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TAKING ALL THE FUN RIGHT OUT OF FOOD

If we truly are what we eat, Canada’s health czars are adamant to turn Canadians into a very unadventurous humdrum bunch of grain-fed creatures consuming an assortment of plain ‘good for you’ plants, legumes and nuts that, according to the new Canada’s Food Guide, are the missing link to our collective health and well-being.

Look, no one is denying that Canada has its share of serious dietrelated health issues such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other nasty ailments related to overeating and lack of sufficient exercise, but if the revamped 2019 Food Guide is intended to be an inspirational rallying cry for Canadians to embrace a new wave of alternative proteins and other meat and dairy substitutes, one has to wonder about the point of the whole exercise.

Considering the Canada Food Guide was last updated back in 2017, it’s hard to take issue with the fact that Health Canada has belatedly made the time to bring Canadians up to speed on healthy eating, but the resounding ‘meh ’ execution of this well-intended initiative leaves a rather hollow feeling inside.

In all fairness, it is just too much work to get excited about the rather bland, if varied, offering of finger-sized tidbits depicted on Health Canada’s pictogram of what a well-balanced meal should look like. (See Graphic) Whatever little loose bits of meat and fish you

can spot in the upper-right corner of the plate are dwarfed by the heaps of beans, nuts and chickpeas, while the suggested serving of carbs directly below resembles something closer to birdseed feed than a reasonable facsimile of a proper side-dish.

For its part, the left side of the plate is a medley of mostly fresh-cut chunks of sliced fruit and veggies that, despite providing a few splashes of color to the graphic, look like they should be served as salad garnishes rather than a substantive source of nourishment.

But it’s really what the new Food Guide doesn’t show on its graphic plate—cheese, milk, a broader meat variety—that makes it such a joyless buzzkill.

If this ensemble were actually a graphic package design for a brand, the product would never stand a chance on a store-shelf!

Demonizing meat and dairy products is not a new phenomenon, but in the last few years it has become more fashionable, as evidenced by the latest global scare campaigns linking meat production and consumption directly to global warming, no less, on account of fairly stretched factual evidence.

Like everyone else, vegetarians and animal welfare activists are all entitled to their opinions, but politicizing those opinions under the guise of public health policy is something Health Canada should have no part of.

Unfortunately, the latest Canada Food Guide appears to imply too much pandering to the meatfree crowd to suggest that sound science was the one true driving force guiding its development and execution. And that’s a pity for all of us.

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CANADIAN HEMP PROCESSOR PLANTING THE SEEDS OF SUPERFOOD INNOVATION

Despite being one of the modern society’s most wrongly maligned plants, industrial help was actually one the world’s first plants to be spun into usable fabric by early humans 10,000 years ago, and today can be refined into a plethora of useful commercial products such as paper, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, animal feeds, insulation, biofuel and food.

And thanks to a hearty new line of hemp-based granola mix developed by Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods, mainstream Canadian consumers can enjoy the natural

‘superfood’ goodness of shelled hemp seeds as part of a healthy breakfast or nourishing one-the-go snacking.

Packaged in elegant resealable standup pouches designed by Austin, Tex.based graphic design agency PTMK, the 283-gram packs of Hemp Yeah! Honey & Oats, Hemp Yeah! Blueberry and Hemp Yeah! Dark Chocolate granola blends offer a crunchy, chewy and tasty snack densely packed with protein and nutrients, including:

• Ten grams of plant-based, non-soy protein with 10 grams

of sugar or less;

• A healthy helping of Omega 3, Omega 6, iron, zinc, fiber, magnesium and other essential nutrients in a 55-gram serving.

• High-quality, organic, non-GMO ingredients like shelled hemp seeds, quinoa, chia and natural sweeteners.

According to company founder Mike Fata, the hemp seed is an overlooked “nutritional powerhouse” that contains twice the protein, 10 times the amino acids, 25 per cent more Omega 3 and Omega 6, and 70 per cent more iron than chia or flax seed per 30-gram serving.

Although hemp comes from the same Cannabis Stevia plant species as its more notorious distant cousin marijuana, it contains only negligible traces of the psychoactive ingredient THC (less than 0.003 per cent), so there is no chance whatsoever of getting high from the product.

According to Fata, a long-time user of different hemp products for health and nutritional reasons, Manitoba Harvest is the world’s largest manufacturer to grow, make and sell its own lone of hemp food products.

“At Manitoba Harvest we take a seedto-shelf approach,” he states.

“We are pat of an entire process that includes working with Canadian farmers on what hemp seeds get planted, to controlling how the products are manufactured, packaged and distributed in store.

“By manufacturing the highestquality hemp foods, we aim to educate consumers on the nutritional and environmental benefits of hemp.”

Providing one-year product shelf-life, the Hemp Yeah! pouches incorporate a sturdy, user-friend PTC “press-toclose” releasable closures to keep the product fresh after opening.

“The resealable closure is important to us because it maintains our product freshness and integrity,” Fata states.

“Since more than 10 per cent of our product is hemp, and since we don’t use any preservatives, it’s important that we limit the amount of oxygen that goes into the bag to maintain the freshness.”

Fata notes he is very happy with PTMK designers for creating outstanding package design that incorporates a generous see-through window in the front panel of the pouch to let consumers examine the product up-close, along with the “different bright, bold colors that tell what flavor the product is to evaluate.”

Adds Fata: “Our consumer will also appreciate seeing the ingredients highlighted on the back panel to show why ingredients were chosen and what nutritional value they brought.”

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n Montreal-headquartered packaging machinery manufacturer Paxiom Group Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with an established Italian machine-builder ValTara, whereby ValTara will focus on further product development of Paxiom’s proprietary SleekWrapper brand of flowwrapping machinery, along with other end-of-line container handling and automatic case-loading systems. Operating out of a new, wholly-owned 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Schio, Italy, ValTara has already completed several key local strategic acquisitions that it says will further complement Paxiom’s already robust product line, while also providing Paxiom with a strategic operating base for expanding its business growth in the European, Russian, Middle Eastern and African markets.

nToshiharu Kageyama, mechanical engineer at the research-and-development department of Japanese packaging machinery manufacturer Ishida Co., Ltd., has been awarded the 62nd Kyoto Inventors Award for the innovative new oval-shaped 18-head multihead weigher that Kageyama invented to overcome some traditional limitations in the operation of high-speed vertical form–fill-seal (VFFS) packaging machinery. (See Picture) According to Heat and Control, Inc., which is the exclusive distributor of

Ishida industrial weighing, packaging and inspection systems across North America and Latin America, as well as Australia and New Zealand, the new multihead weigher provides highly accurate and consistent weighing on high-speed VFFS machines to support the bagmaking process executed by these machines at exceptionally high speeds—performing up to 280 weight measurements per minute. Patented in Japan, the new technology has already been installed at more than 350 snack-food, baked-goods and vegetable processing plants worldwide. “I am honored to receive this historical award, it is a great pleasure that the product created from my ideas are satisfying customers needs throughout the world,” says Kageyama, who is currently involved in the development of next-generation Ishida multihead weigh scales that will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology for even higher performance levels.

nMP Solutions (JMP), London, Ont.-based industrial automation systems integrator, has completed the acquisition of Alfacon Solutions, manufacturer o custom-built material handling solutions operating in Milton, Ont., for the last 35 years. According to JMP, Alfacon’s existing customer base will significantly benefit from the infusion of JMP’s extensive expertise in the fields of robotics, AGVs (automated guided vehicles), control systems and MES (manu-

facturing execution system) technologies. “I could not be more thrilled to have our team become part of JMP Solutions,” says John Murdoch, Alfacon’s former chief executive officer now serving as managing director of JMP’s Material Handling Division. “We can now offer our customers improved execution capabilities, long-term stability, broader turnkey solutions, more control system flexibility and better system-wide implementation, coupled with worldclass project management capabilities to reduce project risk and improve returns for our customers.”

nChesterfield, Mo.-based Pretium Packaging has won two high-profile international Worldstar awards of the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) for its new SureHandle polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container featuring an integrated handle. Using proprietary OneBottle technology developed by Houston, Tex.-based Practically Impossible Labs, the SureHandle container—currently available in 64-ounce and two-liter sizes—was recognized as a true “on-of-a-kind” bottle because it comes out of the injection mold with the handle already in place, integrated into the sidewall. According to Pretium, “This new technology creates new possibilities for many products—including beverages, foods and household and industrial chemicals—that could benefit from a monolayer PET container with an ergonomic handle-ware solution.”

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X PERT OPINION

Generating 900W of X-Ray power, the new Xpert Heavy Duty (HD) X-ray inspection system from Thermo Fisher Scientific is designed to enable food manufacturers to obtain easy detection of a wide range of physical contaminants in large packages and dense, heavy products like cheese blocks, cases of spice, and boxes

containing various meat products. Distributed in Canada by MD Packaging Inc., it features a large aperture width and height to accommodate big cases, boxes, bags and trays. Morover, the Xpert HD system incorporates a trapezoidal, top-down 770-mm-wide X-Ray beam at the belt, which narrows to 525-mm-wide at the 300-mm aperture height, as well as an enhanced mechanical design to stand up to daily washdowns and a water-cooled ceramic X-ray tube for long service life.

Delivering high penetration of food products in difficult applications to support the highest level of food safety, the Xpert HD offers:

• Three inspection widths to optimize price and system size;

• External water chiller for cooling the X-Ray tube;

• The same easy-to-use software available on all Thermo Fisher Scientific Xpert conveyor models. Thermo Fisher Scientific In Canada: MD Packaging Inc.

CAUGHT ON CAMERA

The new FHV7 series smart camera from Omron Automation Americas features an all-new multicolor light and a high-resolution image sensor for advanced vision inspections on high-mix production lines. Designed to address the inspection needs of manufacturers running different products in different colors, shapes and sizes on a single production line, the FHV7 series smart camera’s multicolor light and an autofocus lens enables it to respond flexibly to any changes in the color and size of objects to be inspected. This eliminates the need for multiple cameras or manual lens adjustments, while ensuring compatibility with wideranging inspection criteria on lines producing many different types of products in varying quantities. According to Omron, the system’s high-speed image compression algorithm compresses data at double the typical speed—enabling for all image data to be saved while simultaneously inspecting a second image to facilitate complete traceability. Some of the new smart camera’s other notable value-added features include:

• Autofocus lens that covers a focal distance between 59-mm and 2,000-mm, so that even when differently sized products are running on the line, the focal range can be easily changed by altering parameters rather than moving the camera;

• Modular structure that allows the user to freely combine the lens and lighting variants available for use with the camera;

• Dual-core CPU that provides the fastest image processing speed among smart cameras (four times faster than the previous generation), according to Omron.

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STRICT MEASURES

Designed for measuring metallic coatings on both the finish and body regions of glass containers, the new Combined Coating Measurement System

(CCMS) from Agr International, Inc. is designed to provide operators with a one-stop, single operation testing station for measuring tin oxide coatings applied to a container during the production process. In order to achieve maximum precision on finish and body measurements, the CCMS incorporates dedicated measurement heads for each of the finish and body regions. According to the company, one head is optimized to operate with the precision necessary for the limited area of the finish region, while the second head is configured for body measurements where larger areas and heavier coatings are typically encountered. The advanced electronics of the system, in conjunction with dedicated measurement heads for finish and body, make it possible to precisely identify the presence of very small amounts of coating in the finish region while measuring heavier coating levels applied to the body of the container—all in one operation. The CCMS device is designed for fully automated operation, whereby the positioning of measurement heads— including vertical height location, container rotation and capture of measurement data—is performed in a single progression, without the need for operator intervention during the testing sequence.

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MOVING THE NEEDLES

Incorporating three FANUC LR Mate 200iD robots with custom-designed end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) for gentle handling of fragile, pre-filled glass syringes, the new robotic tray-loading system from ESS Technologies is designed to automate the loading fivecount thermoformed trays at rates of up to 25 trays per minute. After the operator manually loads thermoformed trays into dual-powered, high-capacity tray magazines, the syringes enter the starwheel infeed via an infeed track that connects to the syringe filling equipment at a rate of 125 syringes per minute. At this point, the starwheel picks syringes and lays them in carriers on the infeed conveyor. From there, the first FANUC robot uses vacuum EOAT to pick a tray and, with the help of line tracking, places it on the lugged tray transport conveyor. A second robot, also equipped with line tracking, will then pick five syringes from the syringe infeed conveyor, load three in the tray, and rotate the remaining two syringes 180 degrees before pla -

cing them to complete the tray. Any missed syringes fall into a soft discharge bin to be manually re-introduced into the robotic tray-loading cell. At the discharge point, the third FANUC robot uses a hybrid vacuum/gripper EOAT to rotate a tray and stack it on the next tray that follows, after which it then picks both trays and places them on a discharge conveyor for downstream inspection and cartoning.

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along with shatter-resistant construction and full recyclability. Inspired by the ‘growler’ glass containers used in the craft brewing industry, the SureHandle jug weighs only 84 grams and costs a fraction of the original glass version, while providing an ideal vessel for larger quantities of beverages—from beer to juice and ice-brewed coffee—that are either consumed over time or by multiple people at home gatherings.

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Vancouver-based flexible packaging converter Transcontinental Flexstar has completed the installation of a high-capacity RTO (Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer) pollution abatement system that will reduce its Richmond plants’ air-borne emission by more than 90 per cent, according to the company.

Boasting capacity of 50,000 standard cubic feet per minute, the $2-million investment will help the operation capture VOCs (volatile organic compounds) emitted from the two neighboring facilities’ various exhaust streams originating at the printing presses, laminators, and ink room operations.

Installed in a collaborative effort with Long Beach, Ca.-based pollution abatement specialists Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc., the new RTO swill allow Transcontinental Flexstar—a wholly-owned subsidiary of Montreal-headquartered flexible packaging group TC Transcontinental Packaging—to significantly improve air quality both indoors and outdoors.

“As part of TC Transcontinental Packaging’s commitment towards compliance and social responsibility, our plant was looking to control and capture VOCs,” explains Transcontinental Flexstar’s general manager Marc Bray, “and the installation of this regenerative thermal oxidizer significantly reduces our plant’s emissions.

Transcontinental Flexstar general manager Mike Bray (fourth from left) and a team of project collaborators pose to commemorate the startup of a high-capacity regenerative thermal oxidizer (top) that will help the company reduce its air emissions by over 90 per cent.

“We are proud to be the first flexible packaging company in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland to have a system of this caliber.”

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vertically integrated flexible packaging operation in North America, specializing in blown extrusion, printing, lamination and converting, including pouchmaking and bidirectional laser scoring, for the cereal, confectionery and snack markets.

Employing 135 people, the company’s Richmond operations comprise a state-of-the-art 61,000-square-foot film extrusion facility and a next-door 30,000-square-foot converting facility housing all the slitting, bagmaking and radial laser scoring equipment.

Both facilities operate on a busy 24/7 schedule throughout most of the year to produce a broad range of high-quality flexible packaging products, both in rollstock and pre-made bags.

According to Bray, who co-founded Flexstar back in 2005, progressive environmental practise have always been at the forefront of the company’s agenda from the outset, as evidenced by the BC Export Award for sustainability it earned in 2008.

TC Transcontinental Packaging president Brian Reid says the company always strives to work with its internal and external stakeholders in a concerted manner to conduct its business responsibly.

“One of our goals is to reduce the environmental footprint of our activities, namely by fostering a forward-thinking culture within our business units,” Reid explains. “Air quality is a top concern, and we are always aiming to limit and control air pollutants, both at the source by choosing new products, and through the exhaust systems of our plants, by capturing VOCs.

“Hence we are very are pleased with the completion of this project at Transcontinental Flexstar.”

With plastic drinking straws recently emerging as a serious contributor to the world’s growing marine pollution crisis, progressive companies like Stora Enso and Sulapac are quickly off to the races to develop an eco-friendly solution that will still allow consumers to enjoy the sheer convenience of this vitally handy utensil.

Demonstrated at the recent Slush 2018 global exhibition for technology startups in Helsinki, Finland, the new range of sustainable drinking straws are made from a specialty biocomposite material— comprising wood and natural binders—that can be recycled via industrial composting and will also biodegrade in marine environments.

In May of 2018, the two Finnish companies signed a joint development agreement that allows Stora Enso, one of Europe’s leading forest product groups, to license Sulapac’s innovative materials and technology, which drew highly positive feedback from over 20,000 visitors to Slush 2018

“This is an important step for Stora Enso and it showcases our long-term commitment to gradually replacing fossil-based materials with renewable solutions,” says Annica Bresky, executive vice-president for the company’s Consumer Board Division.

“Our collaboration with Sulapac is a great example of what we can achieve through partnership in terms of driving innovation to create sustainable solutions within the bioeconomy,” states Bresky, noting the company is making plans to commence production of the renewable straws on industrial scale in the near future.

“Eco-awareness is a strong driver for consumer demand, and our customers want help in replacing non-renewable materials,” adds Hannu Kasurinen, senior vice-president for Stora Enso’s liquid packaging and carton board products.

“Different biocomposite solutions, such as renewable caps and closures and straws, will be add-ons and a complement to our own consumer board portfolio, while bringing additional value to our customers.”

Noting that Sulapac’s material works well with most existing extrusion lines, Kasurinen says Stora Enso expects the renewable straws to be available commercially in the second quarter of 2019.

“This straw has the potential to be a true game-changer,” says Sulapac’s founder and chief executive officer Suvi Haimi. “Being recyclable, microplastic-free and marine-biodegradable straw, this is the world’s most sustainable straw that can be produced on an industrial scale to provide an alternative to the billions of plastic straws are produced, used and discarded every week.”

WELL OUTSIDE THE BOX

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folding-carton producer moves into the higher gear of production capacity and product quality with a new plant and state-of-the-art package converting machinery

BY ALANNA FAIREY, ASSISTANT EDITOR

PHOTOS BY NAOMI HILTZ

Ms. Carol Jiang, president and founder of Beneco Packaging and subsidiary company SoOPAK.com, has come a long way since a pair of $2 chairs from a yard sale became her first assets when starting her business back in 2004.

And while such extreme penny-pinching may no longer be required, Jiang’s knack for fiscal discipline and cost control has enabled her paperboard converting business to achieve many impressive milestones over the years.

By any measure, the startup of Beneco’s second manufacturing facility just over a years in Toronto’s east-end is a just reward for a hardworking ‘lean’ manufacturing enterprise operating in one of the packaging industry’s most fiercely competitive market segments.

Coming online in early January of 2018, the new 43,000-square-foot plant in the city’s suburb of Scarborough is a confident statement of the company’s intent to continue scaling new heights in the Canadian folding-carton industry.

Equipped with some state-of-the-art printing press and converting equipment manufactured by the famed leading German printing press technologies experts Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the new Beneco plant is a testament to Jiang’s indomitable entrepreneurial spirit and sharp business acumen.

President and founder Carol Jiang stands proudly in front of paperboard packaging samples that Beneco manufactures at their newly minted 43,000-square-feet Scarborough location.

Carol Jiang stands in front of the Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L printing press while holding up an example of the printed products the machine is capable of running.

Along with Beneco’s original 45,000-square-foot plant in Mississauga, Ont., the company now employs 60 full-time staff over a two-shift, six-days-a-week schedule at the two locations— producing a diverse range of high-quality folding cartons for clients in a multitude of industries, with a strong focus on the food-andbeverage sector.

“For a company that started with almost nothing, we have grown very well indeed,” Jiang told Canadian Packaging on a recent visit to the new Scarborough location.

“It has been about 15 years now, and having done well enough to grow the business by expanding from one to two manufacturing locations will enable us to increase our capacity dramatically,” Jiang states.

Having already won an impressive number of prestigious awards in the past— including the 2018 Best Custom Medical Product Packaging Award from Global Health & Pharma (GHP)—the company is currently working on obtaining the vaunted GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) food safety certification to grow its client base in the food industry.

As one of the relatively few independent folding carton manufacturers in the North American market, Beneco and its SoOPAK.com subsidiary—a strictly online service for small-batch and short-run production of specialty packaging such as food boxes, soap boxes, wedding gift boxes and other custom-printed packaging—must leverage flexibility and customer service as key competitive core strengths.

Based on the growing order volumes, they have been able to get it all down to a science so far.

“I have a lot of customers that come up to me and say, ‘I heard that you’re the only few companies with good delivery in town at this moment,’ so we do whatever we need to do to meet our customers delivery requirement,” Jiang says.

“If my customers need their order in a rush, and I can make sure that they always get their products on time—that’s called flexibility.

“We offer high-quality packaging solutions designed to meet your turn-around time and specific needs—while keeping our customers’ costs down.

“Whether our customers require a small text run for a limited market or a large national rollout we have the expertise you need to meet your unique packaging goals in a cost effective way,” adds Jiang, a firm believer in the merits of JIT (justin-time) approach to order fulfillment and inventory control.

Stressing that equipment should always be waiting for an order rather than an order waiting for equipment, the standard delivery time from Beneco Packaging and SoOPAK.com is around three weeks, but they also provide five- and ten-day delivery options.

Beneco’s printing and finishing services include structural and graphic design, prepress, offset printing, UV Printing, embossing, die cutting, window patching, folding, gluing and other services.

Jiang’s point is clearly demonstrated beyond doubt with the massive capital investment the company made in new Heidelberg equipment installed at the new Scarborough location, including:

• a state-of-the-art Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L printing press;

• a Heidelberg MK Promatrix 106 CS die-cutter;

• a Heidelberg MK Diana Easy folder gluer.

While Jiang says she evaluated other suppliers’ equipment, she was ultimately swayed by Heidelberg’s global reputation as a gold standard for printing and converting machinery, as well as the exceptional service and support offered by the company’s Heidelberg Canada subsidiary nearby in Mississauga.

“Heidelberg manufactures the best printing machines worldwide,” Jiang states, “and their Canadian team have been very professional in assessing and looking after our facility’s needs.

That’s why we chose Heidelberg.”

With lighting-fast printing speeds of 16,500 impressions per hour, the Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L is equipped to handle both short runs with quick turnaround and longer-run work, while offering exceptionally short changeover and make-ready times.

With the Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L renowned for its user-friendly interfaces—including a PressCenter XL 2 operating system with the Wallscreen XL—jobs are pre-defined as they are output from prepress, which helps to reduce time on job transfer and loading.

Once at the press, the job data concurrently activate a “job change” sequence which may include blanket and roller washes, automatic plate loading with AutoPlate Pro, and spectral color measurement with Prinect AxisControl

Using top-quality printing inks supplied by Hubergroup Canada Ltd., the Speedmaster press excels at executing many special value-added finishes, flourishes and other special effects during the printing process, according to Jiang.

With ink supplied from Hubergroup Canada, the Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L printing press can run six different colors with UV, gloss and matte capabilities.

Producing at speeds of 16,500 impressions per hour, longer runs are not an issue for the Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L.

“We do run a lot of the UV (ultraviolet) projects and the printing press allows us to do UV, gloss and matte, along with many special effects printed onto the package surfaces,” Jiang extols.

“The machine is so good,” she adds, “that it really brings up our printing quality standard to a much higher level.”

An equivalently significant machine at Beneco is the Heidelberg MK Promatrix 106 CS die-cutter, which has also gathered much praise from many Heidelberg customers as being the finest die-cutting machine in North America.

Boasting output capacity of 8,000 sheets per hour, the MK Promatrix 106 CS diecutter is a highly reliable, fully-automated workhorse outfitted with many highperformance features such as a non-stop feeder; a belt table with suction tapes and central roller and brush adjustment; precision register system up to the stripping station; quick-lock chase and cutting plate fine adjustment in the cutting station; and a quick lock frame with fine adjustment in the stripping station to facilitate short set-up times.

According to Heidelberg, motorized cutting pressure adjustment and non-stop delivery with rolling carpet facilitate a very smooth and comfortable operation to provide the machine operator additional time for production monitoring and quality control.

For its part, the Heidelberg MK Diana folder-gluer is engineered to facilitate user-friendly operation and fast and easy changeover processes, while achieving robust throughput speeds of 300 meters across a broad range of paperboard grades and weights, up to an E-flute of corrugated material, with maximum product lengths of 600-mm.

According to Jiang, all the Heidelberg machines have performed as well as advertised since coming online at the Scarborough plant.

“Our printing quality is a lot better and our production efficiencies have become very good,” she relates.

Widely reknowned as being the finest die-cutting machine in North America, the Heidelberg MK Promatrix 106 CS die-cutter lives up to its reputation thanks to its fully-automated operations and interfaces.

Spicers Canada ULC, a leading supplier of commercial, specialty and packaging print products, supplies Beneco corrugated (inset) and paperboard packaging.

The Heidelberg MK Promatrix 106 CS die-cutter includes a non-stop feeder, a belt table with suction tapes and central roller and brush adjustment, along with a precision register system up to the stripping station.

A Beneco employee operating the Heidelberg MK Diana folder-gluer, which has been praised for its user-friendly interfaces and its robust throughput speeds of 300 meters across a plethora of different paperboard grades and weights.

The Heidelberg MK Promatrix 106 CS die-cutter has proven its incomparable need for speed, as it boasts an impressive output capacity of 8,000 sheets per hour.

“These machines really open up our capacity because they are all stateof-the-art, and they are all highly automated and, moreover, it’s all very user-friendly equipment.”

Jiang adds she has been very impressed by the professionalism and expertise of Heidelberg’s Canadian staff, especially with their quick response time during the few instances when the machines were acting up a little.

“At Beneco, we recognize the fact that packaging plays a key role in the overall marketing process. We take the time to clearly understand your brand, and then work with you from start to finish to select the packaging options that bring out your product’s attributes and help to bolster sales.

“And because we are famous for fast turnaround and on time delivery, you can always be sure that even your tightest deadlines will be met.”

While Jiang acknowledges that there are not a bountiful amount of female entrepreneurs running their own businesses in the package printing industry, she sees no reason why this imbalance may not be corrected in the future.

Having made Beneco and SoOPAK.com highly successful enterprises, Jiang hopes that she may inspire many more young female entrepreneurs to take charge of their own fates in the future—in any industry for that matter.

“No matter what you do, you have to work hard and to be able to fight for your work almost everyday,” Jiang advises.

As for her own plans, Jiang says she has her mind set on making Beneco and SoOPAK.com reach their full potential.

“I think that the company is moving in the right direction,” she says, “and while I think there are a lot of things that we need to continuously improve, our goal is very clear.

“We want to be a just-in-time supplier; we want to have more machin-

ery; and we want to be able to deliver our packaging to customer within two weeks of getting the order,” Jiang proclaims.

“As more and more people are continuing to switch away from plastic to paperboard packaging,” she concludes, “we will continue to have a bright future in which Beneco will continue to grow, no doubt about it.”

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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Hubergroup Canada Ltd. Spicers Canada ULC

Beneco gets their ink supply from Hubergroup Canada Ltd., which provides the paperboard products a high-quality appearance on the packaging.

A close up of Beneco’s finished paperboard packaging designed from the equipment provided by Heidelberg.

LIVE AND LEARN

Product inspection experts start up a hands-on training curriculum to put production line operators at ease with the critical and complex food safety technology

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

BY NAOMI HILTZ

An investment in knowledge is a must for companies in any line of work in today’s knowledge-based economy. And it’s fair to say that there is no such thing as too much knowledge when it comes to food safety and consumer health and welfare.

But while food manufacturers have never been as spoilt for choice as today in terms of having access to powerful product inspection technologies such as metal detectors and X-Ray inspection systems, there is often a disconnect between what the technologies can deliver and the actual results, according to Larry Swift, co-owner and vice-president of Oakville, Ont.-based product inspection and hygiene systems distributor Shawpak Systems Ltd.

“We have found that many operators in the food business don’t fully understand product inspection technology,” says Swift, whose company is the exclusive Canadian agent for METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection, the world’s leading manufacturer of metal detection, X-Ray inspection and vision technologies for the global food industries.

“Typically a plant engineer would purchase the inspection system, sign off on it, and move on to the next project—leaving people on the production floor to work with it,” says Swift, who has built up a vast knowledge of the subject during his 20-plus years of experience in product inspection systems manufacturing and integration.

“They may receive about two to four hours to learn it all when a technician starts it up after installation,” Swift says, “but that is typically all they get.

“So there is often frustration on the plant floor and people losing faith in the equipment,” Swift states, “which all comes down to not having a complete un-

Shawpak Systems co-owner and vice-president Larry Swift (above left) and the company’s certified trainer Brent Wilkins strike a cheerful pose inside Shawpak’s brand new Centre of Excellence training facility in Oakville, Ont., where the company intends to conduct informative hands-on training session on product inspection and hygiene technologies for critical plant personnel operating such systems at their workplaces.

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FOOD SAFETY

derstanding the technology and its full functionality.”

To address this knowledge deficit head on, Shawpak Systems has just launched a new series of training programs conducted at the company’s newly-built Centre of Excellence training and demonstration facility in Oakville, offering hands-on training and expert classroom instruction to plant personnel and other end-users of product inspection and hygiene systems.

“We are very passionate about training here at Shawpak,” Swift told Canadian Packaging on a recent visit to the 2,200-square-foot facility equipped with a comprehensive range of advanced METTLER TOLEDO product inspection systems and automatic hygiene equipment ready to perform a broad range of tests and process simulations encountered by front-line plant personnel on daily basis.

“We teach Product Inspection 101, which includes metal-detection, X-Ray, checkweighing and vision technologies,” says Swift, adding all courses are custom-tailored to address the visitors’ specific application requirements.

“We focus on how the technology works, how it detects and why it rejects things, and so on.”

Says Swift: “Educating clients on the fundamental principles of the product inspection equipment and processes is key for food producers to create and maintain a strong food safety program in their facilities.

“Once they obtain that understanding, they will start to see a real change in performance and start realizing ROI (return-on-investment) almost immediately through less downtime and not having to experience the frustration of high false-rejects counts,” says Swift,” citing the company’s authoritative credentials as a certified trainer issued and validated by PMMI-The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies

“Many people think that an X-Ray unit is a magic ‘Black Box’ that will detect anything and everything,” Swift relates, “but that’s just not the case.

“It is fundamental to understand the principles of the technology’s operation and the equipment’s limitations,” Swift asserts “which very from one application to the next.”

As Swift explains, the company’s Center of Excellence training and demo facility is designed to put the trained personnel at ease by removing them from the pressurecooker environment of busy production lines in order to absorb the acquired knowledge and information better.

“Before we would typically go to customers’ plants to do the training,” he recalls, “but we often found that there is a problem with the attention span whenever you pull people away from their production line at their work—they just don’t absorb the training as well.

“Here we can give people an opportunity to step away from the production environment and have a hands-on learning experience, without the distraction of what’s going on at their plant, so that they can really focus on understanding the technology from ground up.”

According to Shawpak Systems’ principal trainer Brent Wilkins, a typical training session would last from four to five hours of instruction and product testing for groups of four to six people in a “more intimate and confortable environment so that the

people being trained so can absorb the information better.

“We typically focus on maintenance and quality control personnel,” he says, “and we can customize and tailor a training course specifically to suit their requirements, whether they want to focus solely on X-Ray technology, or if they want to learn about all the different food safety standard levels and how they relate to product inspection … we can tailor to all that.

“We find that once they understand that core knowledge of the technology,” says Wilkins, “they will be able to structure their quality control programs at their facility more effectively.

“Naturally, we are also willing to do any follow-up the may require at their facilities as well.”

Says Wilkins:“Having been in this industry for a long time enables us to be dynamic in our approach.”

This dynamic approach has certainly paid dividends with the Centre of Excellence facility’s first trainee.

Paul Canacas, global market segment manager for food and conveyance with Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products, as well as market segment manager for food and packaging with Quadrant Plastic Composites, says the training he received at the facility in late 2018 was “real eye-opener” for him and his company, which is currently developing a range of metal-detectable plastics that can be used to replace metal parts across a broad range of processing and packaging equipment used in the food industries.

Nowadays operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mitsubishi Plastics business of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Reading, Pa.-headquartered Quadrant group of companies is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of engineering plastics for a broad range of industries—from aerospace and automotive to industrial equipment and food and beverage.

As Canacas explains, the emerging trend among food processing and packaging machinery manufacturers to incorporate more plastic component into the design of their equipment has created demand for a new range of metal-detectable plastics that can be detected in trace amounts by existing metal detection and X-Ray inspection technology.

According to Canacas, many OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and their clients increasingly prefer engineered plastics to metal due to the inherent benefits of their lighter weight, which results in reduced energy consumption and the associated reduction in carbon footprint; superior chemical resistance; higher processing speeds; and self-lubricating properties that reduce the risk of dirt accumulation and dust build-up.

“We believe that detectable plastics are the future for global food safety, in terms of both total system performance and overall consumer protection,” says Canacas, citing fast-growing use of plastic equipment components in the food industry, including scrapers, conveyor guide rails, gears wheels, sprockets, grippers, paddles, former plates and other machine parts coming into direct contact with food product.

“Although it’s not mandatory right now, trends in industry regulations indicate a focus on addressing concerns that can be solved best with food-grade plastics for food

A box of Made Good granola bars, produced by Shawpak System’s long-time client Riverside Natural Foods, gets a thorough once-over from the METTLER-TOLEDO CI-Vision brand machine vision system to verify all the critical product and coding information printed on the package.

Shawpak Systems is the exclusive North American distributor for the full range of state-of-theart Kohlhoff hygiene systems manufactured in Germany by Kohlhoff Hygienetechnik GmbH & Co. KG, including this comprehensive DesinFektion model installed at the Centre of Excellence.

handling and conveyance applications,” says Canacas, noting that Quadrant actually supplies METTLER TOLEDO with the plastic parts used in its metal detection systems.

As Canacas relates, making plastics detectable by metal detectors and X-Ray systems is a “complex” scientific endeavour requiring highly precise application and dispersion of various specialty ferrous or nonferrous powdered additives in a perfectly measured and balanced way that “fully respects mechanical properties of the plastic material and the integrity of the machinery.

“Different materials and different resins will accept different amounts of these additives and must therefore be expertly formulated and manufactured to achieve success in the field,” Canacas says.

“It’s critical to consider the big picture, the total system. At Quadrant, we develop materials to solve or prevent issues, so while a material might perform well on paper, we also go to the next step of field-testing it to ensure, let’s say, tht there is no crystallization, which can result in brittleness and cause premature component fatigue.

“This is especially important in busy high line-speed food plants with frequent washdown requirements and other extreme conditions.”

Says Canacas: “It is vitally important for Quadrant to understand the markets to which it is selling its product, and the food business is definitely a high-growth market for us.

“As the population continues to grow and the amount of food being produced to feed it grows accordingly, we are seeing the parameters of machinery being pushed to the limit with faster production speeds, with a higher chance of components fatigues and, consequently, plastic particles getting into the product.”

Adds Swift: “The challenge for Qaudrant is to produce a product that can be detected to avoid complaints from customers about plastic contamination of their food product.

“Hence they have to add special chemical component to the plastic so that the radiation embedded in the product inspection systems can detect it.

“As a rule, plastics are very hard to detect because they don’t have the conductive characteristics to enable reliable and repeatable detection,” Swift says, adding he is proud to count Quadrant as the Center of Excellence’s first full-fledged training client.

As Canacas concurs, the feeling is mutual.

“It was tremendous to see the complexity and continual advancement of the technology,” he states.

“All the variations involved lead to a better understanding in how we can best knowledge share to further optimize the detectability of the materials, adapting to the unique processing requirements, different food densities and so on.

“It was tremendous eye-opener for me to see the complexity of the technology and all the variations involved in understanding how we can make the materials detectable, and how they behave differently with the different kinds of food, different densities and so on.

“It really was an incredible learning experience and a very informative discussion forum,” he adds. “The Shawpak staff are very knowledgeable in this technology and they are always very accessible, a real pleasure to work with.”

In fact, Canacas says he has already enrolled himself to attend a more detailed and advanced training session at METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection’s international headquarters in Tampa Bay, Fla., this year to expand his knowledge of product inspection further.

“Knowledge is eternal,” he quips, “and I’m eager to take this partnership to the next level.

“A superior understanding of the science of material detection in the food industry is what will continue to keep Quadrant customers optimized, protected and up and running,” Canacas states.

Naturally, such ringing endorsement is music to the ears of Swift, who takes immense pride in being able to complement Shawapak Systems’ vast technical experience to its client base with state-of-the-art METTLER TOLEDO inspection systems, backed up by extensive coast-to-coast technical support offered by the Mississauga, Ont.-headquartered METTLER TOLEDO Canada Inc.

Says Swift: “With food safety initiatives increasingly being strengthened by governments through regulations such as Safe Food for Canadians Regulations and the FSMA (Food Suppliers Modernization Act), it is critical that food production facilities take complete ownership of their product inspection systems.

“But having a machine in place is only one part of the puzzle,” Swift concludes.

“It is essential to control the whole process, and with a weak understanding of the technology and all the equipment features, you can’t perform the job correctly.”

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Shawpak Systems’ principal trainer Brent Wilkins (left) goes over a few points with Paul Canacas of Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products, the facility’s first trainee, over the display terminal of a running METTLER TOLEDO Safeline X-Ray product inspection system.

The 2,200-square-foot Centre of Excellence training and demo facility recently opened by Shawpak Systems in Oakville houses a comprehensive range of METTLER TOLEDO product inspection equipment like metal detectors, X-Ray systems, checkweighers and vision systems.

Brent Wilkins conducting a sample training session on metal detection fundamentals at the company’s on-site classroom, which can comfortably accommodate teams of four to six people for custom-tailored training sessions on product inspection and hygiene technologies.

Montreal

PLAYING IT COOL

entrepreneurs turning ice cream world on its head one scoop at a time with low-calorie recipe and cool packaging execution

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

If being cool means standing in a sea of conformity, then the three Montreal-based entrepreneurial bright minds behind Canada’s first national brand of low-calorie ice cream are true masters of the big chill.

Launched a little less than a year ago, the aptly named CoolWay range of ice cream is nothing less than a dream come true for countless Canadian consumers who love the taste of high-quality ice cream but dread the high calorie count and fat intake associated with one of the world’s most popular and universally beloved desserts.

Developed as a “guilt-free” alternative to conventional ice cream products by long-time buddies Benjamine Outmezguine, Noah Bernett and Dino Vassiliou, CoolWay ice-cream is actually a triumphant remake of the trio’s earlier creation called CoolWhey, which was high-protein frozen dairy treat intended for sale at fitness centers, health clubs and vitamin stores as a post-workout supplement.

While that product received a fair bit of media attention and notoriety with the founders’ appearance on the popular Dragon’s Den television series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the costs and logistics of making in it widely available in its intended frozen format at limited points-of-sale put breaks on further market development.

Undaunted, the three company founders turned the initial setback into an opportunity by reformulating their product to appeal to a far larger mainstream audience, while retaining the product’s high protein

content.

“But we quickly realized through in-store demos that the mainstream market was mostly interested in the low-calorie aspect of our products,” CoolWay co-founder Benjamine Outmezguine told Canadian Packaging in a recent interview.

“That’s when we asked Richard, our product developer and partner, to go back in the kitchen and come up with the best-tasting low-calorie ice cream he could possibly make,” says Outmezguine, noting it took about nine months of intense product development to obtain the right texture and taste profile,

From Left: Bo Branding & Design president Marc Beauregrad and project manager Hélène Maillé strike a pose alongside CoolWay co-founders Noah Bernett, Benjamine Outmezguine and Dino Vassilou, whose low-calorie ice-cream (inset) product is quickly becoming a hit across Canada, in part thanks to the inspired packaging design work executed by Montreal-based Bo Branding.

along with remarkably low calorie count.

“We have removed most of the calories, fat and sugar from traditional ice cream while keeping that premium and rich taste,” he says, “so that anyone who want to indulge a bit without all the guilt can do so any time they wish.”

Already retailing across Canada in seven different flavors, the CoolWay brand contains only 280 to 360 calories per a full 500-ml “pint” tub—a stunningly low total that is proudly displayed as a primary graphic on each of the brand’s different flavors in the center of the cylindrical tubs.

Produced in strict accordance to CoolWay’s safeguarded recipe, the novel ice-cream also packs 28 grams of protein and a healthy helping of fiber in each 500-ml tub, while containing 50 per cent less sugar than most established ice cream brands in the market.

Offering one-year shelf-life, the CoolWay brand has been quickly picked up by leading national grocers such as in Walmart, Metro, IGA and Whole Foods, among others, where its cheerful light-blue package design adorned with playful graphics of ice cream scoops floating in mid-air has made a huge impact with the consumers.

“The ice cream category is a very competitive space where big companies spend big bucks to remain on the shelves, as well as on advertising Outmezguine states.

“To compete against them, you absolutely need to have the better product, a better story, and better packaging.”

Says Outmezguine: “Before launching the CoolWay brand, we knew that we were onto something special and that we needed very strong packaging to communicate the right messages to consumers.

To get the packaging and story-telling just right, CoolWay approached Montreal-based packaged deign and branding services specialists Bo Branding & Design Ltd., which has built up an impressive body of work over the years for multiple clients in the dairy and other CPG (consumer packaged goods) industries.

“After looking at Bo Branding’s impressive portfolio, we knew that they were the right partner to create something truly special for us,” Outmezguine relates.

As he recalls, the three CoolWay founders were keen to retain the original light-blue background from the original CoolWhey packaging as a key common branding template for all flavor varieties, while playing up the product’s health attributes in light-hearted style with clean, engaging graphics and fonts.

PACKAGE DESIGN

“The keywords that we used at the start of the project were ‘indulgent,’ ‘calorie-focused,’ and ‘blue,’ which was the legacy colour from our previous brand,” Outmezguine explains.

“We went with our legacy blue (Pantone 3115 C for life) from our previous CoolWhey brand because it’s friendly, approachable, and also one of our trademarks,” he states. “It also has this pastel nostalgic feel to it.

“We also wanted to go with modern, clear and professional fonts that would represent us as a brand,” Outmezguine elaborates, “and we wanted to include fun elements like falling ice cream scoops and spoons to add to the ‘funness’ of our packaging.”

SWEET SPOT

Over about five months, Bo Branding patiently proceeded nearly 40 different prototypes of the new packaging graphics, Outmezguine relates, before nailing the ultimate packaging “sweet spot.”

As he recalls, “The consumers and our clients loved CoolWay’s packaging from the first day we announced it!

“It is blue, it is approachable and, above all, it is fun,” Outmezguine extols, while also crediting the company’s packaging supplier Stanpac of Smithville, Ont., for exemplary service in supplying the sturdy, fully-recyclable paperboard pint tubs and plastic lidding incorporating tamper-evident safety seals.

All in all, Outmezguine says he was highly impressed with Bo Branding’s professionalism and creativity that are aptly reflected in the final packaging execution.

“It’s never easy to create new packaging in Canada,” he says, “due to the unique challenges that we face because of the two-language (English and French) requirements.

“But with Bo being a local [Montreal-based] agency, they are very familiar with the process and all the best practices.

“Thanks to that knowledge, we were able to fit everything on our front panel in a nice and functional way, while still having room for a second ‘benefits’

section.”

Says Outmezguine: “Bo Branding handled our packaging from A to Z and they did an amazing job … we could not be happier with the result.

“The entire process was a pleasure—they always listened well to our feedback, acted quickly to respond, and they have great taste and,” he quips.

“If I had to rate their success, I’d give them a solid 10 out of 10,” says Outmezguine, adding that CoolWay has also recently engaged Bo Branding to develop packaging for the new range of CoolWay ice cream bars that the company plans to launch in Canada later this year, along with seven new flavor varieties.

“They did a fantastic adaptation of our pint design for our new ice cream bars,” he confides, “and we were also very pleased with the limited-edition packaging that they created with us for the [past Christmas] holidays.

As Outmezguine sums up, “When you compete in the CPG space, your product is everything: taste first and packaging second.

“In this light, the packaging created for us by Bo Branding is a big contributor to our success to date,” he states, “and I think it has successfully set the tone for our branding going forward.

“We plan to use this structure for all CoolWay’s future products and innovations,” he says, “because it really stands out in the freezer and it’s great at creating brand uniqueness and loyalty.

“We don’t go plan to go for the conservative corporate look simply because that is not who we are,” Outmezguine concludes.

“We are part of the new generation of ‘better-foryou’ foods made by real people who have a real story to share.”

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Bo Branding & Design Ltd. Stanpak

CoolWay co-founder Benjamine Outmezguine (left) says he was so impressed by the high quality of packaged design work done by Marc Beauregard (right) and his Bo Branding team for his brand’s 500-ml pint tubs that he also selected the agency to design packaging for the company’s new range of frozen bars that it plans to launch across Canada later this year.

CANNABIS FOR A CAUSE

High-speed digital label printer ignites steady production for innovative cannabis production plant

BY ALANNA FAIREY, ASSISTANT EDITOR PHOTOS BY NAOMI HILTZ

Since its legalization back in October, the demand for cannabis in the market has been at an all-time high.

While legalizing cannabis has opened the door for a number of different markets, Peterborough, Ont.-based Canveda aims to make a prominent name for itself in the medicinal marijuana sector.

“I think in every business you have to find a niche that can separate yourself from your competition and focus on your niche to become the best in that,” Michael Arnkvarn, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of MPXI Canada and Canveda, says.

“Medicinal cannabis is the niche that we’re going to have for this facility.”

Bought by MPX Bioceutical Corporation back in June 2018, Canveda, with approval from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) and Health Canada, is currently starting production and will be producing about 30 different strains.

“Obviously you want to have different strains to try and differentiate yourself as a cannabis producer versus your competitors,” Arnkvarn explains.

“Our philosophy is to focus more on producing finished products, in addition to

ABOVE: The 12,000-square-foot production facility in Peterborough, Ont.,

marijuana as part a partnership with Spartan Wellness, a group dedicated to helping veterans who are suffering from PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder).

MAIN: Vice-president and chief operating officer Michael Arnkvarn stands proudly with the fully grown marijuana plants that Canveda grows and produces in-house.

produces medical

producing specialized products.

“Canveda has a joint venture with the largest cannabis Pharmafarm producer in the world from Israel, Panaxia and we’ll be producing products with them together. Says Arnkvarn: “We’re really going to keep a very medical approach.”

While this facility produces only flower, Arnkvarn says that this will not be the way that the Canadian cannabis market will continue in, as there will be a demand for other specialized cannabis products in the likes of oils and edibles, which will be allowed to sell in Oct. 2019.

“If we look at the history of the cannabis markets in the U.S., typically when a new market starts, it’s almost 80 per cent flower, and very few derivatives,” Arnkvarn told Canadian Packaging on a recent plant visit.

“As the market matures, the cannabis market will see that flower consumption will go way down and the other products are going to go up.”

PRODUCT ID NOW

Whether packaging flower or edibles, all cannabis products must be packaged in the same way.

According to a lengthy report from Health Canada, all cannabis products must abide by a number of strict packaging and labeling laws since marijuana became legal.

The report states that the packaged cannabis requires a long list of information about the product, which include the name and contact information of the processor, product description, THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (Cannabidiol) content in a distinct red color, potential allergens and the statement “Keep out of reach of children.”

Packaging would also have to include a “universal symbol” denoting that it is a cannabis product, as well as a health-warning message inside a yellow box printed in the largest font on the label.

Cannabis warning labels must include a number of different information, including product description, THC and CBD content, potential allergens and varied warnings in a yellow box.

One of Canveda’s lead growers fills a pre-rolled crown with the help of a Futurola Knockbox 2 + Standard Filling Kit, supplied by Cannabis production powerhouse Futurola Amsterdam prior to labeling the finished products.

In compliance with Health Canada’s laws regarding packaging and labeling cannabis products, Arnkvarn and his team purchased a Kiaro! QL-120 Professional tabletop digital label printer from Astronova Inc. (Inset) A graphic artist takes care of designing the labels as per Health Canada’s requirements.

priority is to serve struggling veterans and to further develop that niche for producing medical marijuana to those suffering from PTSD and other illnesses.

In a similar fashion to cigarettes boxes, the warning messages on the cannabis products alternate between phrases such as “Cannabis smoke is harmful,” “Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding” or “Regular use of cannabis can increase the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia.”

With a background in natural food health and producing lots of products, Arnkvarn’s instinctual train of thought was to get a color printer and have the labels made promptly, in-house.

After being reminded about the precise regulations surrounding packaging and labeling cannabis, Arnkvarn had to look no further than his influx of unread emails.

“Timing is everything in life,” Arnkvarn enlightens. “I get hundreds of emails a day from people trying to sell me different products.”

One of those fated unread emails came from data visualization technology specialists AstroNova Inc., who were pitching their Kiaro! QL-120 professional tabletop digital label printer from their QuickLabel subsidiary.

After responding to the email, Arnkvarn was able to address what his facility needed in terms of label printing and a sales rep quickly made a visit to the facility and presented the label printer to Arnkvarn and his team. They were immediately convinced that this was the printer for Canveda.

“It’s an essential item, you cannot package and you cannot function without it.

“Emails do pay off,” Arnkvarn adds with a laugh. With its original launch back in 2018, the QL-120

The Futurola Knockbox 2 + Standard Filling Kit has the capability to fill over 100 pre-rolled cones with the cannabis product in a brisk two minute interval.

Canveda’s

A close up of the finished packaged products with the cannabis warning labels, prior to distribution.

has already made a positive impression on customers in a number of different sectors.

Having been applauded for its network-friendly printer operations and a compact design, the QL-120 manufactures premium 1200 x 1200 dpi (dots per inch) color labels in a timely and cost-effective method.

Offering flexible print widths that are unmatched in the industry, the QL-120 enables Arnkvarn and his team to print labels as narrow as 0.5” or as wide as 4.2” on the same device.

Thanks to a function-rich Windows operating interface, completely integral utility and status monitoring software, the QL-120 helps users to straightforwardly and tenuously manage printer setup and operation.

In addition, the QL-120 also features self-maintenance during the printing process, which has resulted in the highest quality printed labels with little to no user intervention.

Having had the QL-120 installed at the plant for a little over a month, a professional graphic artist is in charge of designing the labels to the government’s strict requirements.

Arnkvarn also shares that Canveda benefits from the label printer’s welladapted settings and ability to provide them with different label sizes.

“When you’re doing labels or you’re doing even any printing mate-

rials, they become out of date every quickly,” Arnkvarn explains.

“The QL-120 gives us the flexibility and the ability to change the information as needed.”

Asked if they would consider buying from AstroNova in the future, Arnkvarn says with a smile, “When you find suppliers that you’re happy with, you don’t change.”

While he does not want to change his supplier, one thing that Arnkvarn would like to change is the public’s perception on PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) seen in veterans. With their lead grower a veteran, the cause is near and dear to Canveda.

“When we talk about PTSD and other mental illnesses, PTSD is more people perceive that as a psychological fallout from somebody in the army, but that’s not really true.”

Canveda supports and promotes a group called Spartan Wellness, which is a network comprised of veterans, physicians, specialists and other support teams that work to help other veterans recover from opioid addictions and the often-tragic repercussions of PTSD.

A fundamental element of the program includes converting the struggling veterans away from opioids and towards medicinal cannabis, which Canveda provides them.

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as a result of their opioid addictions and mental health, Arnkvarn says that introducing cannabis conversion therapy to the veterans has been promising.

“Ever since they have been able to convert the veterans to cannabis, Spartan Wellness has had great success in reducing opioid addiction,” Arnkvarn extols.

“Medicinal cannabis allows the veterans to function in society and become functioning human be-

ings again so it’s really cool and with that, we’re going to initiate different studies on PTSD and the effects of cannabis.”

While Canveda stands at a mere 12,000-square-feet with plans to add a number of trimmers and machines, there are no immediate plans to expand the facility.

Arnkvarn explains that the focus of Canveda as a business is not to compete with big name cannabis production corporations, but instead to focus on the needs and the accommodations of the veterans in the Spartan program.

After the tragic bus crash in Ottawa at the beginning of the year, Canveda would like to expand the Spartan Wellness group not just to veterans, but also to first responders and police officers who are also experiencing PTSD. Arnkvarn says that the goal is to have medical cannabis become much more mainstream.

“We’re really just going to use this facility to fulfill the needs of our veteran group,” Arnkvarn says.

“We really want to stress that this is veteran grown for veterans, and by veterans.”

AstroNova Inc. Futurola Amsterdam

SUPPLIERS

While Canveda currently produces only flower, they will in the future begin to produce other specialized cannabis products such as oils and edibles, as the cannabis market will have a higher demand for it once these derivatives become legalized in October

CANNABIS PACKAGING

IN HIGH DEMAND

Check out the companies that currently offer innovative cannabis packaging technologies

Veritiv® offers a variety of packaging solutions, including cannabis specialty packaging items. Such solutions include custom jars, trays, bottles, paperboard, tins, folding cartons, bags and safety requirement labels. Additionally, we provide automation equipment, such as bottling, labeling and molding, for peak efficiency. Other solutions include child resistant, senior friendly and re-closable containers, point of purchase (POP) displays, and retail-ready packaging (graphical and structural design).

We combine the best ideas, optimum materials, cutting-edge equipment, proven processes and original designs to provide the right mix of specialty packaging products to meet your ever-changing needs. No matter what packaging products you need, we ensure you have a continuous supply of them.

By understanding your business inside and out, Veritiv can identify opportunities across the scope of your entire packaging supply chain.Then we help you implement them into innovative, cost effective solutions to achieve powerful advantages. The result? Improved visual and physical design of your packaging, greater efficiencies in your supply chain logistics, and a packaging process that reduces steps and saves time.

Veritiv® is a leading North American business-to-business distributor of Packaging, Facility Solutions, Print and Publishing, and Print Management; and also a provider of logistics and supply chain management services.

Visit veritivcorp.com/cannabispackaging to request to be contacted by a Veritiv Packaging representative.

CARTON MASTER

Toronto-based Nuspark Inc. has come a long way from their humble beginnings way back in 1999.

With an already impressive packaging portfolio in sectors such as pharmaceutical, food & beverage, and consumer goods, Nuspark is ready to move into the cannabis market with the help of their leading compact cartoners.

Offered in horizontal and vertical loading configurations, Nuspark cartoners have the ability to quickly move from a manual packaging operation to an effusively automated single or multi machine solutions.

Such solutions include: full product QC and integrity tracking through on-demand label application, printing, scanning, complete database integration, third party equipment integration, in addition to boasting a industry 4.0 support.

Nuspark has a proven need for speed, as their cartoners have an impressive range from 10 cartons per minute, up to 80 cartons a minute.

In an effort to significantly save materials, the cartoners allow glue to replace tuck and auto bottom closure.

Due to Health Canada’s strict laws and regulations in regards to cannabis packaging, cartoners are able to adapt to be configured to accommodate current packaging

requests, such as airplane or reverse tuck cartons, glue closure, and auto-bottom cartons.

In addition, the multi-station indexing turret allows for several integrated options, such as leaflet insertion, labeling, printing, scanning, open flap detection, product detection, check weighing, and automatic reject for simple, and efficient QC within a single machine.

Nuspark

WRAP IT UP!

Packaging powerhouse Cannamation Corporation has produced a brand spanking new resolution that cannabis suppliers are currently lining up for.

The impressive Cannamation LM-W150-ETAX with Container Orientation is designed specifically for applying wrap labels and pressure sensitive excise tax stamps.

The LM-W150-ETAX had been purposefully made so that it can be incorporated with an automated line or alternatively can be proposed as a self-supporting

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system with a self contained conveyor.

Noted for its simple and user-friendly design, the LM-W150-ETAX offers a low-cost solution for the application of pressure sensitive labels and excise tax stamps.

After the container has a wrap label applied, it is oriented prior to the excise tax stamp application to ensure stamps are accurately applied to the target area. Manufactured from high-quality stainless steel and anodized aluminum, the LM-W150-ETAX has been guaranteed to show strength and endurance in a fastpaced cannabis production environment.

AE Jones

PRESSING ON

Legal cannabis is not the only thing now available in Canada.

Instead of buying labels and packaging from a third party, Epson’s Canadian agent DuraFast Label Company will bring the production in-house thanks to the Epson SurePress L-4533AW digital label press, ensured to give customers control over their products while also

dispensing low label production cost.

Praised as an inexpensive turnkey solution the Epson SurePress L-4533 can print on virtually any type of material including uncoated, gloss, and semi-gloss paper, film, and vinyl, making it extremely versatile.

Powered by MicroPiezo inkjet technology, the Epson SurePress L-4533 uses a 7-color ink set of durable, water-based pigment inks including white, orange, and green.

The digital label press also offers a wide color gamut for producing prime labels and packaging.

In compliance with cannabis packaging and labeling regulations, the Epson SurePress L-4533 has incomparable data support that allows for serialization for text, graphics, and barcodes.

Customers have vaster control over print jobs thanks to the aggregated Wasatch RIP software.

In addition to the Wasatch RIP software, the Epson SurePress L-4533 also includes: the label press, a photospectrometer, training, and inks.

The Epson SurePress L-4533AW supports large rolls ranging from 3.15 inches wide to 13 inches wide. Substrates can be as thin as 0.00213 inches, making it an ideal piece of technology in high volume production environments.

Manufactured by Epson and contains all-Epson components, the Epson SurePress L-4533AW furnishes automated printing for unattended operation, while a single

operator can effortlessly run several units concurrently. With an outpour of positive feedback on its output, reliability and reasonable cost, the Epson SurePress L4533AW is an easy choice for suppliers in the cannabis market.

Epson/DuraFast Label Company

TAKING CONTROL

The legalization of recreational marijuana has not only resulted in a prominent spike in product demand for suppliers, but also the need to stay ahead in a fresh but competitive industry.

Thankfully, QuickLabel, a subsidiary of AstroNova Inc., has come up with a solution – the Kiaro! QL-120 digital color label printer, which offers topnotch design quality, consistency, performance and connectivity.

Praised for its easy-to-use and simple operations, the Kiaro! QL-120 provides premium 1200 dpi resolution labels in a cost-effective and just-in-time basis.

In addition, the Kiaro! QL-120 shows off impressive print speeds, seamless integration into desktop or enterprise platforms and high-quality color labels that rival labels printed by commercial printers. Having to comply with BS5609, Health Canada, ACMPR and CFIA regulations, the Kiaro! QL-120 has proven to be Ideal for the cannabis and CBD

industries, as it gives users the capabilities to instantly modify and revise labels as per these guidelines.

Keeping these guidelines in mind, users have the power to print large or small volumes runs of labels with lot numbers, harvest dates, barcodes, expiration dates, THC percentages and other variable data.

Taking high-productivity into consideration, the Kiaro! QL-120 was specifically designed to produce professional, industry-compliant labels right from your desktop, eliminating the setbacks of relying on an outside vendor.

Customers will reap the benefits of in-house label production, as the Kiaro! QL-120 aims to eliminate the need for expensive preprinted label inventory due to outdated revisions or regulatory changes.

With the steady rise of the cannabis market, the Kiaro! QL-120 is a must-have for suppliers who have the desire to create their own professionally branded labels in-house all while saving time, but gaining flexibility and increased sales.

QuickLabel

INNOVATIVE SOLUTION FOR TAMPER EVIDENT PACKAGING

As the leading supplier of adhesive applications and quality assurance equipments since 1952, Valco Melton continues to live up to their reputation by presenting new Tamper Evident Packaging solutions to safeguard the veracity of each product and increase the confidence of the customer.

Valco Melton’s brand new All-Electric EcoStitch adapts to any package design created to avoid tampering, reliably dispensing the correct amount of adhesive needed.

Specifically designed for easy installation in tight and constricted workspaces, its compact design makes EcoStitch a no-brainer for highspeed package lines and guarantees fast cycle rates with long service life.

Additonally, the Ecostitch reduces adhesive usage by up to 75 per cent, eliminating consumable parts, compressed air, and downtime. The desired result of the Ecostitch has been helping customers to improve their OEE (Overall equipment effectiveness), reduce TCO (Total cost of ownership) by decreasing their packaging costs and carbon footprints.

The Ecostitch is not the only new and impressive technology to come from Valco Melton. The innovative Kube eliminates the need for

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melting tanks, as it allows the manufacturer to use adhesives as needed with its ‘Melt on Demand’ system.

Featuring three differing mount configurations, the Kube is operator-friendly and can easily be installed inside the production line.

The Kube helps to advance system operations through eradicating degradation issues and diminishing constant upkeep correlated with gluing systems thanks to its bounded system with incorporated an autofeeder.

Valco Melton understands that every application and box needs a different adhesive pattern to guarantee a safe close. That is why they created the VD-2 Pattern Control System

Noted as having an extensive variety of pattern options, the VD-2 Pattern Control System helps to improve the performance of sealed closures, whether it involves beads or small dots.

This state-of-the-art structure gives the operator the ability to trigger the electric applicators, therefore saving on adhesives by tailoring the patterns.

Further adding to its appeal, the VD-2 Pattern Control System is noted as being quick to install, credited to its user-friendly plug-and-run connectors.

Finally, Valco Melton’s PackChek System has quickly become a must-have in hot melt inspection for end-ofline packaging.

Inspecting the heat signature of all packages, the PackChek System guarantees that hot melt glue has been applied properly and in the right positions by utilizing thermal and visual imaging technologies.

Designed to grab misplaced, wrongfully placed, and ineffective beads, one of the main goals of the PackChek System is to ensure proper hot melt application with realtime inspection, to guarantee quality packaging.

Valco Melton

THE EASY WEIGH

The legalization of marijuana marks the dawn of a new era, which is why Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. is embracing this change with their MULTIPOND weighing systems, designed to routinely keep a watchful eye on the optimal product flow.

Complete with IP69 sanitary construction and toolless disassembly, the MULTIPOND weighing system has a high accuracy combination weighing system, in addtion to elevated precision weigh-cells with internal calibration weights,

In compliance with Health Canada’s cannabis regulatory requirements, the MULTIPOND pre-weigher already distributes information on the distribution cone, and the 3D cameras also indicate the location and quantity of the product on the distribution cone as well as in the feed trays.

Adding to its impressive list of capabilties, the MULTIPOND weighing system also includes a state-of-the-art bucket infeed, which does not leave product waste or a conveyor to clean.

Thanks to its fully integrated processing line, the MULTIPOND weighing system can be used for cannabis processing solutions such as destemming, trimming, grading, drying, as well as extraction, making this machine an ideal acquisition for cannabis producers.

Customers have praised the MULTIPOND weighing system for its automatic calibration upon start-up and keeping throughout production, as well as its ability to promptly detect and remedy any potential product gaps.

Made from high-quality steel, customers will reap the benefits of having a reliable Canadian-based sales and service team at their fingertips, who are trained and prepared to address any technical difficulties they may encounter during production.

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

PEOPLE EVENTS

Feb. 12-14

Atlanta, Ga.: International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), international meat and poultry industries trade show and conference by the North American Meat Institute (NAMI). At the Georgia World Congress Center. To register, go to: www.ippexpo.org

Feb. 24-26

Toronto: 2019 RC Show, Canada’s largest foodservice & hospitality event by Restaurants Canada. At the Enercare Centre.To register, go to: www.rcshow.com

Feb. 27-28

Rotterdam, The Netherlands: European Food & Beverage Plastic Packaging, conference and exhibition by ACI (Europe).To register, go to: www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/

Feb. 27-28

Los Angeles: Luxe Pack Los Angeles, luxury products packaging exhibition. At Barker Hangar, Santa Monica.To register, go to: www.luxepack.com

Feb. 27-28

Birmingham, England: Packaging Innovations, Empack and Label&Print, by Easyfairs. All at the National Exhibition Centre.To register, go to: www.easyfairs.com

Feb. 28 – March 2

Bangalore, India: drink technology India, beverage, dairy and liquid food industries trade show by Messe München GmbH.To register, go to: www.messe-muenchen.de

March 4-6

Guangzhou, China: Sino-Pack 2019, China international exhibition of packaging machinery and materials by Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd. Concurrently with Sino-Label 2019 exhibition. Both at China Import and Export Fair Complex.To register, go to: www.ChinaSinoPack.com

March 17-19

Boston, Ma.: Seafood Expo North America, jointly with Seafood Processing North America. Both at the Boston

Convention and Exhibition Center. To register, go to: www.seafoodexpo.com/north-america

March 19-21

Munich, Germany: LOPEC, international exhibition and conference for the printed electronics industry by Messe München GmbH. At International Congress Center Munich.To register, go to: www.lopec.com

March 26-28

Chicago: ProFood Tech 2019, global food & beverage processing exhibition by Kolenmesse and PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. At McCormick Place. To register, go to: www.profoodtech.com

March 26-29

Melbourne, Australia: AUSPACK 2019, international packaging and processing technologies show by the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association Limited (APPMA). At Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.To register, go to: www.auspack.com.au

March 27-28

Atlanta, Ga.: Industrial Pack 2019, industrial, transit and protective packaging exhibition by Easyfairs. At Cobb Galeria Center.To register, go to: www.easyfairs.com

April 1-2

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: AWA International Sleeve Label Conference & Exhibition 2019, by Alexander Watson Associates (AWA). At Hotel Novotel Amsterdam City. To register, go to: www.awa-bv.com

April 8-11

Chicago: Automate 2019, industrial automation technologies exhibition by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Concurrently with the ProMat 2019 supply chain equipment and technologies exhibition by MHI. Both at McCormick Place.To register, go to: www.automateshow.com www.promatshow.com

n Leading global aseptic packaging products group Tetra Pak has appointed Adolfo Orive as the company’s incoming new president and chief executive office, effective April 1, 2019.

n Australian-headquartered food packaging and processing machinery manufacturer tna solutions Pty Ltd. has appointed Jonathan Rankin as the company’s chief executive officer.

n Consumer packaging products manufacturer TricorBraun of St. Louis, Mo., has appointed Declan McCarthy as the company’s chief financial officer.

n Uhlmann Packaging Systems, LP, Towaco, N.J.-based manufacturer of packaging machinery for pharmaceutical industry applications, has appointed Chris Gilmor as regional sales manager for eastern Canada, responsible for the company’s commercial activities in all Canadian provinces east of, and including, Saskatchewan.

n Finnish-headquartered food and beverage packaging product group Huhtamaki has appointed Michael Orye as executive vice-president for the company’s Fiber Packaging business unit.

n Eriez, Erie, Pa.headquartered manufacturer of metal detection and magnetic separation technologies for a broad range of industrial applications, has appointed Tim Gland as vice-president and general manager of the company’s Eriez USA operations.

n Toray Plastics (America), Inc., North Kingstown, R.I.-based manufacturer of polyester, polypropylene, biobased, and metallized films for flexible and rigid packaging applications, has appointed Derek Smith as business manager for the company’s Torayfan polypropylene film division.

Rankin

Orye

Gland Smith

McCarthy Gilmor

 Check the list of packaging machinery headings to discover the heading which addresses your packaging needs.

 Under each heading appear the names of manufacturers who supply packaging to the Canadian market. Manufacturers are listed alphabetically.

 Following the name of the manufacturer is a notation indicating a Canadian supplier, if one exists.

 Under the name of the manufacturer is a list of the machinery that the firm produces for that packaging application. A capsule description of speeds, sizes, materials handled, packaging materials, etc., is included to help you identify packaging machinery that might be of interest to you.

 To contact a manufacturer, or a Canadian representative, turn to the section immediately following the list of manufacturers. There you will find an up-to-date list of addresses, including phone and fax numbers, to which you can forward your inquiry.

LINE INTEGRATORS

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

5030 South Service Rd Burlington ON L7L 5Y7

Tel: 9056813010 Fax: 9056813018

President: Robert McNaught

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1990

Services Offered: A complete Sales and Service provider for a select group of specialized equipment manufacturers. Planning, project management, radiation safety training, installation & commissioning, on-site operator and maintenance training, technical services, after hours support, field service support, preventative maintenance training, calibration and certification, spare parts inventory.

Markets/Industries Served: Food Products, Pharmaceutical, Beverage, Industrial/Chemical

Aesus Packaging Systems, Inc.

188 Oneida Ave Pointe-Claire QC H9R 1A8

Tel: 5146943439 Fax: 5146944107

President: Samantha Lewis

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1995

Services Offered: OEM of packaging machinery. Be it stand alone or fully integrated lines.

Shrinklabeling machines, Patented Heat Tunnels, Standard and fully customized pressure sensitive labelers, Chuck Cappers and Cap Retorquers, Inline Cappers and Inline Cap Retorquers, Semi-automatic to fully automatic inline gear pump fillers.

Markets/Industries Served: Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Nutritional, Vitamin, Cosmetic, Personal Care, Food, Beverage, Industrial, OEM

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

8-785 Pacific Rd Oakville ON L6L 6M3

Tel: 9058470166 Fax: 9058470123

President: Paul Duke

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1976

Services Offered: Sales and Service of “Best In Class” Fillers, Cappers, Labellers, VFFS, Scales, Cartoners, Case Packers, and Palletizer’s.

Markets/Industries Served: Food & Beverage, Pharma, Industrial, Chemical, Health and Beauty.

Auger Fabrication

418 Creamery Way Exton PA 19341

Tel: 6105243350 Fax: 6103632821

President: Eric Edginton

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1984

Services Offered: New replacement and custom tooling for filling machines, paddle screws, mixing blades, feed screws and more.

Markets/Industries Served: Filling Machines, Packaging, Manufacturing

Banding Systems Bandall

289 Broadway Ave Orangeville ON L9W 1L2

Tel: 8667791492 Fax: 4164790787

President: J.P Perreault

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 2014

Services Offered: Bandall is a patent technology that eliminates the need for pressure-sensitive labeling on your products by securing a 360 degree band around the package of the product. The banding material is available in plain or printed or BOPP film and will allow your products to stand-out and get noticed! The system is used in 2 main applications: replacing a paper sleeve/PS label or to bundle products together for club packs. Systems are available as stand-alone units or can be fully automated to band over 100 ppm. Banding Systems will design, install, and commission the system that is right for any size of application.

Markets/Industries Served: Food and Beverage, Pharma, Industrial, Health and Beauty, Graphics, Logistics etc.

Baumer hhs Corp.

10570 Success Lane Dayton OH 45458

Tel: 9378863160 Fax: 9378863161

President: Chris Raney

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1986

Services Offered: Full field and technical services available.

Markets/Industries Served: Folding Carton, Corrugated, Commercial Print Finishing, Tobacco and End of Line.

Best Packaging Systems

1-8699 Escarpment Way Milton ON L9T 0J5

Tel: 9058643005 Fax: 9058646245

President: Dave Sweetland

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1987

Services Offered: 24-7 service all make Pallet Wrappers, 3M Case Sealers

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Pharmaceuticals

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

16037 Innovation Dr South Chesterfield VA 23834

Tel: 8045205400 Fax: 8045268164

President: Robbie Quinlin

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1980 Services Offered: Vision Guided Robotics:

Sophisticated DELTA robots picking individual packaged and un-packaged items for loading into your container, wrapper or hffs machines. (Applications include Stacking, Wrapper Loading, Variety Pack, Dinner Tray Loading and Kit Assembly)

Turnkey Packaging Systems:

Complete packaging solutions taking control of your packaging line from the end of processing through palletizing!

Markets/Industries Served: Snack Food, Bakery, Dairy, Pet Food, Confectionery, Personal Care, Pharmaceutical, Household Products, Frozen Food, Beverage, Poultry, Beef and Seafood and more!

Bosch Packaging Technology

(Kliklok-Woodman)

5224 Snapfinger Woods Dr Decatur GA 30035

Tel: 7709815200 Fax: 7709877160

President: Bruno Oberle

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1947

Services Offered: Bosch Packaging Technology in Decatur, GA, manufactures and services Kliklok topload, endload, and wraparound cartoners, and Woodman vertical form-fill-seal bagmakers and multi-bag balers.

We also build Kliklok product handling and indexing machines and other specialized machinery. As part of the Bosch Group we can offer complete packaging systems from primary packaging through case packing.

Markets/Industries Served: Bakery, snack food, frozen food, refrigerated and prepared foods, cereal, confectionery, and industries requiring related technologies.

CAM Packaging Systems

3-226 Industrial Parkway N Aurora ON L4G 4C3

Tel: 9057375400

President: Gareth Kennedy

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 2008

Services Offered: Machinery Manufacturer for Complete Weighing Counting and Bagging systems. Full turn key system solutions for VFFS, Stand up Pouches, Variety Pack Automatic Solutions. We also integrate other manufacturers systems into ours or on their own. Shrink wrappers case packers, pallet wrappers, robotics integration. Full technical support staff to support our clients in many categories. We also supply the materials that run on the machines.¬†Precise, Reliable, Affordable Solutions.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, beverage, industrial, horizontal & vertical form fill and seal, primary and secondary packaging systems including end of line solutions.

Canpaco Inc.

7901 Huntington Rd Woodbridge ON L4H 0S9 Tel: 9057717791 Fax: 9057711115

President: Robert Appel

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1993

Services Offered: Buy and sell new and used packaging equipment. sales and service.

Markets/Industries Served: Food and pharmaceutical industries

Capmatic Ltd.

12180 boul Albert-Hudon Montr √©al-Nord QC H1G 3K7 Tel: 5143220062 Fax: 5143220063

President: Alioscia Bassani

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1964

Services Offered: Over 50 years of experience of providing Primary Packaging Solutions for the Global market. A reputation built on: quality, innovative design, accuracy and customer care. Our expertise is in:

Monoblocks (Fill, Plug, Cap, Label), Feeders, Bottle Unscramblers, Bottle Orienters Cap Sorters, Elevators, Rinsers, Fillers: Liquid, Cream, Micro Powder, Tablet, Counters: Tablet, Capsule, Soft gel, Inserters: Desiccant, Cotton, Seal Induction, Orifice Reducer, Pluggers, Crimpers, Cappers, In-line Belt Cappers, Rotary Chuck Cappers, Labelers: Pressure Sensitive, Neck Band, Body Sleevers, Tamper Evident, Safety Seal,etc.

Meeting your unique requirements differentiates us from the rest.

Markets/Industries Served: Pharmaceutical, Diagnostic, Bio-Medical, Nutraceutical, Cosmetic Health & Beauty Care, Food & Beverage and Chemical Industries.

Cartier Packaging Inc.

2325 boul Industrial Saint-C√©saire QC J0L 1T0 Tel: 4504693168 Fax: 4504691387

President: St√©phanie Roy

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1980

Services Offered: Looking for highperformance equipment that will optimize your operations and improve your competitiveness? Compact machines that will help you get the most from your space? CARTIER offers innovative packaging systems that will generate the best return on your investment.

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

7-52 West Beaver Creek Richmond Hill ON L4B 1L9

Tel: 9058822222 Fax: 9058820437

President: Jeff Downer

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1977

Services Offered: System engineering, planning, equipment supply, installation commissioning, training,parts,service, preventative maintenance programs

Markets/Industries Served: ALL

CiMa-Pak Corporation

2798 Thamesgate Drive Unit 5 Mississauga ON L4T 4E8 Tel: 905-612-0053

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1999

Services Offered: Complete turn key sealing solutions. CiMa-Pak seal only, MAP, and Skin pack system. CiMa-Pak also inventories a wide variety of single and multiple compartment trays in CPET, APET, as well as Compostable options.

Markets/Industries Served: Food processors, Food wholesalers and retailers, Restaurants,

Delkor Systems, Inc.

4300 Round Lake Rd W St. Paul MN 55112

Tel: 651-348-6700 Fax: 6513486705

President: Dale Andersen

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1973

Services Offered: Delkor Systems engineers and manufactures premier secondary packaging equipment solutions including case forming, robotic case packing, case closing and palletizing. Since 1973, Delkor has served as a turn-key packaging solution provider with end-to-end capabilities from creating award-winning, retail-ready package (RRP) designs - Delkor Cabrio Case¬Æ, Delkor Turbo Case, among othersto installing complete packing lines from case former to palletizer. Delkor is where premier packaging equipment engineering meets innovative package design.

Markets/Industries Served: Cheese

Descon Conveyor Systems

1-1274 Ringwell Dr Newmarket ON L3Y 9C7

Tel: 9059530455 Fax: 9059531335

President: Dave Farquhar

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1993

Services Offered: Project consultation, mech. & controls design engr., controls programming, sys. integration, project mgmt., custom mfg., mechanical & electrical installation, plant layout & design, spare parts.

Markets/Industries Served: Soft drink, water, spirits, brewing, food, manufacturing, container manufacturing.

DJS Enterprises

6-2700 14th Ave Markham ON L3R 0J1

Tel: 9054757644 Fax: 9054757645

President: Darrell Shulman

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1991

Services Offered: DJS Enterprises buys and sells New, Used and Reconditioned Process and Packaging Equipment for the Pharmaceutical, Vitamin, Food and Confectionery Industries.

Markets/Industries Served: Process and packaging equipment to the pharmaceutical, vitamin, herbal, food, confectionery, and cosmetic industries.

Domino Printing Solutions Inc.

1-200 North Service Rd E Suite 317 Oakville ON L6M 2Y1 Tel: 9058292430 Fax: 9058291842

Services Offered: 24/7 Technical Helpdesk, Renowned Training academy, Consumable agreements that work for YOU, National network of tenured service engineers, Financial Services options.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Beverage, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Industrial and Personal Care

Dorner

975 Cottonwood Ave PO Box 20 Hartland WI 53029

Tel: 2623677600 Fax: 2623675827

President: Terry Schadeberg

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1966

Services Offered: At Dorner our mission is to Transform Conveyor Automation by

providing cutting edge solutions with best-inclass support. It‚Äôs that commitment and history of proven excellence that has made the Dorner Brand a recognized leader in product handling for over 50 years. With our complete line of customizable stainless steel and aluminum conveyor automation systems, we have the right solution for you!

Markets/Industries Served: Automation, Food Handling & Processing, Baking & Confectionery, General Manufacturing, Material Handling, Medical, Metal Working, Packaging, Pharmaceutical, Meat & Poultry, Dairy & Cheese, Ready-to-Eat Food

Eckert Machines Inc.

3841 Portage Rd Niagara Falls ON L2J 2L1

Tel: 9053568356 Fax: 9053561704

President: Paul Eckert

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1959

Services Offered: Canadian Sales Representative Company representing manufacturers of equipment for the food processing, industrial and packaging industry.

Markets/Industries Served: Food Processing Industry, Beverage Industry, General Industrial

Ellis Packaging

1830 Sandstone Manor Pickering ON L1W 3Y1

Tel: 4167987715

President: Cathie Ellis

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1946

Services Offered: Folding Cartons, Blister Cards.

Markets/Industries Served: Our 3 facilities cover Cosmetic, Confectionary, Pharmaceutical, Personal Care, Spirits and Food Packaging.

Fortress Technology Inc.

51 Grand Marshall Dr Toronto ON M1B 5N6

Tel: 4167542898 Fax: 4167542976

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1996

Services Offered: Metal Detector Solutions, Product Testing, Custom Applications, Contaminant Risk Consultation, Preventive Maintenance Inspections, PreAudit Inspections, Operator Training

Markets/Industries Served: Bakery, Beverage, Carpet, Cereal, Chemicals, Confectionery, Corn, Diary, Flour, Fresh Food, Frozen Food, Grains, Jam, Juice, Meat, Nut Butters, Nutraceutical, Nuts, Packaged Products, Paper, Paste, Pharmaceutical, Plastics, Powder, Prepared Meals, Rice, Rubber, Sauces, Sausage, Sugar, Textile, Wood

Geosaf Inc.

803-5605 av de Gasp √© Montr √©al QC H2T 2A4

Tel: 5143314147 Fax: 5143314226

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1982

Services Offered: Engineering/Design Installation/Commissioning.

Markets/Industries Served: Beer, Beverages, Dairy

Harlund Industries Ltd. 101-17973 106th Ave Edmonton AB T5S 2H1 Tel: 7804844400 Fax: 7804843646

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1982

Services Offered: We fully service and support the products we sell with Factory Trained Technicians. Our support facilities are located across Canada.

Markets/Industries Served: Food & Beverage, Wire/Cable, Automotive, Agriculture, Building Materials, Pharmaceutical, Confectionary, Co-Packers. Any Industry that Manufactures any type of product requiring Codes and Package Identification.

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC 175 John Quincy Adams Rd Taunton MA 02780 Tel: 5088842500 Fax: 5088842501

President: Kevin Roach

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1994

Services Offered: Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers customer service, technical assistance, spare parts, and complete integration services of primary and secondary packaging equipment.

Markets/Industries Served: Meat, poultry, produce, bakery, seafood, ready meals and medical

Heat and Control Canada, Inc. 13-1111 Franklin Blvd Cambridge ON N1R 8B5

Tel: 5196231100 Fax: 5196231052

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1950

Services Offered: Machinery for weighing, checkweighing, metal detection, X-ray inspection, snack bag making, snack case packing, conveying, accumulation, coating & seasoning, blending, tray sealing, container filling, packaging; Control & information

management systems; Spare parts, service, installation, engineering and training; Machinery demonstrations; Food processing machinery systems.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, pharmaceutical, non-food products.

Hibar Systems Limited

35 Pollard St Richmond Hill ON L4B 1A8 Tel: 9057312400 Fax: 9057316035

President: Iain McColl

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1974

Services Offered: Precision Dispensing Pumps, Semi Automatic Filling Systems, Automatic Inline Filling Systems, Automated Assembly Equipment, Special Purpose Filling Systems.

Markets/Industries Served: Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Cosmetic, Consumer Products, Automotive, Chemical Technical, Battery.

HMA Systems

12-185 Advance Blvd Brampton ON L6T 4Y3 Tel: 9054588182 Fax: 9054580758

President: Wayne Wood Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1976

Services Offered: We provide engineered solutions for adhesive and sealant applications, with in house manufacturing capabilities to customize equipment to meet specific customer requirements. Full sales and service support, installation and training services, supported by parts and equipment inventory.

Markets/Industries Served: Industrial, manufacturing, packaging, product assembly applications that require adhesive or sealant applied in a controlled, automatic or manual manner.

JG Packaging 92 Henderson Dr Whitby ON L1N 7Y8 Tel: 9054307647 Fax: 9054303435 Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 2000 Services Offered: Sales and service of packaging equipment.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Confectionary, Way range of Manfacturing Companies

Komcan Inc.

55 Sinclair Ave Georgetown ON L7G 4X4 Tel: 9058737070

President: Steve Ranson

Services Offered: Sales and service of Komori Presses, parts and service. As well plant and equipment moves.

Markets/Industries Served: Sheetfed Printers

Lapp Group Canada 10-3505 Laird Rd Mississauga ON L5L 5Y7 Tel: 8777995277 Fax: 9058206516

President: Laetitia Donovan

Services Offered: Lapp Group Canada is a single-source connectivity solutions provider that include a robust suite of standard and custom-made power control and data cable, connector, train relief and accessories.

Markets/Industries Served: Food & Beverage, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Machinery and Equipment, Wind Energy, Mining. Pulp and Paper, Logistics Centers, Steel and Metal, Water Sewage and Waste, Robotics, Leisure and Entertainment.

Loma Systems, an ITW Company 550 Kehoe Blvd Carol Stream IL 60188 Tel: 1-800-872-5662

President: Simon Spencer Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1969

Services Offered: Metal Detectors, X-Ray Inspection, Checkweighers, Combination Systems, Service, Spare Parts, Technical Support

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Packaging and Pharmaceutical industries

M & M Packaging Associates Ltd.

657-2 Campbell Dr Uxbridge ON L9L 1T2 Tel: 4163995300 Fax: 9058521352

President: John Myers

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1984 Services Offered: 45 years of experience and expertise in the flexible packaging industry provides for reliable recommendation and suggestions of packaging machinery suitable for low, mid and high speed applications.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, snacks, health products, hardware and medical industries served.

Matthews Marking Systems 6515 Penn Ave Pittsburgh PA 15206 Tel: 8007757775 Fax: 4126652550

President: Lyndsey Farrow

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1850 Services Offered: Drop on Demand Valve

Consumer Packaged Goods, Food, Beverage, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Electronics, Plastics, Building Products, Glass, Metals.

MD Packaging Inc.

5A-141 Reach St Uxbridge ON L9P 1L3

Tel: 4162919229 Fax: 4162912906

President: Jaime Alboim

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor:

1989

Services Offered: MD Packaging is a distributor of product inspection and packaging automation solutions for the manufacturing sectors in the food, beverage, pharma, consumer goods and industrial products industries.

Markets/Industries Served: Food & beverage, dairy, bakery, meat, poultry, fish, pharmaceutical/nutraceutical, consumer goods.

Mettler-Toledo Inc.

6-2915 Argentia Rd Mississauga ON L5N 8G6

Tel: 8006388537

Services Offered: Support & Repair,¬†Maintenance & Optimization,¬†Calibration & Quality,¬†Training & Consulting

Markets/Industries Served: Food & Beverage

Newmapak Ltd.

1015-A Edouard-VII St-Philippe QC J0L 2K0

Tel: 8778665572 Fax: 4506353611

President: Robert Kucey

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 2006 Services Offered: Designs & manufactures conveyors system, offering conveyor pre-wiring, control panel line and system integration.

Markets/Industries Served: Wine, Spirit, Beer, Juices, Food, Pharmaceutical NJM

Tel: 5143376990 Fax: 5143350801

President: Michel Lapierre

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1915

Services Offered: Packaging and labeling equipment for the Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Cosmetic, Personal Care, Food and Chemical industries

Markets/Industries Served: Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, Vitamin, BioTechnology, Cosmetic & Personal Care, Food and Household Chemical Industries & Contract Packaging

Nuspark Inc.

400 Steeprock Dr Toronto ON M3J 2X1

Tel: 4166637071 Fax: 4166630233

President: Michael Elent

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1999 Services Offered: We are a packaging machinery manufacturer which has the capability of providing single machines as well as fully integrated turnkey systems. Our customer needs evaluation and feasibility review includes:

- Determining the number and variety of machines needed to accommodate your operations

- Accessing adequacy of your existing floor space

- Recommending “best-fit” possibilities and an accurate speed for optimal automation

- Proposing where automation may be ill-advised (low speed, high complexity). Through experience we have learned that at times, it is better to stay with a manual system if it is complex and slow.

We will provide full engineering, manufacturing, modification, installation, service and after sales support to our lines.

Markets/Industries Served: Automotive, Consumer Goods, Bakery, Dairy, Food and Beverage, Meat and Poultry, Fish and Sea Food, Nutraceutical, Personal Care, Pharmaceutical PACKPRO SYSTEMS Inc.

8 Paisley Lane Stouffville ON L4A 7X4

Tel: 905-642-1300

President: Tim Messner

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 2000

Services Offered: Full-System Protective Packaging Solutions - Equipment, Materials, Parts, Engineering Services, Installation and Operator Training - for the following applications: Bagging, Flow Wrapping, Stretch Wrapping, Shrink Wrapping, Case Packaging, Tray Sealing, Automated Fulfillment.

Markets/Industries Served: Industrial Manufacturing ‚àô E-Commerce ‚àôFood Processing ‚àô Medical Supply ‚àô Distribution ‚àô Fulfillment ‚àô Retail

Pemberton & Associates Inc.

3610 Nashua Dr Mississauga ON L4V 1X9

Tel: 9056788900 Fax: 9056788989

President:

President: David McCharles

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1984 Services Offered: Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. is a precision manufacturer of high quality friction feeders, dispensers, inserters, pick and place, tray denesters, batch counters, collation systems, serialization and track & trace solutions, aggregation systems, foil stamping equipment, affixing / tipping systems, plastic card equipment, labeling systems, inkjet printers, on serters, top serters, hot melt glue systems, flow and shrink wrapping systems, packaging solutions and custom automation.

Markets/Industries Served: Printing, Packaging, Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Plastic Card, Mailing & Fulfillment, eCommerce

Plan Automation Inc.

289 Broadway Ave Orangeville ON L9W 1L2 Tel: 4164790777 Fax: 4164790787

President: Jean-Pierre Perreault

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 2009

Services Offered: PLAN Automation’s primary focus is in assisting clients implement quality downstream Package Automation and Food Safety Inspection Solutions. We offer comprehensive planning, organizing, procurement, and management of resources to achieve these goals.

PLAN provides this service at no expense to our clients and only benefits if we are successful within our own sponsored bids. Ultimately our process is totally transparent and provides clients with our years of packaging automation expertise for risk management and effective project execution.

NO CHARGE - What PLAN Offers Your Company: *** PROJECT INITIATION | ANALYSIS / BID BUILDING ***

1) Co-development of URS (User Requirement Specifications) and scope of work (aka rfq) / clear definition of project - production objectives

2) Co-development of project risk analysis

3) Line Layout Mechanical Plan View Drawings | establish physical installation parameters

4) Multi-vendor sourcing | qualify vendors based on established project needs and thresholds.

5) Evaluation Matrix | full due diligence analysis of vendor capability, financial risk analysis (DB), system technological offering

*** BID EXECUTION ***

1) Centralized project financial responsibility | single purchase contract based on total vendor individual selection

2) Development of packaging specifications in association to each individual machine efficient requirements

3) Contract development including by example | late delivery penalties, efficiency guarantees, operational “cost-ofownership” limitations

LINE INTEGRATORS

Markets/Industries Served: Agricultural, Bakery, Dairy, Food and Beverages, Meat and Poultry, Fish and Sea Food, Nutraceutical, Personal Care, Pharmaceutical

PLAN AUTOMATION LP

243 Broadway, Orangeville, ON L9W 1K6

647-980-9210

Primera Technology Inc.

2 Carlson Parkway N Plymouth MN 55447

Tel: 7634756676 Fax: 7634756677

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Beverage, Cosmetics, Industrial, Name badge, Vitamins/Supplements, Chemical

Propack Processing & Packaging Systems Inc.

4902 Union Rd Beamsville ON L0R 1B4

Tel: 9055639400 Fax: 9055637224

President: Chris Follows

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1996

Services Offered: Specializing in highspeed, robotic loading of wrapped products into trays and cartons.

We provide high-speed automation with outstanding quality, reliability and flexibility to deliver customer-specific solutions.

- Robotic loaders

- Processing equipment

- Expert design and engineering

- Integrated complete packaging and processing solutions

- System project management

- Parts, service and support

Complete line integration utilizing robotics allow for ultimate flexibility in secondary packaging offering

Markets/Industries Served: Bakery, Meal supplementary Bars, Granola Bars, Baked Soft Cake, Cookies, Snack Foods, Confectionery Market.

R.E. Morrison Equipment Inc.

21-3615 Laird Rd Mississauga ON L5L 5Z8

Tel: 9058286301 Fax: 9058283674

President: Ray Ralph

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1985

Services Offered: Modular pre-assembled bottle drying systems to dry bottles/cans prior to labeling or coding

Markets/Industries Served: Bottle and can packaging, food packaging

Reiser (Canada) Co.

4-1549 Yorkton Crt Burlington ON L7P 5B7

Tel: 9056316611 Fax: 9056316607

President: Chuck Pinkham

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1959

Services Offered: For more than 50 years, Reiser has been a leading supplier of processing and packaging equipment solutions for the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese, produce and pet food industries. During that time, the company has gained recognition for its high-quality equipment, innovative engineering, and outstanding service and support. Today, this total commitment to its customers positions Reiser as the one supplier that processors can trust for better, smarter solutions.

Markets/Industries Served: Sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese, produce and pet food industries

Ryson International Inc.

300 Newson Dr Yorktown VA 23692

Tel: 7578981530 Fax: 7578981580

President: Ole Rygh

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1995

Services Offered: Our products include Spiral Conveyors, Spiral curves, Mass Flow Spirals, Continuous Lifts, Vertical Accumulation Buffers, Bucket Elevators, Incline and Decline slat Conveyors. All products can be delivered in powder coated carbon steel, stainless steel, wash down or freezer versions.

Markets/Industries Served: Ryson Spiral Conveyors are today being used in a rapidly growing number of small and large companies across a broad spectrum of industries. Our spirals effectively handle any conveyable loads including bags, bundles totes, trays, pales, cans, bottles, containers, wrapped and unwrapped items.

Schubert North America, LLC

8848 Red Oak Boulevard, Suite H Charlotte North Carolina 28217

Tel: 1 980 244 3171

President: Hartmut Siegel, Chief Executive

Officer Services Offered: Flexibility, high efficiency and reliable technology are the hallmarks of the modular packaging machines from Schubert.

For over 50 years, this innovative market

leader from Germany has relied on simple mechanics and intelligent control technology in its digital packaging machines. Manufacturers in the confectionery, food, dairy, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals industries worldwide rely on the German packaging machine manufacturer and its robot technology. The eight system components of the TLM lines ensure a flexible machine design. This allows all the various functions, such as feeding, erecting, loading, lidding/closing, labelling and palletising, to be combined. Schubert‚Äôs service and planning team supports customers throughout the service life of their TLM lines in order to ensure maximum line efficiency. Where required, we take on responsibility for the execution of your project as a general contractor.

Schubert is actively expanding its customer proximity and support across North America. With our Canadian sales and services office in Mississauga, Ontario as well as our two offices in the USA in Dallas, Texas and in Charlotte, North Carolina we’re offering highlevel accessibility, preventive service as well as extensive training for our customers. Customers in North America benefit from the expansion of the training center in Charlotte, where two training machines are used for hands-on operator training. The training sessions ensure that customers can count on reliable and smooth operation with the TLM system.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Beverage, Confectionery, Bakery, Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, Technical Products

Sesotec Canada Ltd.

114-7 Grand Ave S Suite 100 Cambridge ON N1S 2L3 Tel: 5196216536

President: Doug Pedersen

Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1979 Services Offered: Sales and Service of Sesotec Metal Detection, Magnetic Separation, X-ray Inspection, and Optical Sorting Systems

Markets/Industries Served: Serving the Food, Pharmaceutical and Plastics Industries

Shawpak Systems Ltd.

10 - 760 Pacific Rd Oakville ON L6L 6M5 Tel: 9058470122

President: Nigel Turnpenny

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1984

Services Offered: Established in 1984

Shawpak Systems are 100% Canadian owned and operated. The Centre Of Excellence is located in Oakville, ON Canada with satellite offices in Edmonton, AB & Montreal, QC. We are proud to provide full product support through Factory Trained service Technicians and PMMI Certified Trainers as part of our total commitment to excellence.

The Entire Shawpak Systems Team are GFTC trained to better understand your Food Safety Programs, from GMP HACCP & CCP implementation and advise on global standards BRC/SQF/GFSI from a Product Inspection perspective.

Shawpak Systems extensive experience and knowledge base in the Product Inspection & Food Safety industry makes Shawpak the obvious choice to provide inspection and packaging solutions: Checkweighers, Fat Analysis, Hygiene Equipment, Metal Detection, X-Ray & Vision Inspection. Nationwide across Canada we represent the following Equipment Manufacturers:

Mettler Toledo Safeline Metal Detectors

Mettler Toledo Hi-Speed Checkweighers

Mettler Toledo X-ray Inspection Systems

Mettler Toledo CI Vision Inspection

Mettler Toledo Track and Trace

Kohlhoff Hygiene Technology

PackRite Sealers/Conveyers

Tomra Meat Analysis Equipment

Shawpak Conveyor Systems

Shawpak Test Pieces

Markets/Industries Served: Food & Beverage, Bakery, Dairy, Meat, & Poultry, Seafood, Pharma, Chemical, and Personal Care.

Sipromac II Inc.

2555 rue Alfred-Nobel Drummondville QC J2A 0L5

Tel: 8193955151 Fax: 8193955343

President: Dave Couture

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1983 Services Offered: Food Packaging & Processing Equipment Manufacturer specialized in Vacuum Packaging Machines

(table top, single chamber, double chamber, automatic and belted chamber), Shrink

Tunnels, Tray Sealers, Thermoforming machines, Tumblers, Massagers and Smokehouses.

Markets/Industries Served: ‚Food service - restaurants, groceries

‚Food packaging and processing - meat, poultry, fish and cheese industries

SPS / PHIN Limited

15-440 Tapscott Rd Scarborough ON M1B 1Y4

Tel: 4162982151 Fax: 4162982170

President: Hugh McCrie

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1948

Services Offered: Original equipment manufacturer (Phin labellers) and designer of complementary packaging machinery. Project Management, line integration, commissioning and training.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, household chemical.

Squid Ink Manufacturing

7041 Boone Ave Brooklyn Park MN 55428

Tel: 7637958856 Fax: 7637958867

President: David R. Mylrea

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1991

Services Offered: Squid Ink specializes in the manufacture of high quality industrial inks and industrial ink jet printers for the packaging industry. Our products and services are designed to provide reliable cost-effective solutions to your industrial applications. Squid Ink has relied on a wealth of knowledge and experience in the ink jet industry to design a full family of Large Character and Hi-Resolution printing systems. Additionally, Squid Ink has been able to formulate the most comprehensive line of Hi-Resolution, Piezo, and Large Character fluids in the product identification market today.

Markets/Industries Served: Manufacturing, Building Pr oducts, Food Manufacturing

Starview Packaging Machinery Inc.

1840 boul Saint-R √©gis Dorval QC H9P 1H6

Tel: 5149200100 Fax: 5149200092

President: Mario Carlomusto

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1991 Services Offered: Manufactureres of packaging machinery

Markets/Industries Served: Medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, electronics, hardware and industrial

Stock Canada

815 A Tecumseh POINTE-CLAIRE Quebec H9R 4B1

Tel: 514 426 1266 Fax: 514 426 1200

President: Eric Williamson

Services Offered: We supply trays, containers, lidding films, pouches as well as a full line of machinery and after sales support.

Markets/Industries Served: Food packaging

Storcan Ltd.

108 rue B√©langer Ch √¢teauguay QC J6J 4Z2

Tel: 4503652158 Fax: 4506981178

President: Jean Martin Savoie

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 2000

Services Offered: Storcan creates innovative solutions for your production, bottling, food process and packaging lines: Solution research support, Project management & consulting services, Manufacturing different types of standard and customised conveyors, Modifying/adding to your existing line, Distributing bottling, food processing and packaging equipment, Assessing and preparing for your future needs,

Conceptualizing your new production line, Integration and installation services.

Markets/Industries Served: Food, beverage, packaging, cosmetics,

Technicor Industrial Services Inc.

450 Richardson Rd Orangeville ON L9W 4W8

Tel: 5199416120 Fax: 5199406067

President: John Voight

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1987

Services Offered: Precision Machining of Plastics for industrial application serving multiple sectors.¬†Stocking Distributor of KMS Polymer Bearings.

Markets/Industries Served: Material Handling Equipment, Conveyors, Food Processing, Agricultural Equipment, Mining Equipment, Municipal Equipment.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

501 90th Ave NW Minneapolis MN 55433

Tel: 8002278891

President: Ellen C Share

Markets/Industries Served: Thermo Fisher Scientific has supplied food, personal care and pharmaceutical manufacturers with

high quality standard and specialty product inspection systems, spare parts and service for over 65 years.

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

23 Donway Crt Elmira ON N3B 0B1

Tel: 5197446565 Fax: 5197446829

President: Harold Whiteside

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1985

Services Offered: Processing Line

Automation/Integration, Custom Design Build Material Handling Systems. Packaging Equipment & Line Automation/Integration. Installation of Packaging Equipment (Mechanical & Electrical), Custom Fabrication, Sanitary Conveyors, Installations and Relocations

Markets/Industries Served: Food - Meat, Dairy, Fruit/Veg, Confectionary, Bakery; Liquid Processing; Personal Healthcare; Nutraceuticals

Weber Inc. 5080 Timberlea Blvd. Ste. 34 Mississauga ON L4W 4M2 Tel: 816-560-2483

Weber Marking Systems of Canada 6180 Danville Rd Mississauga ON L5T 2H7 Tel: 9055646881 Fax: 9055646886

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1932

Services Offered: With headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario and direct sales offices across Canada...Weber Marking Systems of Canada provides eye-catching, high-quality custom labels, labelling solutions and marking/coding systems to the Canadian marketplace.

Our 24,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, high-efficiency manufacturing and administration facility is capable of supporting all of your company’s labelling and coding requirements. Our Canada-wide network of sales, service and technical support specialists, along with our commitment to quality, has established our position as a leader in the industry.

Our representatives have an in-depth knowledge of labelling and coding equipment, data collection systems, labelling software, and label materials. They work as partners with our customers to acquire an understanding of each application. Our highspeed label presses and extensive library of die shapes give us the capacity and flexibility to meet your easiest and toughest labelling application. Visit us at www.webermarking.ca

Markets/Industries Served: Food, Beverage, Durable, Chemical, Horticultural, Automotive, Household Products, Healthcare/ Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Personal Care/ Health & Beauty, Transportation, Sustainable, Wine/Beer/Spirits, Promotional.

Weighpack Systems Inc. 5605 rue Cypihot Saint-Laurent QC H4S 1R3 Tel: 5144220808 Fax: 5144220834

President: Louis Taraborelli Year Established as a Packing Line Integraotor: 1991

Services Offered: Since being established in 1991 and having delivered packaging systems to over 30 countries, WeighPack has long emphasized providing its customers quality built products using state of the art technology at reasonable prices.

Markets/Industries Served: ‚Ä¢ Food / Beverage‚Ä¢ Hardware‚Ä¢ Electronics‚Ä¢ Pharmaceutical / Nutraceutical‚Ä¢ Textiles

WestRock 4364 Southwest 34th St Orlando FL 32811 Tel: 4078431300 Fax: 4078438459

President: Diana Hunter

Services Offered: WestRock is the only North American company in the paper packaging industry with an in-house machinery manufacturing and service division that designs and manufactures a complete line of precision, semi- and fully-automatic case equipment. We offer more than 80 standard and customized configurations for customers in a variety of markets, for all types of products, and in multiple line speeds.

Before we deliver machinery to your facility, our team of packaging and machine engineers thoroughly analyzes your entire supply chain -- from the layout of machines on your factory floor to the way packages are unitized for transport. Armed with this knowledge and insight, we custom create a system that integrates our machines with our corrugated containers and offer support services to ensure that you get the most from your equipment to achieve your strategic objectives and meet your tactical needs.

Wright Hand Packaging Inc.

7-2679 Bristol Cir Oakville ON L6H 6Z8 Tel: 9058290025 Fax: 9058290027

President: Lynn Wright

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 2000 Services Offered: Contract Packaging to all industries

Markets/Industries Served: Pharmaceutical, Health and Beauty, Food, Stationary.

Wulftec

209 Wulftec Ayer’s Cliff QC J0B 1C0 Tel: 8198384232 Fax: 8198385539

President: Colinda Lavall√©e

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1990 Services Offered: Wulftec is a worldleading manufacturer of packaging solutions to help maximize productivity, minimize downtime and slash costs. Wulftec’s packaging equipment line includes: semiautomatic pallet stretch wrappers, fully automatic conveyorized stretch wrapping systems, pallet strapping equipment and pallet handling solutions & conveyors. Wulftec is based in Ayer¬øs Cliff, Quebec. Its start-ofthe-art, 146,000 sq. ft. facility houses 198 highly skilled employees. Wulftec is part of the M.J. Maillis, a leading European Group that designs, manufactuers and distributes end-of-line industrial products and systems, including: trappers, stretchwrappers, shrink wrappers, carton sealing equipment and materials.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE

We offer a broad product range which allows you to buy from one single source. Each product can be customized to meet customer’s specific needs. Wulftec offers a complete range of affordable options that allow end-users to customer build a machine that will meet their exact needs.

Yaskawa Motoman

100 Automation Way Miamisburg OH 45342 Tel: 9378476200 Fax: 9378473288

President: Jennifer Kann

Year Established as a Packing Line

Integraotor: 1989 Services Offered: With nearly 300,000 robot arms installed worldwide and the broadest range robots on the market, Yaskawa Motoman is the global leader in robotic automation. Our robotic packaging systems handle a wide variety of food, beverage and consumer products.

Ever-changing products and packaging configurations require companies to manage endless variation in their manufacturing process. Our fast and flexible robots are designed specifically around packaging requirements and are accompanied by application enabling software and vision capabilities, designed with ease of use in mind to help companies meet the demands of today¬øs food, beverage and consumer products marketplace.

Markets/Industries Served: Yaskawa packaging systems handle a wide variety of food, beverage and consumer products.

BREWERY UPGRADES TO HIGH-EFFICIENCY, DRY-RUNNING CANNING LINE

MADTREE Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio wished to expand their original 2013 can line (24 cans per minute). Based on the hands-on approach and positive feedback from other brewers, MADTREE chose to work with Regal® to expanded. Now, the packaging line runs 250 cans per minute. A video about the expansion can be viewed on the Regal Beloit YouTube channel.

With the team at Regal, the initial conveyor run-in was able to start up quickly and smoothly, and start selling cases within one month. A year before startup of the expansion, Regal assisted in equipment selection, conveyor/component design, layout simplification, OEM “Final Acceptance Testing”, and onsite installation support, which continued through start up and run in.

A bundle of parts was selected, all manufactured by Regal family brands, making it easy for the customer to acquire from one source. These products include System Plast® NGE modular belts and Nolu®-S wear strips, Sealmaster® bearings, Hub City™ Hera® gearboxes, and LEESON® motors. These products optimize efficiency and result in a 100% dry running conveyor line, providing both production efficiency and sustainability.

One successful upgrade was developing a streamlined transition from packaging line conveyors to a key piece of equipment, by designing, building and integrating a System Plast custom side transfer module into the equipment. This created a smooth transfer eliminating jamming and down cans. Another key component during the install was a punch list to identify potential installation issues and recommended corrective actions before start-up, saving significant time during run-in. The Regal team made the complex simple for MADTREE, who now have an efficient, smooth running packaging line that will be relatively maintenance free for the long term, with higher yield and faster throughput, and allow them to conduct business in a sustainable and environmentally-friendly way.

AUTOMATION DEVICES

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Steeltek - A Div. of 877418 Ont. Ltd.

Bosch

PPI

CONVEYOR BELTING

Aesus Packaging Systems, Inc.

Bosch Rexroth Canada

Bradman Lake

Capmatic Ltd.

Honeywell Intelligrated

MD Packaging Inc.

Multivac Canada

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

PPI Technologies Group

Regal Beloit America, Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

Steeltek - A Div. of 877418 Ont. Ltd.

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

CONVEYOR CHAIN

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ATS - Tanner Banding Systems Inc.

Bosch Rexroth Canada

Capmatic Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

Cousineau Packaging Inc.

Flexlink Systems Canada

Honeywell Intelligrated

Lapp Group Canada

MD Packaging Inc.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Regal Beloit America, Inc.

Rexnord Canada Ltd.

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

Tsubaki of Canada Ltd.

Visuascan Inc.

Wulftec

DRIVES: AC AND DC

ABB Inc.

Bosch Rexroth Canada

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc.

Mecano Industrie

Omron Canada Inc.

SEW Eurodrive Company of Canada Ltd.

Siemens Canada Limited

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

Wainbee Limited

GUARDING SYSTEMS

Balluff Canada Inc.

Capmatic Ltd.

Cousineau Packaging Inc.

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Mecano Industrie

Pilz Automation Safety Canada LP

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Regal Beloit America, Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

Sort Production Products Ltd.

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

Zarpac Inc.

HYDRAULICS

Bosch Rexroth Canada

Mecano Industrie

Plan Automation Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

Wainbee Limited

INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEMS

ABB Inc.

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ASCO Numatics

ATS - Tanner Banding Systems Inc.

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

Balluff Canada Inc.

Beckhoff

Bosch Packaging Systems AG

Bosch Rexroth Canada

Capmatic Ltd.

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Lenze Americas

Newmapak Ltd.

Omron Canada Inc.

Pilz Automation Safety Canada LP

Plan Automation Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

Sort Production Products Ltd.

Videojet Technologies

Visuascan Inc.

Wago Corporation

Zarpac Inc.

Filamatic

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Loma Systems, an ITW Company

MD Packaging Inc.

Mettler-Toledo Inc.

Multivac Canada

Plan Automation Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Shawpak Systems Ltd.

Siemens Canada Limited

SteelNor /

Zarpac

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AUTOMATION DEVICES

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

PNEUMATIC

AUTOMATION DEVICES

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Mecano Industrie

Omron Canada Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

Visuascan Inc.

ABB

ABB Inc.

ABB

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

Mecano Industrie Newmapak Ltd.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Plexpack

Inc.

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Steeltek - A Div. of 877418 Ont. Ltd.

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

Unitronics Visuascan Inc.

Yaskawa America, Inc.

Zarpac Inc.

ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT: CASE PACKING

ABB Flexible Automation

ABB Inc. - Business Unit Robotics

Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.

ARPAC LLC

ATS - Tanner Banding Systems Inc.

B&T Sales Inc

Bizerba Canada Inc.

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

Bosch Packaging Systems AG

Bosch Packaging Technology Inc.

Bradman Lake

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

Consolidated Technologies Inc.

Cousineau Packaging Inc.

Delkor Systems, Inc.

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd.

Euroimpianti Spa

FANUC Canada, Ltd.

Flexi-Pack Machinery Solutions Inc.

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Geosaf Inc.

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC

Honeywell Intelligrated

KUKA Robotics Canada Ltd.

Langen Packaging Inc.

M & M Packaging Associates Ltd.

MD Packaging Inc.

Mecano Industrie

Multivac Canada

Nalbach Engineering Company, Inc.

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COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP

Purpose and innovation driving brand competition in digital era

s today’s Millennials and Generation Z continue to accelerate the changes in the way we shop, what we eat and how we live, the whole narrative of what brands must deliver to modern-day consumers has undergone profound transformation in a very

Gone are the days of purchase patterns being influenced by demographics alone. Millennials and Generation Z are consuming in the unprecedented new age of technology disruption, where decisions are being made not solely by price, but by personal alignment with brands and their visions.

Beyond the path to purchase, these new consumers are publicly documenting their journey with products on the world stage through their social media streams—constantly challenging CPG (consumer packaged goods) brand-owners

With new concepts such as circular economy, zero plastics waste, omnichannel retail and asset digitization now part of everyday conversation in the packaging industry, retailers and brand-owners are deploying dedicated rapid response teams that seem to innovate at the speed of light—showing coura-

In this light, we are proud to present the second annual edimagazine—featuring PAC member thought-leaders providing their insights on relevant industry issues.

Our cover this year features the Roxy Hotel Theater, in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City, where we will host our ONEof100 Summit on February 26, 2019. (It’s not too late to book a ticket!)

Now in the fourth year of our PAC Global Leadership Awards competition, we are thrilled to be staging our showcase of breakthrough packaging innovation in New York City—the true epicenter of FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) manufacturers and their brand agencies.

To that end, we have created the ONEof100 Summit not just as an occasion to celebrate these winners, but also to educate our audience about the dynamic changes impacting the value chain of the packaging sector—in hopes of inspiring attendees with answers and insights into some of the most difficult questions facing brands today.

More than ever before, PAC remains steadfast in our goal to continue to innovate and grow our offerings for members. Events like ONEof100, and our annual awards celebration, present a unique opportunity for our members from across the value chain to come together and build critical relationships.

Kicking off the summit, fresh from his high profile announcement with several prominent global brand CEOs at last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is Tom Szaky, a brilliant millennial thought leader who is arguably one of the most creative waste management experts of our time.

Founder of the world-renowned upcycling pioneer TerraCycle, Szaky will talk about his latest disruptive reusable

packaging initiative called Loop—a circular shopping platform that transforms the packaging of your everyday essentials from single-use disposable to durable, feature-packed designs.

Already, Loop has drawn references to being “the milkman reimagined,” honoring our past from a modern perspective by championing a sustainable approach to packaging—with a distinct vision of partnering with the world’s biggest brands to reduce packaging waste.

Also making an appearance at ONEof100, and featured in the pages of this year’s PAC Connect, are packaging experts from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the recognized leader in CPG innovation who will discuss their game-changing sustainable package innovations targeted at the e-commerce buyers.

With the conversation no longer limited about how the consumer products perform on traditional store-shelves, there is an urgent imperative for new unique approaches to positioning products for a digital landscape serving the fastgrowing online audience.

To that end, prominent thought leader Aidan Tracy of sgsco will discuss his insights on the unfolding ‘Big Shift’ from Point of Sale to Moment of Sale mindset. As the path to purchase has changed and prominent brands are finding out the hard way that focusing on producing state-of-the-art packaging for store shelves is no longer enough, brands must act quickly to devote more resources to the e-commerce world, where physical store shelves are no longer the critical point-of-sale.

With this year’s edition, we have also endeavoured to showcase the type of leadership required in this new era with an ever-changing consumer landscape. Brands like Nespresso, focused on ethical living, and TC Transcontinental, a company that has undergone a transformation from being Canada’s largest printer to becoming a North American leader in flexible packaging, show the importance of courage, commitment and collaboration to attain successful brand leadership in 2019.

As a parting note, I would like to extend sincere gratitude to our wonderful event and publication sponsors, without whom none of this would have been possible.

To that end, a big ‘Thank You!’ to platinum ONEof100 Summit sponsor, sgsco, and silver sponsors, Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. and Cambridge Label Inc

We also hope you enjoy the cover design created by Anthem, as well as the considerable effort by the Canadian Packaging magazine for producing and distributing the PAC Connect publication for our great PAC members.

James D. Downham, President & CEO, PAC Packaging Consortium

SHOP AND AWE!

Consumer goods stalwart leveraging cutting-edge packaging innovation to fuel rapid sales growth in burgeoning online

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

If being able to translate consumer desires into new products lies at the core of genuine product innovation, according to leading consumer goods multinational Procter & Gamble (P&G), North American consumers have a lot of eureka moments and experiences to look forward to in coming months and years.

Although the venerable Cincinnati, Ohio-headquartered consumer packaged goods (CPG) powerhouse has long been revered for cutting-edge product development and general packaging excellence, the unfolding global boom in e-commerce and online shopping seems to have P&G reaching for the stars with game-changing package design strategies breathing new vitality and vigour into iconic stalwart brands such as Tide, Dawn and Old Spice, with many more slated to follow suit.

“P&G is designing with what the e-commerce channel is bringing to the table for all of us,” say Ken McGuire, a research fellow at P&G with 53 issued

retail markets

U.S. patents to his name, including the new awardwinning AeroFlexx liquid filling technology that could completely revolutionize the way that liquid products of all types are packaged and shipped across global markets.

“It (e-commerce) brings tremendous growth opportunities,” McGuire says, “but it also brings challenges that maybe were not being addressed as effectively before, but rather remedied with ‘Band-Aid’ solutions.

“As the channel becomes more important to our consumers, our growth and our bottom line, we have instituted a number of programs that are e-commerce directed to improve our consumer experience and our ability to profitably withstand the new distribution channel challenges.”

With online sales of consumer product in North America widely projected to grow by up to 30 per cent annually over the next few years, P&G has already established itself as an early major CPG pacesetter in the burgeoning new distribution channel driven by soaring demand for greater consumer con-

Procter and Gamble’s research fellow Ken McGuire, who holds 53 U.S.-issued patents, played an insturmental role in the development of AeroFlexx liquid filling technology.

venience and product accessibility.

Recording net sales of US$66.8 billion for fiscal 2018, P&G saw its online revenues soar by 30 percent to nearly US$4.5 billion during the year—approaching seven percent of total sales—prompting the company to accelerate the development of more e-commerce-friendly packaging formats and structures.

Late last year, P&G launched a new ultra-concentrated Tide liquid detergent in an all-new Eco-Box container—measuring roughly the size of a standard shoebox—designed exclusively for e-commerce distribution.

Weighing less than eight pounds, the compact size of the patented Eco-Box bagin-box package was designed to provide an attractive space-saving option for urban consumers with tight living quarters, with the added bonus of vastly improved packaging sustainability.

Containing enough liquid detergent for 96 loads of laundry, the Eco-Box package contains 30 percent less water that the 96-load jugs retailed at traditional brick-and-mortar outlets, while weighing four pounds less and using 60 percent less plastic.

According to P&G’s brand manager for e-commerce Isaac Hellemn, “If everyone who buys the 96-load plastic bottle of Tide switched to the Tide Eco-Box, we could save enough plastic to cover 5,000 football fields each year.”

Designed specifically to facilitate efficient shipping and stacking, the new package largely eliminates the need for extra wrapping and padding material like bubble wrap, according to P&G, resulting in far less packaging waste that ultimately ends up in landfills.

And because the package weighs a third less than the comparable traditional plastic jugs, the savings achieved in lower shipping costs allow for the Tide EcoBox package to be listed at the same suggested retail price of US$19.99 as the traditional 96-load plastic jugs—providing a win-win proposition for the target

consumer audience.

“The Tide Eco-Box is a combination of product and packaging innovation,” states Brent Heist, head of P&G’s Global Packaging Sustainability team in Cincinnati.

“Being a more concentrated product plays exceptionally well for e-commerce insofar as carrying less of a packaging footprint per use, without sacrificing quality of Tide performance benefits for the consumers,” Heist points out.

RISING TIDE

“We were also able to incorporate a lot of consumer convenience features, like a no-drip twist-tap that provides carefully controlled dosing for the consumers,” Heist explains, “while the built-in feet at the bottom of the box enables you the to raise the box just right to get the dosing cup underneath the dispensing tap if you’re dosing on a flat surface.

“All of these things may seem small separately,” Heist says, “but putting them together allowed us to give consumers a real ‘delight of use’ experience.

“All in all, we think it’s a more user-friendly packaging alternative to simply shipping a standard lidded bottle surrounded by protective packaging that most consumers often perceive as waste.”

While the Tide Eco-Box packaging was designed specifically for e-commerce retailing, McGuire points out that addressing the new distribution and other challenges unveiled by the e-commerce boom is now an integral part of the thought process guiding all new packaging development at P&G.

“The packages we have designed in the past to look wonderful and perform well in the brick-and-mortar environment may not require the same characteristics for traveling through the e-commerce supply chain,” McGuire explains.

One of the more notable recent packaging successes unveiled at P&G has been

“We can’t sell a new technology to consumers unless it’s meaningful to them, and sustainability is a massive part of that connection.” - Brent Heist

the swift commercialization of the aforementioned AeroFlexx liquid filling technology, in which McGuire played a central role.

Already adopted for the company’s bestselling Dawn brand of dishwashing detergent and the Old Spice body wash line, the breakthrough technology uses compressed gas to achieve sufficient tailored rigidity to create firm structure in flexible films— eliminating the need for a traditional plastic bottle altogether.

By utilizing a proprietary one-way valve, the new flexible packaging format also facilitates cleaner dispensing, more controlled dosing and more convenient one-handed use, according to P&G, while still remaining tough enough for e-commerce shipping without extra protection.

Moreover, the AeroFlexx packaging uses 50 per cent less plastic than a traditional rigid plastic bottle and offers a 360-palette for branding and other for design graphics—making it a more resource-efficient solution.

TOTAL WIN-WIN

As a genuinely disruptive packaging innovation that earned the coveted Diamond Award at last year’s 30th annual Awards for Packaging Innovation competition of The Dow Chemical Company

More recently, the AeroFlexx Dawn brand pack was picked as a finalist in two categories—including Best of Show—in the 2019 PAC Global Leadership Awards competition of PAC Packaging Consortium, with winners to be announced at a special gala ceremony following PAC’s upcoming ONEof100 Summit packaging innovation forum in New York City on Feb. 26, 2019.

Says PAC president and chief executive officer James Downham: “Not only is AeroFlexx an exceptionally clever technology, it facilitates for creation of an incredibly sustainable package that also effectively addresses the e-commerce distribution channel requirements.

“It literally checks off every box on the good packaging idea checklist,” Downham extols, “making it a very special entry in our Global Leadership Awards competition.”

Acknowledging the disruptive nature of the AeroFlexx omnichannel flexible packaging solution, “It is actually intended to be an e-commerce option for all the bottles we sell one day,” McGuire proclaims. “I can’t say for sure if we’ll get there eventually,” he allows, “but if it’s a better solution, why not give it a try?”

For his part, Heist says he has been very encouraged by the feedback to AeroFlexx packaging gathered through extensive market research conducted by

P&G prior to the launch.

“As with all new disruptive technologies, it can be polarizing,” Heist relates.

“Many people loved it, some people didn’t, but in the end it really comes down to the quality of brand execution, which I think we have done pretty well based on online reviews and other social media feedback.” he says.

“The people who tend to love this type of package are typically the younger, more experiential consumers more willing to try new things,” Heist expands.

“The Old Spice brand has been extremely well-received in the new packaging format,” Heist confides, “and even for the Dawn brand, our average online star rating is about 4.2 out of five,” Heist confides.

Both Heist and McGuire point out that as younger consumers continue to become better educated on sustainability issues, they are starting to appreciate the fact that flexible packaging is not the environmental villain that it is often portrayed to be in mainstream media.

“A proper Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) will show that that this new package blows the bottle away just on the material usage alone, which is the most critical part of the LCA,” McGuire asserts.

“It’s a classic case of perception versus reality.”

Says McGuire: “The popular consumer perception is that because these flexible packages do not always have recycling streams, like curbside pick-ups, they are not as environmentally-friendly as the plastic bottles.

“But that’s just not the reality,” he sates.

“One of the tings you will see in coming years is that these [flexible] materials will actually find their way into recycling streams because the demand is getting bigger and better,” McGuire argues.

“We are testing pilot programs and working on technologies that address all of the things that are claimed to be environmental shortcoming of flexible packaging.”

Adds Heist: “The AeroFlexx flexible packaging works well with younger consumers due to the intersection of technology development and fuller consumer understanding of the issue at hand.

“We can’t sell a new technology to consumers unless it’s meaningful to them, and sustainability is a massive part of that connection.

“That’s why our technology development is so closely tied to understanding what delights consumers and deliver on that demand—starting with the brands that we believe you think will deliver the greatest payoff.”

For McGuire, the ongoing efforts by P&G to lightweight its products for e-commerce applications to reduce shipping costs is perfectly synched with the

company’s large sustainability efforts in packaging and other key links in the supply chain.

“One of the things that P&G and other companies will continue to address is shipping costs,” McGuire states.

COST CONTROL

“We are used to designing wonderful looking packages that draw people’s attention when thy are walking down the store aisle and when they take it home, but if you are paying to have those same items shipped through online retailing you may not necessarily make the best use of the space available to you,” he says.

“It is a challenge that many CPGs, P&G included, will continue to grapple with to address the different demands of e-commerce distribution for some time yet,” McGuire predicts.

“So while I like to think that our e-commerce-directed innovation program is ahead of the curve, it’s certainly not complete, but we are heading down the right path,” he says.

McGuire also notes that this disruptive game-changing AeroFlexx technology will be rapidly commercialized by Chicago-based Innventure, a team of experienced professionals with a history of entrepreneurship that partners with Fortune 100 firms.

“Innventure will scale this technology under a global licensing arrangement to make this an industry play that is not limited to P&G,” says McGuire.

“AeroFlexx is quickly gaining traction across a broad range of customers, brands and categories,” says Cedric Dsouza, chief technology officer for Innventure AeroFlexx.

“Based on the needs of our customers and their supply chains, our planning stance is to design and offer commercial executions of this technology to the industry via a menu of three options,” he explains.

“We will start by filling pouches for customers on a contract manufacturing basis,” he relates, “and we will then evolve to selling pre-made pouches that a firm can fill at their site on AeroFlexx fill/seal equipment.

“We will then advance to selling roll stock that a firm can put through AeroFlexx form/fill/seal equipment that it installs.”

Brent Heist, the head of P&G’s Global Packaging Sustainability team, was one of featured speakers at PAC’s well-attended PAC to the Future II conference in Montreal last fall.

SEIZING THE MOMENT

Digital disruption driving brand-owners to reassess branding and package design strategies to own the coveted Moment of Sale

BY MICHAEL GRADY

How do you define a package? The package is now more than a carton, flexible pouch, bottle, can or other product container with a printed label found on a shelf in a retail store.

Think about it again in the context of an omnichannel shopper. What is a package? The package is media. It is working hard to communicate your brand’s value and promise to shoppers.

In many ways, the package sits at the center of the evolving marketing mix.

It’s working around the clock to tell your brand story and convert sales whether on shelf in a store, featured on a billboard, in a product listing on a dotcom, in an Instagram post viewed on your phone, in the spotlight for three seconds at the end of an ad that interrupts a Hulu or Netflix binge, or available by food delivery app—just before the end of the big game being broadcasted live on YouTube TV.

It’s clear that our world is becoming increasingly digital.

The path to purchase has changed and many prominent brands are finding out the hard way that continuing to produce state-of-the-art packaging to help their flagship products fly off store shelves is no longer enough.

Brands must now also devote resources for the digital world, where in the context of online shopping, physical store shelves are no longer the point of sale.

Digital disruption is rapidly shifting the narrative from brands winning ‘Where?’ the consumer makes their purchase decisions (Point of Sale), to ‘How?’ consumers are making their purchase decisions (Moment of Sale).

In this new world, the ‘package’ and its associated digital art files take on an

even greater level of importance to help companies deliver better, faster and leaner omnichannel solutions into the marketplace.

According to sgsco chief executive officer Aidan Tracey, “This shift from the point of sale to the Moment of Sale is all about addressing today’s reality of where people are making their purchase, which is with smart phones, anytime, anywhere, with 24/7 availability.

“How consumers are shopping for their goods, researching, procuring and receiving their goods has undergone a dramatic shift which will rapidly continue in the future.”

Today’s omnichannel consumer expects that their needs will be put first. If a product is purchased, it is by the terms of the individual consumer rather than those of the retailer.

Accordingly, brands and retailers are changing to account for consumer expectations.

Putting the consumer first is key to winning in the omnichannel world. Successfully navigating retailer and e-commerce platforms is another important achievement. Consider the following omnichannel challenges:

• Differentiated E-commerce Experiences. Retailers are creating differentiated experiences on their proprietary platforms. Brands must not only know the nuances of each, but they must efficiently create, manage and distribute the right content to each.

• Listing vs Selling. Online sales are increasing in nearly every category. It used to be a good start to create a product listing. Brands need to be keenly aware of whether they are actually driving sales for their product or merely

Aidan Tracey, chief executive officer of sgsco,delivering a presentation on the Moment of Sale at a recent L2 Omnichannel event.

creating a listing. If you’re not selling, your brand may fall victim to algorithms that give your competition advantages during search.

• Advertising. Retail dotcoms are now advertising platforms. Not only must brands list and sell their product, but they must also create online billboards that build brand awareness, convert sales and fend off competition.

• Efficiency Incentives. Retailers are rolling out incentives for brands to conform to best practices that reduce packaging waste and improve efficiency. The penalty for non-compliance will cost brands in the short term, despite long-term benefits for stakeholders. The greatest opportunity for brands is to use the packaging as a communication tool and brand building platform.

• Social Commerce. The largest social platforms have begun incorporating options for brands to sell products directly from social posts. This keeps purchasing simple for the consumer and bypasses retailers altogether.

Disruptive brands have proven to be fierce competitors developing and executing winning sales strategies that are built for today’s consumer preferences and digital and social platforms.

Some brands, existing only online, are bestsellers that have toppled long-standing traditional retail category leaders. With hundreds of thousands of followers, these brands are positioned to continue to win as more sales move to digital. Successful online brands are even making their way into stores and capturing more market share. Brands must take action to protect market share and more importantly to drive sales growth.

To address the big shift from Point of Sale to the Moment of Sale, focus on improving your integrated solution by optimizing for omnichannel package design and digital graphics.

By leveraging the power of the Digital Art File created within a design-toprint workflow, brands can amplify production to efficiently produce physical packaging, print and digital POS/media, as well as branded digital content that is optimized for e-commerce and social media.

Evolving from a design-to-print workflow to a design-to-consumer workflow unlocks the power of the package to drive a synchronized experience across all touchpoints with significant efficiencies necessary to keep pace with the new, ever-faster digital economy.

By expanding an integrated solution to include more than print, brands are able to become better, faster and leaner.

Consider the following:

• CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). The Digital Art File is used to create foundational CGI assets. These assets are created as part of the packaging pipeline and are key to consistently producing high-quality, photorealistic pack shots. A standard product view bundle meets the needs of all partners for e-commerce, retailer marketing and shelf set planograms.

• Optimized Content. Optimized content addresses how people are shopping on mobile phones. Both the Digital Art File and CGI are keys to optimized content. Imagery that is created with a screen in mind helps consumers easily understand a product’s unique selling proposition.

• Agile Content.With the core CGI asset as the foundation for content creation, fuel social engagement by delivering an array of lifestyle and insituation visuals.

• Synchronized Data. Deliver brand visuals and product data to all appropriate retailers. Make sure your data is accessible for retailers, retail service providers, e-commerce, internal use, application developers and others within an increasingly complex digital ecosystem.

As sgsco’s chief marketing officer and president of digital Rob McCarthy explains, “Consumers expect easy access to detailed product information, such as pack images, infographics, image tiles, mobile images, relative-size imagery and video, to make informed buying decisions.

“We are now starting to see tangible and quantifiable evidence of the impact that optimizing product content and engaging e-commerce experiences have had on brand sales.”

Just as consumers today are looking at packaging differently, brands must also look at packaging in a new way.

The package is at the center of the marketing mix and it’s important to ensure it is properly leveraged to produce content for an omnichannel world.

Leading brands are evaluating branding and package design strategies and aggressively implementing workflow improvements to synchronize branding and packaging across the physical and digital shelves.

As brands become better, faster and leaner, they are in a position to meet consumer expectations at the Moment of Sale.

Brands are also able to rapidly implement ideas that drive growth and, rather than fending off startups, they are the brands to watch—agile, winning everywhere a purchase can be made; and innovative, capable of marketplace disruption.

THE PERKS OF LEADERSHIP

Leading coffee producer spares no effort to lessen the carbon footprint and negative perception of single-serve coffee capsules

BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

If the much-lauded Circular Economy model of waste-free packaging design and reuse ever needed a corporate poster child to inspire consumer product companies to step up their sustainability efforts, then the multinational coffee giant Nespresso would be a fitting choice by any objective measure.

As a company that introduced the world’s first single-serve coffee machine back in 1986, the Swissheadquartered coffee producer has naturally endured plenty of environmentalist backlash in the last decade over the alleged ecological crises caused by surging worldwide production of single-serve coffee capsules. But despite widespread vilification of single-serve coffee pods as one of the worst excesses of unnecessary packaging waste messing up recycling streams and overwhelming landfills, the growing popularity and sales of this consumer-friendly packaging format has left leading coffee producers with a heavy burden

of lessening the carbon footprint of their capsules in dramatic leaps and bounds, at the risk of facing outright legislative bans and consumer boycotts.

In many ways, Nespresso has had the luxury of being an early pacesetter in this race to coffee pod sustainability by virtue of making all its coffee pods, including the lidding, exclusively from aluminum, which is an infinitely recyclable material that can be reused again and again to make a highly diverse range of new products.

In fact, Nespresso launched its first capsule recycling program back in 1991—long before either single-serve coffee capsules or recycling, for that matter, became popular with the public at large.

According to Nespresso, the negative public image that single-serve capsules contend with today is largely the result of many of its competitors flooding the market with their own single-serve solutions that were not designed with recyclability in mind from the outset.

Late last year, Nespresso signed a Memorandum of

Nespresso Canada president JeanLuc Valleix addresses attendees of PAC’s recent PAC to the Future conference in Montreal last fall, holding up samples of the two different collection bags distributed by Nespresso at no charge to its Club Member customers for the collection and free shipment of used aluminum coffee capsules back to the company.

Having invented the world’s first single-serve coffee pods and machines back in 1986, Nespresso has been at the forefront of the industry’s recycling efforts since 1991.

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Understanding with leading global aluminum producer Rio Tinto to ensure that all the Nespresso capsules manufactured worldwide will be made from “responsibly-sourced” aluminum, as defined and certified by the international Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI) group.

As one of ASI’s founding members, Nespresso’s close familiarity with the world’s second most-used metal makes the company an important link and stakeholder in creating and maintaining a sustainable aluminum value chain, according to Nespresso’s chief executive officer Jean-Marc Duvoisin.

“Nespresso is proud to have been a driving force in creating and implementing the ASI,” Duvoisin stat-

ed during the formal signing of the MOI with Rio Tinto in November of 2018.

“Together we have made responsibly-sourced aluminum a reality, and the ASI traceability mechanism will enable us to meet our commitment to customers to reduce the impact of their consumption,” Duvoisin stated.

“This is a positive step towards creating a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly future.”

The new sourcing initiative is a fitting follow-up to Nespresso’s AAA Sustainable Quality Program, rolled out in 2013 in partnership with The Rainforest Alliance, which pledges to secure the supply of highest-quality coffees, to protect the environment and

improve the livelihood of over 75,000 farmers in 12 countries where Nespresso sources its raw product.

As with the ASI initiative, Nespresso aims to source 100 per cent of its coffee from its AAA Sustainable Quality Program by 2020.

For all that, overcoming the negative publicity generated by widespread backlash over single-serve coffee capsules remains something of a work-in-progress for Nespresso globally and here in Canada, where the company’s Nespresso Canada business is making concerted far-reaching efforts to get Canadian consumers fully on-board its progressive capsule recycling initiatives.

“It is not enough for a package to be fully recyclable; it actually has to be recycled in order to be a fully sustainable package,” says Caroline Duguay, Nespresso Canada’s director of communications in Montreal.

To make this happen, Nespresso Canada is focusing on making it as effortless as possible for consumers to do their part by including special recyclable plastic bags with the purchased Nespresso brand packs to collect the used capsules at home—without any extra handling or cleaning of the used pods.

“Our unique aluminum capsules are the only ones that enable our Club Members [Nespresso coffee machine owners] to enjoy their coffee and recycle the package without having to touch or even look at the grounds inside,” Duguay points out.

“There is no separating the lids, scooping out the grounds or rinsing out the cap … just bag it, seal it and drop it off at no charge.”

Depending on the region, Nespresso-supplied green-colored bags can be picked up through lo-

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cal waste diversion agencies, while the red-colored bags can be sent by mail at no charge via Canada Post directly back to Nespresso Canada, which works with various local recycling partners to separate the coffee grounds from the aluminum shell and lidding.

“The used coffee grounds are sent to local farmers for them to add in their compost solutions,” says Duguay, “so at the end of the day there is really no waste left behind whatsoever.

“Even the bag is being recycled.”

As of last spring, the red-bag program has been expanded to cover all Canadian provinces except for British Columba and Quebec, where consumers use the green-bag option for pod recycling and collection.

“The red bag solution aims to increase the collection capacity of used aluminum Nespresso capsules by making it as easy as possible for our customers to participate,” says Nespresso Canada president Jean-Luc Valleix.

“We have always set ourselves apart, as evidenced by our decision to develop capsules with aluminum—a material that not only preserves the freshness of coffee grounds but is also infinitely recyclable.

Says Valleix: “Nespresso has been committed to ensuring sustainability for more than 25 years, taking an active stance in working with local partners and governments and investing in tailored recycling solutions across Canada and around the world.”

While Nespresso Canada has now reached an estimated 95-percent recycling capacity for all the singleserve capsules it sells in Canada, according to Duguay, the company is launching a new complementary incentive program designed to remind its Club Members to recycle all of their Nespresso pods properly—using advanced tracking technology to collect data and monitor how well individual Nespresso machine owners are playing their part.

Duguay says the Nespresso Canada team is now actively working on a launch of a unique pilot program— part of the company’s Ethical Living Strategy—in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) region that will see Nespresso Canada introduce speciallycoded individualized collection bags to thousands of local Club Members who have consented to be entered in a special database that will keep track of how many of the purchased Nespresso capsules they actually re-

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Embedded with personalized invisible but scannable product codes, the new high-tech bags will enable Nespresso to identify and reward its best-performing recyclers based on the data obtained from the returned bagged capsules, as well as to reach out to any underperformers to entice them to be more diligent in their capsule recycling.

As Duguay proudly points out, “This is a truly unique firstof-its-kind, only-in-Canada pilot program that will serve as a blueprint for Nespresso’s other global operations if it proves

to be a success.

“We see this as a real vote of confidence by our parent company in our approach to reducing the carbon footprint of coffee capsules in Canada,” says Duguay, “so there is a lot at stake for us in seeing this innovative program succeed.

“It definitely represents a big investment for the company,” she states, “but Nespresso Canada has always been serious about maintaining its market leadership position, and progressive environmental stewardship is a big part of our ongoing success.”

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BY GEORGE GUIDONI, EDITOR

Like many buzzwords, the word “transformation” often lends itself to casual overuse—largely as a more emphatic euphemism for “change”—but as the late great business management guru Dr. Edwards Deming once deftly observed, “Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led.”

In this light, the recent emergence of Montreal-headquartered TC Transcontinental as one of the world’s largest converters of flexible packaging stands out as a textbook case of sweeping corporate transformation with a capital T Underpinned by a relentless quest for long-term profitable growth and inspired leadership skills of the company’s winning duo, Isabelle Marcoux, TC Transcontinental’s Chair of the Board and her husband François Olivier, Chief Executive Officer, the company’s five-year journey from a packaging industry novice to one of its leading global lights may well be corporate Canada’s biggest success story so far this century.

Founded back in 1976 by Isabelle’s father Rémi Marcoux—one of revered early builders of the so-called Québec Inc. fraternity of ambitious new Quebec business enterprises eager to make their mark in corporate big leagues—the company’s knack for reinventing itself to keep up with the times has fostered and nurtured a distinct family-like workplace culture and environment that played a key role in TC Transcontinental continuous growth and evolution.

As Isabelle Marcoux recalls, “Coming from a modest family of 11 children, my father thought it essential that Quebecers make their mark in the long term, which

Members of TC Transcontinental’s Board of Directors and Senior Executive Committee pose for a group shot at the company’s packaging facility inBrooklyn, N.Y., in an exuberant display of enthusiasm for the company’s ongoing growth and transformation into one of the world’s largest integrated producers and converters of flexible packaging products.

TC Transcontinental’s Chair of the Board Isabelle Marcoux (left) and her husband François Olivier, President and Chief Executive Officer, head the Montreal-headquartered company.

is what he set out to do with TC Transcontinental.

“Intelligent, innovative and passionate, he took many risks,” she says, “but only calculated ones.

“I toured a lot of factories with him and saw firsthand how close he is to the people, shaking hands, making them feel comfortable … I learned a lot by seeing him interact with people.”

While the idea of joining her father’s business one day was always an option, neither Isabelle or her siblings were granted a free ride to senior management roles solely on the account of being part of the family.

“My father had outlined three conditions to the hiring of any of his children in the company,” she relates.

“First, earn two university degrees; second, master three languages; third, work outside of TC Transcontinental for three years before joining.”

After fulfilling these demanding requirements and joining TC Transcontinental’s legal department in 1998 at the age of 29, Isabelle began her ascent up the corporate ladder—progressing from the position of director of mergers and acquisitions to vice-president

of corporate development, ultimately succeeding her father as Chair of the Board in 2012.

In 1991, Isabelle met her future husband and current TC Transcontinental President and CEO François Olivier, who joined the company in 1993 after serving as general manager at leading Montreal-area meat processor Les Aliments Chatel’s and the former Canada Packers meat business of what is today widely known worldwide as Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

A Bachelor of Science graduate from Montreal’s McGill University, Olivier’s academic accomplishments went hand-in-hand with his natural athletic talents, with the famed Boston Bruins franchise of the National Hockey League (NHL) drafting him into their organization in his early twenties.

“Unfortunately, due to an injury, I had to switch gears,” says Olivier, who took this change in stride to focus on furthering his academic pursuits—completing the graduate program for management development at the Harvard Business School—and entering the world of corporate management on a

full-time basis.

“I have always felt that it’s important to have a positive outlook on life as much as possible,” says Olivier, who immersed himself in learning as much as he could about the offset printing and publishing industries that at the time accounted for the lion’s share of the company’s revenues.

“A career, in whichever field we choose, will have some ups and downs, Olivier reflects.

“It is the same when managing a company; there will be good times and tougher moments.

“What drove me then and still drives me now in whatever I do, is making headway as a team and building something together,” says Olivier, whose 2008 appointment as TC Transcontinental’s President and CEO was preceded by progressive senior management roles at the company’s printing plants and a posting as senior vice-president of the former Newspaper Printing Group, “where I managed a network of 17 facilities across the country.”

According to his wife Isabelle, the couple’s shared values, common interests and affable personalities

TC Transcontinental Packaging exhibiting the company’s fast-growing range of flexible packaging innovations and sustainability solutions at last fall’s PACK EXPO International 2018 packaging technologies exhibition in Chicago, generating a lot of positive feedback from the show’s visitors and many other exhibitors.

have provided a solid platform for helping family patriarch Rémi Marcoux fulfill his vision of passing the reins of the highly successful business he created on to the second generation through orderly and well-executed succession planning.

“Our roles complement each other well,” Isabelle states. “As Chair of the Board, I oversee the strategic orientation and decisions that set the future trajectory of our corporation and determine how we would like to see it evolve over the long term.

“As President and CEO, François is responsible for developing and implementing our business strategy and managing our dayto-day operations to ensure the success of the corporation and create value for all our stakeholders.”

Says Isabelle: “Our strong entrepreneurial spirit, our ability to

diversify its current business and ensure long-term growth.

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With the traditional offset print and media businesses both stagnating, the company’s leaders knew they had to take action. First, having already invested a lot in their state-of-the-art offset printing platform, they continued to aggressively gain market share and innovate in this sector. Second, they undertook to divest most of their media assets. Thirdly, they decided to pursue a whole new growth strategy in the more promising packaging industry—specifically the flexible packaging business.

As Olivier recalls, “The flexible packaging industry was rapidly identified as a natural fit given our extensive manufacturing experience and the fact that the market offered, and still offers, many opportunities for growth.”

Despite having had virtually no previous experience or exposure to the packaging business, the company’s leadership team worked tirelessly to get the support of its board of directors, shareholders and employees to proceed with its new strategic plan of entering the North American flexible packaging market through a combination of strategic acquisitions and organic growth.

Says Olivier: “We analyzed different segments of the packaging industry—including metal, glass containers and folding cartons— but the flexible packaging industry quickly stood out as making the most sense for us, given the production process, consisting of pre-media, printing and finishing, was somewhat similar to offset printing.”

Despite basic similarities and technology crossover, the TC Transcontinental team was under no illusions about the challenge of learning and gathering sufficient market intelligence about a vast new market in order to make a smooth entry and transition.

“At the time, we knew very little about packaging and so we set out to learn about it,” Olivier relates. “We were also humble while going through our learning curve.

“We organized meetings with companies in the flexible industry packaging, we visited plants, attended trade shows, and soon realized that this new growth sector was promising for us because the market wasn’t really consolidated.”

As TC Transcontinental discovered, the North American flexible packaging sector was in fact highly fragmented industry with a couple of dominant players and a multitude of small and mid-sized operations without the necessary capital or technological resources to pursue further aggressive growth and expansion.

seize growth opportunities and convince the financial community of the merits of the strategy means we have a winning duo!”

Adds Olivier: “Playing sports at a high level certainly helped me be very efficient and dedicated towards any responsibilities I undertook, which translated into my work and ambition.

“Learning from others, listening, sharing knowledge, and gaining experience along the way have also definitely made a difference,” he elaborates.

“I would also say that ‘hearing’ my board’s advice and being a good listener is key, as well as having a long-term vision.

“I can honestly say that TC Transcontinental’s values are the values that I believed in,” Olivier states, “even before joining the company.”

The need to maintain these values at the company’s core became paramount when Isabelle became Chair of the Board in 2012, with TC Transcontinental initiating a comprehensive review of its operations to

For a company built on a legacy of strong market leadership and technological innovation that made it into a $3-billion-plus enterprise, the existing industry pecking order offered a unique opportunity for TC Transcontinental “to integrate acquired companies, realize anticipated synergies, generate sales growth, and identify complementary acquisition opportunities for our portfolio,” according to Isabelle.

“We had the support of the Board of Directors and the family every step of the way, with the same goal in mind: long-term growth and continuity.”

After making its first strategic acquisition in 2014 with the purchase of Clinton, Mo.-based dairy packaging group Capri Packaging in 2014, TC Transcontinental proceeded to execute five more strategic acquisitions over the next four years to strengthen

TC Transcontinental founder Rémi Marcoux (left) steps down as Chair of the Board at the 2012 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders as Isabelle Marcoux, his daughter, is elected in this role.

Company founder Rémi Marcoux is sharing the stage with François Olivier when he becomes President and CEO of TC Transcontinental at the 2008 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

its product portfolio and geographic reach, which included two Canadian-based manufacturing operations in Vancouver and Montreal.

Although this four-year buying spree swiftly propelled TC Transcontinental to the upper tiers of North America’s flexible packaging pecking order, its defining Bing Bang moment arrived just about a year ago in spring of 2018 in the form of a sensational C$1.72-billion acquisition of the Chicago-headquartered industry powerhouse Coveris Americas

With that acquisition, “We have crossed a historic threshold in our transformation and accelerated our growth in flexible packaging,” Olivier asserts.

“It was a giant leap for us,” he states, noting that as a result of the buyout, “the packaging sector currently generates more than half of our consolidated adjusted revenues of C$3 billion on a pro forma basis.”

Adds Isabelle: “The transaction marked a turning point in our 42-year history, crystallized our strategic shift toward flexible packaging, and solidified our commitment to profitable growth.”

“When we first entered the flexible packaging market in 2014, it represented an important strategic move for the Corporation into a new promising

growth area,” she remarks.

“It was part of our strategy, and still is today, to ensure our future growth path through diversification.”

Despite having become a solid, vertically-integrated flexible packaging powerhouse with 28 production facilities, more than 4,000 employees, and leading or solid market shares in key vertical markets such as cheese and pet-food, among others, TC Transcontinental remains committed to maintaining the timehonored, family-rooted virtues and principles that have long made it one of Quebec’s most respected major employers and model corporate citizens.

“As a family-controlled corporation, we have the desire to build a lasting company and to pass on the legacy of a solid, responsible corporate citizen,” Isabelle explains. “We are committed to creating long-term value by investing in our employees’ wellness and development, fostering growth in the communities in which we are present, ensuring our prosperity, and adopting good practices to limit the environmental impact of our activities.”

For his part, Olivier is happy to extend much credit for the company’s remarkable and well-executed transformation journey to its loyal, dedicated and

highly engaged workforce.

“Our talented employees are at the heart of our success,” Olivier states. “Combined with the trust from our stakeholders, they really made a difference.

“We also had a clear strategy and executed our plan with diligence and determination, he adds, “and our solid financial position allowed us to make strategic acquisitions worth over C$2 billion.

“We have completed an exhaustive due diligence process for each acquisition and once we closed the deal, we quickly moved into an efficient and structured integration process.”

Adds Olivier: “We firmly believed that we could significantly leverage our manufacturing competencies in the flexible packaging industry that offered, and still offers, many opportunities for growth.

“The key is that we were willing to learn and to listen to the advice and knowledge that we were gaining along the way as we built momentum in the packaging industry,” he concludes.

“In the end, that’s what enabled us to execute our business plan diligently with agility and conviction, while being guided by TC Transcontinental’s values of respect, teamwork, performance and innovation.”

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Sustainable options to promote a circular economy are relevant today more than ever before, and brands across the globe are recognizing the roles they must play in a waste-free world. A group of the largest consumer product brands have partnered

with recycling leader TerraCycle in a first-of-its-kind waste-free initiative called Loop, announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Tom Szaky, TerraCycle CEO and ONEof100 Storyteller said: “As a response to the global challenge in managing waste and the opportunity to improve consumers’ experience, a group of committed global brands, retailers, infrastructure companies, along with the World Economic Forum have come together to create a new way to more responsibly consume products. Loop will not just eliminate the idea of packaging waste, but greatly improve the product experience and the convenience in how we shop.”

The concept works by having consumers visit www.loopstore.com or Loop retail partner websites to shop for the specially and beautifully designed wastefree packaging from partner brands.

Consumers receive their products in Loop’s exclusive shipping tote, eliminating the use of single-use shipping cardboard boxes. Loop collects the empty packaging placed inside the tote for pick-up at the consumers doorstep. The

packaging is cleaned with custom technologies developed by Loop scientists, replenished, and the products are returned to the consumer in the reusable Loop shipping tote.

The initiative stirs up nostalgic images of the milkman of the 1950s, who delivered reusable bottles at your doorstep and later picked them up to be refilled. Loop, as TerraCycle put it, is the milkman reimagined - honoring our past from a modern perspective.

P&G, another ONEof100 Storyteller brand and one of the major players in the coalition of Loop brands, used the World Economic Forum in Davos to announce the partnership, which helps further their own sustainability goals for 2030.

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As the Director of PAC NEXT and FOOD from 2012 to 2016, Alan requires little introduction. He will lead PAC’s webinar programs, food waste initiatives and liaise with important partners.

“I’m delighted to be able to support PAC again. I remain passionate about the important role that packaging plays in our society today. It’s crucial to create a forum whereby collaborative supply chain solutions can be identified that deliver circular outcomes, to reduce and eliminate packaging and food waste.”

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Dan Lantz joins the PAC team with over 30 years of experience in the waste management industry helping to improve efficiencies in material recovery facilities across North America.

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SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Tri-Tronics Company

Zarpac Inc.

SENSORS: LIMIT SWITCHES

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ARPAC LLC

ASCO Numatics

Balluff Canada Inc.

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc.

Festo Inc.

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Harlund Industries Ltd.

Omron Canada Inc.

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

Sort Production Products Ltd.

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Steeltek

Visuascan Inc.

Zarpac Inc.

SENSORS: OBJECT DETECTION

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ARPAC LLC

ASCO Numatics

Canada Inc. Baumer Inc. Capmatic Ltd.

AUTOMATION DEVICES

SENSORS:

Ahearn & Soper Inc. ARPAC LLC

ASCO Numatics

Baumer Inc.

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc.

Cognex Corp.

Festo Inc.

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Harlund Industries Ltd.

Omron Canada Inc.

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ARPAC

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc.

Cognex Corp.

Plexpack

SEW Eurodrive Company of Canada Ltd.

SERVO MOTORS

ABB Inc.

Aesus Packaging Systems, Inc.

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

Bosch Rexroth Canada Capmatic Ltd.

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd.

Festo Inc.

Filamatic

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

Lapp Group Canada

Lenze Americas

Mecano Industrie

North American Laser Systems

Omron Canada Inc.

Pilz Automation Safety Canada LP

Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Plexpack

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

Septimatech Group Inc.

SEW Eurodrive Company of Canada Ltd.

Siemens Canada Limited

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Steeltek - A Div. of 877418 Ont. Ltd.

Trinamics Incorporated

Wainbee Limited

Zarpac Inc.

SIGNAL TOWERS

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ARPAC LLC

Balluff Canada Inc.

Plan Automation Inc.

Plexpack

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

Sort Production Products Ltd.

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Steeltek - A Div. of 877418 Ont. Ltd.

Visuascan Inc.

SOFTWARE PROGRAM

Ahearn & Soper Inc.

ARPAC LLC

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

Bosch Rexroth Canada

Capmatic Ltd.

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd.

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc.

Honeywell Intelligrated

MD Packaging Inc.

Mettler-Toledo Inc.

North American Laser Systems

Omron Canada Inc.

Pilz Automation Safety Canada LP

Plan Automation Inc.

Plexpack

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

Sensor Products Inc.

Siemens Canada Limited

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

Visuascan Inc.

Yaskawa Canada, Inc.

Zarpac Inc.

SENSORS: Inductive and Capacitive

Proximity Sensors • Photoelectric Sensors

• Level Sensors • Ultrasonic Sensors

• Magnetic Sensors • Limit Switches • Safety Interlocks

SWITCHES: Solid State Relays • Contactors and Overloads • Soft Starters • Definite Purpose Contactors • Mini Circuit Breakers • Electromechanical Relays • Pushbuttons and Pilot Devices

CONTROLS: Energy Meters • Current Transformers • Transducers • Power Supplies • Panel Meters • Time Delay Relays • Current-, Voltage- and Phase Monitoring Controls

CARLO GAVAZZI has the solution for your application needs, whether it’s our industry leading solid state relays, energy meters, contactors, motor controls, monitoring relays or sensors, now available with IO-Link communications. Contact us today, and one of our field sales representatives will show you why we are one of the fastest growing automation companies worldwide. We’ll even provide a free evaluation sample to qualified OEMs.

SVC Series Up to 200 bags/min Pillow, block-bottom, gusseted; imprinted or non-imprinted off the reel, heatsealable packaging material and weldable monofilm

SVE 2520 DZ Up to 200 bags/min (pillow); up to 100 doy zip bag/min Pillow, gusseted, block-bottom, corner seal, full corner seal, 3-sided and 3-sided zip, doy and doy zip

CAM PACKAGING SYSTEMS

412 25 ppm Polyethylene, polypropylene,

Processing New Innovations In Packaging

London, Ontario — Crawford Packaging is setting its sights on bringing its knowledge-based solutions to the Food Processing market. In order to accomplish this, Crawford is excited to announce the appointment of Carey Berdock to lead the Food Processing division for the organization. While Crawford currently enjoys extensive reach into this market, Berdock’s unique experience will prove to be invaluable when paired with the organization’s unrelenting search for innovation through automation and value-added solutions.

Coming to Crawford from Bunzl Canada, Berdock previously held the title of Canadian Director of Sales — Food Processing. In this position, he gathered an in-depth understanding of the needs of food processors, and more specifically, the problems that they face. Crawford Packaging’s commitment to full-service packaging solutions offered Berdock the chance to provide clients with an all-encompassing answer to their packaging problems.

Andy Craig, Executive Vice President at Crawford Packaging, thinks that Berdock’s appointment is exactly what Crawford — and the industry — needs to revolutionize food-processing packaging.

“Carey comes to us with a wealth of knowledge in the Canadian distribution business and understands how to deliver high performance to clients.”

Berdock, now growing accustomed to Crawford’s flexible and entrepreneurial environment, has seen opportunities that he never thought possible.

“I am honoured to be joining the Crawford family. Crawford is a company built on forward thinking and innovation. I look forward to further developing our Food Processing division, utilizing the solution based and customer-centric approach that has led to Crawford being an industry leader for both the industrial and produce segments.”

Crawford’s ability to offer automation and consumable packaging solutions has set it apart in the industry. The entire team at Crawford is excited to work with Berdock and leverage him in growing the company’s presence in this market.

seal Patented and unique vacuum arch which enables our systems to run the thinnest

Code 128, Code 29, Code 93, GS1-128, GS1 Databar.

Interleaved, Code 39, Code 128 (A,C), ITF-14, Paraf, HIBC 43, Binary, 2D matrix, PDF 417

VIAjet T-Series Piezoelectric Inkjet

NORDSON CANADA, LIMITED (in Canada: Edmonton, AB; Winnipeg, MB; Timeco-Marten, Calgary, AB)

BC 5100 Bar Code Reader LogiComm Control System Coabar, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 93, Code 128, UPC/EAN, Pharmacode, Bobst Code

PACKAGING EQUIPMENT SOLUTIONS INC.

Laetus All Modular

PINEBERRY MANUFACTURING INC.

Pineberry HSF Series Friction Feeder with Barcode Reader 1D, 2D, EPS, QR Code, Pharmacode, Barcode, Code 39, Code 128, Data Matrix, Micro PDF, RFID Integrated or Stand-Alone

Pineberry SF Series Friction Feeder with Barcode Reader 1D, 2D, EPS, QR Code, Pharmacode, Barcode, Code 39, Code 128, Data Matrix, Micro PDF, RFID Integrated or Stand-Alone

or Horizontal

PPI TECHNOLOGIES GROUP (in Canada: Aesus Packaging Systems, Pointe Claire, QC; Charles Downer & Co., Ltd, Richmond Hill, ON; Kelloggs Corn Flakes Toronto Ontario) PSG Yes All Check all

QUICKLABEL

QL-30/60

ROBATECH GLUING TECHNOLOGY (ROBATECH CANADA) (in Canada:

ment)

Barcode SQUID INK MANUFACTURING

CoPilot Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 128, UCC-128, SCC-14 ITF, SCC-14 28, SSCC-18, MSI, DataMatrix, QR, MicroQR and PDF417 bar codes standard

CoPilot 128 Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 128, UCC-128, SCC-14 ITF, SCC-14 28, SSCC-18, MSI, DataMatrix, QR, MicroQR and PDF417 bar codes standard

CoPilot 256 As above

CoPilot 500 As above

TNA NORTH AMERICA, INC.

TNA intelli-read 3 UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN8, EAN13

VALCO MELTON Code Readers MS-911 Code 39, Codabar, Code 128, interleaved 2 of 5, Code 93, UPC/EAN/Pharma, OMR, AR, Datamatrix, Braille

Flat and/ or Mushroom Corks

AROL Saturnor ® R, F or RF 50-900 R: Natural Straight Corks, F: Natural Mushroom Corks, RF-Both various 150mm Multi-Head Rotary Corker for Straight or Mushroom Corks

AROL Kamma PK-PKV 50-900 Press On Corks and Caps various various

Multi-Head Rotary Closer for Plastic Mushroom/T-Shaped Natural

AROL Gemini ® R, F and RF to 50bpm max Corks - R: Natural Straight, F: Natural Champagne, RF: Both various various Single Head Corker for

and/or Mushroom Corks AROL Reverse 50-900 Al Roll On, ROPP from Glass/PRB/De-Cap Plastic AROL Eagle PK, VA or VP-PP to 50 PK: pre-threaded plastic, VA:Al. RO, ROPP, VP-PP:

YOUR SUCCESS, OUR PRIORITY.

We understand your unique challenges

Cartoning

Case Packing

Tray Packing

Palletizing

Custom Automation

GEOSAF PRESENTS BAUMER

90° INFEED PACKER

Translate one lane of product into multiple row

Compact case packer

With multiple packaging conﬁgurations for containers of all shapes and sizes, this ﬂexible case packer receives high marks for ease of changeover within 15 minutes. This machine can handle any grouping of round, square, oblong or rectangular containers. Additionally, it can also do open top, trays, wraparound and display cases.

Options & Features

Film only

Film with tray

Retail ready case

Wraparound case

Stacked products

Up to 55 cpm

Heat and Control® offers a complete line of metal detectors, checkweighers, and X-ray inspection systems for pharmaceutical and food products from the leading manufacturers: Ishida and CEIA®

CEIA Metal Detection

The world’s largest manufacturer of metal detectors, with more than 90,000 units installed. Systems include THS/MS21 for food products, with optional USDA-certified construction (e.g., dairy, meats, poultry) and PH21-Series for pharmaceutical products (e.g., pills, tablets, capsules); both deliver unparalleled accuracy and sensitivity to all metals and provide high throughput rate.

Ishida X-ray Inspection

Find foreign objects, including metal, glass, bone, plastic, hard rubber, shell, and stones. Or detect product defects, like cracks, voids, missing items, and improper weights.

Ishida Checkweighers

Verify product weight, count, or missing items with DACS checkweighers. User-friendly controls include advanced data collection and management features.

V120i The smart upgrade to digital coding - and the most cost effective solution for flexible packaging in its class.

V230i For general purpose digital TTO coding with reduced total cost of ownership labels, the V220i delivers the coding performance

height from 0.6mm to size of mark field)

Intermittemnt - 400mm/s; Continuous 10 mm/s - 750 mm/s Intermittent - 32mm x 55mm; Continuous 32mm x 500mm

Up to 400mm p/ second Intermittent - 32mm - 32 x 55 & 53mm 53 x 55mm; Continuous32mm - 32 x 500 & 53 - 53 x 500mm

Unlimited Increased power and speed, combined with an optional IP65-rated version, result in the D620i laser, that is equal to the most demanding applications and environments. RapidScan makes our lasers 20% faster for high-speed applications than other scribing lasers.

Unlimited Domino's i-Tech Ribbon Drive offers 4 ribbon save settings including 'Economy Mode' which allows you to use up to 60% less ribbon per print - without affecting print quality.

Unlimited The V230i prints high resolution codes, text and images onto flexible foils, films and labels. Unlike other thermal transfer coders, the V230i uses intelligent Technology to meet all your general purpose coding needs while keeping your costs as low as possible. The i-Tech Ribbon Drive uses up to 60% less

FlexLink’s high-performance production flow delivers results. Our solutions for the food and dairy industries are safe and modular with a one-week shorter ramp-up compared to the competition and reduced cleaning time by over 25%.

The FoodTech offer, including conveying solutions, handling functions and line control, lowers your total cost of deployment, increasing your overall equipment effectiveness with one percent or more.

For more information call FlexLink on +1 888-748-8677 or email us at info.ca@flexlink.com

Save Space and Increase Throughput.

Like to minimize the cost of ownership? Ryson can help. Our Spiral Conveyors need less floor space than conventional conveyors and are faster and more reliable than any elevator or lift. All our products are designed for low maintenance and long life and our proprietary modular construction makes future reconfiguring cost effective.

Quality and service come first at Ryson. We are the number one spiral manufacturer in the USA. For application assistance or more information, give us a call or visit www.ryson.com

ALEX E. JONES & ASSOCIATES LTD.

Mamata ® Vega Pack M-200 Bag - Stand-up Pouch Up to 100ppm

Mamata ® Vega Pack iX260 Pre-Made Stand-up Pouch Up to 120ppm

Hayssen ® Ultima Series Bag Up to 160ppm

High Speed/Accuracy, Mixing, Counting, Customized solutions for difficult applications, multipoint distribution, stainless hoppers, large applications

Continuous motion, Servo Driven, Automatic Change-over

Intermittent and Continuous motion, Servo Driven, Automatic Change-over

SUPERIOR PACKAGING STARTS WITH REISER

Reiser’s form/fill/seal technology and packaging expertise are the powerful combination you need to produce a superior package.

n Versatile machines produce vacuum, MAP and VSP packages.

n Unrivaled package quality at the highest production speeds.

n Consistent, high-quality package seals virtually eliminate leakers.

n Modular machines are tailored to meet your specific requirements.

n Features rapid air forming to allow the use of thinner, less expensive films while maintaining package integrity.

n Hygienic design and stainless steel construction for superior sanitation.

n Backed by Reiser’s industry-leading team of service and support experts.

Snack, Confectionary, IQF, Bakery, Pharma, Grain, Powders

Hayssen

HFFS - Snack, Confectionary, IQF, Bakery, Pharma, Grain, Powders

ActiveMover transfer system - precise, fast, robust, and flexible With workpiece pallet changeover up to 10 times as fast, Rexroth’s ActiveMover transfer system significantly increases productivity in short cycle applications. When you need to transport products with great speed and

the new linear motor transfer system from Rexroth sets new standards of performance. Because the Factory of the Future begins

IN METAL DETECTION

The world’s first metal detector to use multiple field directions, the Interceptor DF greatly improves the detection of ultra-thin contaminants that are often encountered in many processing lines.

The Interceptor DF has been designed to inspect low profile products such as confectionery, chocolate, bakery and nutritional bars.

The new Meat Pump Pipeline is optimized for inspecting metal contaminant in high viscosity meats transported through an enclosed pipe.

With the hygienic design, this system is easier to dismantle and clean to prevent bacteria accumulations. IP69K rated and USDA compliant, it can withstand harsh meat processing environments and high-pressurized washdowns.

CodeVu, TotalView

Teledyne TapTone T4000-F LN2 dosed teas, juices and water PET containers 5-10psi drop 300ft/min 1-4 primary Inspection sensors; (Compression, X-Ray, Proximity, Laser) CapVu, CodeVu,

Laboratory >4000fpm <0.8mm Flap Gate Further examine rejected product from an in-line Large Bag or Gravity detection system. Quickly filter out contaminants and reclaim good product.

Halo Various Automatic Testing System; Provides automatic, accurate and consistent tests. Decreases manual testing frequency and machine downtime. System has impressive ROI.

Interceptor >4000fpm <0.1mm Various Simultaneous Multi-Frequency Operation, Broad Spectrum Frequency Transmission, ARM Processors: Multiple Channel Signal Processing, 100% Detection Sensitivity Increase, Noise Immunity Structure. Cost effective alternative to x-ray.

Interceptor DF >1000fpm ‚â§0.5mm Various World's First Divergent Field Technology to use multiple field directions, Improved detection of ultra-thin contaminants, Simultaneous Multi-Frequency Operation, Broad Spectrum Frequency Transmission, ARM Processors: Multiple Channel Signal Processing, 100% Detection Sensitivity Increase, Noise Immunity Structure, Single Pass Product ‚ÄúLearn‚Äù, Automatic Product Tracking, Contact Reporter Software Included

‚â§0.8mm Diverter Customized to achieve superior results in pumped applications. Hygienic design supports sanitation processes and quick disassembly function permits easy cleaning. Heavy-duty IP69K rated construction. Stainless steel and Delrin high pressure pipe configurations ensure long-term resilience and stability in meat processing applications. Available diverter valve reject device accurately removes contaminated product from the flow, minimizing product waste and preventing costly recalls.

HEAT AND CONTROL CANADA, INC.

CEIA THS/21 MS Variable Highest sensitivity & stability

Various USDA-approved, Multiple spectrum, eliminates false rejects, continous self recalibration, one-pass Autolearn, IP69K washdown

CEIA THS/FB Variable Highest possible Push plate, air blast Conveyor system for THS detectors, integrated controls

CEIA THS/G21 Variable Highest possible Various Single frequency cancels environmental interference, continuous selfcalibration, auto learn, IP69K washdown

CEIA THS/21E Variable Highest possible Various Economical single & three frequency models, continuous self-calibration, auto learn, IP69K washdown

CEIA THS/RB-800 Variable Highest possible Various 800mm long, Slim-line metal detector integrated with conveyor, controls

LOMA SYSTEMS, AN ITW COMPANY (in Canada: PAL Distributors, Calgary, Alberta; PAL Distributors, Winnepeg, Manitoba)

IQ4 Lock-PH Pharmaceutical Metal Detector Lift-flap, diverter, washin-place, dust tight IP66 rating, certified with full IQ/OQ/PQ documentation, 7" color touchscreen, Auto-Learn, DDS vector display

IQ4 Waferthin Metal Detector Signal only IP69K rating, Variable Frequency Technology, 7" color touchscreen, Auto-Learn, DDS vector display

IQ4 Vertical Fall Metal Detector Sealed valve, cowbell IP69K rating, Variable Frequency Technology, 7" color touchscreen, Auto-Learn, DDS vector display IQ4 Pipeline Metal Detector ARI, ARU or ARL valve IP69K rating, Variable Frequency Technology, 7" color touchscreen, Auto-Learn, DDS vector display

IQ4 Metal Detector Search Head Stop on detect, pusher, airblast (single or dual nozzle) IP69K rating, Variable Frequency Technology, 7" color touchscreen, Auto-Learn, DDS vector display

IQ4/CW3 Combination

Detector & Checkweigher System 5-75 m/min Pusher, airblast (single or dual nozzle), retracting band IP66 rating, fully integrated machine with

color touchscreen IQ4 Flex Conveyor System 40-120 ft/min Belt-stop, Pusher,

200fpm UP to 0.5mm SOD, Pusher, Plow Quick Delivery Sanicon MD Conveyor Up to 300fpm Up to 0.5mm SOD, Pusher, Plow Retract Custom Sanitary MD Conveyor Liquiscan Metal Detector 300GPM+

BETTER PORTIONING

Imagine a factory floor that can adapt to new tasks at any time, with minimal effort –Welcome to the Factory of the Future!

Whether you require precise positioning with minimum cycle times, fast changeover for small-size batches or flexible adaptation to changes in production, Bosch Rexroth’s i4.0-ready technologies for

and costs. Because the Factory of the Future begins Now. develops

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EM1622TK, EM1636T, EM1636TK)

L-Sealers (EM2016T(K), EM2028T(K), EM2040T(K), EM2050T(K), EM2070TK, EM2080TK, EM20100TK, EM3040T(K), EM3050T(K), EM3070TK, EM3080TK, EM30100TK, EM4040T(K), EM4050T(K), EM4070TK, EM4080TK, EM40100TK, EM5050TK, EM5070TK, EM5080TK, EM50100TK)

Performance Series Shrink Tunnel (ET1608-30, ET161036, ET1610-48, ET2010-36)

Professional Series Shrink Tunnel (ET2008, ET2012, ET2016, ET2020, ET2408, ET2412, ET2416, ET2420, ET3608, ET3612, ET3616, ET3620, ET4808, ET4812, ET4816, ET4820, ET5608, ET5612, ET5616, ET5620, ET7008, ET7012, ET7016, ET7020)

You and Me Writing the Future Together

See how YuMi - the industry’s first truly collaborative dual arm robot - can facilitate to numerous applications side by side with your employees. YuMi stands for “You and Me, working together”, and with a 500 Gram load per arm paired with a 500 Millimeter reach, YuMi is ideal for efficiently working in hard to reach areas with accuracy. www.abb.com/robotics

NOTHINGSAYS FRESH like FABBRI P A CKAGING

Fabbri Automatic Stretch Wrappers produce highly attractive packages that make your products look fresh and “just packed” Fabbri Stretch Wrappers use stretch ﬁlm to package fresh sausage in preformed trays to provide an in-store wrapped appearance They employ four-way stretch technology to produce tight, over-the-ﬂange wrinkle-free packages with securely sealed b ottoms and a superb case presentation

And here’s something you might ﬁnd even more attractive: Fabbri Stretch Wrappers can help increase your proﬁtability Fabbri packaging is produced using low-cost packaging materials And when you factor in its Best in Class low cost of ownership, the Fabbri Stretch Wrapper is your most economical and affordable packaging solution

Compact and robust servo-driven Fabbri packaging machines are built for speed, versatility and the highest levels of productivity Fabbri Stretch Wrappers can handle a wide range of tray sizes with no changeovers, producing up to 62 packs per minute All models feature a user-friendly full-size control panel for easy operation and maintenance Test the Fabbri at our Reiser Customer Center and see for yourself how it can improve your packaging Contact Reiser today

Your customers will tell you they have more on the line than dinner. It’s why we built the checkweigher and metal detector combination system. This integrated solution protects consumers by detecting the smallest contaminants and with high accuracy weighing cuts waste while improving safety compliance.

Learn more about the industry’s most reliable, precise and smallest footprint in the industry at anritsu.com/infivis.

1500ppm

Pack 240 Pro Up to 120mpm and 1500ppm Air Knife, Piston Arm, Drop Nose, Etc.

to 400mm in Width and 152mm in Height Raw Meat Product Inspection: Automatic product inspection and rejection for: contaminants, check-weighing and defects. TRUE 3rd party rated AMI rated sanitary construction cleanable to a micro-biological level. Patented MDX Dual Energy X-ray for unparalleled detection of low-density contaminants such as: plastic, rubber, bones, stones, glass, etc. EagleTrace Traceability Software.

to 242mm in Width and 101mm in Height Packaged Product Inspection: Automatic product inspection and rejection for: contaminants, check-weighing and defects. Patented MDX Dual Energy X-ray for unparalleled detection of low-density contaminants such as: plastic, rubber calcified bones, stones, glass, etc. EagleTrace Traceability Software.

Pack 430 Pro Up to 120mpm and 1500ppm Air Knife, Piston Arm, Drop Nose, Etc. Up to 434mm in Width and 152mm in Height Packaged Product Inspection: Automatic product inspection and rejection for: contaminants, check-weighing and defects. Patented MDX Dual Energy X-ray for unparalleled detection of low-density contaminants.

Pack 1000 Pro Up to 120mpm and 1500ppm Air Knife, Piston Arm, Drop Nose, Etc. Up to 729mm in Width and 558mm in Height Packaged Product Inspection: Automatic product inspection and rejection for: contaminants, check-weighing and defects. Patented MDX Dual Energy X-ray for unparalleled detection of low-density contaminants such as: plastic, rubber bones, stones, glass, etc. EagleTrace Traceability Software. Can inspect randomly in-feed cases from multiple lines.

Pack 720 Pro Up to 120mpm and 1500ppm Air Knife, Piston Arm, Drop Nose, Etc. Up to 120mpm and 1500ppm Packaged Product Inspection: Automatic product inspection and rejection for: contaminants, check-weighing

MDX Dual Energy X-ray for unparalleled detection of low-density contaminants.

X5 SpaceSaver/ CW3 X-ray and Checkweigher Combination System

X5c/CW3 X-Ray and Checkweigher Combination System

Pack

Pro Up to 120mpm and 1500ppm Air Knife, Piston, Arm, Drop Nose, Etc.

to 550mm in Width and 152mm in Height Packaged Product Inspection: Automatic product inspection

FA3 B/C Up to 120 fpm Air Knife, Piston Arm, Drop Nose, Etc. Up to 540mm in Width and 180mm in Height Raw meat or case Fat Analysis DEXA inspection for Chemical Lean (fat to lean ratio) measurement, protein/moisture

to 60m/min. As above Various Economical entry-level sys. includes masking functions, user-friendly cont. no -tools conveyor removal

Various Large carton inspection, user-friendly controls, no tools conveyor removal

m/min. Various up to 150mm high; up to 400mm wide Detects low-density objects in overlapping products

LOMA SYSTEMS, AN ITW COMPANY (in Canada: PAL Distributors, Calgary, Alberta; PAL Distributors, Winnepeg, Manitoba)

X5 XL800 X-Ray Inspection System 10-50 m/min Stop on detect IP66 rating, color touchscreen, lead-free construction, modular (intralox) belt, automated diagnostics, low utility power consumption

X5 Pack X-Ray Inspection System 20-80 m/min Pusher, airblast (single or dual nozzle) IP66 rating, Adaptive Array Technology, color touchscreen, lead-free construction, automated diagnostics, low utility power consumption

X5 SpaceSaver X-Ray Inspection System

20-75 m/min Pusher, airblast (single or dual nozzle) IP66 rating, Adaptive Array Technology, color touchscreen, lead-free construction, automated diagnostics, low utility power consumption

X5 Pipeline X-Ray Inspection System ARL valve 64 mm or 75 mm pipe diameter IP69k rating, color touchscreen, lead-free construction, automated diagnostics, low utility power consumption

X5 Bulkflow X-Ray Inspection System

X5c Compact X-Ray Inspection System

30-80 m/min Single-flap, dual-flap, multiflap, carriage Retract Band IP66 rating, Adaptive Array Technology, color touchscreen, lead-free construction, automated diagnostics, low utility power consumption

10-50 m/min Pusher, airblast (single or dual nozzle) Smallest footprint, IP66 rating, color touchscreen, lead-free construction, automated diagnostics, low utility power consumption

ADDRESSES

Checkweighers

Creamery Way Exton PA 19341 Tel: 6105247350 Fax: 6105247346

American Packaging Machinery

Apm

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Anritsu See Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

Anypack Packaging Machinery Inc.

1001-1265 Beach Ave Vancouver BC V6E 1V4 Tel: 6046710236

Arol USA

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

ARPAC LLC

9555 W Irving Park Rd Schiller Park IL 60176 Tel: 8476789034 Fax: 8476717006

Artypac Automation Inc.

3315 boul Industriel Laval QC H7L 4S3 Tel: 4506686600 Fax: 4506686633

ASCO Numatics 17 Airport Rd Brantford ON N3T 5M8 Tel: 5197582700 Fax: 5197585540

Astro-Med Inc.

3555 rue Isabelle bureau 111 Brossard QC J4Y 2R2 Tel: 4506199973 Fax: 4506199976

ATI Industrial Automation

1031 Goodworth Dr Apex NC 27539 Tel: 9197720115 Fax: 9197728259

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.

111 Progress Ave Scarborough ON M1P 2Y9

Tel: 4162988101 Fax: 4162972218

ATS - Tanner Banding Systems Inc.

A-2390 Wyecroft Rd Oakville ON L6L 6M8 Tel: 9058159999 Fax: 9058150443

9058470123

Fax: 6105247346

Auger Fabrication

418 Creamery Way Exton PA 19341 Tel: 6105243350 Fax: 6103632821

Auto Labe

3101 Industrial Ave Two Ft. Pierce FL 34946 Tel: 7724654441 Fax: 7724655177

Automated Packaging Systems Inc. See Pack Pro Systems, Inc. Stouffville, ON

B&T Sales Inc

42 Crawford Dr Ajax ON L1S 3A8 Tel: 9054261668

B&H Labeling Systems See Omnifission, Mississauga, ON

B&R Industrial Automation Inc.

43-2501 Rutherford Rd Vaughan ON L4K 2N6

Tel: 9054179500 Fax: 9054179509

Balluff Canada Inc.

2840 Argentia Rd Unit 1-2 Mississauga ON L5N 8G4 Tel: 9058161494 Fax: 9058161411

Banding Systems Bandall

289 Broadway Ave Orangeville ON L9W 1L2 Tel: 8667791492 Fax: 4164790787

Barcode Graphics Inc.

5-25 Brodie Dr Richmond Hill ON L4B 3K7

Tel: 9057701154 Fax: 9057871575

Baumer hhs Corp.

10570 Success Lane Dayton OH 45458

Tel: 9378863160 Fax: 9378863161

Baumer Inc.

4046 Mainway Dr Burlington ON L7M 4B9

Tel: 9053358444 Fax: 9053358320

Bear Label Machines

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Beckhoff

7-2900 Argentia Rd Mississauga ON L5N 7X9

Tel: 2896271900 Fax: 9058521535

Bell-Mark Sales

331 Changebridge Rd Pine Brook NJ 07058

Tel: 9738820202 Fax: 9738084616

Bertolaso SPA

See Newmapak Ltd

Best Packaging Systems 1-8699 Escarpment Way Milton ON L9T 0J5

Tel: 9058643005 Fax: 9058646245

Beumer Corporation

800 Apgar Dr Somerset NJ 08873 Tel: 7328932800 Fax: 7328050475

Beverage Machinery Service, Inc.

200 Connie Cr., Unit 7 Concord ON L4K 1M1 Tel: 9056603889 Fax: 9056603214

Bivans Corporation

2431 Dallas St Los Angeles CA 90031 Tel: 3232254248 Fax: 3232257316

Bizerba Canada Inc. 6411 Edwards Blvd Mississauga ON L5T 2P7 Tel: 9056709498 Fax: 9058160497

BluePrint Automation (BPA) See Techno Pak

Bob Faulds and Associates Ltd.

1209-90 Cordova Ave Etobicoke ON M9A 2H8 Tel: 4162363363 Fax: 4162369538

Bosch Kliklok

See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd,.

Bosch Packaging Systems AG

See Charles Downer Co. Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON

Bosch Packaging Systems GmbH

See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON

Bosch Packaging Technology (Kliklok-Woodman)

See See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON.

Bosch Packaging Technology Inc.

See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON

Bosch Rexroth Canada 3426 Mainway Dr Burlington ON L7M 1A8 Tel: 9053355511 Fax: 9053354189

Celsius Instruments

See Plan Automation

Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

7-52 West Beaver Creek Richmond Hill ON L4B 1L9

Tel: 9058822222 Fax: 9058820437

Chisholm Machinery Solutions

5760 Valley Way Niagara Falls ON L2E 6T3

Tel: 9053561119 Fax: 9053569170

CiMa-Pak Corporation

2798 Thamesgate Drive Unit 5 Mississauga ON L4T

4E8 Tel: 905-612-0053

Coding Products of Canada Ltd.

7 Innovation Dr Hamilton ON L9H 7H9

Tel: 9056901471 Fax: 9056908393

Cognex Corp.

1 Vision Dr Natick MA 01760

Tel: 5086503000 Fax: 5086503344

Columbia Machine

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Columbia Okura

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Combiscale LLC

4760 NW 128th St Opa Locka FL 33054

Tel: 3058958909 Fax: 3056887772

Compacker

9104 N Zenith Davenport IA 52809

Tel: 5633912751 Fax: 5633918598

Consolidated Technologies Inc.

252 rue Joseph-Carrier Vaudreuil-Dorion QC J7V 5V5

Tel: 4504248464 Fax: 4504248792

Cousineau Packaging Inc.

PO Box 158 Campbellville ON L0L 1B0

Tel: 5197660707 Fax: 5197660807

Cousins Packaging Inc. 105 Claireport Cres Etobicoke ON M9V 2K1 Tel: 4167431341 Fax: 4167431831

Crown Metal Packaging Canada LP 21 Fenmar Dr Weston ON M9L 2Y9

4167416002 Fax: 4167473420 Crown Packaging Ltd. P.O. Box 94188 Richmond BC V6Y 2A4

6042777111

Currie Machinery Co. 1150 Walsh Ave., PO Box 192 Santa Clara CA 95052 Tel: 4087270422 Fax: 4087278892

Damark Shrink Packaging Machinery

See Plexpack

Delkor Systems, Inc.

4300 Round Lake Rd W St. Paul MN 55112

Tel: 651-348-6700 Fax: 6513486705

Dependable Marking Systems Ltd.

585 Wenworth St E Unit 42 Oshawa ON L1H 3V8

Tel: 9054331383 Fax: 9054331972

Descon Conveyor Systems

1-1274 Ringwell Dr Newmarket ON L3Y 9C7

Tel: 9059530455 Fax: 9059531335

Diagraph

See Visuascan Inc.

DJS Enterprises

6-2700 14th Ave Markham ON L3R 0J1

Tel: 9054757644 Fax: 9054757645

Domino Printing Solutions Inc.

1-200 North Service Rd E Suite 317 Oakville ON L6M 2Y1

Tel: 9058292430 Fax: 9058291842

Dorner

975 Cottonwood Ave PO Box 20 Hartland WI 53029 Tel: 2623677600 Fax: 2623675827

Doverco Inc.

2111, 32e Ave Montréal QC H8T 3J1

Tel: 5144206001 Fax: 5144206050

E Eagle PI

See Banding Systems, Orangeville, ON

EAM-Mosca Canada Ltd.

See Attache Tout Inc., 17825 Rue Lapointe,Mirabel, QC J7J 1P3

Eastey Enterprises

7041 Boone Ave Brooklyn Park MN 55428 Tel: 8008359344 Fax: 7637958867

ECHOtape

100-9001 rue Avon LaSalle QC H4X 2G8 Tel: 5144898689 Fax: 5144899707

Eckert Machines Inc.

3841 Portage Rd Niagara Falls ON L2J 2L1 Tel: 9053568356 Fax: 9053561704

EDL Packaging Engineers, Inc.

See Flexi-Pack Machinery Solutions Inc.,

Woodbridge, ON

Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd.

215 Hempstead Dr Hamilton ON L8W 2E6

Tel: 9053853201 Fax: 9053858775

Elantech Inc.

2567 rue de Miniac St Laurent QC H4S 1E5

Tel: 5143338853 Fax: 5143331292

Elliott Mfg. Co. Inc.

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited

Ellis Packaging

1830 Sandstone Manor Pickering ON L1W 3Y1 Tel: 4167987715

Elmar Worldwide See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Emerson - ASCO Division

17 Airport Road, PO Box 160 Brantford ON N3T 5M8

Tel: 519-758-2700 Fax: 519-758-5540

Empress Packaging Inc.

312 Alliance Rd Milton ON L9T 2V2

Tel: 9058750220 Fax: 9058754188

EndFlex LLC

4760 NW 128th St Opa Locka Miami FL 33054

Tel: (305) 622-4070

Endflex Packaging Machinery

4700 NW 128 St Miami FL 33054

Tel: 3056224070 Fax: 3056887772

Eriez

2200 Asbury Rd Erie PA 16506 Tel: 8148356000 Fax: 8148384960

Espera

See Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment, Concord ON

Euroimpianti Spa

See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

Eurostar SRL

See Newmapak Ltd. F

FANUC Canada, Ltd.

See FANUC Canada, Ltee

Farm Credit Canada

1800 Hamilton St Regina SK S4P 4L3

Tel: 8552306821

Feed Systems, Inc.

See Newmapak Ltd

Ferrum

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Festo Inc.

See Aztec Electrical Supply, Concord, ON

Filamatic

See Bellatrx, Pointe-Claire, QC

Fineline Barcode Technologies

5600 rue Cypihot Saint-Laurent QC H4S 1V7

Tel: 5147470403 Fax: 5147472396

Fki Industries Canada Ltd.

5-500 Wentworth St E Oshawa ON L1H 3V9 Tel: 9057250550 Fax: 9057252688

Flexi-Pack Machinery Solutions Inc.

530 Velmar Dr Woodbridge ON L4L 8H8 Tel: 4165770722

Flexlink Systems Canada

See PharmaCos Machinery Inc Saint-Laurent, QC

Formost Fuji Corporation

See Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.

Forte Labels & Shrink Sleeves Inc.

2-77 Cortland Ave Concord ON L4K 3S9 Tel: 9056697426

Fortress Technology Inc.

51 Grand Marshall Dr Toronto ON M1B 5N6 Tel: 4167542898 Fax: 4167542976

Frazier & Son

See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON G

Garvey Corporation

208 S Route 73 Blue Anchor NJ 08037

Tel: 6095612450 Fax: 6095612328

Gebo Cermex Canada Inc. 1045 Hwy 13 Laval QC H7W 4V3 Tel: 4509733337 Fax: 4509733336

General Conveyor Co. Ltd.

155 Englehard Dr Aurora ON L4G 3V1 Tel: 9057277922 Fax: 9058411056

General Packaging Equipment Co.

6048 Westview Dr Houston TX 77055

Tel: 7136864331 Fax: 7136833967

Geosaf Inc.

803-5605 av de Gaspé Montréal QC H2T 2A4

Tel: 5143314147 Fax: 5143314226

GO Packaging

735 Oval Crt Burlington ON L7L 6A9

Tel: 9056323662 Fax: 9056392290

Greydon Inc.

See Greydon Canada, Montréal, Québec

Harlund Industries Ltd.

101-17973 106th Ave Edmonton AB T5S 2H1 Tel: 7804844400 Fax: 7804843646

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC

175 John Quincy Adams Rd Taunton MA 02780

Tel: 5088842500 Fax: 5088842501

Harting Canada, Inc.

300-475 av Dumont Dorval QC H9S 5W2

Tel: 5149447949 Fax: 8556596654

Hartness International

See Alex E. Jones & Assoc.

Hauser Machinery Ltd.

45 Nantucket Blvd. Scarborough ON M1P 2N5

Tel: 4167591136 Fax: 4167592647

Hayssensandiacre See Alex E. Jones & Assoc.

Heat and Control Canada, Inc.

13-1111 Franklin Blvd Cambridge ON N1R 8B5

Tel: 5196231100 Fax: 5196231052

Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment

61 Pippin Rd Concord ON L4K 4N6

Tel: 9056696770 Fax: 9056695793

Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Limited

5600 Keaton Cres Mississauga ON L5R 3K2

Tel: 9053624502

Hibar Systems Limited

35 Pollard St Richmond Hill ON L4B 1A8

Tel: 9057312400 Fax: 9057316035

HMA Systems

12-185 Advance Blvd Brampton ON L6T 4Y3 Tel: 9054588182 Fax: 9054580758

Honeywell Intelligrated

5-500 Wentworth St E Oshawa ON L1H 3V9 Tel: 9057435000 Fax: 9057252688

IICE USA, Mack Brooks Exhibitions

Inc.

405-641 West Lake St Chicago IL 60661

Tel: 3128099260

igus Inc.

257 Ferris Ave Rumford RI 02916

Tel: 4014382200 Fax: 4014387270

Ilapak Inc.

105 Pheasant Run Newtown PA 18940

Tel: 2155792900 Fax: 2155799959

Impak Packaging Systems Inc.

4-445 Milner Ave Scarborough ON M1B 2K4

Tel: 4162990960 Fax: 4162999566

ITW Dynatec

See HMA Systems (Brampton, ON

ITW Muller 1760 55th Ave Lachine QC H8T 3J5

Tel: 5144269248 Fax: 5144268993

JJG Packaging

92 Henderson Dr Whitby ON L1N 7Y8

Tel: 9054307647 Fax: 9054303435

Kaps All Packaging Systems Inc See Newmapak Ltd

KHK USA Inc.

259 Elm Place Mineola NY 11501

Tel: 5162483850 Fax: 5162484385

Kiwi Coders Corp.

265 E Messner Dr Wheeling IL 60090

Tel: 8475414511 Fax: 8475416332

Klockner Pentaplast of Canada, Inc.

604-419 King St W Oshawa Executive Centre Oshawa ON L1J 2K5

Tel: 9054334232 Fax: 9054363478

Komcan Inc.

See Komori Printing Presses

Krones Ag

Boehmerwaldstr 5 Tel: +49 940 1700 Fax: +49 940 1702

Krones Machinery CR. Ltd.

6285 Northam Dr Mississauga ON L4V 1X5 Tel: 9053644900

KUKA Robotics Canada Ltd.

4-6710 Maritz Dr Mississauga ON L5W 0A1

Tel: 9056708600 Fax: 9056708604

Kwik Lok Corp.

ADDRESSES

Label Systems

1334 Kerrisdale Blvd., Unit 2 Newmarket ON L3Y 8V6

Tel: 9058367844 Fax: 9058539357

Label-Aire Inc. See Ahearn & Soper

Lanfranchi SRL See Newmapak Ltd.

Langen Packaging Inc.

1-6500 Kitimat Rd Mississauga ON L5N 2B8

Tel: 9056707200 Fax: 9056705291

Lantech Inc. See Veritiv

Lapp Group Canada

10-3505 Laird Rd Mississauga ON L5L 5Y7

Tel: 8777995277 Fax: 9058206516

Laub-Hunt Packaging Systems 13547 Excelsior Dr. Norwalk CA 90650 Tel: 5628029591 Fax: 5628028183

Leading Edge Inkjet Ltd. 1-25 Coronet Rd Etobicoke ON M8Z 2L8 Tel: 4162349377 Fax: 4162343747

Lenze Americas 630 Douglas St Uxbridge MA 01569 Tel: 5082789100 Fax: 5082787873

Linx Printing Technologies Ltd. Linx House, 8 Stocks Bridge Way, Compass Poin St Ives, Cambridgeshire

Tel: +44 (0) 1480 302 100

Loma Systems, an ITW Company

See PAL Distributors, Calgary, Alberta

Longford International Ltd.

41 Lamont Ave Scarborough ON M1S 1A8

Tel: 4162986622 Fax: 4162986627

M & M Packaging Associates Ltd.

657-2 Campbell Dr Uxbridge ON L9L 1T2

Tel: 4163995300 Fax: 9058521352

Makro Labelling Systems

See Newmapak Ltd.

Marden Edwards Inc.

See Celplast Packaging Systems Ltd

Markem-Imaje Inc.

5448 Timberlea Blvd Mississauga ON L4W 2T7

Tel: 8002675108 Fax: 8669219732

MARQ Packaging Systems Inc.

3801 West Washington Ave Yakima WA 98903

Tel: 5099664300 Fax: 5094523307

Marsh Co

See Videojet Technologies Canada

Massman Automation Designs, LLC

1010 E Lake St Villard MN 56385

Tel: 3205543611 Fax: 3205542650

Matrix Packaging Machinery, LLC

See Plan Automation, Orangeville, ON

Matrox

1055 boul Saint-Régis Dorval QC H9P 2T4

Tel: 5148226000

Matthews Marking Systems 6515 Penn Ave Pittsburgh PA 15206

Tel: 8007757775 Fax: 4126652550

Matthews Marking Systems

See Wilsonville

McBrady Engineering Inc.

PO Box 2549 Joliet IL 60436

Tel: 8157448900 Fax: 8157448901

MD Packaging Inc.

5A-141 Reach St Uxbridge ON L9P 1L3

Tel: 4162919229 Fax: 4162912906

Mecano Industrie 1570 rue Nationale Terrebonne QC J6W 0E2

Tel: 4509611228 Fax: 4509611200

Messe Düsseldorf (Canada) 1500-480 University Ave Toronto ON M5G 1V2 Tel: 4165981524 Fax: 4165981840

Mettler-Toledo Inc.

6-2915 Argentia Rd Mississauga ON L5N 8G6 Tel: 8006388537

mk North America, Inc.

See Mike Conway, Toronto, Ontario

Mordhorst Automation Inc.

90 Nolan Crt., Unit 23 Markham ON L3R 4L9

Tel: 9054771347 Fax: 9054779547

Multivac Canada

6 Abacus Rd Brampton ON L6T 5B7

Tel: 9052641170 Fax: 9052649647

Nalbach Engineering Company, Inc.

621 E Plainfield Rd Countryside IL 60525

Newmapak Ltd.

1015-A Edouard-VII St-Philippe QC J0L 2K0

Tel: 8778665572 Fax: 4506353611

Nita

Norwalk CT 06854 Tel: 2038531516 Fax: 2038540834 Pearson Packaging Systems See Alex E. Jones and Assoc.

Pemberton & Associates Inc. 3610 Nashua Dr Mississauga ON L4V 1X9 Tel: 9056788900 Fax: 9056788989

PFM Packaging Machinery Corp.

See Unisource Canada Inc., (ON, MB, BC, AB, QC

Phoenix Wrappers 2270 boul Industriel Laval Québec H7S 1P9 Tel: 5149561525 Fax: 5149560831

Pillar Technologies

475 Industrial Dr Hartland WI 53029-0110 Tel: 2629127200 Fax: 2629127272

Pilz Automation Safety Canada L.P.

See EECOL Electric, MB, SK, AB, BC

Pilz Automation Safety Canada LP

250

Econocorp Inc.

& Flexi-Pack

GMSvanSco

1310 Redwood Way Suite B Petaluma CA 94954

Tel: 7072853392 Fax: 7072853399

See British Canadian Importers (4 Western Provinces

Tel: 7085799100 Fax: 7085790122

New England Machinery Inc.

6204 29th St E Bradenton FL 34203 Tel: 9417555550 Fax: 9417516281

ADDRESSES

Primera Technology Inc.

2 Carlson Parkway N Plymouth MN 55447

Tel: 7634756676 Fax: 7634756677

Propack Processing & Packaging

Systems Inc.

4902 Union Rd Beamsville ON L0R 1B4

Tel: 9055639400 Fax: 9055637224

Quadrel Labeling Systems

See Newmapak Ltd.

QuickLabel

3505 Rue Isabelle Suite O Brossard QC J4Y 4R2

Tel: 450-619-9973

R-J Machinery Inc.

44 Torbay Rd Markham ON L3R 1G6

Tel: 9054751046 Fax: 9054750944

R.A. Jones & Co.

807 West Kimberly Rd Davenport IA 52806

Tel: 5633911100 Fax: 5633910017

R.E. Morrison Equipment Inc.

21-3615 Laird Rd Mississauga ON L5L 5Z8

Tel: 9058286301 Fax: 9058283674

Rbs Equipment Designs Ltd.

1060 Salk Rd., UnitS 1-3 Pickering ON L1W 3C5

Tel: 9058395655 Fax: 9058393663

Regal Beloit America, Inc.

7120 New Buffington Rd Florence KY 41042

Tel: 8597275271 Fax: 8002623292

Reiser (Canada) Co.

4-1549 Yorkton Crt Burlington ON L7P 5B7

Tel: 9056316611 Fax: 9056316607

Rennco Llc

See PMR Packaging Inc

Rexnord Canada Ltd.

81 Maybrook Dr Scarborough ON M1V 3Z2

Tel: 4162976868 Fax: 4162976873

Richelain Equipement

D’Etiquetage/Richelain

Labeling Equipment

QC Tel: 4503476486 Fax: 4503475382

Riley Product Handling

See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd.

RJP Packaging

3317 Mainway Dr Burlington ON L7M 1A6

Tel: 9053197562 Fax: 9053356734

Robatech Gluing Technology (Robatech Canada)

See Robtech Glue Equipment / FIPA suction Cups

EAOT / Whleary Cold Glue Equipment

Robino & Galandrino

See Newmapak Ltd.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

1201 South Second St Milwaukee WI 53204

Tel: 4143822000 Fax: 4143824444

Rodico Inc.

18 Park Way, Box 546 Upper Saddle River NJ

07458 Tel: 2013276303

Ryson International Inc.

300 Newson Dr Yorktown VA 23692

Tel: 7578981530 Fax: 7578981580

S Sadler Inc.

See Sadler Conveyor Systems (ON

Safeline Inc.

Safeline Business Center 6005 Benjamin Rd Tampa FL 33634 Tel: 8138899500 Fax: 8138810840

Samuel Packaging Systems Group

2370 Dixie Rd Mississauga ON L4Y 1Z4

Tel: 9052799580 Fax: 9052798016

Saturn Packaging Equipment

6055 ch Saint-François Saint-Laurent QC H4S 1B6

Tel: 5149561603 Fax: 5149568124

Schneider Electric Canada Inc.

5985 McLaughlin Rd Mississauga ON L5R 1B8

Tel: 9053663999 Fax: 8593349949

Schneider Packaging Equipment

Co., Inc.

5370 Guy Young Rd PO Box 890 Brewerton NY 13029-0890

Tel: 3156763035 Fax: 3156762875

Schubert North America, LLC

See Schubert Packaging Automation Inc., Mississauga, ON

Sealed Air (Canada) Co./CIE

Cryovac Food Division

95 Glidden Rd Brampton ON L6T 2H8 Tel: 9054565668

Sealed Air Shrink Packaging

100 Rogers Bridge Rd Duncan SC 29334 Tel: 8644332000 Fax: 8644332019

Sealpac

See Heat Sealing Packaging Supplies & Equipment, Concord ON

Sensor Products Inc.

300 Madison Ave Suite 100 Madison NJ 07940 Tel: 9738841755 Fax: 9738841699

Septimatech Group Inc.

106 Randall Dr Waterloo ON N2V 1K5 Tel: 5197467463 Fax: 5197463464

Serac, Inc.

160 E Elk Trail Carol Stream IL 60188 Tel: 6305109343 Fax: 6305109357

Serge Packaging Equipment RR4 - 4917 7th Line Rockwood ON N0B 2K0 Tel: 5198562626 Fax: 5198561095

Sesotec Canada Ltd See Cambridge

Sesotec Canada Ltd.

114-7 Grand Ave S Suite 100 Cambridge ON N1S 2L3 Tel: 5196216536

SEW Eurodrive Company of Canada

Ltd.

210 Walker Dr Brampton ON L6T 3W1 Tel: 9057911553 Fax: 9057912999

SEW-EURODRIVE

210 Walker Dr. Brampton Ontario L6T 3W1 Tel: 9057911553 Fax: 9057912999

Shanklin Corp.

100 Westford Rd Ayer MA 01432

Tel: 9787723200 Fax: 9787725660

Shanklin, Sealed Air Corporation

100 Westwood Rd Ayer MA 01432 Tel: 9787723200 Fax: 9787725660

Shawpak Systems Ltd.

See Kohlhoff Hygiene Equipment

SIAL Canada

601-2120 rue Sherbrooke E Montréal QC H2K 1C3 Tel: 4384762239 Fax: 5142891034

Sick, Inc.

6900 West 110th St Bloomington MN 55438 Tel: 9529416780 Fax: 9529419287

Siemens Canada Limited

1550 Appleby Line Burlington ON L7L 6X7 Tel: 9053193600 Fax: 9053157923

SIG Combibloc

881-2425 Matheson Blvd E Mississauga ON L4W 5K4 Tel: 9053612825 Fax: 9053612610

Sipromac II Inc.

2555 rue Alfred-Nobel Drummondville QC J2A 0L5 Tel: 8193955151 Fax: 8193955343

Smipack

See CiMa-Pak Corporation

Solbern See Chisholm Machinery Sales Limited, Niagara Falls, ON

Sort Production Products Ltd.

8-2266 Drew Rd Mississauga ON L5S 1B1

Tel: 9056737678 Fax: 9056737637

Spacekraft - A Weyer Haeuser Co. 4901 West 79th Street Indianapolis IN 46268 Tel: 3178716999 Fax: 3178716993

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc. 1360 Grandview Pky Sturtevant WI 53177

Tel: 2628864402 Fax: 2628865502

Speedway Packaging Machinery

10 Gormley Industrial Ave Unit 2-3 Gormley ON L0H 1G0 Tel: 9058885344 Fax: 9058885374

SPS / PHIN Limited

15-440 Tapscott Rd Scarborough ON M1B 1Y4

Tel: 4162982151 Fax: 4162982170

Squid Ink Manufacturing

7041 Boone Ave Brooklyn Park MN 55428

Tel: 7637958856 Fax: 7637958867

Standard Knapp Inc.

See B & T Sales Inc.

STANMECH Technologies Inc.

944 Zelco Dr Burlington ON L7L 4Y3

Tel: 9056316161 Fax: 9056311852

Starview Packaging Machinery Inc.

1840 boul Saint-Régis Dorval QC H9P 1H6

Tel: 5149200100 Fax: 5149200092

SteelNor / Inventure Engineering & Machinery

See Plan Automation Orangeville, ON

Steeltek - A Div. of 877418 Ont. Ltd.

See R-J Machinery Inc

Steriflow Sas

32 rue de Cambrai

Tel: 3314037084 Fax: 3314038069

Sterling Marking Products Inc.

349 Ridout St N London ON N6A 2N8

Tel: 5194345785 Fax: 8006676600

Stock Canada

815 A Tecumseh POINTE-CLAIRE Quebec H9R 4B1

Tel: 514 426 1266 Fax: 514 426 1200

Storcan Ltd.

108 rue Bélanger Châteauguay QC J6J 4Z2

Tel: 4503652158 Fax: 4506981178

Supervac Maschinenbau GmbH

See Reiser (Canada

Swf Companies

1949 E Manning, P.O. Box 548 Reedley CA 93654

Tel: 2096388484 Fax: 2096387478

TTapp Label Technologies, Inc.

104-6270 205 St Langley BC V2Y 1N7

Tel: 6045333294 Fax: 6045337967

Technicor Industrial Services Inc.

450 Richardson Rd Orangeville ON L9W 4W8

Tel: 5199416120 Fax: 5199406067

Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc.

2150 rue Bombardier Ste-Julie QC J3E 2J9

Tel: 4509223122 Fax: 4509223422

Tetra Pak Canada Inc.

2902-777 Bay St PO Box 133 Toronto ON M5G 2C8

Tel: 6477751837 Fax: 6477751838

Thermo Fisher Scientific

See MD Packaging

Thermo Fisher Scientific

See MD Packaging, Uxbridge, ON

Thiele Technologies - Streamfeeder

315 27th Ave NE Minneapolis MN 55418

Tel: 7635020000 Fax: 7635020100

Thompson Scale Company

2758 Bingle Road Houston TX 77055

Tel: 7139329071 Fax: 7139329379

Tishma Innovations LLC

See Charles Downer & Co. Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON

TNA North America, Inc.

680 S Royal Lane Coppell TX 75019

Tel: 9724626500 Fax: 9724626599

Toptier

10315 SE Jennifer St Portland OR 97015

Tel: 5033537388 Fax: 5033537399

Toyo Jidoki

See Techno Pak Packaging Systems Inc., Ste. Julie, Quebec

Tri-Mach Group Inc.

23 Donway Crt Elmira ON N3B 0B1

Tel: 5197446565 Fax: 5197446829

Tri-Tronics Company

See IAC and Associates, 2105 Fasan Dr. Oldcastle, ON NOR 1L0, CA

Triangle Package Machinery Co.

See Link-Pack, Boucherville, Quebec

Trinamics Incorporated

50 Centinnial Rd Orangeville ON L9W 3T4

Tel: 5199422442 Fax: 5199420886

Tsubaki of Canada Ltd.

1630 Drew Rd Mississauga ON L5S 1J6

Tel: 9056760400 Fax: 9056750904

U.S. Bottlers Machinery

PO Box 7203 Charlotte NC 28241

Tel: 7045884750 Fax: 7045883808

UBM Canon 11444 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles CA 90064

Tel: 3104454200

Uhlmann Packaging Systems L.P.

44 Indian Lane E Towaco NJ 07082

Tel: 9734028855 Fax: 9733169330

Uline Canada Corporation

60 Hereford St Brampton ON L6Y 0N3

Tel: 8002955510 Fax: 8002955571

Unified Flex Packaging Technologies

208 Evenspond cres Kitchener ON N2R0B7

Tel: 8663694181

Union Standard Equipment Co.

801 825 E 141st St Bronx NY 10454

Tel: 7185850200 Fax: 7189932650

UniTrak Corporation Limited

299 Ward St Port Hope ON L1A 4A4

Tel: 9058858168 Fax: 9058852614

Unitronics 1 Batterymarch Park Suite 315 Quincy MA 02169

Tel: 6176576596 Fax: 6176576598

Valco Melton 497 Circle Freeway Dr, Suite 490 Cincinnati OH 45246 Tel: 5138746550 Fax: 5138743612

VC999 Canada Ltd. 153 rue Sylvestre Saint-Germain-de-Grantham QC J0C 1K0 Tel: 8193954555 Fax: 8193956444

Veritiv

Tel: 1-844-VERITIV

Vibac Canada Inc. 12250 boul Industriel Montréal QC H1B 5M5 Tel: 5146400250 Fax: 5146406702

Videojet Technologies 7075 Financial Dr Mississauga ON L5N 6V8 Tel: 9056731212 Fax:

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