even bother taking the issue up with the brand-owner or even the supermarket—they go right to Facebook or other social media to show what they found in their product, meaning that everyone involved in that brand’s value chain will take a hit.

“Leading North American retailers are nowadays driving food safety compliance right down the food chain,” says Gidman, noting this trend is catching on to what’s been going on in Europe in regards to food safety, including introduction of and widespread adoption of the BRC (British Retail Con-

sortium) standards and guidelines for safe food production and distribution.

All this naturally provides many promising opportunities for Fortress, which is in fact Canada’s only metal detector manufacturer of note, to maintain its robust growth in the coming years.

Currently exporting about 80 per cent of its output to the U.S. Mexico, China, Eastern Europe and Middle East, Fortress is exceptionally well-positioned in the industry’s global pecking order as the second-largest North American manufacturer of metal detectors for the food industry, according to Gidman, “and one of the largest players worldwide.”

Ironically, it was actually the domestic Canadian market that Fortress initially found a hard nut to crack.

“When we started out as a proud Canadian company, none of the Canadian food companies would even take time to talk to,” he recalls, “but when reaching out to prospective U.S. customer not only resulted in orders and downpayment cheques, but also promises to buy more Fortress products if it worked as good as we promised.

“It now seems really odd to see that we had to sell so much of our equipment in the U.S. before the Canadian companies started taking us seriously here at home,” Gidman chuckles.

Whatever the reasons, it was nothing to do with the robust performance or the innovative technol-

The company’s flagship Stealth line of metal detectors is offered in many configurations to provide the optimal inspection solution for clients’ varying application requirements.

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ogy incorporated in the Fortress-built machines.

Gidman recounts: “Very early on, we were invited to a special customer testing site in the U.S. where they assembled 20 different metal detector brands from around the world to test against each other for key performance attributes on one big system, in different application scenarios, and we totally dominated the end results.

“That’s when we were still operating out of my garage, with five people on staff,” he laughs.

That said, Gidman is adamant that metal detection technology still offers by far the best pricefor-performance value for a majority of food industry application than other fancier, and significantly more expensive competing inspection technologies such as X-Ray systems.

As Gidman explains, all technical advances in metal detection are focused on detecting continuously smaller metal particles—down to 0.5-mm to 0.8mm in dry products and about 1.5-mm for stainless steel in wet conductive product like cheese—as well as minimizing the incidence of false rejects.

“Ideally there is no acceptable threshold number for acceptable false rejects,” he says, “but realistically we expect our machines to do better than 0.001 per cent.

“Sometimes you may even have to sacrifice a bit on performance in order to minimize false rejects, which are really the biggest threat in terms of line downtime and product waste,” he explains.

“You really want to be sure that when you stop the line because of detected metal that there is really something there for you to look at and address: otherwise it’s all waste.

“You can’t afford to lose confidence in your metal detection capabilities,” says Gidman. “The moment you decide that your machine is just going off randomly for no reason and you let it slide, that’s when things typically go wrong and you may end up shipping thousands of products out with metal in them.

“It is critical for users to have supreme confidence in their systems, which is why false rejects must be

kept very low,” says Gidman, noting that some clients have take to installing offline metal detectors to examine red-flagged packages or products without stopping the line.

“It is paramount to determine whether the metal entered by chance from an ingredient supplier, for example, or it’s there because your machinery is breaking down,” he explains.

“If it’s the latter, then you’re going to have more and more contaminated product coming down the line, so you better take the appropriate action to address it.”

Because there are so many places along the production process where material contaminants can get into the product flow, positioning the right type of metal detector in the right place is a critical consideration, according to Gidman.

“It’s about getting as close to the finished product as possible,” says Gidman, “but sophisticated users do not just relay on end-of-the-line readings.

“If you have a big metal slicer/dicer well upstream in the process, you should have a way to measure whether it is falling apart, even if just a little.

“Even for bulk ingredients coming off the rail-car or a truck, such as maple syrup for cereal production, there should be pipeline metal detectors right up there checking the stuff out.”

The offshoot of all this variability is that the vast majority of metal detectors made at the Toronto plant are invariably custom-designed and custommanufactured to at least some extent.

“Metal detectors are by nature very applicationspecific pieces of equipment, so we basically build everything from scratch—tailor-made to the application,” Gidman notes. “The big companies that also sell other types of inspection systems different don’t like that.

“They would much rather put out thousands of one or two standard-sized off-the-shelf units to keep the production costs low,” says Gidman.

“And you can probably get away with it with something like checkweighers, let’s say, but metal detection doesn’t easily lend itself to this one-sizefits-all approach,” he states.

FINE DETAIL

“We scrutinize every single order in full detail,” he says, “and 90 per cent of the time we will build it from scratch, whereby we will custom-design all the electronics, the apertures, the conveyors and accessories, to account for the type and shape of the inspected product.”

“In addition to the company’s expertise in custom design, Gidman cites the sheer technical superiority of its sensors and signal processing technology as key competitive advantages for Fortress-built machines.

“It is useless to have great digital signal processing attached to a weak sensor,” he says.

“Hence the sensor, the balanced coil, has to be very stable and constant to account for any swings in temperature, moisture and so on, to receive and transmit an accurate signal,” Gidman relates.

“And once that signal is obtained, own proprietary software algorithms extract, filter and sort all the product information in that signal to identify the metal.

“Luckily for us, we are very good with both the sensor and the signal processing, which results in a

high-performance system.”

While the U.S. market accounts for a commanding 80-percent share of the Toronto plant’s export sales, the Fortress brand name travels exceptionally well in the global markets, Gidman relates, citing the equipment’s impressive multilingual capabilities (including Korean, Japanese, Turkish and leading European languages), as well as the general goodwill and stellar reputation it has built in foreign markets by providing highly reliable and very cost-effective means of high-precision metal detection, backed up by exceptional after-sales support.

“Our service guys are very knowledgeable folks who train people everyday, formally or informally, and that really rubs off with our clients all over the world,” says Gidman, predicting that there is still plenty of untapped market demand out there not only for Fortress to benefit from, but for the entire metal detection industry a large.

“It never ceases to amaze me to learn how many food companies are still out there without a metal detector or another product inspection system in place,” he states.

That said, food industry professional are quickly becoming a lot more knowledgeable about how high-quality metal detection technology can improve their business and protect their brands and corporate reputation, according to Gidman.

“We see it at the many packaging trade show where we exhibit,” Gidman says. “We now see a lot of quality control people, with real decision-making clout, coming to our booths to check out our systems, whereas 20 years ago it was mostly engineers.

“It is very common for us to sell our systems right off the show floor,” he proclaims, “which hardly ever happened in our early days.

“At the end of the day, I attribute this in large part due to the strong reputation our brands have built in the market,” Gidman concludes, “and, subsequently, the incredibly loyal customers that we always strive to serve to the best of our abilities, and then some.”

The aperture of a custom-built Stealth Gravity metal detector is fitted tightly around a pipe to inspect free-falling products like grains, cereals, chips and other dry snack-foods.

A Festo air filter regulator is attached to the outer wall of the product dispensing chute to help maintain optimal product flow immediately following the inline inspection above.

HAPPY ENDINGS

Stretchwrapping equipment manufacturer and integrator spares no effort to grow

its business through formidable technical

competencies and customization capabilities

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR PHOTOS BY PIERRE LONGTIN

Being squeezed out of a job by forces way beyond one’s control can be a crushing and deflating experience for many. But it can also be the proverbial opportunity in disguise for ambitious and energetic entrepreneurial types like Stéphane Côté, founder and president of Solutech Packaging Systems in Richmond, Que., a one-hour drive northeast of Montreal.

Once a long-time employee and shareholder of a thriving family-owned stretchwrapping equipment manufacturer Wulftec International, Côté found himself on the sidelines soon after the Quebec company was acquired by a big overseas packaging machinery conglomerate M.J. Maillis Group back in 2002—ultimately resulting in the usual management restructuring and downsizing that such takeovers inevitably entail.

Rather than bemoan his fate and rage against the injustice of it all, Côté wisely decided to put everything he learned at Wulftec, and also during his time at the North American subsidiary of Italian stretchwrapping equipment manufacturer Robotec, to good use by starting his own company—specializing in the aforementioned stretchwrapping machinery, palletizing equipment, and related end-ofline material handling systems and equipment.

Even more importantly, the startup company decided early on to hone its system integration skills in order to be able to offer its customers turnkey end-of-line solutions incorporating all three types of equipment it would make and market.

With Solutech celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, it’s safe to say that Côté’s entrepreneurial drive and instincts have been aptly rewarded in the highly competitive marketplace for end-of-line packaging machinery.

Today employing 25 full-time staff at two side-by-side plants totaling up to about 24,000 square feet of production space, the company has expertly executed hundreds of successful machine installations in its primary bread-and-butter food-andbeverage markets across North America.

SIZE MATTERS

In addition, Solutech has also performed several highly one-off system installations at massive industrial and commercial facilities operated by paper product giants Domtar and Cascades, roofing products manufacturer Soprema Group and the Government of Québec, among others.

“Since starting out in my own garage 10 years ago, I had to move the company four times to keep up with the growth,” says Côté, saying he had full confidence in Solutech’s ability to succeed, despite formidable competition from the industry’s more established players.

“We now have machines installed all over Canada and the U.S., along with a few in Mexico,” Côté told Canadian Packaging in a recent interview.

“Having been around strethchwrappers for about 20 years before starting up Solutech, I always felt there was a gap in the marketplace for turnkey end-of-line solutions,” says Côté, “and filling that gap is what I thought would enable Solutech to carve itself a piece of the market pie.

“There were a lot of people manufacturing just stretchwrappers and a lot of people manufacturing just palletizers,” Côté explains, “but there were not many companies providing one-stop-shop solutions to the marketplace.

“That’s where I thought that Solutech had a real market opportunity to exploit,” he reflects, “and in hindsight I am very happy to have been proven right.”

Considering that 10 years is a relatively brief period in any traditional industry, let alone the packaging machinery market dominated by venerable multinational heavyweights, the company’s scope of equipment offerings is truly remarkable— ranging from basic stand-alone semi-automatic wrappers to sophisticated, fullyautomatic rotary-arm and orbital configurations capable of handling large truck tires, giant paper rolls, oversized wood panels and all other manner of bulky or awkward product loads.

“We do it all,” says Côté, “but where we really shine is in customizing end-of-line solutions specifically for our customers’ application needs.”

Côté says the Solutech equipment compares very well in price and performance against all of its main competitors, while offering some unique value-added features not found elsewhere.

“We equip all our semi-automatic machines with Allen-Bradley control panels as on our semi-automatic machines as a standard feature,” Côté points out, “whereas other manufacturers only offer it as an option, with all the extra costs that entails.”

With stretchwrapping equipment accounting for about 70 per cent of Solutech’s total business, the company’s stretchwrapping portfolio comprises:

• The semi-automatic INTELLI-WRAP portable stretchwrapping system with throughput capacity to wrap 15 to 20 loads per hour.

Designed as a cost-effective solution for busy distribution centers, the batteryoperated system can provide up to 12 hours of completely autonomous operation from an eight-hour charge, according to Solutech, with its 20-inch film carriage capable of making light work of oversized loads.

While the use of similar independently operating stretchwrappers has been gaining momentum in recent years thanks to their portability and extremely compact footprint, “To the best of my knowledge we are the only North American manufactures of these types of systems,” Côté asserts.

“All the other ones are imported from Europe, where such systems were originally designed and commercialized,” he states.

“I originally imported them myself but I found little success in marketing them,” he relates, “so about four years ago I decided to start making them myself.

“I have sold about 50 of them since then,” Côté states, saying the user-friendly machine—looking more like a home appliance than an industrial equipment— stole the show at this year’s SIAL Canada 2018 food industry exhibition in Montreal.

“Show visitors just couldn’t get enough of seeing the INTELLI-WRAP in ac-

Solutech founder and president Stéphane Côté has over 30 years of experience in the stretchwrapping business, making him one of the industry’s most knowledgeable experts.

Solutech Packaging Systems founder and president Stéphane Côté (left) and Gaétan Larivière, local sales representative for the ASCO/Numatics division of Emerson Automation Solutions, hold up the high-quality pneumatic components from ASCO incorporated inside Solutech’s high-performance stretchwrapping machinery manufactured in Richmond, Que.

tion, casually going about its business of circling around a pallet and stretchwrapping the stacks of product all on its own, load after load.

“I got more solid sales leads from that show for this machine than I do at many of the packaging industry shows we exhibit at,” he chuckles.

Other notable stretchwrapping equipment lines manufactured by Solutech include:

• The SLP series semi-automatic turntable stretchwrappers, equipped with a pre-stretch film carriage installed on the side of the machine to provide optimal working ergonomics for the operators, while ensuring optimal film prestretch to maximize film usage.

• The SHP series high-profile stretchwrapping machines, designed to be loaded only by forklift.

• The SRT series stretchwrappers incorporating a rotary tower attached to a 20inch powered pre-stretch carriage, which rotates around a stationary pallet load on the floor to optimize film usage.

• The automatic SLPA series low-profile turntable stretchwrappers and the SHPA series high-profile turntable stretchwrappers—both designed to allow the operator to start the system without getting off the forklift.

According to Solutech, “The system automatically attaches the stretch film at the beginning of the cycle and cuts and wipes the film at the end of the cycle—enhancing ergonomics and workplace safety.”

• The automatic SCTA series stetchwrappers integrated with five-foot-long infeed and outfeed conveyors.

“This fully automated systems requires simply loading and unloading of conveyors with pallet loads,” according to Solutech, “with the complete wrapping cycle performed automatically.”

• The SRTA series rotary tower stetchwrappers. Also designed to allow the operator to start the system without getting off the forklift, the system automatically attaches the stretch film at the beginning of the cycle and cuts and wipes the film at the end of the cycle lowering the risk of injury for the operator and optimizing the wrapping cycle time.

• The automatic SCRTA series rotary tower system that can be inserted into an existing conveyor line, or installed as a stand-alone system. According to Solutech, the high-speed system is designed to index the pallet load automatically, securely wrap the load at optimal pre-stretch, and cut and wipe the film at the end of the cycle without any operator intervention.

As Côté relates: “I am exremely proud of what our team has developed and brought to the market.

“The latest integration of the new features, such as multilingual touchscreen technology, the use of only nonproprietary parts, and custom-made robotics integration enable us to go beyond our customers’ expectations,” he enthuses, “offering custom-made applications to fill any need and requirement.

“Our robust machines are built last for years with total peace-of-mind,” says Côté, citing superior structural strength and integrity of all machine parts fabricated by Solutech.

“The thickness of the steel we use on our turntables makes Solutech equipment one of the most hardworking machines on the market, period,” he extols, crediting the company’s expert staff, boasting a wealth of combined mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge, for helping Solutech establish a stellar industry reputation.

“One of our greatest strength it is our talented, committed and passionate employees,” Côté states.

A fully-integrated end-of-line packaging system assembled by Solutech Packaging Solutions makes light work of preparing giant truck tires for a perfectly safe and secure shipment to customer.

“The before and after sales service is a direct Solutech service done by Solutech employees, so that if a distributor or end-user ever has any issue with any of our equipment, the same team that developed the equipment will also be the same team addressing those inquiries.”

In-house talent aside, Côté also credits the company’s various business partners for helping it succeed—reserving special praise for the ASCO/Numatics division of Emerson Automation Solutions in Saint-Laurent, Que.

Says Côté: “ASCO/Numatics has been our choice for pneumatic components since Solutech started up 10 years ago, and their support has been instrumental helping us realize our vision of what top-quality stretchwrapping equipment should look and work like.

“They have been a tremendous partners.”

The sentiment is resoundingly mutual, according to Gaétan Larivière, Emerson’s technical sales specialist for fluid and motion control products.

“We are proud of our partnership with Solutech Packaging Systems,” Larivière told Canadian Packaging

“We have been partners for many years now, and I’d like to think that we have played a part in helping Solutech achieve their impressive growth in both size and reputation.

“By using real world-class components made ASCO/Numatics, they have been able to raise their technology to a much higher standard, while also adding a lot of value to their product portfolio,” says Larivière, praising the high level of collaboration between the two companies on all new projects initiated by Solutech.

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“We work closely with all their departments: from purchasing to engineering,” he states. “We help them with purchasing on day-to-day basis, keeping track of the orders and make sure that we are always on top of the game when it comes to price and delivery.

“We also help their engineering with creating the 3D drawing for their designs, assisting them in conceptualizing new designs, or bringing additional information for their new product development,” he adds.

“It’s all about keeping Solutech completely up-to-date on all new technologies available, so that they continue to improved their product offering by building more efficiency into their machinery—thereby and get the best possible return on investment.”

Some of the key high-quality pneumatic components supplied by ASCO/Numatics to Solutech include:

• The 651/652 Series air filtration line featuring modular construction with body-to-body clamps and end plates, which offers mounting versatility and enables quick product replacement, while leaving piping in place.

• The stainless-steel M Series pneumatics cylinder line, engineered to exceed all light-duty cylinder application requirements. According to ASCO/Numatics, “This reliable cylinder is reliable and is designed and built to maximize performance with a multitude of standard value-added features such as stainless-steel piston rods, roll-formed threads at both ends of the piston rod, and pre-lubed installation for lubrication-free service life.

• The Solenoid Pilot Valve-Manifold with a high-flow rate 11-mm pneumatic valve. Designed to save mounting space requirements and troubleshooting time, the four-way solenoid air pilot actuate valve is available in manifold with Fieldbus and is compatible with all leading industrial Ethernet protocols.

A DAY AT THE RACES

Global

industrial controls leader touts digitalization as the next key building block in creating the vaunted Factory of the Future

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

PHOTOS BY NAOMI HILTZ

With the French culture so widely lauded, admired and celebrated as a key driving force behind the continual advancement of Western Civilization throughout the past centuries—including timeless contributions to the world cuisine, fashion, architecture, literature and fine arts, to cite a few—it can be easy to overlook the country’s similarly substantial role in modern-day industrialization and technological progress across the planet.

In this light, the recently-held Innovation Day Canada forum and exhibit—hosted by Schneider Electric Canada in late June at The Roundhouse historical building operated by Steam Whistle Brewing near Toronto’s lakefront—was a fitting and timely reminder of the country’s considerable clout and experience in helping shape the modern global industrial landscape and consumer marketplace through leading-edge technological savoir faire and R&D (research-and-development) efforts.

Happily coinciding with the French national football team’s confident pursuit of sporting glory at the FIFA World Cup 2018 footballing extravaganza in Russia, the well-attended industry gathering provided a perfect stage for the venerable company, founded back in 1836 by brothers Adolphe and Joseph-Eugene Schneider, to present itself as one of the leading pacesetter in the onfolding mass digitalization efforts transforming modern industries to the core these days—packaging no exception.

With five per cent of the company’s annual global revenues of $38 billion earmarked for R&D activities ach year, Schneider Electric naturally boasts a highly expansive and broad-ranging product portfolio for a diverse array of industrial end

users, as evidenced daily by the many thousands of industrial PCs, HMIs (humanmachine interfaces), robotics, servomotors and other trappings of industrial automation employed on countless packaging lines and machines all over the world, including many used and built right here in Canada.

But as Schneider Electric Canada’s president Susan Uthayakumar was keen to point out in her keynote welcoming remarks, “We are a technology company.”

According to Uthayakumar, about 45 per cent of the company’s revenues are now generated by its activities in the so-call IoT (Internet of Things) industry segment driven primarily by enterprise networking software development and data collection and analysis tools and applications supporting smart device and systems connectivity across vast geographic distances, rather than industrial hardware and componentry.

As Uthayakumar explained, this share of the company’s business will grow larger still in coming years as the much-touted Fourth Industrial Revolulion, aka IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and Industry 4.0, continues to transform both industry and the modern society at large.

“Since being introduced in 1990, the Internet has connected more than five billion people around the world together,” Uthayakumar noted.

“This really revolutionized how people would be doing things like sending letters, reading books and so on,” she said, “and we are now well into the next stage of that revolution with IoT.

Schneider Electric Canada president Susan Uthayakumar making a keynote address to senior industry executives attending the company’s Innovation Day Canada reception, held earlier this summer in Toronto to highlight Schneider Electric’s digitalization strategies.

One of several EcoStruxure IT exhibits set up for Schneider Electric’s Innovation Day Canada reception, held in late June at The Roundhouse historic locomotive repair facility now operated by Steam Whistle Brewing, to show off the technology’s digitalization capabilities.

one easily-integrated station could divert, transfer, and sort?

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“So if you add those five billion [connected] people to the 30 to 50 billion connected machines estimated to be operating today, this will drastically change how we do many things at work and at play,” Uthayakumar noted, “and how we interact with our customers.

“When we look at the world around us, we see that change is everhwhere and that the speed of change is tremendous,” said Uthayakumar, citing urbanization industrialization/automation, digitalization and power supply decentralization as

A simple laptop or another smart device is all it takes to tap into the open-systems EcoStuxure architecture devleoped by Schneider Electric to help companies across a broad range of industries to optimize their data collection and analysis capabilities, as well as using that data to make well-informed business decisions at the enterprise level.

four key “megatrends” driving the acceleration of that change.

“By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people around the world will be living in cities,” she said, “ and there will be more than 75 billion things of all kinds connected by 2015, creating tremendous demand of energy supply.”

With electrical distribution products and systems still accounting for a major share of Schneider Electric’s global business, the company is increasingly challenged to identify and leverage new synergies between its energy management and digitalization solutions to maintain a steady future growth path that will satisfy both its shareholders and customers alike, according to Uthayakumar.

“In respect to power systems, we were used to having one source of power released into the grid in a very centralized way,” Uthayakumar noted.

“Now it’s not only being decentralized through the adoption of so-called micro-grids, but it is also supplemented with introduction of renewable energy,” said Uthayakumar, citing a 73-percent drop in the cost of solar panels during the last five years.

“Renewable power is becoming a lot more accessible than many people think,” Uthayakumar said, reasserting the company’s publicly stated pledge to become a truly carbon-neutral global enterprise by 2030.

As for digitalization, Uthayakumar says that the ongoing shift in focus from Cloud-based data mining and analysis to Edge-based quantum computing and decision-making will enable companies across a broad spectrum of industries to yield big improvements in productivity, energy efficiency, equipment reliability and occupational safety.

“We are seeing these improvement in spite of the fact that only 10 per cent of the existing data is actually being used to drive decisions today,” she said.

“So just think about the possibilities when 90 per cent of business decisions are based on properly analyzed data.

“This would not only allow companies to go from reactive to proactive operating mode,” she said, “but it would also allow them to manage all their resources not on the site-by-sit basis, but at the enterprise level, while implementing mobile and remote-control tools to do it.”

To help companies make this switch, Schneider Electric has recently unveiled the new open-systems EcoStruxure IT architecture that the company claims will “revolutionize DCIM (data center infrastructure management) by delivering a Cloud-based architecture purpose-built for hybrid IT and data center environments.

According to the company, “The vendor-agnostic architecture delivers a new standard for proactive insights on critical assets that impact the health and availability of an IT environment with ability to deliver actionable real-time rec-

Schneider Electric Canada’s vice-president of power systems and services Frederick Morency (far right) leads a spirited panel discussion, featuring leading Canadian utility operators and building systems engineers, focusing on the need to find more sustainable and cost-effective means of powering the emerging IoT digital economy connecting billions of intelligent devices and machines across vast distances around the world.

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ommendations to optimize infrastructure performance and mitigate risk.”

In the context of packaging machinery design and performance, the EcoStruxure IT offers a host of practical benefits, according to Olivier Cousseau, Schneider Electric Canada’s vice president for industry and marketing in Montreal.

“In a world where our OEM (original equipment manufacturer) customers face a strong competition to deliver machines that are more efficient, safer and easy to integrate in factories, Schneider Electric aims to be their preferred partner and helping them to stay innovative, to design faster, to manufacture faster, and to ensure worldwide support for their machines through our (Schneider Electric) products, solutions, services and support teams,” Cousseau states.

“Effective automation requires open standards, intuitive engineering tools and effective communication concepts, which our all hallmarks of our EcoStruxure IT Machine product portfolio,” Cousseau explains.

“Whether the goal is better logic or more precise drive control, EcoStruxure Machine provides a flexible and scalable solution that’s always perfectly optimized,” Cousseau told the Canadian Packaging magazine.

“From simple to complex, from compact to modular— there is the right solution for any machine or line with EcoStruxure Machine architecture.”

According to Cousseau, “With EcoStruxure Machine, Schneider Electric has designed a package consisting of technology and a wide range of services for solving the crit-

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ical issues faced by packaging machinebuilder at a time of customer needs and the advent of new data-driven, digital business models.”

Citing a global installation base comprising over 100,000 packaging machines automated with Schneider Electric subsystems and components, Cousseau says the new EcoStruxure Machine suite of products “brings innovation at every level across energy, automation and software with a three-tiered technology stack” that comprises:

• Connected Products. Intelligent products that serve as the foundation for smarter machines and plants.

• Edge Control. Leading-edge connected control systems that enable simple design, commissioning and monitoring, “meaning less complexity for our customers to manage.”

• Apps, Analytics, and Services. A full portfolio of hardware-agnostic, open and interoperable software, apps and analytics to enable machine optimization.

As Cousseau asserts, “The machine of tomorrow is a smarter machine by virtue of being safer, better connected, more flexible, and more efficient to quickly respond to new individual demands.

“Based upon our smart connected products,” he says, “the machine of tomorrow maximizes efficiency through preventive maintenance and intuitive collaboration with users while minimizing its environmental footprint and total cost of ownership.

“We’ve been working with the packaging industry as long as we can remember to deliver world-class products, solutions and services,” Cousseau concludes, “and it remains an important goal for us help packaging OEMs become more efficient, to reduce their costs, and to meet their sustainability goals with our comprehensive portfolio of integrated solutions.”

Olivier Cousseau, Vice-President, Industry & Marketing, Schneider Electric Canada

PLEASED TO MEAT YOU!

Meat packaging systems and equipment giant eager to share cutting-edge technological brilliance and innovation with Canada’s promising meat processing stalwarts

BY CP STAFF

BY NAOMI HILTZ

Meat industry people are largely a hearty jovial type with a genuine passion for living life to its fullest.

So it was fittingly a very happy meeting of minds a few weeks ago in Brampton, Ont., where meat packaging machinery powerhouse Multivac Canada Inc. flung open the doors of its state-of-the-art Training and Innovation Centre to welcome over 50 meat-processing industry professionals to see, touch, feel, taste and discuss some cutting-edge meat-packing solutions produced on the company’s diverse range of thermoforming, vacuumpacking and other high-performance packaging solutions.

“We regularly receive multiple request from customers wishing to find out where they could see best-in-class processing and packaging equipment in one location,” Multivac Canada’s director of sales Paul Marsden told Canadian Packaging during a brief pause between engaging with the visiting project managers, sales and marketing specialists, engineers, management types, and owners from some of Ontario’s leading meat-processing companies looking for an extra competitive edge in the marketplace.

“With all our experts on hand to answer questions and provide solutions to everyday issues, we find that holding this event regularly both here in Toronto and Vancouver throughout the year is a very valuable time investment for everyone involved.”

Also featuring high-quality German-made meat processing equipment supplied by Multivac’s long-time partner Handtmann Canada Ltd., this summer’s Multivac Open House in Brampton continued its long-running tradition of putting on an even better show than the one before—conducting live demonstrations of a fully-integrated, high-speed production line consisting of:

• A Handtmann VF 838S vacuum filler with an automatic lifter to move product up and in to the unit. Designed primarily for the Featuring high filling pressure, the filler is ideal for the sausage industry—including dry, fresh or even industrial meat production—the filler used modeling clay at the event to simulate meat products of various shapes and sizes.

• From there, the product moves through a Handtmann GMD 99-2 inline grinding system—designed with highest hygienic standards in mind—operating with a wire-cutter or a blade to process the product, as per customer requirements.

• The product then moved onto hygienic trays dispensed onto the line by a high-speed Intray.DK automatic tray denesting system, manufactured by Intech International and controlled via a Magelis brand HMI (human-machine interface) terminal from Schneider Electric

• With the product inside the trays, it is conveyed to a Multivac T 600 tray-sealer ,before being automatically labeled by Multivac’s model L310 conveyor belt labeler.

• According to Multivac, the model T 600 tray-sealer is the smallest fully-automatic tray-sealer that can be integrated into a packaging line to pack food, medical and pharmaceutical products, along with other smaller-sized industrial and consumer goods. Outfitted with energy-efficient drive systems to facilitate fast die changes, the washdown-compatible T 600 tray-sealer offers

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Handtmann Canada’s business development and sales manager Graham Dalziel (left) and Multivac Canada’s director of sales Paul Marsden welcoming open house visitors.

Finest Sausage & Meat owner Sannon Desborough (left) and Multivac’s regional sales manager Nick Tate take a close look at a Multvac packaging machine in full flight.

A close-up of one of a vast multitude of high-quality meat packaging solutions created on Multivac’s high-performance thermoforming and vacuum-packing machinery.

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quick and efficient pack throughput with exceptionally gentle tray handling.

Along with MAP (modified-atmosphere packaging) and EMAP (equilibrium modified atmosphere packaging) pack types, it can also create super-tight vacuum skin-packs by using Multivac’s leading-edge sealing systems—producing highly attractive retail packages with superior shelf-life properties.

We’re more than just packaging

Proudly displaying the company’s flagship motto ‘Fully Automated, Totally Integrated,’ the Brampton Training and Innovation Centre is anything but a static showroom, according to Marsden.

“It is in fact a fully-operational site that

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not only allows our customers to test the capabilities of the machines before purchasing them,” he says, “but also informs the customer of just what sort of machinery they might require to create the proper production/packaging line for achieving optimal product appearance, brand messaging and production cost efficiency.”

Naturally, Multivac’s customercentric approach to doing business resonated sweetly with those in attendance.

“I’ve known Multivac for many years, but it never gets tiring to see real-time demonstrations of what their latest machines can do right in front of your eyes,” said Shannon Desborough, owner of Finest Sausage & Meat Ltd. in Kitchener, Ont.

“We always have many new product ideas but we don’t always know to implement them cost-effectively in real life,” he acknowledged. “But walking in here and seeing all these great Multivac machines in action always and it opens up my eyes to the multitude of exciting new possibilities of how we could do things differently.”

Anthony Petronaci, president of both Canadian Select Meats Inc. and Ryding Regency Meat Packers Ltd. in west-end Toronto, happily echoed the sentiment.

“I don’t always get much of an opportunity to visit the Multivac facility,” he said, “but this was definitely worth the trip.

“It is always a good idea to see how machines operating before we make a decision on any capital investment,” Petronaci said, “and I am very impressed with what I have seen here.”

Ditto for Nick Balega, president of the family-owned processor of Hungarian and Central European-style delicatessen meats Blue Danube Sausage House Limited in Mississauga, Ont.

“We had a great time, met some great people, and had an opportunity to see a lot of wonderful equipment in action,” Balega stated.

Along with the Multivac/Handtmann line described above, Multivac’s Training and Innovation Centre also displayed:

• Multivac R105 thermoformer;

• Multivac R105 MultiFresh thermoformer with a Multivac MBS 220 converger;

• Handtmann VF 608B grinder working with a Verbufa VDM depositing system moving it into a Multivac R145 thermoformer unit;

• Inotech WT99-IT-STD sausage link cutter capable of taking a job that one person can do in a work shift and performing it in 12 minutes;

• Multivac P600 double chamber vacuum chamber;

• Multivac Baseline P200 vacuum chamber system.

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THE SPICIER THE BETTER

Venerable Canadian packaging supplies distributor still a breath of fresh air in the hotly contested and crowded marketplace

BY CP STAFF

PHOTOS BY NAOMI HILTZ

The best thing about open houses—be it in real estate, hospitality business or somewhere along the vast industrial and manufacturing landscape—is that they often offer a rare opportunity to see how the other half lives.

And for some 218 industry professionals who made the trek to Woodbridge, Ont., in late June to attend a day-and-a-half Open House event hosted by Spicers Canada ULC, there was plenty of evidence that the 114-year-old company is living very well nowadays indeed.

Located a short drive north of Toronto at a sprawling modern 280,000-square-foot production and distribution plant housing two high-performance sheeters and a treasure-trove of industrial packaging products, commercial print and business papers, graphic solutions, and a broad assortment of signage and display media,

the company’s longevity is well-matched with the diverse range of practical solutions and expertise it offers to its far-flung loyal Canadian customer base through a coast-to-coast network of 15 regional centers.

“We felt it was the right time to showcase the full breadth of products and service offerings supplied by Spicers and our partners,” the company’s graphic packaging specialist Matthew Serwin told Canadian Packaging during the lively event organize under the confident ‘Game Changer’ moniker.

“It is a terrific opportunity to educate and inspire our customers, along with our own internal staff, on all the new technology and products out the marketplace today under one roof.”

All told, there were dozens of Spicers’ prominent business partners, suppliers and vendors who took the opportunity to set up their own well-stocked tabletop exhibits showcasing their products and highlight-

ing their latest technologies and services across a broad spectrum of the graphic arts industry.

“Not only do we offer the most diverse portfolio offering for the Canadian packaging market,” Serwin asserted,“but our diverse network of specialists that can consult customers on any aspect of the graphic packaging industry, bar none.”

As Serwin explained, “With so many true genuine experts retiring in the industry nowadays, there are simply fewer people left around to turn to for help.

“But with our highly knowledgeable technical services team, our leading-edge color management expertise, and the breadth of elite technology partners, we have the ability to assist printers, converters and brand-owners to better understand and control their processes, quality control, and color management

Tempo Plastics Limited’s vice-president of marketing Leonardo Giglio (center) making a fact-finding stop at the Epson exhibit area showing off its latest printing technologies during the recent Game Change open house hosted by Spicers Canada ULC at its 280,000-square-foot headquarters and distribution facility (inset) in Woodbridge, Ont.

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throughout the print production process,” Serwin proclaimed.

While there was the proverbial something for everybody throughout the Game Changer event, Serwin reserved special praise for the exhibits set up by Epson (prototyping technology), Kodak (NX Flexo AED Print flexo printing technology), MetsaBoard (FBB paperboard product line for sustainable food packaging) and Neenah (retail packaging solutions focused on sustainability and brand messaging.

According to Serwin, Spicers has stayed relevant to its customer base throughout the years by effectively addressing the key issues of the day, which currently revolve around logistics, transportation and technical expertise, or rather lack of.

“With a network of 15 distribution centres, our own trucks, and our own drivers,” he said, “we can always leverage our footprint to optimize our customers’ procurement needs right across the country in a timely manner.”

Also featuring exhibits by renowned industry lights such as Mutoh, Intertape Polymer Group, Kruger, Polyair, International Paper, Iggesund, Ronco and Royal Containers, among others, the Game Changer event highlighted the virtue of the family-owned company’s unwavering commitment to customer service excellence.

As James Tovell, Spicers Canada’s general manager for the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) region, related, “Over time, the

company management has its workforce with people who are truly passionate about the business and understand how to deliver consistent service and support.

“As a result, Spicers Canada is more than just a distribution entity: we are a bona fide logistics company with accurate ontime delivery of a wide range of products for our diverse base of customers,” Tovell said.

“I also had a chance to speak to a lot of suppliers fact-toface,” he related, and was intrigued to see the interest they had in seeing our business first-hand.

“Moreover, many of them were genuinely surprised to see just how many other suppliers we do business with,” he stated, “and to learn just how diverse Spicers Canada truly is.”

Tony Molinaro, Intertape Polymer Group’s industrial packaging director of sales, agreed.

“They (Spicers) are a long-time partner of ours in the Canadian market—about 10 years, I believe,” Molinaro noted.

“While we are here primarily to show some of our new products like our shrink films, double-coated tapes and PE (polyethylene) tapes, we are also here to display our sincere support for all the good things that Spicers Canada does for the industry on everyday basis.”

International Paper’s senior account manager of commercial printing & imaging papers Douglass Compton saw the event

as a perfect way to expand the vision of some of Spicers customers with truly innovative product offerings.

“We’re here to show the customers our wide range of products in general and to also showcase our new ‘by George’ line of colorful coverweight papers created especially for the discerning designer and printer in mind,” Compton said.

As one of those discerning customers in attendance, Tempo Plastics Limited’s vice-president of marketing Leonardo Giglio was highly impressed by what he saw at the event.

With the Innisfill, Ont.-based flexible packaging converter and bagmaker always on the lookout for new business opportunities, the chance to see so many high-quality industry players in one place, in a highly congenial environment, it was too good an opportunity to pass up, according to Giglio.

“We are looking to make a capital investment for a new proofing system to expand our capabilities,” Giglio related, “and because we knew that Epson would be in attendance, House, we felt it was well worth the effort to come and see it in operation first-hand.

“Frankly, I was very impressed by what I saw.”

Kelly McCarthy, dropping in from the Mississauga office of leading printing inks supplier Hubergroup Canada Limted, agreed.

“Huber has been a trusted partner of Spicers for decades,” he said. “We love working with them and we are very proud of our great working relationship,” said Kelly, lavishing praise on Spicers’ market reach and obsession with customer service excellence.

“Spicers Canada makes it a mission to go wherever companies like us simply can’t go, due to the distance or other reasons,” Kelly said.

“They are a real breath of fresh air in our industry,” he summed up, “and we are very proud to share in their spotlight moment.”

Intertape Polymer Group’s director of sales Tony Molinaro (left) and colleague Cory Park display a sampling of the company’s broad range of tapes and sealing solutions for packaging and other applications.

Visitors to the Game Changer open house checking out the vast multitude of colorful graphic arts solutions on display at Spicers.

From Left: Spicers Canada’s vice-president for Central Canada Paul Tasker and graphic packaging specialist Mattew Serwin compare notes during the company’s recent Game Changer open house event.

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Canadian Corrugated and Containerboard Association

3-1995 Clark Blvd Brampton ON L6T 4W1 Tel: 905-458-1247 Fax: 905-458-2052 Web: www.cccabox.org

CANADIAN MEAT COUNCIL

930-220 Laurier Ave W Ottawa ON K1P 5Z9 Tel: 613-729-3911 Fax: 613-4294997 Web: www.cmc-cvc.com

CANADIAN PALLET COUNCIL 239 Division St Cobourg ON K9A 3P9 Tel: 905-372-1871 Fax: 905-373-0230 Web: www.cpcpallet.com

CANADIAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION 125-5955 Airport Rd Mississauga ON L4V 1R9 Tel: 905-678-7748 Fax: 905-6780774 Web: www.plastics.ca

CANADIAN POULTRY AND EGG PROCESSORS COUNCIL 400-1545 Carling Ave Ottawa ON K1Z 8P9 Tel: 613-724-6605 Fax: 613-724-4577 Web: www.cpepc.ca

CANADIAN PRODUCE MARKETING ASSOCIATION 162 Cleopatra Dr Ottawa ON K2G 5X2 Tel: 613-226-4187 Fax: 613-226-2984 Web: www.cpma.ca

CANADIAN STANDARD ASSOCIATION (CSA) 178 Rexdale Blvd Toronto ON M9W 1R3 Tel: 416-747-4000 Web: www.csa.ca

CONTRACT PACKAGING ASSOCIATION One Parkview Plaza Suite 800 Oakbrook Terrace IL 60181 Tel: 630-544-5053 Fax: 630-544-5055 Web: www. contractpackaging.org

Farm Credit Canada 1800 Hamilton St Regina SK S4P 4L3 Tel: 800-387-3232 Web: www.fcc-fac.ca

FOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE

800-2345 Crystal Dr Arlington VA 22202 Tel: 202-452-8444 Fax: 202-429-4519 Web: www.fmi.org

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FOODSERVICE PACKAGING INSTITUTE 421-7700 Leesburg Pike Falls Chruch VA 22043 Tel: 703-592-9889 Fax: 703592-9864 Web: www.fpi.org

FOREST PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA 410-99 Bank St Ottawa ON K1P 6B9 Tel: 613-563-1441 Fax: 613-563-4720 Web: www.fpac.ca

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3M Canada Company 2,19,23,32

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. 12

Alpha Poly Corporation 21,32

Automationdirect 5,32

Bericap North America Inc. 2,7-10,12,14,1721,23,26-27,32

Berry Plastics Canada Inc. 10,12,14,18-19,26-27,32

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 6

Canfab Packaging Inc. 10,24,26

Canpaco Inc. 6,23,30,32

Capmatic Ltd. 1-3,9-10,12-14,17-19,21-22,2427,29-30,32

Cascades Containerboard Packaging 25

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 32

Chantler Packaging Inc. 32

Consolidated Bottle Corporation 1-3,7,10,13-14,1718,22,24,26-27,30-32

Dominion & Grimm Inc. 9-10,12,15-16,23,27,32

Donway Packaging Corp. Ltd. 6

Elopak Canada Inc. 2,27,32

Emballages Roda Packaging Inc. 10,12,14,18,26,32

Enercon Industries Corp. 32

Farnell Packaging Limited 6

Forte Labels and Shrink Sleeves Inc. 30

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 25

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment 6

Jones Packaging Inc. 14,26

Pano Cap Canada Ltd. 1,10,14,16,18,26,32

Peel Plastic Products Ltd. 10,26,32

Pemberton & Associates Inc. 4,9,24,26,32-33

Polytainers Inc. 10,26

Richards Packaging Inc. 1-3,7,10-19,22,24,26-33

Salbro Bottle Inc. 1-3,7,9-11,13-14,18,21-22,24,2627,30,32

Silgan Plastics Canada 10,14,18,26,32

Stock Packaging Canada 23,33

TC Transcontinental Packaging 18,21,25-26,33

TricorBraun 1-2,7,10-14,16-18,24,26-28,30,32

Uline Canada Corp. 32

Valco Melton Inc. 14

Veritiv 4,6

Vibac Canada Inc. 32

COATINGS

1

3M Canada Company 4,8

Alpha Poly Corporation 8

Capmatic Ltd. 5,9

Cascades Containerboard Packaging 1-7,9-11

Celplast Metallized Products Limited 1

Covertech Flexible Packaging 1-2,8

DJS Enterprises 8,10

Elopak Canada Inc. 1

FPC Flexible Packaging Corporation 2-3,8,10-11

General Magnaplate Corp. 1-2,4,6-7

Gluefast Company Inc. 4,10

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 1,4,8-10

Graphic Packaging International Canada 1-2

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 4-5,9-10

Henkel Corporation 1,3-6,9-10

HMA Systems 3,5

Hood Packaging Corporation 2-4,8,11

hubergroup Canada Limited 1,4,7,9-10

Moore Packaging Corporation 10-11

Nordson Canada Limited 3

OBX Works Inc. 3,5

Packaging Technologies Inc. 9-10

Peel Plastic Products Ltd. 1,3-4,8

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 3,5,9

Spicers Canada 1,4,7,9-11

Sun Chemical 1,8-10

Tapp Label Company 7,9-10

TC Transcontinental Packaging 1-2,5,10

Valco Melton Inc. 3

Veritiv 3-4

Vibac Canada Inc. 5

Winpak Ltd. 1-2,8

CONVEYOR BELTING

1 Composite 2 Metal

3 Plastic

4 Rubber

3M Canada Company 2

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 2

DJS Enterprises 1,3

FlexLink Systems, Inc. 1

Garvey Corp. 2-3

Habasit Canada Limited 1-4

Honeywell Intelligrated 1-4

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 3-4

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-4

Rexnord Canada Ltd. 3

Strong Point Automation Inc. 1-2,4

VisuaScan Inc. 1-4

Wecon Services Ltd. 1,4

CORDAGE, ROPE TWINE STRING

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co.

Donway Packaging Corp. Ltd.

TC Transcontinental Packaging CORES 1 Cores

Fibre 3 Paper 4 Plastic

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 2-4

Canfab Packaging Inc. 2-3

Canpaco Inc. 3

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell Software Brands 1 Septimatech Group Inc. 1

Spicers Canada 1

TC Transcontinental Packaging 2-4

Uline Canada Corp. 2,4

VisuaScan Inc. 1

CUSHIONING MATERIALS

1 Air-Bubble

Cartier 1-3,5-6

Covertech

1,6,9-18

Alte-Rego Corporation 1,6,9,11,13-18,23,26,28,30 Astro Box Corp. 5,8

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 6,13-16,26

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 7,28

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 6,13,15-18,24,2628

Canpaco Inc. 1-2,6-7,9,11-20,24,26-28

CAPS/PhoenixWrappers 28

Cartier 1,7,13-17,26,28

Celplast Metallized Products Limited 9-22,24

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 6,11,13-20,24-28

Chantler Packaging Inc. 6,9-11,13-18,23,26,30

CiMa-Pak Corporation 26

Cousineau Packaging Inc. 1,14-15,17,26,28

Covertech Flexible Packaging 9,13-16,26-28

Crawford Packaging Inc. 7,24,26,28

Donway Packaging Corp. Ltd. 1,7,14

Farnell Packaging Limited 9,14-17,26,28

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 3-4,6,11,17-19,24,27

Harlund Industries Ltd. 26

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment

MATERIALS & COMPONENTS

WHO MAKES/SELLS WHAT AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

2,6,14,17,24,26-28

Marking Ltd. 2-4,6-7,10

Deco Labels & Tags 10

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 6

Domino Printing Solutions Inc. 3,10

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 2,5,10

Harlund Industries Ltd. 2,6-7,10

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 1-6,9-

10

hubergroup Canada Limited 1-2,4-5,7,10

INX International Ink Co. 1-2,4-5,7-10

Markem-Imaje Inc. 2,7,10

Matthews Marking Systems 1-2,6-7,10

Packaging Technologies Inc. 1,5,9

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 6,10

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-10

Samuel Packaging Systems Group 6-7

Spicers Canada 1-2,4-5,7,10

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 2,6-7

Sun Chemical 1-2,5,8-10

Tapp Label Company 1-2,4-5,9-10

TC Transcontinental Packaging 1,8-9

Videojet Canada 1-3,6,10

Videojet Technologies Inc. 2,6-7,10

VisuaScan Inc. 2,6-7,10

Winpak Ltd. 1,8

LABELS BANDS WRAPS

1 Decalcomania

2 Foil

3 Heat-Shrinkable

4 Paper

5 Pressure-Sensitive

6 Roll Type For Shipping Marking

7 Tamper-Evident (Security)

8 Water-Resistant

3M Canada Company 2,5-8

Ahearn & Soper Inc. 4-8

ASL Print FX Ltd. 2,4-5,7

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 1,5-6,8

Barcode Graphics Inc. 4-8

Canpaco Inc. 3,5-7

Capmatic Ltd. 2-5,7-8

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging 3

Columbia Coding & Marking Ltd. 5-6,8

Crawford Packaging Inc. 5-7

Deco Labels & Tags 1-4,6-8

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 6-7

Donway Packaging Corp. Ltd. 5,8

Forte Labels and Shrink Sleeves Inc. 2-3,5

FPC Flexible Packaging Corporation 2,4

Glue Dots International 5

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 2,4-5

Harlund Industries Ltd. 5-6,8

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment 7

ID Technology Canada 5,7

Industrial Marking Systems Inc. 4-6,8

Jones Packaging Inc. 4-6

Richards Packaging Inc.

Salbro Bottle Inc.

RIBBONS & TIES

Canpaco Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Veritiv

ROLL-LEAF STAMPING FOIL

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Tapp Label Company

SEALING COMPOUNDS:

34

Canpaco Inc. 1-2,6-8,14-17,20-21,26-28,30,33-34

Capmatic Ltd. 25

Cartier 7-8,16,20,27

Cascades Containerboard Packaging 5,7,15,18-21,23,25-26,29-

34

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 15,21,28,33-34

Covertech Flexible Packaging 20-21,23

Crawford Packaging Inc. 6,20,26-28,33

Donway Packaging Corp. Ltd. 4,6,8-9,14-15,20-21,27,30,33

Emballages Roda Packaging Inc. 17,25

FPC Flexible Packaging Corporation 17,21

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 3-4,8,15,17,23,26,30,34

Graphic Packaging International Canada 3-4,7,20-21,24,30,32-

34

Hood Packaging Corporation 4,15,17,21,30,32

Kruger Inc. 5,7

Mitchel-Lincoln Packaging Ltd. 7

Plan Automation Inc. 20

Spicers Canada 2-10,12-13,15-17,20-25,27-30,32-34

Strong Point Automation Inc. 7,27

Uline Canada Corp. 4,7,14,20,27,30,33

Veritiv 1-4,6-25

VisuaScan Inc. 25

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 1-3

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co.

Alpha

Covertech

Alpha Poly Corporation

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. Canpaco Inc. Cartier

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division

Packaging

Stock Packaging

POUR SPOUTS

Bericap North America Inc.

Richards Packaging Inc.

PREPRINTED LINERBOARD

Color Pak - Div. of Atlantic Packaging Spicers Canada

PROTECTIVE PACKAGING

Alpha Poly Corporation

Alte-Rego Corporation

Automated Packaging Systems Inc.

Automationdirect

Canpaco Inc.

Cartier

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging

Chantler Packaging Inc.

Covertech Flexible Packaging

Crawford Packaging Inc.

Masternet Ltd.

Nordson Canada Limited Spicers Canada

Uline Canada Corp.

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5,9,14,16

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 5,9-10,14

Canpaco Inc. 2-5,7-10,13-14

Cartier 2,5-6,9-10,16

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 5

Chantler Packaging Inc. 5,9,17

CiMa-Pak Corporation 6,16

Covertech Flexible Packaging 2,5-6,14

Crawford Packaging Inc. 2,7-10,13

Donway Packaging Corp. Ltd. 1-2,10

FPC Flexible Packaging Corporation 6

Habasit Canada Limited 16

Hood Packaging Corporation 4-5,7-9,17

Inteplast Bags and Films Corporation - Haremar Plastic

Manufacturing Division 2,5

Jones Packaging Inc. 11

Masternet Ltd. 3,11-12,14

Peel Plastic Products Ltd. 5,9,11

Sealed Air Corporation 5

Stock Packaging Canada 5-6

TC Transcontinental Packaging 5-6,8-9,16-18

Uline Canada Corp. 2-3,6-7,9-12,14,17-18

Veritiv 5-15

Wedlock Paper Converters Ltd. 4,7

Winpak Ltd. 5

BASKETS & BOXES, FRUIT & VEGETABLE

Buckhorn Canada Inc.

Cascades Containerboard Packaging

Habasit Canada Limited

IPL Inc.

Moore Packaging Corporation

BOTTLES

1-2

1-2

1-2

Uline Canada Corp. 2 Veritiv 2

BOXES

1 Corrugated 2 Corrugated

-

Astro Box Corp. 3,5,12,17

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 1-5,7

Buckhorn Canada Inc. 2-3,7,15-17,20-21

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 1,7,19

Canpaco Inc. 1,3,12-13,17

Cartier 1,3,5-7

Cascades Containerboard Packaging 1-7,9-10,17,20-21

CHEP Canada Inc. 11

Corrupal 1

Ellis Packaging Ltd. 3

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 1,3-5,7,12-14,16-17,19

IPL Inc. 15

Jones Packaging Inc. 3

Kruger Inc. 1,3,20

Mitchel-Lincoln Packaging Ltd. 1

Moore Packaging Corporation 1,3,20

Packaging Technologies Inc. 1,3,7-8

PRX Print 12

Richards Packaging Inc. 11,15

Soopak 7,12

Spicers Canada 1,4,7

Uline Canada Corp. 1,3,5-7,18,20,22

Veritiv 1-21

WestRock 1,3-4

CANS

1 Aluminum

2 Foil Fibre

3 Paper

4 Tinplate

Canfab Packaging Inc. 2-3

Capmatic Ltd. 1,4

Richards Packaging Inc. 1,4

TricorBraun 1,3-4

CAPSULES

1 Aluminum 2 Gelatin Seamless

TricorBraun 1-2

CARBOYS

TricorBraun

Uline Canada Corp.

CARRIERS, CAN & BOTTLE

1 Boxboard 2 Boxboard Wraparound

3 Metal

4 Plastic Astro Box Corp. 2

Buckhorn Canada Inc. 4

Emballages Roda Packaging Inc. 4

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 1

Jones Packaging Inc. 1-2

Packaging Technologies Inc. 1-2

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 2-4

Uline Canada Corp. 1

Veritiv 1-2

CARTONS

1 Dispensing

Egg Plastic Foam

Wax-Coated

Window Astro Box Corp. 1,6,8,10,12

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 1,3-8,10-11

Canpaco Inc. 6,11

Cascades Containerboard Packaging 5-6,11-12

Crawford Packaging Inc. 5

Ellis Packaging Ltd. 6,12

Elopak Canada Inc. 9,12

Goldrich Printpak Inc. 1,6,10-12

Habasit Canada Limited 1,6

Jones Packaging Inc. 1,6,8,10,12

Packaging Technologies Inc. 6

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 6 Soopak 6

Tetra Pak Canada Inc. 8,10

Uline Canada Corp. 1-2,4,6-7

Veritiv 3-5,7-8,11-12

WestRock 6

CONTAINERS

Aseptic

Molded Pulp

Plastic Semi-Rigid

Pottery

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 1,3,6,10-11

Buckhorn Canada Inc. 8-9,11,13

Canfab Packaging Inc. 4

Capmatic Ltd. 1-2,7-8

Cascades Containerboard Packaging 3

CHEP Canada Inc. 8,11

Consolidated Bottle Corporation 1

Elopak Canada Inc. 2,4-5

Baldor Electric Company 2-4

Rexroth Canada Corp. 2,4

Canada 1-4 Rexnord Canada Ltd. 1-4 CYLINDERS

1 Electric, Programmable

2 Hydraulic 3 Pneumatic

4 Pneumatic, Rodless 5 Positioner, Pneumatic Linear

6 Twin-Rod, Non-Rotating-Rod Automationdirect 3

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 1-2

Capmatic Ltd. 1-3

Emerson 6 Festo Inc. 1,3-6

Motion Canada 1-5

DRIVES

1 Electric

2 Hydraulic

3 Pneumatic

4 Right-Angle Gear

5 Servo

6 Variable Speed Automationdirect 1,5-6

B&R Industrial Automation Inc. 1,5

Baldor Electric Company 4

Beckhoff Automation Canada 1,5

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 1-2,5-6

Capmatic Ltd. 1,5

Davis Controls Ltd. 5-6

Emerson 5 Festo Inc. 1,3,5

FlexLink Systems, Inc. 3

George A. Wright & Son Toronto Ltd. 1,5-6

KHK USA Inc. 4

Lenze Americas 5-6

Motion Canada 1-6

Omron Canada Inc. 5-6

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 3,5

Regal Beloit Canada ULC 5

Rexnord Canada Ltd. 1,4

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell

Software Brands 1-6

SEW-Eurodrive Company of Canada Ltd. 1,4-6

SICK Ltd. (Canada) 3

Siemens Canada Limited 1,3,5-6

AUTOMATION DEVICES

ENCODERS

1 Linear 2 Rotary

Automationdirect 1-2

Balluff Canada Inc. 1-2

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 1-2

Davis Controls Ltd. 1

Motion Canada 1-2

Omron Canada Inc. 2

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell

Software Brands 1-2

SICK Ltd. (Canada) 1

Siemens Canada Limited 1

Tri-Tronics Company Inc. 2

Turck Canada Inc. 1-2

GEARS - SPROCKET

KHK USA Inc.

Motion Canada

Tsubaki

GUARDING SYSTEMS

Banner Engineering Corp.

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp.

Capmatic Ltd.

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford

Packaging

Crawford Packaging Inc.

George A. Wright & Son Toronto Ltd.

McRae Integration Ltd.

Motion Canada

Omron Canada Inc.

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell

Software Brands

Schneider Electric

Septimatech Group Inc.

SICK Ltd. (Canada)

Siemens Canada Limited

HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE

Automationdirect

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

Balluff Canada Inc.

Beckhoff Automation Canada

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp.

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford

Packaging

Davis Controls Ltd.

George A. Wright & Son Toronto Ltd.

Heat and Control, Inc.

Lenze Americas

McRae Integration Ltd.

Newmapak Ltd.

Omron Canada Inc.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell

Software Brands

Siemens Canada Limited

Turck Canada Inc.

Yaskawa America Inc., Motoman Robotics Div.

INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEMS

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

Balluff Canada Inc.

Banner Engineering Corp.

AUTOMATION DEVICES

MATERIAL HANDLING

AUTOMATION DEVICES

PACKAGING MACHINERY

1

Inc. 12,14 AROL North America Inc. 4 Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 7 Capmatic Ltd. 1-13,19,28

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 7,11

DJS Enterprises 1,12

Eckert Machines 3

General Conveyor Inc. 3-4,19,26-28

Harlund Industries Ltd. 7

Hibar Systems Ltd. 12-14

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 4,12-14

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc. 13,18

M.D. Packaging Inc. 4,7,11,14,17,19

New England Machinery Inc. 4,19,27-28

Newmapak Ltd. 4,14

NJM Packaging 4,7,11

Pacific Packaging Machinery 14

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 7-8

Plan Automation Inc. 1-28

PMC Industries 2,4,9,28

PMR Packaging Inc. 1,8-16,18-21

R E Morrison Equipment Inc. 3

R-J Machinery Inc. 12-14

STANMECH Technologies Inc. 3

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 7

Videojet Canada 7

AMPOULE PACKAGING

1 Filling & Sealing

2 Printing

3 Washing

All-Fill Inc. 1

Artypac Automation Inc. 2-3

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 2

Capmatic Ltd. 1,3

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1-3

DJS Enterprises 1-3

Harlund Industries Ltd. 2

Hibar Systems Ltd. 1

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 1,3

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-3

Plan Automation Inc. 1-3

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-3

R-J Machinery Inc. 1

ASEPTIC PACKAGING

Bossar USA, Inc.

Capmatic Ltd.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Krones Machinery Co. Limited

NJM Packaging

Optima Machinery Corporation

Pemberton & Associates Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. Inc.

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

Tetra Pak Canada Inc.

Weighpack Systems Inc.

BAG PACKAGING

1 Closing Sealing Clip

2 Closing Sealing Header Label

3 Closing Sealing Heat

4 Closing Sealing Twist Tie

5 Filling

6 Making Filling Closing

7 Opening

8 Sewing

9 Stapling

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. 3,5-6

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd. 1-3,5,7-8

All-Fill Inc. 5

Alpha Checkweighers 5

Alte-Rego Corporation 1-2,4-7

Artypac Automation Inc. 2-7

Automationdirect 2-3,5,7

Beumer Corporation 5

Britman Packaging Services 3,5

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 3

Canpaco Inc. 2-3,5-7

Capmatic Ltd. 2

Cartier 3

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 2-7

Crawford Packaging Inc. 3,5-7

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 4

DJS Enterprises 5

Formost Fuji Corporation 5-7

Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC 5

HayssenSandiacre - Div. of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. 5-6

Heat and Control, Inc. 5-6

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment 4

Hood Packaging Corporation 5

Ilapak Inc. 1-7

JG Packaging 3-6

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 5

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-9

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc. 5

NJM Packaging 5

Nordson Canada Limited 2

Optima Machinery Corporation 1-3,5-7

Pacific Packaging Machinery 5

Pack-Rite - Div.of Mettler Toledo, LLC 2-3

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 3,5,7

Paxiom Group, Inc. 1-7

Pemberton & Associates Inc. 1,3,5

Plan Automation Inc. 1-9

Plexpack Corp. 2-3,6

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-9

Premier Tech Chronos 3,5

Prodo-Pak Corp 2-3,5-6

R-J Machinery Inc. 1,3,5-7

Reiser (Canada) Co. 3

Rennco LLC 3,6

Saturn Packaging Equipment 3

Sealed Air Corporation 1,3

SleekWrapper 1-5

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery Inc. 5

Speedway Packaging Machinery 5

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc. 2-3,5-7

Stock Packaging Canada 6

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PACKAGING MACHINERY

Hibar Systems Ltd. 5-6

IMA North America Inc. 1,4-6

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 1-2,5-6

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 1-6

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-6

McBrady Engineering Inc. 2-4

New England Machinery Inc. 1-2,6

Newmapak Ltd. 1-6

Omega Design Corp. 2,6

Optima Machinery Corporation 1-6

Pacific Packaging Machinery 5

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 1

Paxiom Group, Inc. 5

Plan Automation Inc. 1-6

PMC Industries 1

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-2,4-6

Prodo-Pak Corp 3,6

R E Morrison Equipment Inc. 2,4

R-J Machinery Inc. 1,5

Schubert Packaging Automation Inc. 1,5-6

Septimatech Group Inc. 1,6

STANMECH Technologies Inc. 2

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-2,4-6

Zalkin Americas, LLC 1,6

BUNDLE-TYING

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

BUNDLING ACCUMULATING PARCELING: CORRUGATED

PACKAGING MACHINERY

Crawford Packaging Inc. 2-3,6

Delkor Systems Inc. 2-3

DJS Enterprises 1-3,6

Douglas Machine Inc. 1-7

Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC 1-4,6-7

Econocorp Inc. 1-3,6-7

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd. 1-7

ESS Technologies 3-4,7

Geosaf Inc. 1-3

Harlund Industries Ltd. 3,6

Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC 1-3

Hartness International 2-3,6-7

Heat and Control, Inc. 1

Ilapak Inc. 1-7

IMA North America Inc. 1-4

JG Packaging 1-7

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 1

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 2-3,6-7

Langen Packaging Inc. 1-3,6-7

Loveshaw, an ITW Company, Little David Products Div. 2

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-7

Massman Automation Design 1,3,7

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc. 1,5

Newmapak Ltd. 7

Nordson Canada Limited 7

Nuspark Inc. 1-4

Optima Machinery Corporation 1-3,6

Oystar North America (formerly known as Oystar USA, Inc. & IWKA PacSystems, Inc.) 1-6

Plan Automation Inc. 1-7

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-7

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc. 1-4,6

R-J Machinery Inc. 1-3

Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. Inc. 3,6

Schubert Packaging Automation Inc. 1-7

Somic America, Inc. 1-2

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery Inc. 1

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-7

Tetra Pak Canada Inc. 3

Triangle Package Machinery Co. 1-3,6

Veritiv 2-3

Weighpack Systems Inc. 1-3,6-7

Yaskawa Motoman Canada Ltd. (Motoman Robotics) 1

Ink Jet Printer

9 Sealing Hotmelt

10 Stitching Stapling

11 Tray Forming

12 Uncasing

3M Canada Company 2-3,9

ABB Inc. 3,12

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. 1-4,11

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd. 1-5,7,9,11-12

Artypac Automation Inc. 3-7,9,12

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 1-2,4,6-7,9

Bizerba Canada Inc. 6

Blueprint Automation (BPA) 1,3-5,9,12

Bobst North America Inc. 3

PACKAGING MACHINERY

WHO MAKES/SELLS WHAT AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Siemens Canada Limited 1-2

Bradman Lake Inc. 1-4,7,9,11

Britman Packaging Services 3

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 1-2,8

Canpaco Inc. 1-4,6-9,11

Capmatic Ltd. 3-4,6-9,12

Cartier 1-4,8-9

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging 1-11

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1-12

Chisholm Machinery Solutions 1-3,5,7-9,11-12

Compacker Systems, LLC 1-7,9

Consolidated Technologies 1-5,7-9,12

Crawford Packaging Inc. 1-3,6,8,11

Delkor Systems Inc. 1-4,11

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 1-2,6

DJS Enterprises 1-12

Douglas Machine Inc. 3-5,7,9,11

Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC 1-5,7-9,11-12

Eastey Enterprises 1-2

Econocorp Inc. 7,9,11

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd. 1-12

ESS Technologies 3

Gebo Cermex USA Inc. 1,9,11

General Conveyor Inc. 12

Geosaf Inc. 1-4,11

GMSvanSco 9

Habasit Canada Limited 1-2

Harlund Industries Ltd. 1-8,11

Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC 1-4,9,11

Hartness International 1-5,7-9,11-12

Heat and Control, Inc. 3

HMA Systems 9

IMA North America Inc. 1-3,6,11

IPAK Machinery 11

ITW Dynatec 9

JG Packaging 1-9,11

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 1-7,9,11-12

Langen Packaging Inc. 1-9,11

Lantech.com, LLC 1-2

Loveshaw, an ITW Company, Little David Products Div. 4-6

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-11

Markem-Imaje Inc. 6

MARQ Packaging Systems Inc. 1-5,7-10

Massman Automation Design 1-4,7-9,11-12

Newmapak Ltd. 1-9,11-12

Nordson Canada Limited 2,7,9,11

Nuspark Inc. 1-4,7-9,11-12

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 1-6,9,11

Paxiom Group, Inc. 1-5,7,11

Pearson Packaging Systems 1-4,7,11-12

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 6

Plan Automation Inc. 1-12

PMR Packaging Inc. 3-10,12

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc. 1-4,11

R-J Machinery Inc. 3-6,9

Robatech Canada 1-2,9,11

Samuel Packaging Systems Group 2

Saturn Packaging Equipment 1-2

Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. Inc. 1-4,11

Schubert Packaging Automation Inc. 1-12

Somic America, Inc. 2-4,11

Speedway Packaging Machinery 1-2,6

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 6

Strong Point Automation Inc. 1,3-5

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 3-7,9,12

TNA North America Inc. 3

Valco Melton Inc. 2,7,9

Veritiv 1-2,8,10

Vibac Canada Inc. 2

VisuaScan Inc. 4,6-8

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 6

Weighpack Systems Inc. 1-5,7-9,11

WestRock 1-2,4,7-9,11

Wexxar Packaging Inc. 1-2,11

Yamato Corporation 3

Yaskawa Motoman Canada Ltd. (Motoman Robotics) 3,12

CELLULOSE BANDING

Artypac Automation Inc.

Crawford Packaging Inc.

Longford International Ltd.

Plan Automation Inc.

Veritiv

CELLULOSE TUBEMAKING

Plan Automation Inc.

Veritiv

CHANGE PARTS - MACHINERY

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Canpaco Inc.

Capmatic Ltd. Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

DJS Enterprises

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd.

CHECKWEIGHING

Abbey

Automationdirect

Capmatic

Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc. Reiser (Canada) Co.

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell Software Brands

Sesotec Canada Ltd

Shawpak Systems Ltd. Siemens Canada Limited

Strong Point Automation Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TNA North America Inc.

Wexxar Packaging Inc.

Yamato Corporation

CODING

1 Coding Imprinters

2 Embossing Imprinters

3 Hot-Stamping Imprinters

4 Ink-Jet Imprinters

5 L aser Imprinters

6 Marking Imprinters

7 Numbering Imprinters

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd. 1-7

Artypac Automation Inc. 2-3

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 1-7

Automationdirect 1,6

Bemis Packaging 1-7

Canpaco Inc. 1,3-7

Capmatic Ltd. 1,3-7

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 1-7

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1-2,4-6

Columbia Coding & Marking Ltd. 1-7

Consolidated Technologies 2,4-5

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 1-4,6-7

DJS Enterprises 1-7

Domino Printing Solutions Inc. 1,4-7

Harlund Industries Ltd. 1,4-5

Iconotech 1,6

ID Technology Canada 1,4-6

Industrial Marking Systems Inc. 1,3,7

JG Packaging 1,3-4,6-7

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 1,3

Leibinger 4

Loveshaw, an ITW Company, Little David

Products Div. 1,4,6-7

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-7

Markem-Imaje Inc. 1,4,6-7

Matthews Marking Systems 1-2,4-7

Multivac Canada Inc. 3

Newmapak Ltd. 1,4-7

NJM Packaging 1,3-4,6

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 1-2,4

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 1-2,4-6

Plan Automation Inc. 1-7

Plexpack Corp. 1-2

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-7

Samuel Packaging Systems Group 1,4-6

Shawpak Systems Ltd. 4

Speedway Packaging Machinery 3-4

Squid Ink Manufacturing 5-6

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc. 1-7

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 1-4,6-7

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-4,6-7

TNA North America Inc. 3-4

Videojet Canada 1,4-7

Videojet Technologies Inc. 1,4-7

VisuaScan Inc. 1-7

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 1,4,6

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

1 Hardware 2 Software

Ahearn & Soper Inc. 1-2

B&R Industrial Automation Inc. 1-2

Beckhoff Automation Canada 1-2

Bizerba Canada Inc. 2

Capmatic Ltd. 2

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 1-2

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd. 1-2

FlexLink Systems, Inc. 2

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-2

Markem-Imaje Inc. 2

Matthews Marking Systems 2

Mettler-Toledo Canada 2

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 2

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley +

Rockwell Software Brands 1-2

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-2

Capmatic

DJS

Alex

Capmatic

IMA

New

PMR

Alex

Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Septimatech Group Inc. Techno

Inc. Veritiv

Alex

Artypac Automation Inc. 2,10,12-13

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 4

Automationdirect 2,11

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 5-11,13-14

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 7

Canpaco Inc. 4,6-7,9-13

Capmatic Ltd. 5,7,11,13

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 4-9,11-15

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 2,4,9-13,15

Chisholm Machinery Solutions 2-6,11,15

Cousineau Packaging Inc. 7

Cousins Packaging Inc. 13

Crawford Packaging Inc. 4,6-7,9,12-13

Davis Controls Ltd. 11

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 6-7

DESCON Conveyor Systems 1-2,4,7,9-13,15

DJS Enterprises 2,4,6-7,9,11-13

Dorner Mfg. Corp. 2-14

Dynamic Conveyor Corporation 9-11

Eckert Machines 3,5-6,9,11,14-15

Eriez 15

FlexLink Systems, Inc. 5-6,8-14

Garvey Corp. 4,6-7,9-13

General Conveyor Inc. 1-2,4,7,9-13,15

George A. Wright & Son Toronto Ltd. 1-7,9-15

Geosaf Inc. 1,4

Habasit Canada Limited 2,4,7,9-13,15

Harlund Industries Ltd. 6-7

Hartness International 4,9-11,13

Heat and Control, Inc. 2,9,11,13,15

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

1

Honeywell Intelligrated 5

IMA North America Inc. 11

ITW Muller Canada 7,9

JG Packaging 1,7,10-12

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 2,7,12-13

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 1,4,11,13

Langen Packaging Inc. 2,4,9-13

Lantech.com, LLC 7,9,13

Loma Systems Canada Inc. 4,11-12

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-15

Matrix Packaging Machinery 2

Mettler-Toledo Canada 7,10-11

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc. 9

Newmapak Ltd. 1,4,6-7,9-13

NJM Packaging 5

Pack-Rite - Div.of Mettler Toledo, LLC 13

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 4,6-7,9,1113

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PACKAGING MACHINERY

Paxiom Group, Inc. 2,4,13

Plan Automation Inc. 1-15

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-2,4,7,913,15

Propack Processing & Packaging

Systems Inc. 4

R-J Machinery Inc. 13

Ryson International 2-4,9-14

Saturn Packaging Equipment

7,9,11,13

Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. Inc. 4,11

Shawpak Systems Ltd. 4-5,78,10-13,15

Speedway Packaging Machinery

6,9,11

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc. 5,9,11-13,15

Stock Packaging Canada 5,15

Storcan International 1-2,4-7,9-15

Strong Point Automation Inc.

4,6-7,9-13

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 2,4,7,10-13,15

Thermo Fisher Scientific 3,5,7

TNA North America Inc. 15

Tri-Mach Group Inc. 2-14

Tsubaki 5,8

Uline Canada Corp. 7

Unitrak Corporation Limited 1-3,5-6,9,11-12,14-15

Videojet Canada 11-12

VisuaScan Inc. 4,7,9,11-13

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 5,11,13

Wecon Services Ltd. 4,6-7,9-13

Weighpack Systems Inc.

2-4,7,10-13,15

Wulftec / M.J. Maillis Group 7

COOLING EQUIPMENT

Geosaf Inc.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

COOLING SYSTEMS, PROCESS

George A. Wright & Son Toronto Ltd.

CORKING MACHINES

Capmatic Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

Krones Machinery Co. Limited

Newmapak Ltd.

Plan Automation Inc.

CORRUGATED ROLL

DISPENSERS

Canpaco Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

COTTON INSERTING

DJS Enterprises

IMA North America Inc.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

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NJM Packaging

Optima Machinery Corporation

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

COUNTING

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Artypac Automation Inc.

Automationdirect

Capmatic Ltd.

DJS Enterprises

IMA North America Inc.

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc.

Longford International Ltd.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

NJM Packaging

Omron Canada Inc.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems

Inc.

Turck Canada Inc.

CRUSHERS, CAN & BOTTLE

DJS Enterprises Plan Automation Inc.

CUP FILLING

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

All-Fill Inc.

Alpha Checkweighers

Artypac Automation Inc.

Capmatic Ltd.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

ControlGMC

DJS Enterprises Heat and Control, Inc.

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Multivac Canada Inc.

Optima Machinery Corporation

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

R-J Machinery Inc.

Reiser (Canada) Co.

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery

Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

Weighpack Systems Inc.

Winpak Portion Packaging Ltd.

DEHUMIDIFIERS

Plan Automation Inc.

DENESTERS

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Artypac Automation Inc.

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd.,

a Division of Crawford Packaging

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

ControlGMC

Crawford Packaging Inc.

DJS Enterprises M.D. Packaging Inc.

Multivac Canada Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

Optima Machinery Corporation

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

R-J Machinery Inc.

Stock Packaging Canada

Strong Point Automation Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems

Inc.

Weighpack Systems Inc.

DISPENSERS

1 Coupon

2 Gummed Tape

3 Pressure-Sensitive Tape

4 Tape-Printing Attachment

3M Canada Company 3

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd. 1,3

Artypac Automation Inc. 3-4

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.

2-3

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 2-4

Canpaco Inc. 1-4

Capmatic Ltd. 3

Cartier 2-3

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging 2-4

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1,3

Crawford Packaging Inc. 2-3

DJS Enterprises 1,3

Glue Dots International 3

Longford International Ltd. 1

Loveshaw, an ITW Company, Little David Products Div. 3

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-4

Matthews Marking Systems 3

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc. 1

NJM Packaging 1

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 1-4

Plan Automation Inc. 1,3

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-3

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 3-4

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1

Veritiv 1-4

Vibac Canada Inc. 3

VisuaScan Inc. 1,3

Wexxar Packaging Inc. 3

DRIVES & CONTROLS

1 Registration 2 Servo

3 Tank & Bin Level

4 Variable-Speed

B&R Industrial Automation Inc. 1-2,4

Beckhoff Automation Canada 2

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 1-2,4

Capmatic Ltd. 2,4

Davis Controls Ltd. 2,4

DJS Enterprises 2,4

Festo Inc. 2

Garvey Corp. 2,4

George

DRUM-HANDLING

PACKAGING MACHINERY

PACKAGING MACHINERY

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc.

Lepel Corp Capsealing Div.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

NJM Packaging

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Speedway Packaging Machinery

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

INJECTION BLOWMOLDING

Buckhorn Canada Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

6

Videojet Canada 4-7

Videojet Technologies Inc. 1,4-7

VisuaScan Inc. 1-7

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 6

INDUCTION CAP SEALERS

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Artypac Automation Inc.

Capmatic Ltd.

DJS Enterprises

Enercon Industries Corp.

Your Consumers and Your

Plan Automation Inc.

Richards Packaging Inc.

Sesotec Canada Ltd

Silgan Plastics Canada

INJECTION MOLDING

Plan Automation Inc.

Polytainers Inc.

Sesotec Canada Ltd

INSERTING

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PACKAGING MACHINERY

PACKAGING MACHINERY

ORIENTING

Systems Ltd.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TNA North America Inc.

Turck Canada Inc.

VC999 Canada Ltd.

MICROPROCESSOR CONTROLS

Bizerba Canada Inc.

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell Software Brands

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

MILK POUCH BAGGING

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Prodo-Pak Corp

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

MILK POUCH PACKAGING

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Prodo-Pak Corp

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

TC Transcontinental Packaging

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging

CiMa-Pak Corporation

Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment

Linde Canada Limited

Multivac Canada Inc.

Paxiom Group, Inc.

Reiser (Canada) Co.

Sipromac ll Inc.

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

Stock Packaging Canada

TC Transcontinental Packaging

VC999 Canada Ltd.

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Bradman Lake Inc.

Capmatic Ltd.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

General Conveyor Inc.

Heat and Control, Inc.

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc.

Krones Machinery Co. Limited

M.D. Packaging Inc.

New England Machinery Inc.

NJM Packaging

Nuspark Inc.

Omega Design Corp.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMC Industries

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

OVERWRAPPING MACHINES

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Beumer Corporation

Bizerba Canada Inc.

Bradman Lake Inc.

Canpaco Inc.

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

Crawford Packaging Inc.

DJS Enterprises

Eastey Enterprises

Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment

Ilapak Inc.

IMA North America Inc.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

Optima Machinery Corporation

PFM Packaging Machinery Corporation

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Saturn Packaging Equipment

PALLET RACKS

CHEP Canada Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

PALLETIZING

1 Depalletizers

2 Pallet Inverters

3 Palletizers

4 Robotics

ABB Inc. 1,3-4

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. 3-4

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd. 1,3-4

Artypac Automation Inc. 3

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 3

Beumer Corporation 1-4

Blueprint Automation (BPA) 1,3-4

Bobst North America Inc. 3

Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp. 4

Capmatic Ltd. 1,3

Cartier 4

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging 1-4

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1-4

Chisholm Machinery Solutions 1-4

Compacker Systems, LLC 3-4

Cousineau Packaging Inc. 2

Crawford Packaging Inc. 2

Delkor Systems Inc. 3

DESCON Conveyor Systems 1

Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC 3-4

ESS Technologies 1,3-4

FANUC Robotics Canada Ltd. 1,3-4

FlexLink Systems, Inc. 1-4

Gebo Cermex USA Inc. 3-4

General Conveyor Inc. 1-3

George A. Wright & Son Toronto Ltd. 1,3

Geosaf Inc. 3-4

Habasit Canada Limited 1-4

Hartness International 1,3-4

IMA North America Inc. 3-4

JG Packaging 3-4

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 1-4

Langen Packaging Inc. 1,3-4

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-4

Massman Automation Design 1,4

Multivac Canada Inc. 4

Newmapak Ltd. 1,3-4

Nuspark Inc. 1,3-4

Omega Design Corp. 4

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 2-4

Paxiom Group, Inc. 1,3

Pearson Packaging Systems 4

Plan Automation Inc. 1-4

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-4

Premier Tech Chronos 1,3-4

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc. 4

Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. Inc. 1,3-4

Strong Point Automation Inc. 1,3-4

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1,3-4

PAPER BAG FEEDING OPENING FILLING CLOSING,

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

General Conveyor Inc.

Habasit Canada Limited

M.D. Packaging Inc. Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Veritiv

PAPER INSERTING

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Longford International Ltd.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc.

Pemberton & Associates Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

PAPER SHREDDERS

Plan Automation Inc.

Uline Canada Corp.

Veritiv

PARTITION INSERTER Alex

TNA North America Inc. 1-3,5

PACKAGING MACHINERY

Triangle Package Machinery Co. 4-5,7

VisuaScan Inc. 1-2,4-5,8

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 8

Weighpack Systems Inc. 1-5 Yamato Corporation 2-3

SCANNING

Ahearn & Soper Inc. 1,3-5 Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd. 2-7

Artypac Automation Inc. 1,3

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 1,3-4

Automationdirect 1

Banner Engineering Corp. 3-7

Barcode Graphics Inc. 1

Beumer Corporation 1

Capmatic Ltd. 1-7

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1-7

Columbia Coding & Marking Ltd. 1-7

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 1,4,6

DJS Enterprises 1,3,5

Domino Printing Solutions Inc. 1

FANUC Robotics Canada Ltd. 5

Festo Inc. 5

General Conveyor Inc. 1

Harlund Industries Ltd. 1,5

IMA North America Inc. 4-5

Industrial Marking Systems Inc. 1,3-4,6

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc. 1-4,6-7

Krones Machinery Co. Limited 2-7

Langguth America Ltd. 1,4-6

Longford International Ltd. 5

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-7

Matthews Marking Systems 1,3-4

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc. 1

Multivac Canada Inc. 1,4-5

New England Machinery Inc. 2

Newmapak Ltd. 2,4,6

NJM Packaging 1,3-5

Nordson Canada Limited 2

Omega Design Corp. 1,5

Omron Canada Inc. 1-7

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 1,3-5

Plan Automation Inc. 1-7

PMC Industries 6

PMR Packaging Inc. 1-7

RFID Canada 1,3-4

Robatech Canada 1

Samuel Packaging Systems Group 1,3-4

Shawpak Systems Ltd. 1-3,5-7

1-2,4-5,7-8

M.D. Packaging Inc. 1-5,7-8 Matrix Packaging Machinery 3

Mettler-Toledo Canada 2,4,7 Multivac Canada Inc. 2-3 Newmapak Ltd. 2,4

THERMOFORMING

SICK Ltd. (Canada) 1,5

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc. 5-7

Strong Point Automation Inc. 1,5

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-4,6-7

TNA North America Inc. 1

Tri-Tronics Company Inc. 4,6

Turck Canada Inc. 1,4-5,7

Uline Canada Corp. 1

Videojet Canada 1,3-5

Videojet Technologies Inc. 1,5

VisuaScan Inc. 1-7

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 1,3-4

Zund America, Inc. 1,5

SENSORS

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

Automationdirect

Banner Engineering Corp.

Capmatic Ltd.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

DJS Enterprises Festo Inc.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley +

Rockwell Software Brands

SICK Ltd. (Canada)

Siemens Canada Limited

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

Tri-Tronics Company Inc.

Turck Canada Inc.

VisuaScan Inc.

SHELVING

Britman Packaging Services

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Uline Canada Corp.

VisuaScan Inc.

SHRINK PACKAGING

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 3 Beumer Corporation 2,4

Bradman Lake Inc. 1,3-4

Britman Packaging Services 1,3-4

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co. 1-4 Canpaco Inc. 1-4

Capmatic Ltd. 2-4

CAPS/PhoenixWrappers 4 Cartier 1,3-4

PACKAGING MACHINERY

STRETCHWRAPPING

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Artypac Automation Inc.

Automated Packaging Systems Inc.

Beumer Corporation

Bradman Lake Inc.

Britman Packaging Services

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co.

Canpaco Inc.

CAPS/PhoenixWrappers

Cartier

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of Crawford Packaging

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Cousineau Packaging Inc.

Cousins Packaging Inc.

Crawford Packaging Inc.

Farnell Packaging Limited

General Conveyor Inc.

Harlund Industries Ltd.

Hartness International

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment

IMA North America Inc.

ITW Muller Canada

JG Packaging

Lantech.com, LLC

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Newmapak Ltd.

NJM Packaging

Omega Design Corp.

Orion Packaging Systems

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd.

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Premier Tech Chronos

Reiser (Canada) Co.

Samuel Packaging Systems Group

Strong Point Automation Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

Uline Canada Corp.

Wulftec / M.J. Maillis Group

PACKAGING MACHINERY

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PACKAGING MACHINERY

Canpaco Inc.

Capmatic Ltd.

Cartier

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Crawford Packaging Inc.

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

DJS Enterprises

HayssenSandiacre - Div. of Barry-Wehmiller

Companies, Inc.

Ilapak Inc.

Langen Packaging Inc.

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Manroland Canada Inc.

Oystar North America (formerly known as Oystar USA, Inc. & IWKA PacSystems, Inc.)

Plan Automation Inc.

PMR Packaging Inc.

Prodo-Pak Corp

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc.

R-J Machinery Inc.

Reiser (Canada) Co.

Shawpak Systems Ltd.

VC999 Canada Ltd.

Veritiv

VACUUM & GAS

1 Flexible

2 Rigid

PACKAGING

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. 1

Alte-Rego Corporation 1

Automationdirect 1

Bizerba Canada Inc. 1-2

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging 1

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1-2

CiMa-Pak Corporation 1-2

Eckert Machines 1-2

Formost Fuji Corporation 1

Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC 1-2

HayssenSandiacre - Div. of Barry-Wehmiller

Companies, Inc. 1

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment 1-2

Ilapak Inc. 1

McBrady Engineering Inc. 2

Multivac Canada Inc. 1-2

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd. 1

Paxiom Group, Inc. 2

Peel Plastic Products Ltd. 1

Pemberton & Associates Inc. 1

Reiser (Canada) Co. 1-2

Sealed Air Corporation 1

Sipromac ll Inc. 1-2

Stock Packaging Canada 1-2

TC Transcontinental Packaging 1

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-2

Triangle Package Machinery Co. 1

VC999 Canada Ltd. 1-2

Weighpack Systems Inc. 1

Winpak Ltd. 1-2

VACUUM

FORMING

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Buckhorn Canada Inc.

Canadian Paper & Packaging Co.

Canpaco Inc.

Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd., a Division of

Crawford Packaging

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Goldrich Printpak Inc.

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment

Multivac Canada Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Stock Packaging Canada

TC Transcontinental Packaging

VC999 Canada Ltd.

Winpak Ltd.

VACUUM PUMPS

Capmatic Ltd.

DJS Enterprises Festo Inc.

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

R E Morrison Equipment Inc.

R-J Machinery Inc.

Stock Packaging Canada

VC999 Canada Ltd.

VIBRATORS

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Capmatic Ltd.

Eriez

M.D. Packaging Inc.

MARQ Packaging Systems Inc.

Packaging Machinery Concepts Ltd.

Plan Automation Inc.

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

WRAPPING

Alex E. Jones & Associates

Bradman

Canpaco Inc.

Cartier

Celplast

Cousineau Packaging Inc.

DJS

Formost Fuji Corporation

HayssenSandiacre - Div.

WEB SPLICERS

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

WIRE STITCHING

Plan Automation Inc.

Samuel Packaging Systems Group

1

CONVERTING MACHINERY

DISPENSING

& Hoelscher Corp.

Artypac Automation Inc.

Bradman Lake Inc.

Longford International Ltd.

MultiFeeder Technology, Inc.

Oystar North America (formerly known as Oystar USA, Inc. & IWKA PacSystems, Inc.)

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc.

COLOR MATCHING EQUIPMENT

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

CONTROLS

1 Clutch & Brake

2 Edge Alignment

3 Humidity Also Indicators

4 Register 5 Temperature 6 Web Guides

Bobst North America Inc. 4

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. 5

Davis Controls Ltd. 3,5

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 4

Omron Canada Inc. 2,4-6

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley +

Rockwell Software Brands 3,5-6

Siemens Canada Limited 3,5

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1

CORONA TREATERS

Enercon Industries Corp.

CREASERS

Zund America, Inc.

CUP EQUIPMENT

1 Cup & Container Lid Machines

2 Cup Machines

Bobst North America Inc. 1

Capmatic Ltd. 1-2

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1

New England Machinery Inc. 1

R-J Machinery Inc. 1-2

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1

CUTTERS

1 Film 2 L abel

3 Paper

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 2-3

Manroland Canada Inc. 2-3

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 2-3

Samuel Packaging Systems Group 1

VisuaScan Inc. 2-3

Zund America, Inc. 1-2

CUTTERS & CREASERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

Manroland Canada Inc.

CYLINDERS

1 Flexographic

2 Rubber Plate

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 2

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 1

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 1-2

DENSITOMETERS

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley +

Rockwell Software Brands

Siemens Canada Limited

DIECUTTERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

Manroland Canada Inc.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Zund America, Inc.

DIES

1 Cutting Solid

2 Cutting Steel Rule

3 Rubber

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 3

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 1

Zund America, Inc. 2-3

DIGITAL CUTTING/CREASING TOOLS

1 Corrugated

2 Folding Carton

3 O ther

Esko 1-2

Zund America, Inc. 1-3

DIGITAL DIE-CUTTING/SAMPLEMAKING, HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

Esko

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley +

Rockwell Software Brands

Siemens Canada Limited

Zund America, Inc.

1 Bottle

2 Coupons & Leaflets

3 Napkin

4 Pen

5 Pouch

6 Straw

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 2

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 5

Longford International Ltd. 2,5

NJM Packaging 2

Omega Design Corp. 5

Pemberton & Associates Inc. 5

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 1-6

Richards Packaging Inc. 1

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 2,5

Uline Canada Corp. 1,3

DOCTOR BLADES

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

DRYERS

R E Morrison Equipment Inc.

STANMECH Technologies Inc.

EMBOSSING MACHINES

Bobst North America Inc.

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

Sterling Marking Products Inc.

TC Transcontinental Packaging

ENGRAVING EQUIPMENT

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

Sterling Marking Products Inc.

Zund America, Inc.

ENVELOPE-MAKING

Automationdirect

EXTRUDING

1 E xtruder Dies

2 E xtruder/Coaters

3 E xtruder/Laminators

4 E xtruding Machines Film

Bobst North America Inc. 3

Brampton Engineering Inc. 1-4

Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. 1

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc. 1-4

OBX Works Inc. 1-2

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc. 2

TC Transcontinental Packaging 2-4

Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. 4

EYELETTING MACHINES

Oystar North America (formerly known as Oystar USA, Inc. & IWKA PacSystems, Inc.)

FILM-CASTING EQUIPMENT

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc.

TC Transcontinental Packaging

FLATTENERS, BAGS

M.D. Packaging Inc.

Premier Tech Chronos

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

Strong Point Automation Inc.

FOLDER-GLUERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

FOUNTAINS

1 Dividers

2 Ink

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 1-2

Matthews Marking Systems 2

GLUE POTS

Gluefast Company Inc.

OBX Works Inc.

GUILLOTINES

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

GUMMING MACHINES

VisuaScan Inc.

GUSSET MACHINES

JG Packaging

TC Transcontinental Packaging

HEAT SEALERS

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

IMPRINTERS

Automationdirect

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

Sterling Marking Products Inc.

INKS

KNIVES

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. 3

Manroland Canada Inc. 2,8,10-12

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 1-4,8

Primera Technology 8

QuickLabel Systems - An Astromed, Inc. Product Group 8,17

Sterling Marking Products Inc. 2,5,7-8

TC Transcontinental Packaging 1,5-6,8,15

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 8,17

Wedlock Paper Converters Ltd. 1,5,15

Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. 5-6,15

Winpak Ltd. 5

PUMPS

1 Air 2 Ink Circulating

Bemis Packaging 2

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 2

R E Morrison Equipment Inc. 1

PUNCHERS

MACHINERY

Longford International Ltd.

REWINDS

Bemis Packaging

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc.

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

ROBOTIC LOAD/OFF-LOAD

INTEGRATION

ATI Industrial Automation

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. Zund America, Inc.

ROLL HANDLING

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

ROLL LEAF STAMPING

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. ROLLS

Waxing

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 2-7,10

Bemis Packaging 1,3-5,7-8 Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 5,7-8

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited 1,7

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc. 9 Sterling Marking Products Inc. 5,8

VisuaScan Inc. 5-6

RUBBER PLATEMAKING EQUIPMENT

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

RULE BENDERS

Bobst North America Inc.

RULES, CREASING CUTTING ETC.

Bobst North America Inc.

SCANNERS

1 Electronic

Ahearn & Soper Inc. 1-3

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. 2-3 Banner Engineering Corp. 2-3

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd. 1,3

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 1

Industrial Marking Systems Inc. 2

Manroland Canada Inc. 1

Matthews Marking Systems 1-2

Omron Canada Inc. 2-3

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. 1-3

RFID Canada 1-3

Rockwell Automation Canada/Allen-Bradley + Rockwell Software Brands 1-3

SICK Ltd. (Canada) 2

Siemens Canada Limited 1-3

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc. 1-3

Tri-Tronics Company Inc. 3

Turck Canada Inc. 1-3

Uline Canada Corp. 2

VisuaScan Inc. 1-3

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 1-2

SCORERS

Manroland Canada Inc.

Uline Canada Corp.

VisuaScan Inc.

SCRAP REMOVAL SYSTEMS

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

SLEEVES

1 Slitter 2 Snap-On

Plan Automation Inc. 1-2

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc. 1

SLITTERS & REWINDERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Primera Technology

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc.

QuickLabel Systems - An Astromed, Inc. Product

Group

TC Transcontinental Packaging

SLITTERS & SCORERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc.

SLOTTERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

SOLVENT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT

Plan Automation Inc.

SPLICERS

Bobst North America Inc.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Plan Automation Inc.

SPRAYERS

Manroland Canada Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

STANDS, UNWIND & REWIND

Bobst North America Inc.

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

STATIC ELIMINATORS

3M Canada Company

General Magnaplate Corp.

TAKEOFF UNITS

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc.

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc.

TANKS, HEATING & DIPPING

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

TEAR STRIP MACHINES

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

TENSION DISCS

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

TESTING EQUIPMENT

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

THERMOMETERS

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

THERMOSTATS

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

TOOLS

1 Form-Cutting 2 Perforating 3 Routing

Zund America, Inc. 1-3

TUBE WINDERS

Habasit Canada Limited

TURRET REWINDS

Bobst North America Inc.

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc.

UNWINDERS

Bizerba Canada Inc.

Bobst North America Inc.

USED EQUIPMENT

Capmatic Ltd.

Cartier

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

Manroland Canada Inc.

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc.

R-J Machinery Inc.

VC999 Canada Ltd.

VACUUMS PUMPS

Capmatic Ltd.

Festo Inc.

M+L Testing Equipment (1995) Inc.

R E Morrison Equipment Inc.

R-J Machinery Inc.

VC999 Canada Ltd.

VISCOSITY CONTROLS

Capmatic Ltd.

WINDERS

1 Film 2 Foil

Bemis Packaging 1

Bobst North America Inc. 1-2

Brampton Engineering Inc. 1

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd. 1-2

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc. 1

SteelNor/Inventure Engineering & Machinery Inc. 1

ADDRESSES

WHO MAKES/SELLS WHAT AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

TC Transcontinental Packaging

8600 W Bryn Mawr Ave, 800N Chicago IL 60631

Tel: 866-439-6050 Web: www.tc.tc/packaging

Technical Adhesives Limited

3035 Jarrow Ave Mississauga ON L4X 2C6 Tel: 905-625-1284 Fax: 905-625-6841 Web: www. technicaladhesives.com Branches: Technical Adhesives Limited, Lachine, QC, 514-633-9349; TECHNO PAK PACKAGING SYSTEMS INC.

2150 Bombardier Saint-Julie QC J3E 2J9 Tel: 450922-3122 Fax: 450-922-3422 Web: www.technopak.com

TETRA PAK CANADA INC.

2902-777 Bay St Toronto ON M4G 2C8 Tel: 647775-1837 Fax: 905-780-4903

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC

501 90th Ave NW Minneapolis MN 55433 Tel: 800227-8891 Web: www.thermofisher.com/ productinspection Branches: Burlington, ON 800-227-8891; Representatives: M.D. Packaging Inc., Uxbridge, ON 416-291-9229; TNA NORTH AMERICA INC. 680 S Royal Lane Coppell TX 75019 Tel: 972-4626500 Fax: 972-462-6599 Web: www. tnasolutions.com

TRI-MACH GROUP INC.

23 Donway Ct Elmira ON N3B 0B1 Tel: 519-7446565 877-874-6224 Fax: 519-744-6829 Web: www.tri-mach.com

TRI-TRONICS COMPANY INC.

7705 Cheri Crt PO Box 25135 Tampa FL 33622 Tel: 813-886-4000 800-886-4000 Fax: 813-8848818 Web: www.ttco.com Representatives: IAC & Associates;

TRIANGLE PACKAGE MACHINERY CO. 6655 West Diversey Ave Chicago IL 60707-2293 Tel: 773-889-0200 Fax: 773-889-4221 Web: www.trianglepackage.com Representatives: Ed MacPhee Ltd., Toronto, ON 416-481-4926;LinkPack Group Inc., Blainville, QC 438-988-1789;Mountain Pacific Machinery, Portland, OR 506-639-7635;

TRICORBRAUN

1000-6 CityPlace Dr St. Louis MO 63146 Tel: 314569-3633 800-325-7782 Web: www.tricorbraun. com

Tsubaki

1630 Drew Rd Mississauga ON L5S 1J6 Tel: 905676-0400 Fax: 905-676-0904 Web: www. Tsubaki.ca Branches: Edmonton, AB 780-4386073;

TURCK CANADA INC.

140 Duffield Dr Markham ON L6G 1B5 Tel: 905513-7100 877-513-7769 Fax: 905-513-7101 Web: www.chartwell.ca Branches: Calgary, AB 403-620-3604;Edmonton, AB 780-903-9820;Vancouver, BC 604-308-2376;London, ON 519-859-5255;Waterloo, ON 519-654-8839;Montreal, QC 514-949-3878;

U.S. POULTRY & EGG

ASSOCIATION

1530 Cooledge Rd Tucker GA 30084-7303 Tel: 770-493-9401 Fax: 770-493-9257 Web: www. uspoultry.org

Uline Canada Corp.

3333 James Snow Pkwy N Milton ON L9T 8L1 800295-5510 Fax: 800-295-5571 Web: www.uline.ca

Branches: Milton, ON;Edmonton, AB; Representatives: Uline Shipping Supplies, Pleasant Prairie, WI 262-612-4200;

Unitrak Corporation Limited

299 Ward St Port Hope ON L1A 4A4 Tel: 905-8858168 877-861-8725 Fax: 905-885-2614 Web: www.unitrak.com Representatives: CON-VAIR, Saint-Hubert, QC 450-462-5959;Hub Marketing, Edmonton, AB 780-944-0756; Valco Melton Inc. 411 Circle Freeway Dr Cincinnati OH 45246 Tel: 513-874-6550 Fax: 513-874-3612 Web: www. valcomelton.com Branches: North Vancouver, BC 604-998-4012;Markham, ON 416-725-5748; VC999 Canada Ltd. 153 Sylvestre St-Germ-Gran QC J0C 1K0 Tel: 819395-4555 Fax: 819-395-6444 Web: www.VC999. com Branches: Toronto, ON 905-738-8741;

Veritiv 4300 rue Hickmore Saint-Laurent QC H4T 1K2 Tel: 844-837-4848 Web: www.Veritivcorp.com Branches: Calgary, AB 800-661-8528;Edmonton, AB 800-6618528;Delta, BC 800-242-3691;Winnipeg, MB 800-665-3417;Moncton, NB 800-565-6920;St. Johns, NL 800-656-6920;Dartmouth, NS 800-565-6920;London, ON 800-387-7887;Mississauga, ON 800-387-7887;Montreal, QC 800-361-7147;Richmond Hill, ON 800-2686710;Vars, ON 800-267-0677;Quebec, QC 800-463-4849;Regina, SK 800-661-8528;Saskatoon, SK 800-661-8528; VIBAC CANADA INC.

12250 boul Industriel Montreal QC H1B 5M5 Tel: 514-640-0250 Fax: 514-640-6702 Web: www. vibac.com

Videojet Canada

7075 Financial Dr Mississauga ON L5N 6V8 Tel: 905-673-1212 Fax: 905-673-8725 Web: www. videojet.com Branches: Edmonton, AB 780-967-5834;Vancouver, BC 604-613-8850;Montreal, QC 877-853-3103;Maritimes, 506-850-2448;

Videojet Technologies Inc.

1500 Mittel Blvd Wood Dale IL 60191-1073 Tel: 630-860-7300 Fax: 630-238-3873 Web: www. videojet.com Branches: Mississauga, ON 905673-1212;

VISUASCAN INC.

9066 Pascal-Gagnon St-Leonard QC H1P 2X4 Tel: 514-322-2725 Fax: 514-322-1449 Web: www. visuascan.com Branches: Halifax, NS;Toronto, ON;Vancouver, BC;

Wainbee Limited 5789 Coopers Ave Mississauga ON L4Z 3S6 Tel: 905-568-1700 888-924-6233 Web: www.wainbee. com

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 6180 Danville Rd Mississauga ON L5T 2H7 Tel: 905-564-6881 800-265-9974 Fax: 905-5646886 Web: www.weberpackaging.com/canada_ home.html Branches: Montreal, QC;Vancouver, BC;

WECON SERVICES LTD.

11-4635 Burgoyne St Mississauga ON L4W 1V9 Tel: 905-624-6499 Fax: 905-624-0228

WEDLOCK PAPER CONVERTERS LTD. 2327 Stanfield Rd Mississauga ON L4Y 1R6 Tel: 905-277-9461 705-456-9405 Fax: 905-2723625 Web: www.wedlockpaper.com

Weighpack Systems Inc. 5605 rue Cypihot Montreal QC H4S 1R3 Tel: 514422-0808 833-472-9466 Web: www.weighpack. com Branches: Paxiom Group, Inc. 2-375 Admiral Blvd, Mississauga, ON L5T 2N1; WestRock

1000 Abernathy Rd NE Atlanta GA 30328 Tel: 770448-2193 Web: www.WestRock.com Branches: Ajax, ON 905-683-2330; WEXXAR PACKAGING INC.

10101 Nordel Crt Delta BC V4G 1J8 Tel: 604-9309300 Fax: 604-930-9368 Web: www.wexxar.com Branches: Richmond, BC 604-930-9300; WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER CORP.

23 New England Way Lincoln RI 02865 Tel: 401333-2770 Fax: 401-333-6491 Web: www. whcorp.com Representatives: Webconvert Ltd., Toronto, ON 416-252-4462; WINPAK LTD.

100 Saulteaux Cres Winnipeg MB R3J 3T3 Tel: 204-889-1015 Fax: 204-832-7781 Web: www. winpak.com

WINPAK PORTION PACKAGING

LTD.

26 Tidemore Ave Rexdale ON M9W 7A7 Tel: 416741-6182 416-744-5121 Fax: 416-744-5125 Web: www.winpak.com

WULFTEC / M.J. MAILLIS GROUP

209 rue Wulftec Ayer’s Cliff QC J0B 1C0 Tel: 819838-4232 Fax: 819-838-5539 Web: www. wulftec.com

YAMATO CORPORATION

6306 W Eastwood Ct Mequon WI 53092 Tel: 262236-0000 Fax: 262-236-0036 Web: www. yamatoamericas.com

Yaskawa America Inc., Motoman Robotics Div. 100 Automation Way Miamisburg OH 45342 Tel: 937-847-6200 Fax: 937-847-3288 Web: www. motoman.com Branches: Mississauga, ON 905-569-6686;Montreal, QC 519-693-6770; Yaskawa Motoman Canada Ltd. (Motoman Robotics) 3-3530 Laird Rd Mississauga ON L5L 5Z7 Tel: 905-569-6686 Fax: 905-569-2240 Web: www. motoman.com Branches: Pointe-Claire, QC 514693-6770; ZALKIN AMERICAS, LLC 150 Collins Industrial Blvd Athens GA 30601 Tel: 706-549-3300 Fax: 706-548-1278 Web: www. zalkincapping.com Representatives: Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd., Oakville, ON 905-8470166; Zund America, Inc. 5068 W Ashland Way Franklin WI 53132 Tel: 414433-0700 Fax: 414-433-0800 Web: www.zund. com

Calvin Wallace Named New Managing Director of Beckhoff Automation Ltd. in Canada

Wallace succeeds retiring managing director, Joe Ottenhof, who assumes a role on board of directors

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, August 7, 2018

– Beckhoff Automation is pleased to announce the promotion of Calvin Wallace to the managing director position of Beckhoff Canada (Beckhoff Automation Ltd.). Wallace takes over the leadership role previously held by Joe Ottenhof, who is retiring, but will remain with the company on the board of directors.

As managing director, Wallace will oversee all operations at the headquarters of Beckhoff Automation Ltd. in Mississauga, Ontario (Toronto area), where administration, sales and marketing, customer service and technical services are managed. The Mississauga facility also houses a customer training area and warehouse.

“Calvin was the second employee I hired to work at Beckhoff Canada and has been with us since 2006,” said Ottenhof. “Since then, Calvin has maintained an impressive record of achievement without blemish and he is the most qualified person imaginable to lead Beckhoff Canada into our next phase of rapid business development.”

Wallace has worked at Beckhoff for more than 12 years in sales management positions, initially focused on Southwestern Ontario, but has since spread out his responsibilities to include management of sales and application engineering activities across the country. According to Wallace, the advantages of Beckhoff PC-based control systems have made them widely accepted over conventional

control systems in Canada. As a result of increased market share, Beckhoff Canada has also recently opened a regional office in Laval, Quebec (Montreal area), and expanded its sales coverage in Vancouver, British Columbia.

“I am honored to take over for Joe, who has helped guide me professionally for over a decade at Beckhoff,” said Wallace. “Joe is beginning his retirement when our Canadian business is on its firmest financial footing ever – I am dedicated to keeping this extraordinary momentum going for our customers and employees in Canada.”

By continuing to supply Canadian customers with a clear, cost-effective migration path toward smart factory solutions, the technological foundation for Beckhoff Canada is just as sound as the subsidiary’s finances. “Customers look to Beckhoff not just for advanced machine control but for an optimal IoT and Industrie 4.0 platform to manage the rapid convergence of automation technology (AT) and IT standards,” Wallace said. “Customers increasingly require a fully connected and flexible automation system that offers high performance at the machine level, but can also manage a constant stream of data between the machine and the manufacturing/enterprise system. Beckhoff is ideally positioned to fulfill these demanding requirements, providing a unique competitive advantage for our customers in Canada and around the world.”

Beckhoff Automation is a provider of advanced and open automation solutions based upon proven technologies for customers to implement highperformance control systems faster and at a lower overall cost than traditional PLC and motion control systems. Beckhoff’s “New Automation Technology” product range includes PC-based control, industrial PCs, automation controllers, operator interfaces, I/O, servo drives and motors. With representation in more than 75 countries, Beckhoff is well-positioned to provide global sales and service to its customers. Beckhoff sales and service are handled directly, with no intermediaries involved for exceptional customer service and consultation.

Beckhoff Automation Ltd. 2900 Argentia Road, Suite 7, Mississauga, ON L5N 7X9 Canada

Local: 289-627-1900

Fax: 289-804-0979

Email: canada@beckhoff.com www.beckhoff.ca

Calvin Wallace (left) becomes the new managing director of Beckhoff Canada following the retirement of Joe Ottenhof (right).

n Corrugated and plastic distribution packaging products manufacturer Menasha Packaging Company, LLC of Neehan, Wis., has appointed Michael Riegsecker as the new company president.

EVENTS PEOPLE

n Philadelphia, Pa.-headquartered metal packaging product group Crown Holdings, Inc. has appointed Robert Bourque as president of the company’s Transit Packaging Division in Glenview, Ill.

n Product coding and marking technologies group Domino Printing Sciences of Cambridge, England, has appointed appoints Lutz Doehnert as the company’s group research-and-development (R&D) director, responsible for heading Domino’s global R&D team.

n Avery Dennison Corporation, Glendale, Ca.headquartered manufacturer of labeling products and materials for packaging, graphic arts, retail and industrial applications, has appointed Pascale Wautelet as global vice-president of research-anddevelopment (R&D).

n Australian endof-line packaging machinery manufacturer tna solutions Pty Ltd., has appointed Teri Johnson as divisional sales manager for North America at its TNA North America Inc. subsidiary in Dallas, Tex.

n Dorner Mfg. Corp., Hartland, Wis.-based manufacturer of industrial and sanitary conveying systems for food processing and pacakging applications, has appointed Kelly Tebon to lead the expansion of the company’s aftermarket sales program; Chuck Sena as industry manager for the sanitary business; and Scott Kelley as vicepresident of sales for the company’s U.S. operations.

n Toray Plastics (America), Inc., North Kingstown, R.I.based manufacturer of polyester, polypropylene, bio-based, and metallized films for flexible and rigid packaging applications, has appointed André Lussier as associate sales representative at the company’s Lumirror polyester film division.

n West Essex Graphics, a fullservice design, prepress and flexographic plate-maker based in Fairfield, N.J., has appointed Ryan Dufour as senior account manager.

n German automated packaging equipment manufacturer Gerhard Schubert GmbH has appointed Hartmut Siegel as chief executive officer of its Schubert North America subsidiary in Charlotte, N.C., and Martin Sauter as head of sales at the company’s global headquarters in Crailsheim.

n Misissauga, Ont.-headquartered Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA), has announced its new board of directors, including newly-elected officers:

• Chair: Sarah Marshall, leader of technical services, NOVA Chemicals;

Sept. 5-6

New York City: ADF (Aerosol & Dispensing Forum) & PCD (Packaging of Perfume Cosmetics & Design) New York 2018. Both by Easyfairs Group. At Metropolitan Pavilion.To register, go to: www.adf-pcd.com

Sept. 10-11

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: AWA IMLCON (International In-Mold Labeling Conference & Exhibition) 2018, by AWA (Alexander Watson Associates). At Novotel Amsterdam City.To register, go to: www.awa-bv.com/events

Sept. 11-12

Pittsburgh, Pa.: Polymer Testing & Analysis 2018, conference and tabletop exhibition by Applied Market Information, LLC (AMI). At the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center. To register, go to: www.ami.international/events

Sept. 25-27

Montreal: PAC to the Future II: Retail Reinvented, conference and tabletop exhibition by PAC Packaging Consortium.At Hotel Omni Mont Royal.To register, contact Lisa Abraham at (416) 646-4640; via email labraham@pac.ca; or go to: www.pac.ca

Sept. 25-27

Chicago: Labelexpo Americas 2018, international label and package printing exhibition by Tarsus Group Limited. At Donal E. Stephens Convention Center. To register, go to: www.labelexpo-americas.com

Oct. 14-17

Chicago: PACK EXPO International 2018, packaging technologies exhibition by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. Concurrently with Healthcare Packaging EXPO. Both at the McCormick Place. To register, go to: www.packexpointernational.com

• Vice-Chair: Joel Rudolph, vicepresident of business development, Farnell Packaging;

• Treasurer: Mark Lichtblau, vicepresident, Inteplast Bags and Films Corporation;

• Immediate Past Chair: Terry Elliott, president, Scepter Canada Inc.

n SUN Automation Group, Glen Arm, Md.-headquartered manufacturer of production, converting and finish technologies and equipment for the global corrugated industry, has appointed Greg Jones as vice-president of global sales and aftermarket, responsible for overseeing the company’s global sales team and its international operations in the U.K. and China.

Riegsecker

Dufour Jones

Doehnert

Wautelet

Johnson

Tebon

Sena Kelley

BY ELENA LANGLOIS

GOOD PACKAGING ALWAYS TRAVELS WELL

With all the recent news headlines about trade negotiations and tensions, and the burgeoning ‘Buy Canadian’ movement on social media, I was surprised with the ubiquity of international products retailing in Canadian market, with most consumers hardly even giving the product’s country of origin a second thought. Maybe it’s time to remedy that blissful ignorance, at least just a tad.

I love bright colors and big bold designs, which is why I’m a big fan of Helsinki, Finland-based Marimekko design house. With its only concept store in Canada located in Vancouver, I was excited to find something locally here in Toronto while ending a visit to the Textile Museum of Canada with a stop in the gift-shop. I spotted a gift-pack of 10 pencils bearing Marimekko’s most iconic Unikko classic poppy-prints pattern in five colorways. At $19.95 per pack—a huge leap offer what 10 standard Standard HB/No. 2 pencils—it was going to take something very special to justify what would essentially be an impulsive luxury purchase. Luckily for the gift-pack’s distributor, San Francisco, Ca.-based Chronicle Books, the pencil set’s irresistible packaging presentation was, well, simply irresistible. The pencils are beautifully presented in a cellophane wrapped black cardboard tray that slides into a solid, perfectly-fitted paperboard sleeve, that bearing a real-life, actual-size image of the beautiful pencils inside. At the retail store, the consumer can slide off the sleeve to reveal the pencils inside, which is both exciting and reaffirming at the same time. An understated simple black rectangle with the Marimekko logo in the monospace typewriter font, and the ‘10 pencils’ product message executed in small sans serif caps is all it takes to convey the gist of the contents, which should make a lovely token present for practically any occasion, at any time of the year.

go and need to stay hydrated, I will choose bottled water for the convenience of its easy to recycle container and the great-tasting, refreshing water inside. So when choosing to buy water, isn’t it nice to have the added bonus of fun packaging? With Marvel Comics becoming wildly popular over the last decade by rebooting longloved characters in cinematic epics that earn billions of dollars in world-wide ticket sales, the licensing of its stalwart superheroes has become a huge billion-dollar global industry in its own right. And then there is the licensing. Bottled at the source in the French Alps and imported across the pond by Danone Waters of America, Inc. of White Plains, N.Y., the Evian brand’s 310-ml water container pictured here is an instant standout. Decked out in a full-bodied trade-marked Spider Man shrinksleeve oozing with good-guy action hero vibe, projected by the iconic bright red-and-royal cob-web-detailed costume and hands positioned in a classic web-slinging pose, the muscular shape of the bottle gives Spidey an almost child-like appearance, with two stacked round shapes atop a pedestal making it easy for even small to grip the bottle one-handed around Spider-Man’s neck.

Like many busy professional women on the go, I buy a lot of my day-to-day beauty essentials online. I simply enter the search term for my favorite brand or product, and after just a few simple clicks, my purchase arrives at my home in two days. That’s all well and good for familiar products, but when I was in search of a new sunscreen for summer, that’s when the brand competition for my shopping dollars became fierce. A search on the site for sunscreen yielded 175 results, sorted by relevancy and paginated to 60 results per page of small thumbnail images of the myriad of products available for sale. How is a girl to choose? For me, the winner was Shiseido Ultra Sun Protection Lotion, made in the U.S. by New York City-based Shiseido Americas Corporation and distributed in these parts by Shiseido (Canada) Inc. of Markham, Ont. In this grid of images that I quickly scroll through, half of the products are packaged in white containers, and many of the packages are some variation of a cylindrical shape. The Shiseido pack stood out from this online sea of conformity thanks to its royal-blue color with clementineyellow accents, with its asymmetrical shape combines a curve and slant completing an engaging, eye-catching looks and brand message. and recognizable.

I love when a brand’s vibe is captured and conveyed through its packaging, which is perfectly executed by the GlamGlow Supermud Kit form Hollywood, Ca.-based Glamglow LLC Dist. Forget ordinary run-of-themill tubs and tubes: this activated charcoal mask beauty treatment is packaged in a pentagon shaped, white paperboard box made glamorous with stylish black print and a silver foil stamp. The design aesthetic continues inside with five star-shaped, single-use white sachets bearing the same black print and the foil stamp, containing three grams of the mask. As one would expect, this luxury item has a luxury price to match, but how could one expect anything less from Hollywood, really? Canada is blessed with an abundance of fresh water, and our municipalities work hard to deliver fresh and safe drinking water straight from the tap. When I’m on the

It’s funny how certain categories of products still have so much ingrained gender bias prevalent in their packaging design. Manufacturers of technology peripherals and equipment all seem to follow the same guideline of a dark box with blue accent colors and a hum-drum, sans-serif Arialesque font—conjuring up the image of an invariably male ‘IT guy’ pencil-necked geek. So when the time came to upgrade my home to a mesh network, I was pleasantly surprised to see one company seemingly inviting me to discover their product through its engaging packaging. The Linksys Velop Whole Home Wi-Fi kit, designed by California-based Linksys but actually made (no surprise) in China, breaks with convention by showcasing the product on store-shelves in a white box measuring with an image of a vibrant cyan-blue gust of vapor colliding with an opposing magenta gust—providing a vivid background for the image of the two white sleek towers that faithfully depicts the packaged routers required to create the initial mesh network. The box itself is particularly outstanding in its own right: peel off the shrinkwrap and the solid, high-strength hinged pepperbox lifts up like a little treasure chest lid to reveal the two routers nestled inside in molded white plastic. Right next to the routers, underneath a colorful trapdoor-styled l foam-core board, rest all the required power cables—also secured in similar molded plastic. As a consumer, I was extra happy to discover that my new network worked as well as the packaging looked on the shelf.

Elena Langlois is a media sales professional working and living in Toronto.

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