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October 2012 | $10
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Marc Montour,
Owner and President,
Montour Ltd.
The Flying
Saucerer
Quebec specialty sauce producer sizzles in the
marketplace with winning condiment recipes
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Beauty may only run skin-deep, but the beautiful
packaging created for the Toronto-based cosmetics producer Elizabeth Grant Skin Care left a
deep enough impression at the recent 2012 HBA
International Package Design Awards competition
to earn it the prestigious People’s Choice Award for
an innovative lip balm and conditioner product.
Called The Socializer’s Can You Keep A Secret?
Lip Exfoliator and Conditioning Balm, the new
formulation features an industry-first vibrating
exfoliating tip that activates gentle vibrating pulses
to aid in quick removal of dry skin from the lips,
according to the company, which picked up the
highly-coveted prize at last summer’s international
HBA Global Expo health-and-beauty industries
exhibition in New York City.
“This is one of the most unique products Elizabeth
Grant Skin Care has ever produced, combining
beauty with mechanical technology,” says the
company’s vice-president of creative global direction Margot Grant Witz. “We are truly
honored that the public
voted for our product.
“We are thrilled that
it has been well-received
and many beauty fans are
enjoying the item,” says
Witz, crediting acclaimed
Canadian artist Jessica
Gorlicky for designing
the beautiful graphics for the high-end decorative folding cartons manufactured by Bellwyck
Packaging Solutions in Toronto.
Made with high-quality components supplied by
Ming Ltd., the deep-conditioning balm—containing active ingredients such as torricelumn, panthenol
(vitamin B5), cucumber, rice exfoliator and collagen—
is attached to the vibrating exfoliator with magnetic
technology in a way that lets users either keep it
attached, or pull the lip balm off and take it with them
for easy on-the-go application when needed.
According to Witz, the new product “delivers a onetwo punch that gets your lips smooth and luscious.
“This lip treatment duo consists of an exfoliator
and a lightly-textured, deep-conditioning balm
with anti-aging actives that target the symptoms
of dry and lined lips at the source,” explains Witz.
“You start by using the gentle exfoliator to
lightly remove dry skin cells with natural rice
granules and help prime the lips for the balm.
“Next step, apply the clear conditioning
balm and never experience another make-up
beauty faux pas again,”
says Witz, adding that
the company’s proprietary
Torricelumn moisturizer was
developed specifically to
give dry lips a “luscious volume” appearance.
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SPICE PRODUCER’S
FLAVOR DU JOUR HITS
ALL THE RIGHT NOTES
Consumer tastes du jour may often come and go
with the wind, it seems, but staying ahead of them
while they matter has kept venerable spice producer
McCormick & Company Canada Co. firmly
perched on top of the food chain in its industry
segment for over 120 years.
This knack for responding to consumer demand
in timely manner has served the company well
in the Canadian marketplace, where its London,
Ont.-based McCormick Canada subsidiary has
just launched a new, limited-time Club House
Roasted Chili and Tamarind spice mix in the company’s signature, 120-gram plastic spice jars decorated with attractive, highly legible
labels designed by the Toronto-based
branding specialists Forthought
Design Inc., and converted by
Vaughn, Ont.-based labeling producer ASL PrintFX.
Combining zesty pops of spicy,
sour and herbal f lavors often used in
North African
and
Asian
cuisines, the
new blend of
slow-roasted
chili peppers,
sweet fragrant
spices, and the
tangy citrus
f lavor of tamarind with a
dash of red
pepper heat
was inspired
by the company’s own
McCormick
Flavor Forecast
barometer—
used for the
last 10 years to
forecast the incoming f lavor trends
for the year ahead.
Containing no MSG (monosodium
glutamate), artificial f lavors or colors
or transfats, each bottle of Roasted
Chili and Tamarind seasoning blend
features a unique peel-back label that
is filled with recipes best-suited for
this spice blend, including Quick
Shrimp Stir-Fry, Roasted Chili
and Tamarind Rice, Beef Rendang
(Malaysian Beef Stew), Roasted Chili
and Tamarind Dressing, Lentil Soup,
and Coconut Chicken.
Originally launched in 2008 under
the Club House La Grille brand,
the Club House Limited Edition f lavors have been a big hit with the
Canadian consumers, according
to McCormick Canada, who have
shown themselves to be willing and
eager to embrace an increasingly
global palette of f lavors from around
the world.
OCTOBER 2012
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SIZE MATTERS WITH NEW BOTTLED-WATER CONTAINER
Sometimes it’s hard to get enough of a really good
thing all at once, but it’s getting easier for Canadian
consumers to do just that with their favorite water
brand thanks to the recent launch of the four-liter
bottles of Nestlé Pure Life Natural Spring Water
brand by the Puslinch, Ont.-based Nestlé Waters
Canada (NWC).
Sourced at the company’s two separate privatelyowned springs—Mount Hope Spring in Hope,
B.C. and the Aberfoyle Spring in Puslinch—
the fresh-tasting water brand is now available in
Canada in seven convenient sizes, each decorated
with a lightweight paper label designed and converted by Hammer Packaging.
Packaged in tamper-evident, 100-percent recyclable PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles
blowmolded right on-site at the Puslinch and Hope
facilities, the Nestlé Pure Life Natural Spring Water
family now includes single-serve 300-ml, 500-ml,
591-ml and 710-ml containers covering everything
from kids’ school lunches to serious gym workouts,
along with the one-liter and 1.5-liter multiserve
bottles and the family-size four-liter jugs that are
largely intended for home, cottage and office use,
according to the company.
“These products represent an affordable,
healthy and all-natural alternative to sugared beverages, particularly for consumers
who want to stay properly hydrated but
want to avoid calories, caffeine and additives,” explains NWC’s marketing manager
for domestic brands Carol Guier, citing the
consistent quality and mineral balance of
product source from the sustainable springs.
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OLD-SCHOOL BEER CONTAINER GROWLS BACK TO LIFE
Paying homage to history has long been
part of the savvy marketing strategy
used by the Toronto-based beermaker
Steam Whistle Brewing to become
one of Canada’s leading craft-brewers,
and the company has recently dug into
the past once again to bring back the
legendary jumbo growler glass container for Canadian beer aficionados.
For now only available at Toronto’s historic John St. Roundhouse brewery—a
one-time locomotive repair and maintenance yard—the company’s signaturegreen, 64-ounce refillable glass container
is outfitted with a metal handle, pewter
logo medallion and a ceramic flip-flop
lid to provide a perfect, brewery-fresh
take-home beer experience, along with
truly unique memorabilia.
“Glass growlers are a North
American phenomenon, growing
with consumer interest in craft beer,”
explains Steam Whistle’s retail manager Josh Hillinger.
“We’ve created a really original
growler so that our fans can take fresh,
draught-filled Pilsner home to share.
“The beer growler offers a nice alternative to a bottle of wine at dinner parties or social gatherings,” says Hillinger,
adding the company has also enhanced
the traditional way to fill growlers by
installing a recently-purchased Pegas
Craftap bottle filling system.
Unlike top-filling the growlers from draught taps
the old way—resulting in more foam and high dissolved oxygen levels that shorten the beer’s shelf
life—the Pegas system operates like a bottle-filler,
using a counter-pressure application of carbondioxide to eliminate oxygen and excessive foam,
according to Hillinger, who picked the so-called
‘Two-liter Green Belgian Growler’
container design for the company’s
f lagship Steam Whistle Pilsner
brand, which is the only brand the
brewer makes.
Says communications director Sybil
Taylor: “Our Pegas growler filling
system requires a translucent growler
for the most accurate filling, so this
growler design won out over some
ceramic options that were considered.
“And of course, a green growler perfectly complements Steam Whistle’s
signature green glass bottles and green
cans and cartons,” says Taylor, complimenting Steam Whistle’s creative
director Elton Clemente for designing
the attractive Steam Whistle branding
on the growler.
According to Taylor, the brewer’s original launch of 200 growlers
completely sold out within 10 days
of being available in only one location—resulting in repeated
growler promo events at
the John St. Roundhouse
brewery’s on-site beerstore and bar, which also
offers on-site refills for
the easy-to-carry bottles,
which are overpacked
with special burlap sacks
to protect the beer from
harmful UV light exposure.
“The burlap sack was made to be
reminiscent of a vintage barley sack,”
says Taylor, “with barley being one of
the main ingredients in beer.”
Long before bottled beer became
commonplace in North America after
industrialization in the mid-1800s,
drinking beer outside of the saloon
meant having to buy draught beer
and carrying it out in the ‘bucket’ of
beer that came
to be known as
a growler, with
the actual term
growler attributed to the sound
of
escaping
carbon-dioxide
causing the lid to
rattle or “growl.”
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OCTOBER 2012
NOTES & QUOTES
 The Canadian
Corrugated
and
Containerboard Association (CCCA) has been
selected as a new name for the Brampton, Ont.headquartered industry group formerly called
Paper Packaging Canada (PPC), effective
immediately. According to CCCA’s executive
director David Andrews, “The new name was
chosen to describe the business areas of our member-companies more precisely and to ref lect the
nature and scope of our members’ business interests more accurately, while supporting the focus
of the organization’s mandate and mission.” Tel.
(905) 458-1247; web: www.cccabox.org
 Toronto-based packaging products and services provider Bellwyck Packaging Solutions has
acquired the global secondary clinical packaging
and distribution services business of Patheon
Inc., Mississuaga, Ont.-headquartered supplier
of contract manufacturing and co-packing services for the global pharmaceutical and healthcare
industries, for an undisclosed amount. Globally
managed from the business unit’s central facility in
Burlington, Ont., the secondary clinical packaging
and distribution business also includes an operating
presence in Cincinnati, Ohio. “We look forward
to an ongoing partnership with Patheon as we
work together to ensure that Bellwyck continues
to provide superior clinical packaging and distribution services to Patheon’s current and future
customers,” says Bellwyck’s co-CEO Jeff Sziklai.
“We anticipate a seamless transition for customers
and employees.”
 Toronto-headquartered private equity capital
firm Onex has reached an agreement to acquire
the assets of SGS International (SGS), a globallyoperating supplier of design-to-print graphics services to the CPG (consumer packaged-goods)
industry, for US$813 million. Employing over
2,400 people at 37 production facilities and more
that 100 customer locations in 14 countries, the
Louisville, Ky.-headquartered SGS generated about
US$390 million in revenues for the year ended June
30, 2012, supplying its vertically-integrated packaging services to some of the world’s leading CPG
brand-owners, retailers, and the package printers
that service them. Says Onex managing director
David Mansell: “SGS is truly the global leader in its
industry, evidenced by its strong and enduring relationships with the world’s leading consumer goods
companies, retailers and packaging converters, and
we’re delighted to build on the company’s market
leadership position through continued
international growth and expansion
into other complementary services.”
 Pharmaceutical packaging products manufacturer Aphena Pharma
Solutions Inc. of Philadelphia,
Pa., has completed the acquisition
of Classic Pharmaceuticals LLC,
Sherburne, N.Y.-headquartered contract manufacturer of private-label
OTC (over-the-counter) products—
including a nasal inhaler relief for cold
and f lu symptoms, and chocolate-f lavored laxatives—sold at over 16,000
drugstores and pharmacies across the
U.S. “Aphena is pleased to make this
strategic acquisition of a small and
growing private-label company—
bringing us two very solid products
and providing them to our current
customer base as additional privatelabeling opportunities,” says Aphena’s
president Renard Jackson.
 Broomfield, Colo.-headquartered
beverage can manufacturing group
Ball Corporation has announced
plans to close down its 110-employe
12-ounce metal can beverage packaging manufacturing plants in
Columbus, Ohio, and a 125-employee
facility in Gainesville, Fla., where the
company produces metal can ends
for standard can sizes, by the end of
this year. According to Ball, the decision to close the plants were driven
mostly by shifting customer demand
towards specialty can packaging.
“These actions are in response to
a loss of standard 12-ounce beverage can volume beginning January
2013, as well as continued growth
in specialty beverage can packaging,
which is an increasingly important
part of our business,” says Ball’s chief
operating officer for global packaging
Raymond Seabrook. “We will continue to actively manage our overall
cost structure, pursue new specialty
can opportunities, and better position
our manufacturing footprint to meet
changing market conditions to offset
the impact of the volume loss.”
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MOLDED-FIBER PACKAGING AN INCREASINGLY ATTRACTIVE SUSTAINABLE OPTION
With sustainability being a new driving force in
the CPG (consumer packaged goods) industry,
packaging developers are expanding the possibilities and accelerating the adoption of advanced
molded-fiber packaging applications.
As trendsetters like Walmart Stores Inc. have
shown, working with suppliers to create sustainable
packaging is vital for retailers and manufacturers
looking to reduce input, transport, storage and disposal costs, while communicating their concern for
the environment to consumers.
This growing environmental awareness is helping accelerate the development of advanced, economical molded-fiber packaging products, which
are increasingly popping up in a variety of different CPG markets—being used from shipping wine
bottles and retail packaging for cosmetics to protective packs for jarred candles, cushions for computers, and inserts for mobile phones.
Molded-fiber packaging is made from 100-percent
recycled newsprint, which is processed into a slurry
with water and converted into custom packaging
after being vacuum-formed on screened molds.
Because it is made entirely from paper and water,
molded fiber provides a 100-percent recyclable
and biodegradable packaging option that substantially reduces input and disposal costs, compared
to petroleum-based plastics.
Molded fiber’s natural resilience, along with block-
ing and bracing capabilities, enable it to perform as
well as most vacuum-formed plastic, expanded polystyrene (EPS), and corrugated designs.
Not only is molded-fiber packaging often less
expensive than EPS or other foam products, it
requires far less space to ship and store—resulting
in further cost-savings.
Although demand for recycled packaging has
been growing for years, molded fiber has traditionally been restricted to items like box inserts, cupcarrying trays and egg cartons, with extremely
limited consumer appeal.
Recently, however, some
packaging industry suppliers
have added specialty equipment and new techniques that
have significantly expanded
the capabilities of traditional
molded-fiber packaging.
For example, Georgetown,
Mass.-based UFP Technologies, the largest
custom converter of molded fiber in the U.S.,
has recently installed new high-tonnage presses
capable of producing after-pressed parts offering
far more aesthetic appeal than traditionally-formed
molded fiber. (See Picture)
For Philips Consumer Lifestyle, a business unit
of Royal Philips Electronics, the recent switch
of the inside protective packaging for the company’s
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PET (polyethylene terephthalate) blisters to molded
fiber and smaller-sized blisters quickly resulted in
improved sustainability performance, better brand
positioning and reduced packaging costs, according
to the company’s senior commodity manager for
packaging and print Jeff Wood.
“Switching from large to small PET blisters,
along with custom protective molded-fiber
packaging from UFP Technologies, has reduced
our use of plastic packaging content by 75 per
cent and saved us hundreds
of thousands of dollars in
material costs,” says Wood,
adding that the smooth
and precise finish of the
molded-fiber
packaging
also helped improve the
“out of the box” experience for the consumers.
“Being made from 100-percent recycled newsprint, the molded-fiber packaging is a much
more renewable and environmentally-friendly
material than petroleum-based plastics,” says
Wood, adding the switch is part of the company’s
EcoVison5 corporate sustainability program aiming to “double global collection, recycling
amounts, and the use recycled materials in our
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They may not be having a stellar season on the diamond pitch, but the
Seattle Mariners major league baseball franchise is really hitting it out of
the ballpark this year in its drive to become a zero-waste business.
Last month, the first 10,000 fans arriving to the team’s Safeco Field home
stadium for a game against the Boston Red Sox received a free bag of
peanuts packed in 100-percent compostable film developed by the leading
German industrial chemicals producer BASF, which the company claims
to have overcome some of the more serious technical and performance
drawbacks hindering more widespread use of biodegradable bags so far.
“Flexible packaging with this BASF technology is a big step forward
for the snack-food industry,” says market development manager for consumer packaging Kimberley
Schiltz. “It means that popular
snack-foods can be brought to
market in compostable packaging that delivers needed
shelf-life at a competitive price
point, with a more sustainable
‘end-of-life’ solution than conventional packaging materials.”
An active member of the
Green Sports Alliance group,
the Seattle Mariners organization says it is currently on track to divert 85
per cent of its waste from landfill this year, compared to just 12 per cent
in 2006.
Says Mariners vice-president of operations Scott Jenkins: “All of our
service ware is already compostable, but snack-food bags have been one of
the biggest barriers preventing us from getting to our goal.
“However, the f lexible packaging made with BASF biopolymers could
represent the holy grail of greening for our wastestream,” Jenkins states.
“Whenever there are contaminants in our compost stream, like regular
snack-bags and candy wrappers, we have to pay a premium to have them
removed by hand,” says Jenkins.
“But if all of the snacks sold at Safeco came in compostable packaging,”
Jenkins states, “it would represent a significant savings of time and money
for the team, while getting us a whole lot closer to achieving our zerowaste goal.”
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COVER STORY
SORCERY AT THE SAUCERY
Venerable Quebec sauce and seasonings marketer taking full control of its own
destiny with bold new high-tech manufacturing and packaging competencies
Marc Montour,
President & Owner,
Montour Ltd.
produce over 2.5 million kilograms of spiced blends
product per year from over 300 tasty recipes.
Included in that extensive product portfolio,
Montour turns out over 800,000 liters of highquality grilling sauces, marinades and broths per
year for retail customers across Ontario, Quebec
and the Atlantic provinces, relates Montour.
He explains that the company began offering
grilling sauces and marinades in 2002 and broths
in 2012 but only became involved in the actual
manufacturing of its product fairly recently—following its 2001 move to the current Blainville location, which has undergone several expansions in the
past five years to add a warehousing facility, a spice
packaging room, a new laboratory, and a complete
kitchen facility for producing the sauces and broths.
“Up until our most recent expansion, when we
added a production line, we did not actually manufacture our own sauces,” Montour told Canadian
Packaging in a recent interview.
Third Wheel
ANDREW JOSEPH, FEATURES EDITOR
PHOTOS BY PIERRE LONGTIN
W
hile it’s probably true that there is no
accounting for personal taste each and
every time, one certainly couldn’t
blame Montour Ltd. for at least trying to satisfy as
many taste buds as possible with its wide-ranging
selection of f lavorful, authentically-prepared grilling sauces, broths, marinades and other seasoning
products formulated to turn otherwise ordinary
food into tasty culinary experiences.
Located just north of Montreal in Blainville,
Que., the company is a third-generation, familyowned business that has come a very long way
since opening its doors back in 1934—having
evolved from a spice distributor to a spice-blend
manufacturer in 1963, and nowadays, along with
its spices, it finds itself a well-respected condiments
and ingredients supplier for eastern Canada’s meatprocessing industry, especially in the ready-tocook and ready-to-eat meals segments, as well as
a highly successful brand-owner in its own right.
“The ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook meals are
anything but a trend,” states company owner and
president Marc Montour. “They are a reality.
“Because modern families nowadays often have
the two spouses working full-time, there is very
little time to cook and present the traditional family
dinner,” says Montour, explaining the rapid proliferation of such prepared meal solutions at major
grocery chains, supermarkets and other retail food
outlets right across Canada in recent years.
Naturally, it’s a very welcome market development
for Montour’s company, which employs 50 people
at its state-of-the-art, 40,000-square-foot facility to
“Prior to that, we provided our recipes to a thirdparty manufacturer who mixed and bottled our
products for us,” says Montour, adding that the
sudden boom in the prepared-meals segment of the
industry prompted the company to rethink the way
it went about its business—ultimately deciding to
take a much more direct hands-on approach to the
manufacturing and packaging of its products.
According to Montour, about 90 per cent of
the company’s sauce production output is supplied to grocery store meat departments operated
by the company’s high-profile customers such as
Sobeys Inc. and Metro Inc. supermarket chains,
where it’s used to prepare various ready-to-cook
and ready-to-eat meat and fish products. As well,
Montour supplies customers in the process meat
industry, like Olymel L.P.
The remainder of Montour’s sauce production
is allocated for the manufacturing of the company’s own f lagship Lebon retail brand of highend sauce products, which are scheduled to hit the
Sobeys and Metro’s supermarket shelves in coming
months, Montour relates.
Retailing in highly decorative 350-ml plastic
bottles, the Lebon brand launch will be carefully
phased-in starting with a pending debut of the
Authentic and Red Wine broths for fondue cooking,
along with the Honey and Garlic, Dijon, Shanghai,
Souvlaki, Three-peppers, and Chicken and Ribs grilling sauces and marinades.
Montour says he’s very pleased with the strategic
steps the company has taken to become a fullyintegrated business enterprise, with firmer control of its own destiny via pride of ownership that
comes only with manufacturing your own creations for the consumer public.
“Nowadays we do not provide any third-party
manufacturing services nor do we utilize any for
ourselves,” Montour enthuses.
“All the sauces made at Montour are developed
by our own R&D department, and all the seasoning bases are also blended in our facility.”
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COVER STORY
New to the packaging business, Montour purchased a complete filling and capping line from Capmatic, including the
Accurofill volumetric piston filler capable of handling a broad range of liquid, medium- and high-viscosity products.
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A close-up of the Accurofill piston filler Montour uses to dispense precise amounts of sauce and marinade products into
1.89-liter jugs used by its grocery retail customers to prepare ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook meals on the store premises.
The Blainville plant currently operates two production shifts and one cleaning shift in its spice
department, and a single production shift and
cleaning shift for its sauces, according to Montour,
who says the plant has both the capacity and f lexibility to quickly add a second shift if the consumer
response to the new products warrant it.
Which may well be a foregone conclusion, given
the company’s robust business growth over the past
decade to build up a diversified grocery store customer base across all of eastern Canada that cushions it from any major seasonal production peaks
and valleys.
“And soon enough, we shall be expanding our
products into central and western Canada as well,”
says Montour, citing enthusiastic marketplace
response and feedback to the company’s diverse
product portfolio.
“Over the past three years, we have seen business for our delicious sauces and broths double—
and with the addition of our new bottling line, we
foresee an 80-percent increase as we expand into
more and more markets.”
Our House
According to Montour, having inhouse manufacturing capabilities has enabled the plant to respond to
changing market needs much faster than it was ever
possible with its former co-packing business partners.
“We utilized their service a fair bit during the
summer months,” he recalls.
“But when our customers in the grocery store
business started wanting more sauces from us during the winter months, we knew we would have to
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COVER STORY
Open 1.89-liter jugs of Montour sauces pass through an IQ³ model metal detector for Loma Systems for their final
quality assurance check prior to capping further downstream the Capmatic bottling line.
do something drastic,” says Montour, explaining
that the plant’s new state-of-the-art bottling line—
installed as part of a comprehensive $3.5-million
facility expansion completed in April of this year—
was designed specifically to facilitate such agile
manufacturing f lexibility, while also enabling the
company to launch its own product brand in a fastgrowing segment of the food market.
Installed as a turnkey system by renowned
Montreal-headquartered packaging machinery OME (original equipment manufacturer)
Capmatic Ltd., the new bottling line has done
wonders for the company’s manufacturing and
packaging competence, according to Montour,
who says he was initially attracted to Capmatic
based on the manufacturer’s well-earned reputation for an extensive product range of top-quality
unscrambling, filling, capping and labeling equipment that can work with a wide range of bottles,
jars and jugs in a multitude of shapes and sizes.
“One of our big desires was to present a betterpackaged product to our grocery store customers,”
explains Montour, relating that the sheer weight of
the bulky four-liter jug previously used to ship the
sauces was not very easy to handle by the stores’
deli and department staff, weighing about five
kilograms (11 pounds) each.
“So in an effort to help our customers out, we
decided to create a smaller, 1.89-liter bottle that
only weighed approximately 2.3 kilograms (five
pounds), and which is also more ergonomic,”
Montour relates.
“We also wanted to incorporate a jug handle that
would be easier for people to manipulate for easier
distribution and handling,” says Montour, asserting
that the Capmatic equipment delivers the same
high-quality output with the 1.89-liter sauce and
the one-liter broth jugs—supplied by DeltaPac
Packaging Inc.—as it does with the retail-bound
350-ml bottle supplied by the Montreal-based
Ampak Inc., with Berry Plastics Corporation
supplying all the bottle cap sizes via its local distributor Roda Packaging Inc. of Laval, Que.
Cooking Skills
Armed with a new Blentech 2,000-liter cooker
and a completely automated Capmatic packaging
line, the Blainville plant is more than capable of
meeting the current customer demand volumes of
800,000 liters of finished sauces, broths and marinades annually.
“We are now able to produce three batches of
1,800 liters of product in a single eight-hour shift,”
Montour marvels.
“The improvement in our production capabilities
is really a beautiful thing!”
The main cog of the Capmatic line installed at
Montour is the fully-automatic Accurofill volumetric piston filler that works equally well for
liquids, semi-viscous and viscous products for all
types of plastic, metal and glass containers using a
unique combination of volumetric piston technology and rotary valve control to enable extremely
fast and accurate filling rates.
“It’s a very good piece of equipment for us,”
comments Montour.
“Although we have only had it for a short while,
we are quite impressed with its ability to fill our
jugs and bottles in an accurate manner.”
While the Accurofill has not yet tested its filling
mettle with the 350-ml retail bottles, Montour
reports the machine is able to fill 24 1.89-liter jugs,
or just over 30 one-liter jugs, per minute.
Other components on the production line
include Capmatic’s SortStar—a no-change-part
bottle unscrambler that Montour has already discovered to be able to handle a diverse range of plastic bottles.
Incorporating centrifugal disks and adjustable
guides, the SortStar is equipped with numeric
counters to facilitate mechanical adjustments for
easy, repeatable changes.
A robust BeltStar stainless-steel capper and retorquer
from Capmatic easily handles a wide range of containers and caps to ensure optimal quality and control
with innovative magnetic slip-clutch technology.
“The BeltStar provides an HMI (humanmachine interface) viewing of the torque application giving us verification of each bottle or jug that
passes through it,” says Montour, complimenting
the user-friendliness of Rockwell Automation’s
Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 600 HMI terminal,
along with the BeltStar’s optional tourque verification and reject features.
A Capmatic SuperJolly single-chuck capper
is used to tighten various cap styles, including
the continuous thread (CT) caps, child-resistant
(CR) caps, and roll-on pilfer-proof (ROPP) caps.
According to Capmatic, the SuperJolly is interchangeable between screw capping and crimping.
The system employs a Cognex machine vision
control camera system to provide quick verification
that each tightened cap has been perfectly aligned—
quickly rejecting any misaligned or otherwise
imperfect caps right off the production line
The line also includes the Orientor—a Capmaticmade orientation device that aligns all the container handles in the same direction prior to the
filling process.
Product labels are applied to the Montour jugs via
the easy-to-set-up and operate Capmatic LabelStar
2/1T single-head system that accurately applies
partial-wrap or full-wrap and panel-wrap labels to
a wide variety of container types, making optimal
use of stepper motor technology that provides longterm accuracy and eliminates the service requirements inherent with the use of clutches and brakes.
Other equipment includes a large special cool-
The LabelStar 2/1T single-head labeler from Capmatic neatly applies adhesives labels to A Markem-Imaje 8018i coder applies lot and best-before information to the product labels
the front of 1.89-liter jugs at throughput speeds of up to 24 containers per minute.
before they are applied onto the filled plastic containers.
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A BeltStar capping and retorquer system on Montour’s bottling line applies consistently
tight, leakproof seals onto the 1.89-liter jugs of sauce shipped to the grocery stores.
ing conveyor table and an accumulation table on
a heavy-duty stainless steel frame, which can be
quickly modified with a variety of options per
required accumulation time.
“All of the equipment we purchased from
Capmatic has been an eye-opening experience for
us,” says Montour. “It is all very easy to operate,
A Cognex machine vision system checks and verifies the accurate placement of caps on
top of each plastic container moving along the starwheel of the SuperJolly capper.
which is an important factor for us—being new to
the whole packaging line process.”
A Markem-Imaje 8018i intermittent thermaltransfer printer applies lot number and best-before
information to the adhesive labels before application by the LabelStar.
Other systems added to the line by Montour
include a Loma Systems IQ³ metal detection system—said to provide the ‘industry first’ true variable frequency operation that automatically sets up
for peak performance in seconds—and an induction sealer from Enercon Industries Corp.,
which creates tough hermetic seals to prevents
containers from leaking to preserve the freshness
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According to Montour, the key consideration behind the new line was making sure that the quality of the equipment
matched the quality of the company’s
high-end products, which are made using
professionally-developed formulations
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EDUCATION
The Tri-Mach Group and Abbey
Packaging played a large role in providing
equipment for Conestoga College’s fresh
produce processing and packaging line
with the installation of a Multivac T300
tray-sealer and the Multipond LW1201-B
combination weigher at the pilot plant.
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Canadian college sets out to create the next generation of high-skill food-processing
operators to safeguard the industry’s future growth prospects
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s one of Canada’s largest manufacturing
industries, food processing has long been
a vital cog in the country’s economic
engine—generating a healthy contribution to the
country’s employment growth, exporting opportunities, and overall national economic prosperity.
Employing an estimated 300,000 Canadians, about
1.7 per cent of the total workforce, the sector supplies nearly 80 per cent of all the processed foods
and beverages retailing in Canada at any one time,
according to industry statistics.
For all that, there is no getting around the fact
that Canada’s food manufacturing industry is faced
with the challenge of improving its competitiveness in the global market in a big way in coming years, which is unlikely to happen without a
meaningful infusion of new human resources and
talent armed with the right skillsets and technical
know-how to fill the many important jobs and
positions that often go begging—due to the puzzling lack of qualified candidates.
Which is exactly the labor market riddle that
folks at the Kitchener, Ont.-based Conestoga
College Institute of Technology and
Advanced Learning have set out to resolve in
a big way with the recent opening of the school’s
Institute of Food Processing Technology (IFPT)
center—located at the school’s satellite campus in
the nearby city of Cambridge.
While the f ledgling new program is only in its
second year of existence, it has already attracted
solid backing and support from inf luential institutions like the Alliance of Ontario Food
Processors, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Food
Processing Human Resources Council, and
other organizations with a vested interest in seeing the college succeed in developing new training
tools and competencies to lift the critically-important food processing sector to new heights.
“The Alliance of Food Processors was actually
the industry group that conceived the idea of this
program,” explains IFPT chair Luis Garcia. “Its
members got involved with the concept right away
and pushed the idea along to make it a reality.
“The bottom line is that we all want to make
it easier for well-trained individuals to get a job
in the industry,” says Garcia, describing IFPT’s
intensive, two-year training program—the only
one of its kind in Canada—that will turn out
properly-trained food-processing technicians
ready to take on and conquer the many day-today challenges of the fiercely competitive global
food-processing industries.
Skill Shortage
Says Garcia: “Our industry acknowledges that
there is a lack of skilled employees available for our
workforce, which is why companies always seem
to have positions available for people who have the
appropriate abilities and training.
“Alas, many companies just aren’t able to find
the qualified people they really need, which is
really a major problem for all Canadian industries
in general.
“And that is where the IFPT program is designed
to help the industry out,” Garcia told Canadian
Packaging during a recent visit to the new
260,000-square-foot LEED (Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design) silver-certified building
where the IFPT offers part-time adult education
Institute of Food Processing Technology’s chair Luis
Garcia (left) and technologist Barry Bremner pose beside
the Multivac H100 pick-and-place robotic packer.
in advanced sanitation, and food-processing supervisor skill and food safety training—on top of its
full-time co-op food processing technician and
food processing techniques programs.
In addition, IFPT administers an apprenticeship
program for aspiring food manufacturing process
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After a Graphics Packaging International denester places trays onto a conveyor, fresh-cut carrots are placed into the
trays by a Multipond 12-head weigher installed by Abbey Packaging Equipment.
Continued from page 21
ary hands-on experience.
“The IFPT opened its doors to students in
September of 2011 with six students,” recalls Garcia.
“This year we already have 13 students, and the
eventual goal is to be enrolling 24 new full-time
students per year,” says Garcia, estimating that
there are well over 3,000 food-and-beverage producers operating in the province of Ontario alone.
“The food-processing industry is always in need
of highly-skilled workers, and that is exactly what
we are going to provide,” says Garcia, pointing
out that the college’s three-level process operator
apprenticeship program comprises 300 hours of
in-class instruction and 4,000 apprenticeship hours
supervised by qualified industry professionals.
“Our focus is to provide a skilled equipment
operator and maintenance staff employee,” Garcia
explains, “which is why we teach both mechanical
and electrical theory in combination with handson application and extensive food-testing training.
A Videojet 1220 small-character inkjet printer used to print
lot and best-before codes onto bottling line containers.
“We want our students to really appreciate the
importance of product quality testing in the food
industry,” he says, “even if its something they will
not have to perform after they enter the workforce.”
To attract bright students into the program,
Conestoga College made a substantial $5-million
capital investment to equip the new pilot plant
with the highest-quality processing and packaging
line equipment available, Garcia relates, with both
the provincial and federal government chipping in
to get the project rolling.
Best Buy
“To give our students the best hands-on experience
possible, we purchased components to construct
a bakery line, a beverage/pasteurization bottling
line, and a fresh vegetable line,” says Garcia.
“A bid for proposals was placed on a government website requesting the installation of a full
line,” relates IFPT technologist Barry Bremner,
saying that the winning bid submitted by the
Elmira, Ont.-based engineering services provider
Tri-Mach Group Inc. specified the best way to
A compact, fully-automatic Multivac T300 tray-sealer
combines innovative machine technology with a hygienic
design to provide IFPT students with an excellent learning
platform to hone their food process operating skills.
purchase, install and commission the pilot-plant’s
fresh-vegetable line.
Working closely with a group of suppliers selected
from an intensive bidding process, Tri-Mach proceeded to assemble and integrate the pilot plant’s
fresh vegetable line with an array of new equipment, including:
• a Nilma vegetable peeler, powered by a
Bonfiglioli motor;
• a Kronen GS10 slicer and VG010 washer;
• a Multivac T300 tray-sealer and model MR 6411
labeler;
• a plastic tray denester from Graphic Packaging
International;
• a Multipond LW1201-B 12-head portable combination weigher;
• a Multivac H100 pick-and-place robot;
• a Mettler-Toledo checkweigher;
• an S+S Inspection metal detection system;
• Tri-Mach-made sorting tables and customContinues on page 26
The Multivac H100 case-packer uses pick-and-place robotics to pack finished trays into corrugated cartons.
November 14 -15, at the PACKEX in Montréal, booth # 1814.
EDUCATION
A Siemens S7-200 CN PLC control (left) and a pair of Schneider Electric’s 240 VDC
inductive sensors controlling the UHT (ultra-high temperature) pasteurizing line.
designed ‘everclean’ conveyors;
• a Schneider Electric Magelis HMI (humanmachine interface) that controls the conveyor
system under the Multipond.
“If this all seems like a lot of equipment or even
overkill—it’s not,” Garcia asserts.
“It’s pretty much what any standard fresh-produce line is going to encompass equipment-wise,
and we want to ensure students get a proper education here,” says Garcia, reserving special praise to
the Burlington, Ont.-based Multipond distributor
Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. for facilitating and managing the Multipond weighing and
portioning equipment that could handle portioned
fresh vegetables like carrots, onions, potatoes., etc.,
as specified by Tri-Mach.
“We have dealt with hundreds of suppliers on this
undertaking, and working with Abbey Packaging
was really a great experience,” extols Bremner.
“It became very apparent that Abbey Packaging
was a great choice—the f lawless equipment, a
superb training professional, and an easy-to-workwith team made the whole experience a good one,”
he says, recalling that Abbey Packaging’s service
technician was right there on the spot when the
Multipond system was first started up.
Perfect Start
“It ran perfectly from the onset,” explains Bremner,
“but the service tech believed it could run even
better, and spent the better part of the day making
it happen.”
According to Bremner, the Abbey Packaging
technician discovered that the servomotor-driven
distribution can that delivers product to the 12
weighscales was better suited for harder-to-move
products, and suggested installing a vibratory unit
and trays would facilitate better movement for the
non-leafy products.
“Their technician installed the new equipment,
added the vibration electronics controls, software
and wiring,” recounts Bremner. “But unlike with
many other suppliers, there was no work-order,
A pair of high-quality Tagliavini Rotovent model ovens and proofers/retarders designed
for compact size, versatility and energy savings are employed in the IFPT’s bakery.
Freshly-made buns baked by IFPT students cool down as they move along the Tri-Mach
spiral conveyor for packing.
change notice, invoice or restocking charges.
“They just wanted to make sure their equipment
was working perfectly for the customer—a concept which seems to have become forgotten in the
world of engineered solutions,” Bremner remarks.
As pleased as they are with the fresh-vegetable
line, Bremner and Garcia are also justifiably proud
of the impressive baked goods line at the pilot
plant, featuring:
• planetary and spiral mixers supplied by Globe
Equipment and Abrigo Industrial Machines,
respectively;
• a Vemag PC878 model portioner from Reiser;
• a Konig Harvest bun-maker and MiniRex Futura
portioner;
• indexing and retracting conveyors supplied by
Tri-Mach;
• two Tagliavini Rotovent TVT 665E model
ovens and a double retarder proofer;
• A spiral conveyor from Tri-Mach, controlled via
a Magelis HMI terminal, used for cooling the
fresh-baked product;
• a Zenith form/fill/seal vertical bagger, manufac-
After cooling on a Tri-Mach spiral conveyor, freshly-baked goods are packed via a vertical
form/fill/seal Zenith bagger from PFM Packaging Machinery.
EDUCATION
As well, the facility also boasts a Qualtech
CIP (clean-in-place) system that is used to sanitize the preparation equipment, filler, UHT and
septic tanks.
“In addition, we have a COP (clean-out-of-place)
tank and all the equipment necessary to effectively
clean and sanitize conveyors, f loors, walls and ceilings,” says Garcia. “We use foaming and gelling
technologies that are proven to be more effective
both from a cleaning and a cost point of view.”
Bremner points out that IFPT also has a liquid
process training system—a large, hands-on workboard—supplied by f luid control experts Bürkert
featuring Siemen’s Simatic Panel Touch HMI that
allows the students to design and build an automated efficient set up of a liquid process line.
Auto Pilot
Two of the three food process packaging lines at the IFPT pilot plant include the fresh-vegetable line (left) and the
bottling line (center), with clean-up and sanitation equipment strategically positioned nearby on the right to provide
students with a real-life food-processing production environment.
tured by PFM Packaging Machinery Corp.
For its part, the pilot plant’s bottling line consists of:
• liquid mixing and dispersion equipment supplied by Quadro Engineering, IKA Works,
Silverson, Viking Canada, Idex, Highland
Equipment and Stainless Process;
• an UHT (ultra-high temperature) SPX pasteurizer
that heats up and chills product in a few seconds;
• an Accutek Packaging Equipment bottle
unscrambler and bottle rinser;
• an SPX aseptic tank with a Magelis HMI;
• a trayformer and a rotary bottle-filler capable
of running at 60 bottles per minute, manufactured by Biner Ellison High Speed
Packaging Machinery, outfitted with a Delta
Electronics HMI;
• plastic bottles donated by Lassonde Beverages
Canada;
• bottle caps donated by Pano Caps;
• a Pillar Technologies capper capable of utilizing twistoff caps or caps outfitted with induction
safety seals;
• Tri-Mach conveyors;
• a self-adhesive label-applicating system from
A Multivac MR 6411 labeler applies adhesive labels onto
tray of carrots on the fresh-vegetable packaging line.
Labelette;
• an Aesus Systems heat tunnel and shrinksleeving equipment to apply full-body film wrap
and/or tamper-evident neck bands, featuring a Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley
PanelView C300 control terminal;
• a small-character Videojet 1220 inkjet printer
and a P3400 label printer;
• corrugated cartons supplied by Integrated
Packaging Systems;
• a Phase Fire Shrink Technologies shrinkwrap
and heat tunnel.
Win-Win
“Equally important to learning how to operate a
food processing line is the clean-up and sanitation
issues that surround it,” explains Garcia, “which is
why we offer a strong course on this subject.”
Garcia mentions that the IFPT has achieved a
win-win partnership with Sani-Marc Group,
who provide chemical products and technical assistance to the school in exchange for being allowed
to schedule R&D (research & development) time in
the facility, along with training for their clients.
A Vemag PC878 portion controller from Reiser is used by IFPT
students to prepare the fresh-baked goods for packaging.
Says Bremner: “We have had some very good suppliers and contributors as we built the pilot plant.
“Working with Abbey Packaging was an absolute
pleasure, as they provided the right equipment, the
right service and expertise and a commitment to
make it perfectly fit our requirements,” he adds.
Aside from the mechanical and electrical knowledge imparted to each student, Garcia is adamant
that the IFPT program teach them something
equally as important.
“You can have all the knowledge in the world, but if
you are unable to work as part of a team, your career
in this industry will be short-lived,” relates Garcia.
“We teach teamwork, as workers should be
conscious of the entire production line and be in
agreement to the best operating solution that won’t
impact the overall quality, safety or productivity
of the line.”
Sums up Garcia: “We don’t want to produce
graduates simply to be part of a business: We want
our graduates to help that business grow!”
Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.
Tri-Mach Group Inc.
Bonfiglioli Canada
Kronen GmbH
Multivac Canada Inc.
Graphic Packaging International
MULTIPOND Wägetechnik GmbH
Schneider Electric Canada
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
S+S Inspection Inc.
Globe Equipment Company
Abrigo Industrial Machines Inc.
Reiser (Canada) Co.
Delta Electronics, Inc.
Tagliavini S.p.a.
PFM Packaging Machinery Corp.
Accutek Packaging Equipment Co.
SPX Corporation
Biner Ellison High Speed Packaging Machinery
Pano Caps Canada Limited
Pillar Technologies, Inc.
Labelette Labelers
Rockwell Automation Canada
Aesus Systems
Videojet Technologies Canada
Phase Fire Shrink Technologies
Integrated Packaging Systems Inc.
Christian Bürkert GmbH & Co. KG
Siemens Canada
Sani-Marc Group
Qualtech Inc.
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Photos courtesy of Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods
New X-Ray product inspection system boosts production line efficiency and product
quality control assurance for leading vertically-integrated hemp food manufacturer
Bags of hemp seeds processed at the Manitoba Harvest
facility in Winnipeg bags are closed by the model SS850
heat-seal machine manufactured by SteelNor Systems.
try since it began operation in 1998, the company’s
roots trace back to the early 1990s, when company
co-founders Mike Fata, Martin Moravcik and Alex
Chwaiewsky helped legalize hemp, working with
farmers and academics from the early 1990s.
The eventual legalization of hemp farming by
1998 finally resulted in Manitoba Harvest opening
up shop and begin producing high-quality hemp
food products in relatively small quantities at first,
while getting actively involved in educating the
public on the many misconceptions of the hemp
seeds and providing information of its numerous
health benefits.
“We started out small—initially selling fresh
hemp oil and shelled hemp seeds at local farmer’s
markets and to local retailers,” Greaves relates.
“But thanks to grass roots marketing, we had
grown to the point that by 2001 we were preparing our first shipment of hemp to the U.S.”
Unfortunately the United States Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) had other ideas at
the time—actively campaigning to make the sale
of all hemp foods illegal in the U.S.
J
ust the mere mention of the word ‘hemp’ can
sometimes be enough to conjure up images of
the notorious and highly controversial marijuana drug plants, with all the negative connotations
and other baggage that this highly misunderstood
common weed has acquired over the ages.
But despite being related to the infamous cannabis plant family, 90 per cent of the estimated
2,000 know hemp plant varieties contain virtually
negligible amounts of the illicit psychoactive THC
(tetrahydrocannabinol) responsible for producing
the pot “high” that has given the plant its shady, if
highly questionable, reputation as a gateway drug
to more serious substance addictions.
The truth is that the lion’s share of hemp plants
can be processed to make a wide range of useful
products, including products with well-proven and
tested health benefits.
“What people don’t realize is that hemp, along
with offering a healthy food, can also be used
effectively in the manufacture of many environmentally-friendly products such as paper, textiles,
biocomposites and sustainable building materials,”
points out Tom Greaves, director of operations
with Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods.
Located at a 20,000-square-foot production facility in Winnipeg, the 85-employee company produces a surprisingly broad range of popular hemp-based
products, including the Hemp Hearts brand of raw
shelled hemp seeds, protein powders, hemp oil and
the Hemp Bliss brand of beverages, along with doing
some private-label work for other customers.
Legal Spat
According to Greaves, the hemp processed by
his company offers average everyday consumers a
plethora of healthy benefits—especially for those
people looking to add essential omegas and plantbased easy-to-digest protein into their daily diet.
“The best part of our products, especially Hemp
Hearts, is that they taste great,” Greaves told
Canadian Packaging in a recent interview, adding
that Manitoba Harvest products can be found at
most health-food stores across Canada and the U.S.,
as well as in the aisles of leading grocery retailers
such as Whole Foods, Loblaws, Safeway and
Costco.
However, after a drawn-out, three-year legal
battle spearheaded by the not-for-profit Hemp
Industries Association, f ledgling hemp producers
such as Manitoba Harvest finally got their wish.
“It was a long three years, and the ban regarding
the sale of hemp foods in the U.S. was a major hurdle
for Manitoba Harvest,” says Greaves, “but although
it slowed us down, it did not deter our growth.”
In fact, Manitoba Harvest today ranks as the largest vertically-integrated hemp-foods manufacturer in the world, according to Greaves.
Better Choice
“We offer a choice of Certified Organic and
Natural,” he states, “and they are Kosher-certified
made at our state-of-the-art facility.”
Containing 10 essential amino acids, edible
hemp offers a rich and balanced source of Omega-3,
Omega-6 and the rare GLA (gamma linolenic acid)
fatty acids that provide a natural means for controlling cholesterol levels and blood pressure levels,
Greaves explains, citing proven benefits of healthy
heart maintenance and hormonal balance.
The tasty and easily-digested hemp seeds are
also packed with other important nutrients such
as chlorophyll, vitamins E and B and phosphorus,
potassium, magnesium and calcium—all key for
effective energy metabolism, and protein and bone
synthesis—as well as folic acid, which is an important
ingredient for women trying to become pregnant.
While Manitoba Harvest has been at the forefront
of Canada’s hemp growing and processing indus-
Tasty, edible hulled hemp seeds are claimed to provide a
multitude of health benefits to the consumers.
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Director of operations Tom Greaves holds up a bag of
Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts edible hemp seeds.
Purchased via packaging systems supplier and integrator Plan Automation, the model Pack 320 X-Ray system from Eagle
Product Inspection provides Manitoba Harvest with a critical layer of quality control assurance.
“We control every aspect of the production process—from sourcing crops, to food processing,
packaging and distribution,” reveals Greaves.
“And we hold ourselves to the highest operational
standards.”
To ensure a reliable product supply, Manitoba
Harvest partners directly with hemp farmers to
source the raw, non-genetically modified hemp seed.
“The pre-screened farmers deliver their product
directly to our facility, which creates a closed-loop
sourcing system,” he explains.
“We take the raw hemp seeds and other natural,
organic and fair-trade ingredients, do quality-control testing, and only then process them to produce
our various products fresh in-house at our kosher
and organic-certified facility.”
According to Greaves, the plant undergoes a series of voluntary certifications and procedural standards audits each year to maintain its hard-earned
reputation for high product quality and safety.
reasons, “with our increasingly more health-conscious society really looking for new healthy food
products that also tastes great.”
Says Greaves: “There are many reasons for our
success, including marketing, sales and the product
teams, but a large part of it is really due to our vertical integration, which provides us with the ability to provide a diverse range of very high quality
products into the marketplace.”
Built for Speed
To maintain those high-quality standards well
into the future, the company recently installed a
highly advanced, state-of-the-art Pack 320 model
X-Ray product inspection system—manufactured
by Eagle Product Inspection of Tampa, Fla.—
to perform full top-to-bottom inspection of hemp
seeds packaged on the plant’s existing, semi-automated filling equipment.
Designed for high-speed f lowwrap lines handling
small- to mid-sized packaged items, the high-speed
Pack 320 X-Ray system uses its powerful detection
capabilities to examine items at speeds up to 1,200
units per minute, with 320-mm (12-inch) detector
coverage, employing a high-precision push-arm
rejection system with Festo pneumatic components to instantly eject contaminant-positive packs
from the line.
“We wanted to install the Pack 320 X-Ray equipment to ensure customers that we are providing the
highest quality hemp food product possible into
the marketplace,” states Greaves, complimenting
packaging systems supplier and integrator Plan
Automation of Orangeville, Ont., for the successful system installation and startup this past August.
“Right from the initial contact, Plan Automation
was very professional and easy to work with,”
mentions Greaves. “Not only do they possess a
very high level of customer service which showed
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Peace of Mind
“It’s simply a peace-of-mind effort for us
and our consumers to know that you can
trust exactly where your food is coming from,” he explains, pointing out the
company is in the process of becoming
the world’s first hemp food producer
to achieve the prestigious BRC (British
Retail Consortium) food safety certification, along with also being HACCP
(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control
Points)-certified and boasting regularly updated GMP (Good Manufacturing
Practices) validation.
Operating a 24-hours-day, five-daysa-week schedule to run the plant’s two
production and two packaging lines,
the company is nowadays reaping the
rewards of all its early hard work in a
big way, says Greaves, citing 50 percent
annual business growth over the last five
years and aiming for a 100-percent sales
increase for this year, compared to 2011.
“In fact, we do not expect to see our
growth to slow down any time soon,” he
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Passing the Festo pneumatic reject system positioned after the Eagle model 320 X-Ray system, bags of hemp product
revolve on a Wexxar-Bel accumulation table before case-packed.
through during the project, but their staff was very
knowledgeable, which allowed for a smooth implementation and startup of our new equipment.”
As Plan Automation’s X-Ray inspection specialist
Mat Bédard recalls: “Although Manitoba Harvest
initially said they only required an X-Ray system,
after going to their plant to see their operation, we
were able to offer them further advice on how we
could improve the overall f low of their productions lines.
“To help them reorganize the packaging room,”
Bédard relates, “we designed the f loor layout,
uncrated the new equipment, positioned it and
leveled it with other equipment, and provided fuller integration between conveyors and components, making sure the whole line ran to Manitoba
Harvest’s specifications.
“It turned out that Manitoba Harvest was
actually interested in a full turnkey solution,” says
Bédard, adding Plan Automation also supplied
the Manitoba Harvest plant with a Wexxar-Bel
accumulation table, along with three conveyors
from Allegro Industries with full washdown
capabilities and constructed to meet all the required
AMI (American Meat Institute) standards, to
round out the entire project.
“Having completed the redesign of our packaging room to accommodate the new X-Ray
equipment in the summer, we are now cur-
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with carbon offsets, according to Greaves.
“By taking steps to reduce our electricity usage,
we also reduce our environmental impact by purchasing RECs,” says Greaves, “which is the equivalent of planting 1,009 mature trees and not driving
an average car 438,464 kilometers (272,448 miles).
Naturally, the lion’s share of all the product packaging used by Manitoba Harvest is made from recyclable and/or reusable materials, Greaves point out.
“We support sustainable agriculture by endorsing
environmentally-friendly, non-intrusive farming
practices,” says Greaves.
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helping to educate them on hemp agronomy and
encouraging more hemp acres to be grown.”
Whole hemp seed stored in bulk-sized tote bags awaiting
States Greaves: “When you choose Manitoba
quality control testing before being released for proHarvest products, you can be assured that you are
cessing and packaging in the Manitoba Harvest plant’s
also making a choice for environmentally-conproduction area.
scious business practices.
“We are very proud of what we do at Manitoba
Harvest,” he sums up, “and want our customers to
feel good about supporting us as their business partner.
“We produce a darn good line of healthy hemp
food products to which Canadian consumers are
really starting to respond,” he concludes, “and
that bodes really well for the future of our company and for the future of the hemp industry at
large.”
Plan Automation
Eagle Product Inspection
Festo Canada
Techno Pak
Wexxar Packaging, Inc.
SteelNor Systems
Allegro Industries
rently working on some significant
upgrades throughout the remaining
parts of our facility that will take
place in the next few months,” says
Greaves, citing much improved line
performance and efficiencies in the
upgraded packaging room.
Other important pieces of key
packaging equipment installed at the
Winnipeg plant before last summer
include two Wexxar-Bel WFPS
5150 semi-automatic form/pack/seal
combination units that actually combine the features of the model BEL
505 semi-automatic case former and
pack station with the model BEL
150 pressure-sensitive case taper in
one high-performance, compactdesign system.
Purchased via Techno Pak of
Sainte-Julie, Que., the hard-working
WFPS 5150 systems are ergonomically-designed to enable a single plant
employee to load cases onto the BEL
505, holding the case in place with
its bottom f laps closed.
After the operator loads finished
product into the box and folds the
top f laps down, the case is pushed
through the BEL 150 case taper sealing the top and bottom of the case in
a single f luid operation.
Power to Spare
Along with offering a healthy food
alternative, Manitoba Harvest supports environmental sustainability, not just as a goal, but as a social
responsibility
partnering
with
Renewable Choice to support the
development of wind power projects, Greaves relates, and also has
offset conventional electricity use in
its facility by purchasing renewable
energy credits (RECs) that guarantee
that the energy used is replaced on the
national power grid with energy generated by renewable energy sources.
Moreover, Manitoba Harvest also
uses energy-efficient lighting and
heating and recycled paper products
in its office, while the plant’s usage of
natural gas is similarly counteracted
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Are Mushrooms the New Plastic?
• 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Featuring the renewable
ecocradle material from Ecovative Design LLC)
Produced by living organisms, this award-winning packaging material is derived from regionally
available agricultural
byproducts like cotton
burrs, rice and buckwheat hulls, which
are used to grow fungal mycelium, the
roots of mushrooms.
Growing to maturity
in seven days via an
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seven days to create the packing biomaterial that is
completely biodegradable and compostable.
THE SHOW TO HELP BRANDS GROW
A
Live demos to add hands-on excitement to the
Pack Expo International 2012 extravaganza
ccording to recent consumer research from
Mintel, only 44 per cent of U.S. shoppers
trust what brands say on the labels of their
food and beverage products. On the upside, 72 per
cent of Americans say they make a conscious effort
to recycle their product packaging after use—up
from 54 per cent in 2004.
Whatever conclusion marketers, brand managers and package designers draw from such numbers, there’s no substitute for hearing the pollsters
themselves explaining their findings, which is just
what you can do by visiting Mintel’s booth at The
Brand Zone pavilion in the Lower North Hall
of Chicago’s stunning McCormick Place exhibition grounds during this month’s PACK EXPO
International 2012 exhibition, Oct. 28-32, 2012.
“The PACK EXPO International show brings
together the world’s leading packaging innovators, and we are excited to connect with the
industry through a formal partnership,” says Pete
Giannakopoulos, president of Mintel’s CPG
Americas business unit.
“Through this collaboration, we are better able
to equip brands with the research and insights they
need to reach the right decision-makers with compelling data,” says Giannakopoulos, adding that
Mintel plans to present some of the key findings
from its recent research in a special theater inside
booth #N-6214.
“Understanding what today’s consumers need
and want is critical to the success of any brand,”
states Charles Yuska, president and chief executive officer of the show’s organizers PMMI (formerly Packaging Machinery Manufacturers
Institute) of Reston, Va.
“We are pleased to partner with Mintel to bring
attendees the insights they need to develop new
products and packaging, fuel innovation, and
establish stronger connections with consumers,”
says Yuska, whose long-established packaging
industry trade association comprises over 600
North American member-companies that manufacture packaging, processing and related converting equipment, machinery components, and
packaging containers and materials.
With brand managers facing increasing competi-
tion and the challenge of standing out on crowded
retail-shelves, they will find plenty of inspiration
for innovative and sustainable packaging at The
Brand Zone’s exhibit of Material ConneXion,
located within The Showcase of Packaging
Innovations area.
Sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company,
the exhibit will provide hands-on demonstrations
for each of the following materials, many of which
will come from outside of the packaging space, on
each day of the show:
Color Chameleon
• 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Popper Sommers Plastic Products Co. Inc.
This innovative fabric switches color based
upon temperature changes from sources such as
the human body, variations in sunlight, season
or geography. Attendees
will witness this innovative fabric change color
from tan to dark-olive,
and then to bright limegreen in higher temperatures. Current applications
include footwear, apparel, accessories and toys. A
discussion about applying this technology to packaging follows the demonstration.
Sustainable Styrofoam Alternative
• 11:30 a.m -12:00 p.m. (Featuring the PakNatural
loose fill from Sealed Air Corporation)
Discover an innovative
and sustainable substitute
for Styrofoam packaging.
These
biodegradable,
water-soluble, lightweight
and composed of non-food
renewable materials packing loose-fill foams are
ideal for many packaging
applications
involving
products such as electronics, glass and fragile goods.
Good Vibrations
• 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Taica Corporation
Can a material protect
an egg that is dropping
from a 15-storey building?
Attendees will discover
that the answer is ‘yes,’ if
they use this silicone-based
gel for vibration damping
and shock absorption. Containing no harmful
additives and combusting without toxins, the gel
material is currently used in mattresses, sneakers and sports equipment, while showing a lot of
promise for many future packaging applications.
Blushing Bottles
• 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (October 28, 29 and 30 only)
Americhem
Watch as bottles blush (or turn red) when exposed
to sunlight or UV radiation, with the hues, shades,
and colors of the bottle custom-modified as
required. Current applications for the molded
pieces include packaging
and electronics, with
future applications—such
as packaging for sunblock
products—to be discussed
in detail at the show.
PACK EXPO International 2012 at a glance
For four full days later this month, the
PACK EXPO International 2012 exhibition
will bring together more than 46,000
buyers and senior decision-makers from all
over the globe to join over 1,800 leading
manufacturers and suppliers showcasing
their state-of-the art materials, machinery,
and methods for packaging and processing
over more than 1.1 million square of feet of
exhibit space—making it by far the global
packaging industry’s premier event of the
year by any measure!
Dates: October 28-31, 2012
Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venure: McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
To register: www.packexpo.com
Fee: US$60
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Sustainable production and packaging systems to help CPGs cut their carbon footprint
T
he numbers speak for themselves.
In 2010, a detailed Greendex research
study from National Geographic and
GlobeScan—based on an extensive, 17,000-person survey that covered 17 nations—found that
40 per cent of consumers in those nations purposefully avoid excessively packaged goods either
“always” or “most of the time.” Last year, the
annual LOHAS Consumer Trends Study from the
Natural Marketing Institute found that 75 per
cent of U.S. consumers believe that many consumer products are overpackaged.
Any way you look at it, there’s no escaping the
new reality of modern-day consumers preferring
minimal packaging first and foremost—followed
by recyclable packaging, and then by packaging
made from environmentally-friendly materials.
Moreover, these consumer say the want to support
those CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies
that bring sustainability efforts to the production
f loor to reduce their energy consumption, as well as
their air and water usage and waste.
Show & Tell
Heat and Control specializes in environmentally-sensitive industrial design and manufacturing integration to improve
process efficiency, while reducing the overall operating costs of processing, inspection and packaging machinery.
And whichever packaging element a CPG comf loorspace required for installation.
pany wants to make greener, exhibitors at this
“We now also offer equipment that recovers
month’s PACK EXPO International 2012 show
energy from cooker exhaust and conveyor drives
at Chicago’s McCormick Place, Oct. 28-31,
that can be reused with different pans—not
will have plenty of solutions to offer—
scrapped—when line layouts change.”
from environmentally-friendly materials
In similar fashion, the centrifugal blowto process innovations that will help comers and air delivery devices from Paxton
panies improve their productivity, while
Products, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based
reducing their carbon footprint.
division of industrial equipment conIn many instances, changes in the design
glomerate Illinois Tool Works (ITW),
and layout of a manufacturing facility can
provide clean dry air to reduce energy
make a profound difference in achieving Designed to provide
usage during packaging and labeling
an eco-friendly
a company’s sustainability goals.
by as much as 80 per cent, compared to
“Environmentally-sensitive design and alternative to
compressed-air systems. (Booth #2019)
metal
bearings
in
manufacturing improves efficiency and
Halo Effect
reduces the costs of processing, inspec- food packaging
tion and packaging machinery,” says applications, iglide’s “Each Paxton system is custom-engineered for drying based on the size and
Brian Barr, packaging systems sales A350 plastic
bushings
offer
shape of the target product and the line
manager at Heat and Control Inc. in
superior tribological
configuration,” says Paxton’s general
Hayward, Ca. (Booth #4506).
manager Barbara Stef l. “The devices can
“Precision laser- and waterjet-cutting and mechanical
be configured either to deliver a curtain
of materials and unitized equipment properties for
general-purpose
of air to dry the top and sides, or cusdesigns reduce waste, air pollution, and
tomers can use our new innovative Air
the number of parts required to build use in packaging
Halo system, which forms a 360-degree
each machine,” he states. “Modular machinery.
halo of air to dry the top, bottom and
machinery cuts the time, labor and
sides at once.”
Even the tiniest changes to existing packaging
machinery can have a big impact on a CPG’s sustainability efforts.
Tom Miller, bearings unit manager for North
America at the East Providence, R.I.-based igus
Inc. (Booth #7634) points out the benefits of
switching from metal bearings to his company’s
dry-running, lubrication-free plastic bushings that
require less energy to operate.
“These days, many companies are working hard
to reduce their carbon footprint on the environment, but this does not happen overnight,” says
Innovative ultrasonic sealing technology from Herrmann
Miller. “It is usually a culmination of changes that
Ultrasonic can reduce the amount of material used for
take place over time, in a number of different areas.
packaging, as well as reduce power consumption and
“Highly wear-resistant and designed to handle
improve overall equipment efficiency.
long-term temperatures up to 356°F, the iglide
A350 plastic bushings are ideal for applications
in the food, packaging and bottle-filling industries—delivering low coefficients of friction and
being resistant to a variety of chemicals and other
liquids,” Miller points out.
“They are also extremely lightweight, which helps
reduce fuel consumption and carbon-dioxide output.
“Moreover, they do not require environmentally-harmful galvanizing baths to achieve chemical resistance like you do with metals, which
often have to be coated using an environmentallyunfriendly, high-energy zinc galvanizing bath to
achieve the desired effect.”
As the North American consumers’ love affair with
coffee continues to grow, an increasing number of
shoppers are seeking out coffee products produced
and harvested in sustainable fashion—including
beans grown in a manner that is kind to the local
environment and its people.
Coffee marketers who want to take this to the
next level could greatly benefit from many innovative new sustainable packaging solutions, such as the
new Flexis Air valve from Strongsville, Ohio-based
Avery Dennison Designed and Engineered
Solutions. (Booth #2556)
“Flexis technology allows for up to a 30-percent
Centrifugal blowers and air delivery devices from Paxton
Products can help reduce energy usage across a broad
range of packaging and labeling applications.
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increase in application throughput, and
“The high efficiency is guaranteed by 10 staa 30- to 50-percent product purchase
tionary workstations, which are in use more
advantage over hard valves,” says the
than 90 per cent of the process time,”
company’s business development manexplains company vice-president
ager Nick Greco. “And they offer excepMichael Grabher.
tional performance characteristics.
“The system includes evacuating,
“Recent tests conducted by a major
gassing and seaming, and it allows
university show that the valve mainthe customer to vary the end pressure
tains less than two-percent residual
inside the can,” says Grabher.
oxygen for 24 months, equaling the
“This technology eliminates the need
reliability of hard button valves.”
for carbon dioxide, while achieving
According to Greco, the Flexis Air Developed for retail coffee less than 0.5-percent oxygen content.”
valve uses about 90 per cent less plastic packages, the Flexis Air
As the U.S. Environmental
The new bag-on-valve aerosol filling machine from MBC
than injection-molded plastic degas- valve from Avery Dennison Protection Agency (EPA) continues
Aerosol uses compressed air in a can lined with a bag
sing valves—creating another oppor- Designed and Engineered
to tighten rules and regulations on
attached to an aerosol valve.
tunity to reduce carbon footprints and Solutions uses about 90
conventional aerosol hydrocarbon proper
cent
less
plastic
than
nonrecyclable waste.
pellants, the bag-on-valve (BOV) packThe valves come pre-oiled with a pre- injection-molded plastic
aluminum can packaging by providing the most
aging format is fast-becoming a major
cise amount of food-grade silicone oil at degassing valves.
precise liquid nitrogen dosing at the highest discrete
growing trend in the aerosol industry,
the necessary valve locations to protect
dosing speeds. (Booth #1340)
according to Jim McBride, owner of
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against oxygen ingress—a time-saving feature that
MBC Aerosol in South Elgin, Ill. (Booth #3043)
also reduces scrap and clean-up by eliminating the
A new can process center from Grabher
Can Do
need to lubricate valves during the packaging process.
INDOSA produces evacuated,
McBride explains: “A rolled-up aluminum bag is
Sustainable advancements in can packaging
gasified and seamed cans with
welded
or
attached
to
an
aerosol
valve,
compressed
of ground coffee, milk powders, infant formula
reduced gas usage,
air is charged into the can, an aerosol valve with the
and other dry, powdered products, now include
while providing
bag attached is crimped onto the container, and the
novel technologies that can substantially reduce
superior protection for
product is forced through the aerosol valve stem to
the amount of industrial gases required for MAP
high-quality powdered
fill the bag.
products such as
“When the spray button is pressed,” he describes,
beverage mixes and
“the product is squeezed out of the bag by the cominfant formulas.
pressed air, which creates the aerosol spray via the
spray button orifice.
“The major benefit of this package
is the lack of VOCs
(volatile
organic
compounds), along
with being completely recyclable,”
McBride points out.
“With about 99 per
cent of the product
squeezed out, the
only thing left is
the aluminum and a
Formost Fuji has adapted induction heating technology
little bit of harmless
for sealing film on horizontal wrapping machines to reduce
compressed air.
energy usage and maintenance costs, while improving
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foods are making
a
H
South
their way into this
(modified-atmosphere packaging) applications.
package, including
For example, the new CPC (Can Process Center)
olive oils and salad
127-10 ProVac system from Swiss manufacturer
dressings.”
Grabher INDOSA AG (Booth #8519) uses proSometimes a slight
prietary vacuum technology to achieve this goal.
modification to a
current packaging
process can yield
impressive savings
in money, materials
and energy.
For example, the
new NITRODOSE
liquid nitrogen dosing systems from
Vacuum Barrier
Corp. of Woburn,
Mass., enables manufacturers to use the
Vacuum Barrier’s liquid nitrogen dosing systems help
most
lightweight
eliminate liquid nitrogen waste in MAP applications,
PET (polyethylene
while enabling a reduction in packaging materials.
terephthalate)
and
Contiform 3
The next generation
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THIRSTY FOR INNOVATION
Beverage packaging and processing technologies evolve in response to market shifts
L
ike in many other major global industries,
“In making this new carton, we drove out 35
sustainability continues to be a driving force
million pounds of fiber to offer a more sustainable,
for beverage manufacturers, as they explore
lower-cost package with greater functionality,”
new materials and processing technologies to
Tarlton says, adding the new lighter-weight carton
reduce overall energy use and streamline supply
is easier to carry and open, while also allowing for
chain logistics to cut their carbon emissions.
five cartons to fit on a store-shelf, instead of four,
Combined with the consumers’ growing demand
thanks to its optimized headspace.
Bosch Packaging’s SurePOUCH stand-up flexible pack
for getting more of their daily nutritional requireAccording to GPI, the project helped achieve
styles allow for plenty of flexibility and shelf-level differenments from their packaged beverages, these market
an overall 20-percent reduction in secondary
tiation opportunities for beverage product brand-owners.
dynamics are leading to a call for new technologies
packaging; a 30-percent reduction in CO2 emissions, directly due to the switch from corrugated
to accommodate those demands.
to paperboard; and a 40-percent reduction in the
These and other key trends will be ref lected
is significant research directed toward moving
number of trucks transporting the cartons.
among the many packaging and processing
away from today’s food source material feedstocks
Naturally, sustainability for GPI begins with
innovations that await attendees to this year’s
to non-food competing biomass such as algae and
materials, according to the company’s director of
PACK EXPO International 2012 at Chicago’s
agricultural waste,” Steele says, noting that the
government affairs and sustainability Andy Johnson.
McCormick Place, Oct. 28-31, 2012.
economics of bio-derived polymers continue to be
“We’ve changed the raw materials in our paperSustainability in material use is driving increased
a challenge.
board to 100-percent pine, which reduces the
demand for bottle lightweighting, according to
Headquartered in Holland, Ohio, PTI provides a
amount of fiber without sacrificing performance
David Dineff, director of marketing for Butler, Pa.broad range of services—including package design,
requirements like high tear strength,” he says.
based Agr International, Inc., manufacturer of
development, prototyping and material evalua“We always work with our customers to rightthe Process Pilot process and
tions—for plastic beverage
size their packaging, which we then design for
quality control system that
packaging. (Booth #8509)
effective asset utilization.”
manages material distribuThe company’s Virtual
tion through a combination
Prototyping modules, for
Less is More
of precise thickness measexample, design preforms
Reducing packaging material is also high on the
urement and automated
for beverage containers
green agenda of Bosch Packaging Technology
blowmolder control, comand take them on a ‘virtual
of New Richmond, Wis.
plemented with powerful
trip,’ as a computer file, to
Earlier this year, Bosch Packaging introduced the
vision inspection capabilities
a blowmolding machine,
SurePOUCH range of pouches for applications
for random defect detection.
which then processes the
that include noncarbonated beverages, condiments
(Booth #4917)
data to create a prototype.
and soups.
“Because many beverage
For Graphic Packaging
Ranging in filling volumes from 100-ml to five
companies are beginning
International (GPI), susliters, the pouches are designed with thinnerto manufacture their own
tainability in the beverage
gauge plastic materials that are 80 per cent lighter
bottles, there is increased
industry has long been a key
than alternative rigid formats like cartons, metal
demand for training, autodriver for its business.
containers and cans.
mated blowmolder manRanking as one of
The
Pilot
Vision
control
software
from
Agr
works
In addition to cost and energy savings throughagement
systems,
and
the world’s largest supout manufacturing and transportation, the format
laboratory testing equip- with the PETWall Profiler distribution managepliers of folding caralso lowers the product-to-package weight ratios,
ment,” says Dineff, noting ment system to facilitate hands-free control and
tons,
the
Marrietta,
according to Bosch.
that the ongoing trend by monitoring of the entire blowmolding process.
Ga.-headquartered
GPI
The packs are filled on Bosch’s SurePOUCH
beverage suppliers to boost
(Booth #1458) works with
rollfed VFFS (vertical form-fill-seal) machines,
the PCR (post-consumer resin) content inherently
many of the world’s top brand-owners, including
which are capable of filling products with varying
increases the risk of contamination in the bottle
Kraft, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Kellogg and other
levels of hygiene, including ultra clean-fill.
manufacturing process.
companies implementing their own ambitious
The reclosable spouts on the SurePOUCH are
global environmental agendas.
Joint Effort
electronically welded to pouch exteriors and can be
Earlier this year, GPI completed a major proDineff explains that Process Pilot works in conjunction
positioned in various locations based on customer
ject with Kraft Foods’ Capri Sun juice brand—
with Agr’s PETWall Profiler measurement system
preference—significantly boosting line efficiency
redesigning its 10-pack carton from a B-f lute
to interface with blowmolder controls and maintain
improvements by enabling
corrugated laminated
a defined distribution profile for each bottle.
production of many differbox to a heavyweight
If there are changes in material distribution due to
ent sizes and formats with
clay-coated,
solid
plant environments, material or equipment, the system
the same machine.
unbleached
sulphate
adjusts automatically—resulting in reduced scrap—to
“We can produce a numfolding carton.
maintain strict quality and performance parameters.
ber of formats on the
According to the
An optional six-camera vision-based Pilot Vision
same piece of equipment,”
company’s
director
inspection system can also be integrated to work
says Bosch pouch sysof strength packaging
within the blowmolder to identify randomly
tems president Guenther
Chuck Tarlton, GPI and
occurring defects due to contamination, improper
Burkhard, “to give our
Kraft spent three years
bottle formulation, increased PCR content and
the customers the manuplanning the converother common defects.
facturing f lexibility they
sion project—involving
According to Scott Steele, president of Plastic
require to meet their mar65 filling lines at four
Technologies, Inc. (PTI), the interest in bioket demands.”
different manufactur- Graphic Packaging redesigned the multipack paperTo register for PACK
derived PET containers is at an all-time peak.
ing plants—which was board cartons for Kraft’s Capri Sun juice brand to
“While many of today’s feedstocks for biosynimplemented over four optimize supply chain logistics, while also enhancing EXPO International 2012,
the product’s store-shelf presence and aesthetics.
go to: www.packexpo.com
thetic processes still use corn or sugar-cane, there
months in early 2012.
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and materials suppliers now consider smart camera vision systems indispensable in their efforts
to build strategic information architecture in line
“This eliminates liquid nitrogen waste and
with corporate sustainability goals,” says Lewis,
reduces consumption by having the industry’s lowexplaining that having such systems in place draest delivery pressure, along with both speed and
matically reduces defects and material scrap.
dose compensation,” says vice-president of sales
Lewis explains: “Label, material and container
Edward Hanlon, “while allowing for a notable
suppliers use a lot of vision systems and imagereduction in packaging materials.”
based barcode readers, while suppliers of preAlthough induction heating has long been used as
printed labels, injection-molded bottles, f lexible
an effective means of providing fast, constant heat
films and cartonboard containers use vision to
for electrically conductive materials, modern advaneliminate misprints and mix-ups.
ces in this technology are making it a remarkably
“Packaging materials like onserts and inserts are
simple and cost-effective heating method, which
often furnished pre-printed with barcodes and
has been deployed by the Woodinville, Wash.-based
characters that must be verified by label-converting
Formost Fuji Corp. for sealing film on the comcompanies—using vision and image-based barpany horizontal wrapping machines. (Booth #1674)
code readers to ensure code quality and data integAccording to the company, the use of this techrity on their serialized labels,” Lewis concludes, “as
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the reliability and stability of the
heater system, reduces energy usage,
and greatly extends the useful life of
the parts.
GREENER, CLEANER AND LEANER
The Cognex In-Sight 7000 vision system provides a
powerful tool to ensure full compliance with product and
package safety and traceablity requirements for many food
and pharmaceutical product manufacturers.
product recalls.”
To register for PACK EXPO International 2012,
go to: www.packexpo.com
Feel the Heat
Having been around for more than
50 years, ultrasonic sealing technology is also taking its rightful place in
packaging applications by companies trying to reduce the amount of
material used to seal plastic packages.
Offering reduced power consumption
and improved OEE (overall equipment
efficiency) performance, it is becoming
more widespread in the packaging of
products such as bagged salad, beverage, coffee, dairy, pasta, ready-cooked
meals and powdered products, according to Uwe Peregi, general manager
of Herrmann Ultrasonics Inc. in
Bartlett, Ill. (Booth #652)
“For VFFS (vertical form-fill-seal)
machines, ultrasonic allows welding
through contamination on the cross
seal,” he says, “which results in less
headspace for the package and reduced
sealing width.
“Moreover, the molecular weld
process starts from the inside layer,
which results in reduced sealing time
and less abrasion of the film.”
Due to ongoing miniaturization and
other advances in the power of digital
signal processors, imaging sensors
and decoding algorithms, traceability applications such as product ID
code reading, text verification, mark
quality assessment, and label inspection can now be accomplished more
economically by using the powerful
‘smart camera’ vision systems.
“The most advanced of these smart
camera systems now offer advanced
networking and communication
capabilities, along with powerful factory integration tools,” says John
Lewis, market development manager
at Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass.
(Booth #651)
“And with a standard operator
interface for a common look and
feel across all packaging lines and
inspection points, many packagers
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THE WINDY CITY SHOW-AND-TELL
Packaging technologies well worth closer look at Pack Expo International 2012 in Chicago
Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc.,
will display the company’s newly-developed Autoadjustment Package (AP) technology—designed
to speed up product changeovers on existing casepacking equipment for companies required to handle more SKUs without sacrificing line efficiency.
Featuring its own controller with a user-friendly
interface for easy set-up and operation, which
only requires a handshake to the existing machine
controller to activate, the AP system—available
as a simple addon for existing
equipment, as
a field retrofit, or as
an optional
feature on new
equipment—eliminates
the need for time-consuming line modifications, according to the
company, while automating many adjustment points to facilitate faster product changeovers.
Booth #1228
carton. The display will feature the DRT Toploader
incorporating both the FT120 multipack f lowwrapper and a carton management system, with the
option to switch to either method of loading.
Booth # S-209
Booth #5215
The exhibit of Delkor Systems
Inc. will showcase the
company’s
servo-driven
Capstone S2-1500 carton
closer, equipped with the
recently-patented Intelligent
Positioning technology that
electronically analyzes the precise position of
each individual carton f lap as it enters the carton closer—compensating for any misalignment
by making precise adjustments at speeds of up to
150 cartons per minute, according to the company.
Designed to run a full range of both paperboard
and corrugated materials—making it ideally-suited
for many retail-ready and distribution packaging
formats, the new Capstone carton closer features a
robust, stainless-steel design and high-quality control components such as Rockwell Automation’s
Allen-Bradley controls architecture, and an AllenBradley color touchscreen HMI (human-machine
interface) operator panel with optional multilingual screen prompts.
Booth #S-2347
Schubert Packaging Automation Inc. will
demonstrate a full turnkey picking line solution
for handling ready-fill syringes in continuous,
non-stop operation using the company’s innovative Transmodules as the system’s primary product
transport elements for fully-automatic operation
and optimal f lexibility.
Booth #7937
VC999 Packaging Systems will provide live
machine demonstrations of the company’s new
i-Series thermoformer—a high-performance, PLC
(programmable logic controller)-operated system
outfitted with a swing-mounted HMI (humanmachine interface)—running the company’s robust
new i-Software technology to help navigate operators via the HMI terminal or an industrial PC.
Booth #7228
Bradman Lake Group will
unveil a newly-enhanced version
of the company’s DRT Robotic
Toploader system to demonstrating the automatic collating and
loading of primary wraps into a
choice of two secondary packages, utilizing either a film multipack or a rigid chipboard retail
high-capacity spiral conveyor can be built with multiple inlets, thereby allowing two production levels
to use a single spiral configuration to boost picking
productivity in busy, high-volume warehousing and
production environments.
Krones Inc. will showcase the company’s newgeneration Contiform 3 blowmolding machines,
featuring enhanced design of the field-proven liner
oven of the Contiform S/H series with optimized
energy consumption requirements, according to
Krones. Offering a broad range of sizes from eight to
36 blowmolding stations—enabling robust outputs
of up to 81,000 containers per hour—the Contiform
3 machines can be easily monobloc-synchronized
with any filler, or integrated into the ErgoBloc L
formation with both a filler and a labeler.
Reiser’s
exhibit
will
unveil a broad range of
the company’s high-performance food packaging
and processing machinery,
including the new line of
Gruppo Fabbri automatic stretch
film
wrapping machines, as well as Ross tray sealers,
Repak horizontal form/fill/sealers, and Supervac
vacuum chamber packaging machines. According
to the company, the new model Fabbri Model 55
Plus machine—designed to use stretch film to
package fresh food in preformed trays (see picture)—
can handle a wide range of tray sizes, with no
changeovers, at up to 55 packs per minute, making
it well-suited across a broad range of challenging
high-speed applications.
Booth #1648
The Dow
Chemical
Company will showcase its
broad portfolio of innovative packaging solutions
covering a broad spectrum
of packaging requirements
and applications, including films and foams, food
and specialty packaging,
film substrates, adhesives
and rigid packaging. The
exhibit will highlight the company’s new high-performance range of ELITE AT resins—developed
primarily for stretchwrap and stretchhood applications—to offer exceptional processing performance,
according to Dow, while enabling enhanced toughness and durability in a thin film structure, along
with superior sealant properties, low-temperature
sealing capabilities, and high impact resistance.
Dow Customer Center
Booth #S-2466
Ryson
International,
Inc. will display its extensive range of high-capacity spiral conveyors,
designed as space-saving
vertical conveying systems
that have recently been
upgraded to handle up to
3,600 pounds of product
at a time, while conveying
convey high-volume cases
with elevation changes of
up to 32 feet. Requiring
far less floorspace to install
than conventional linear
conveying systems, Ryson’s
Standard-Knapp will display the powerful performance capabilities of the company’ new model
598 Tritium Multipacker system—a continuousmotion multipacker capable of handling challenging, high-speed applications in the food, beverage
and personal care industries.
Booth #N-4106
Filamatic’s exhibit will showcase the company’s
popular Monobloc fill/finish packaging systems
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that can perform a wide
range of tasks such as
sorting, feeding, filling, plugging, stoppering,
crimping, capping, induction sealing, labeling, and accumulating.
Especially well-suited for the pharmaceutical and
cosmetic industry applications, the Monobloc line
offers a variety of liquid metering systems to provide a broad fill volume range of 0.5-ml to 500-ml
per cycle, handling viscosities ranging from freef lowing to highly viscous products. Offered with an
optional HEPA filtration system to provide positive
pressure airf low within the machine environment,
the digitally-controlled, menu-driven Monoblocs can
handle a wide array of containers, including microtubes, cryovials, glass vials, and plastic containers.
vision systems, label code verification software, and
label presence sensors to ensure instant, high-accuracy rejection of defective containers off the line.
Booth #S-2834
Booth #S-847
Bosch Packaging
Technology
is
planning to showcase several new
advanced packging
technologies
for
the pharmaceutical,
food and confectionery industries,
including the new
model Pack 301 ID inverted long-dwell flowwrapper—a high-performance HFFS (horizontal formfill-seal) machine designed to ensure gentle transport
of products by carrying them on top of the film from
the former through the cutting head, minimizing
jams and protecting package appearance. According
to Bosch, the machine’s long-dwell sealing system
allows for longer sealing times compared with traditional rotary cutting heads, which results in higher
seal integrity and air-tight packages for fresh produce,
multipacks and a diverse range of pharmaceutical,
meat and dairy products.
Booth #S-2212
Videojet Technologies Inc. will unveil its new
Videojet 8150 inkjet printer—designed as a compact and highly-robust product ID solution for a
broad range of primary and secondary coding and
marking applications, with its user-friendly touchscreen interface allowing operators to access all
common operations in five or fewer touches. The
new printer incorporates key elements of Videojet’s
CLARiSUITE code assurance software—a scalable
software solution that enables packaging supervisors
to increase productivity and reduce human error in
message set-up. The printer’s 8.4-inch color touchscreen interface allows operators to quickly ascertain the status of the printer, verify the print job
currently loaded, and check cartridge ink levels and
other production line data all from one screen.
Muller Martini’s Web Press Technology Division
will provide extensive information on the company’s new VSOP web offset press—developed for
high-quality printing of labels, f lexible packaging,
and folding carton products. The exhibit will feature a 33.5-inches-wide VSOP 850 print tower
which has been modified with a see-through
doorway—allowing booth visitors a unique perspective to the VSOP’s patented changeover technology. Engineered to enable fast-and-easy sleeve
changeovers to accommodate a new printing job,
the VSOP web offset printing press features new
ergonomic construction, innovative electronic
control technology, a high-efficiency external
roller and optimized ink train design, according to
the company.
Booth # 1534
Booth #N-4775
The exhibit of Intelligrated will display the company’s vast range of automatic material handling
solutions, including an at Alvey 952-2 hybrid inline
palletizer, an Alvey robotic depalletizer, and the
company’s wide array mixed-load order fulfillment
technologies. Designed for reducing secondary
packaging applications, the Alvey 950 hybrid in-line
palletizer integrates robotic arms with a conventional high-speed palletizer to increase pattern f lexibility and facilitate quick product changeover. The
company’s in-booth demonstration will showcase
an Alvey 952-2 workcell equipped with two KUKA
robots and enhanced end-of-arm tooling features
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Booth #2274
Canadian machine-builder Capmatic
Ltd. will showcase its MONOSTAR
PHARMA labeler, developed as an optimal solution for high-speed labeling of
unstable containers or products, which
can be configured with infeed and outfeed trays to ensure gentle loading and
gathering of containers before and after
labeling. Boasting innovative Faulty Label
Reconciliation System (FLRS) technology with track-and-trace capabilities for
pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and biotech applications requiring the removal
of faulty labels before they can be applied
onto containers, the labeler can be configured for seamless integration into
an existing production line. Capable of
reaching line speeds of up to 400-bm and
handling a broad range of vials, test tubes,
microtubes, syringes, ampoules, etc.,
MONOSTAR PHARMA is equipped
with the most advanced quality verification tools, including barcode scanners,
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Canadian metal detection technology experts
Fortress Technology Inc. will showcase the
company’s new Stealth metal detector, featuring
an evolutionary design that offers full compatibility with existing Fortress systems. Custommanufactured to suit any applications, the Stealth
detectors combine powerful digital signal processing technology with high sensitivity levels to
ensure the detection of the smallest ferrous, nonferrous and stainless steel contaminants, with the
built-in USB data recording feature making it an
effective critical control point for complying with
stringent HACCP food safety regulations.
Booth # S‐354
The exhibit of ACI Inc. will feature the company’s new EL bottle and can drying system, comprising a free-standing enclosed blower mounted
on f lexible legs to permit installations that either
straddle the filling lines, or are positioned to one
side to to deliver a continuous and consistent supply of clean air at cost-effective pressures, volumes
and velocities. The system’s outlet options included
the company’s patented Jetplates—smooth-faced
plenums with a specially-designed pattern of slots
that enable effective drying both by their close
proximity to the product and by driving the moisture progressively downwards and off the bottles,
while also acting as guide rails to help prevent bottles falling over. The other outlet option is offered
via the adjustable Can Tunnels, which also have a
special array of slots to achieve maximum drying
efficiency, while also effectively containing all the
dislodged moisture.
Booth #N-5564
Product coding systems specialists Markem-Imaje
will display the company’s model 9232 smallcharacter continuous inkjet printer, designed for
reliable and cost-effective printing of best-before
dates, logos, alphanumeric text, and linear and 2D
barcodes for a broad range of food-and-beverage,
pharmaceutical, cosmetic, electronic, cable and
extrusion industry applications. According to the
company, the model 9232 printer was designed to
allow for optimal and transparent management of
overall printing activities—resulting in enhanced
cost control, environmental impact reduction, better printing results, and optimization of operator’s
time. Boasting a newlydesigned ink circuit and
an innovative printhead,
the printer is outfitted with
a user-friendly interface and
a seven-inch color touchscreen for real-time display
of remaining print capacity
and tracking of consumption,
printer availability, and maintenance procedures. Offering print speeds of up to
6.6 meters per second, and font heights of up to 32
dots, the high-performance 9232 model is made
from 80-percent recyclable materials, according to
the company, while its enhanced ink cartridge life
enables user to print up to 90 million characters
per liter of ink.
Booth #2200
Eagle Packaging Machinery will showcase the
highly versatile POPLOK trayformer for erecting
multiple tray sizes on the same machine—including one-, two- and multi-tuck trays, as well as
the more intricate shelf-ready displays required by
Club Stores—without using
any glue of tape,
according to the
company. Equipped
with quick changeover features that
allow tray sizes
to be adjusted in
a matter of minutes, the self-locking POPLOK tray
erector is loaded with
advanced performance features such as vacuum
technology for tray extraction, top-sheet feed for
positive tray control through the machine, and
a high-capacity lift-table hopper that provides
long durability, low maintenance, and low costof-ownership. Boasting heavy-duty construction
that includes sealed ball bearings and self-cleaning
tracks in the blank transfer section for clean and
quiet operation, POPLOK can be supplied with
either an Allen-Bradley or Omron PLC (programmable logic controller) touchscreen controls that
facilitate quick and easy adjustment, troubleshooting, and full access to all operational functions.
Booth #S-1273
METTLER TOLEDO Safeline will showcase
the company’s new Certus XR X-Ray inspection
system, which the company says was developed
specifically to offer an effective and
highly efficient solution for inline
X-Ray inspection of small packaged products. Available in the
Certus XR 300
model
with
a
300-mm
inspection area
and the Certus
XR 400 version
with a 400mm inspection
area—both distributed in Canada by MD
Packaging—the system uses unique low-energy
X-Ray technology for reliable automatic detection
and rejection of many contaminants, including
metal, stone, glass and bone. Featuring a six-inch,
full-color touchscreen user interface and intui-
tive software, the system ensures user-friendly
operation requiring no time-consuming manual
changeovers or specialized knowledge of X-Ray
inspection technology.
Booth #706
Quebec-based
Premier
Tech Systems (PTS)
will be using the show as a
launchpad for the company’s
new high-speed robotic casepacking solution for packing
cases, cans, bundles, trays.
etc., into boxes or other
types of rigid containers,
which can be supplied in
standard configuration or
custom-designed to meet
precise application requirements, according to the company.
Booth #3724
Siemens Industry, Inc. will display the company’s versatile Sinamics S120 drive system has
been recently expanded to include Profinet, Ethernet
TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP connectivity—providing
maximum f lexibility for industrial Ethernet communication while offering innovative concepts
for those wanting a single network for the entire
plant, according to the company. Designed to
handle virtually any drive requirement to facilitate demanding vector, servo and VFD (variablefrequency drive) applications with the choice of
single- or multi-axis offerings, the Sinamics S120
drives’ modular design and system architecture,
combined with new communication connectivity features, makes them a powerful solution for a
diverse range of applications, including packaging,
plastics molding and extrusion, textiles, printing
and paper machines, handling and assembly systems, machine tools, rolling mills and test stands.
Booth #N-4239
Primera Technology, Inc. will showcase the
company’s model CX1000 color label printer for
cost-effective, f lexible, on-demand inhouse label
production, utilizing pre-die cut stock sizes. Wellsuited for short- to medium-run jobs from 100
to 5,000 labels per roll, in various sizes, the new
color label printer can be paired up with the company’s patented FX1000 matrix removal system for
fast and easy waste matrix removal, slitting, and
rewinding to finished rolls.
Booth #5641
SHOW PREVIEW
JLS Automation will conduct live demonstrations
of the company’s Heron tray-loading system and the
Osprey case-packing system working together to
package vacuum-packed natural sausage products,
as well as bags of frozen food, into foam trays, and
loading the overwrapped trays into RSC (regular
slotted case) cartons at high throughput speeds.
Booth #1648
Optima Machinery Corporation will unveil
the new Optima CFL series machine designed
to produce up to 240 coffee capsules per minute,
according to the company, with its high-precision
weighing system ensuring accurate individual dosing with an accuracy of +/- 0.3 grams. Featuring
integrated gas installation that ensures the defined
rest oxygen content inside the closed pack, the CFL
series system has been optimized to interface as a
turnkey interfaces as a line system comprising all
the required sorting, feeding, and filling machinery and subsystems, according to the company.
Booth #4712
WeighPack Systems Inc. will demonstrate its
high-performance XPdius 130 vertical formfill-seal bagger designed for optimal cleanability,
accessibility, serviceability and productivity levels,
according to the Canadian machine-builder. The
dual servo-driven XPdius 130 bagger can produce
a maximum bag width of 13 inches while operating at speeds of over 110 cycles per minute intermittently, or over 160 cycles per minute with its
continuous mode, and the ergonomically-designed
machine opens on both sides to facilitate safe and
effortless access to all mechanical components
inside the frame for maintenance and cleaning.
Booth #S-1273
CombiScale Inc. will display the company’s
new 0.5-liter PrimoWeigher combination scale—
designed for small fills that require very
high accuracy, as well for
applications that require
a
compact
footprint, according to
the company. Easily
integrated with any
automatic bagging, container
indexing
or
thermoforming
machine,
this
compact openframe scale is
designed for accurately weighing of products ranging from five to 500 grams at
speeds of up to 120 cycles per minute—making it
well-suited for a wide range of applications, including ingredients, seeds, cheese, confectionery, spices,
nuts, diced meat, diced fruit, pet-food, etc.
Booth #S-1273
Laminations is planning
to showcase the company’s
new PalletTop Display kit—
designed as a fast set-up,
inexpensive,
lightwieght,
sturdy and fully-recyclable
shipping/display
shelving
solution that can be easily
filled with product from all
four sides and then stretchwrapped for one-way shipping to its final destination.
Booth #5702
Eagle Product Inspection will highlight the performance advantages of the company’s
Pack 400 HC X-Ray product
inspection system—distributed
in Canada by PLAN
Automation—
which is designed
to offer maximum
detection capabilities for packaged
meat, poultry and
dairy industry applications by automatically evaluating and identifying hazardous foreign bodies and particles such as
metal, glass, stone and bone, while also providing
full checkweighing, compartmental fill-level evaluation, and sophisticated fat-analysis capabilities for
optimal quality control assurance and compliance.
Booth #2452
Nordson Corporation will demonstrate the company’s innovative OptiBond adhesive applicating
solutions designed to reduce adhesive consumption
by up to 30 per cent, while maintaining full package and bonding integrity with shorter, intermittent
beads, with the company’s new EcoBead
pattern
generator
tool enabling packagers to quickly
convert the required
bead lengths.
Booth #730
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Pactiv LLC, Lake Forest, Ill.-based manufacturer of food packaging products and disposables,
has completed the acquisition of International
Tray Pads of Aberdeen, N.C., which manufactures a broad range of absorbent products used
in fresh-packed, point-of-purchase meat, fish,
poultry and produce, serving international markets throughout North and Latin America, the
Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East. “This acquisition further expands our product offering and
value proposition in the supermarket and processor
segments of our business,” says Pactiv’s president
John McGrath. “Offering product solutions that
combine multiple materials continues to be an area
of high focus for us, as it provides our customers
with new packaging options.”
 Protective packaging products manufacturer Pregis Corp. of Deerfield, Ill., has com-
pleted the acquisition of the business assets of
Inter-Pac, Inc., including a 180,000-squarefoot production plant in Tupelo, Miss., which
manufactures polyethylene sheet foam. “We are
pleased to add the Tupelo facility to our manufacturing footprint,” says Pregis president Kevin
Baudhuin, adding the acquisition makes Pregis
the largest producer of polyethylene sheet foam
in the U.S. “We believe that this transaction will
benefit our customers across all segments and
channels, including in markets such as furniture,
housewares, electronics, automotive, industrial
and recreational products.”
 Resealable packaging products and machinery
manufacturer Zip-Pak has announced plans to
start up a new manufacturing facility in São Paulo,
Brazil, to boost the manufacturing output of the
company’s patented zippers and other resealable
closures, while eliminating the extra duty
costs and taxes for the
company’s domestic customers. “The expansion
in South America will
enable Zip-Pak to continue providing innovative
packaging solutions to an important global market,” says Zip-Pak’s business manager for Latin
America Perry Malik, saying the company will
provide its full extensive range of specialty materials, machinery and design expertise to help local
brand-owners enhance their product packaging.
“We are excited to initiate local production and
warehousing operations that will support the local
economy, while enhancing Latin American customers’ experiences with our proven brand of
resealable solutions.”
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new production space at the facility,
which it purchased from Ball Plastics
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two new extrusion lines and several
new thermoforming lines to help the
company meet growing customer
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which plans to complete the project next month and begin filling the
new positions—mostly for production
technicians, engineers and production
operators—by early 2013.
 Corrugated packaging products
group RockTenn of Norcross, Ga.,
has completed the acquisition of specialty corrugated packaging manufacturer Mid South Packaging
LLC. With manufacturing operations in Cullman, Ala., and Olive
Branch, Miss., Mid South Packaging
specializes in the production of corrugated packaging solutions for the
automotive industry, as well as bulk
boxes for the poultry and meat industries and retail displays for consumer
packaged-goods companies.
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OCTOBER 2012
EVENTS
PEOPLE
Oct. 21-23
Louisville, Ky.: Adhesive & Sealant 2012 Fall
Convention, by the Adhesive & Sealant Council
Inc. (ASC) At Louisville Marriott Downtown
(ASC). to register, go to:
www.ascouncil.org
Oct. 24-26
Monaco: Luxe Pack Monaco 2012, international
luxury goods packaging exhibition and conference. At Grimaldi Forum. To register, go to:
www.luxepack.com
Oct. 28-31
Chicago: PACK EXPO International 2012, global
packaging technologies exhibition and conference
by Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
(PMMI). At McCormick Place. Contact PMMI at
(703) 243-8555; or go to:
www.packexpo.com
 Astro-Med, Inc., West Warwick, R.I.headquartered manufactuer of digital and specialty
high-tech printing systems for packaging, labeling
and various industrial applications, has appointed
Gregory Woods as executive vice-president and
chief operating officer.
 Microscan, Renton, Wash.based manufacturer of barcoding,
machine visition and lighting
technologies, has appointed Scott
McKay as global director of channel management and commercial
marketing.
Nov. 7-8
Philadelphia, Pa.: 2012 Automation
Fair, industrial automation technologies exhibition, including the
Manufacturing Perspectives conference, by Rockwell Automation. At
the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
To register, go to:
www.rockwellautomation.com/
events/
Nov. 12-14
Hollywood, Fla.: Thermal Printing
Conference,
by
Information
Management Institute (IMI). At
Hollywood Beach Marriott. To
register, go to: www.imiconf.com
Nov. 14-15
Montreal: PACKEX Montreal, packaging technologies exhibition by
UBM Canon. Concurrently with
Expoplast 12, ATX Automation
Technology Expo Montreal, Design
& Manufacturing Montreal, Contract
Manufacturing Expo, Powders & Bulk
Solids and AerCon. All at Palais des
congrès de Montréal. To register, go
to: www.canontradeshows.com
Nov. 19-22
Paris, France: EMBALLAGE 2012,
international packaging exhibition
by Comexposium. At Paris-Nord
Villepinte. To register, go to:
www.emballageweb.com
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 Harper Corporation of
America, Charlotte, N.C.-based
manufacturer of anilox rolls for
f lexographic package printing
and converting applications, has
appointed Greg Harms as southeast technical graphics advisor
for the company’s Harper
GraphicSolutions division.
Harms
 Conair
Group
Inc.,
Cranberry Township, Pa.-based
manufacturer of resin drying systems, blenders, feeders, conveyors
and other auxiliary equipment for
plastics processors, has appointed
Larry Doyle as company president.
McKay
 Arpac L.P., Schiller Park, Ill.-based manufacturer of shrink wrappers and bundlers, case formers
and packers, shrink tunnels and other end-of-line
packaging systems and equipment, has appointed
Nov. 6-8
Mumbai, India: International PackTech
India 2012, processing and packaging
technologies exhibition by Messe
Düsseldorf GmbH. Concurrently
with the drink technology India
2012 international beverage industry exhibition by Messe Düsseldorf
GmbH and Messe München GmbH.
Both at the Bombay Exhibition
Center. Contact Messe Düsseldorf
North America at (312) 781-5180; or
go to: www.mdna.com or
www.packtech-india.com
Mary Pence as director of marketing.
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OCtOber 2012
NEW PACKAGING BRINGS BACK HAPPY MEMORIES
I
love free stuff. Who doesn’t?
The prodigious volume of
handouts, giveaways and
freebies is one of the perks of
working in Toronto’s affluent and oozingly hip King St.
West area, where the city’s fashionable set flock for an
evening out or a night in along a trendy strip where
new condos seem to be springing up overnight. With
this crowd being every marketer’s dream, there is
never a shortage of sidewalk spectacles and grand
kiosks offering everything from ice-cream cones to
beer samples. While I wouldn’t classify myself among
the hipster rank, I managed to wrangle quite a few
freebies in recent weeks—with one of my favorites being the 237-ml promotional Diet Coke glass
bottle celebrating 175 years of Toronto-based upscale
department store Holt Renfrew. Bubbly promo
girls, fuchsia short shorts, DJs busting out beats ... it
was quite the scene, with some ingenious packaging
right at the middle of it all. Prominently displaying
the iconic Diet Coke logo above the department
store’s name—typeset in a dignified and forward-looking font—the magenta label is tightly
shrinkwrapped around the iconic hobble-skirt
bottle shape synonymous with The CocaCola Company, which is supplying the limited-edition bottles as singles and in six-packs
at all Holt Renfrew stores across Canada to
mark the retailer’s Happy Anniversary. With
the label designed specifically to pay homage to
Holt Renfrew’s distinct magenta shopping bag,
this is the sort of packaging that should appeal
to all true Coke collectors and fashionistas out there.
Here’s to another 175 years!
Meaningful longevity in the dog-eat-dog snack-food
market is more than just about being tasty. Many mar-
keters will tell you that a product’s staying
power often comes down to what they
sometimes call the ‘Pop!’ factor, which is
literally something that the Jiffy Pop
popcorn brand has been able to
bring into family rooms for more
than 50 years with stellar success.
Produced by the Niagara Falls,
Ont.-based ConAgra Canada
Inc., the 127-gram packages of snacking indulgence-in-a-pan have bravely weathered the
era of microwave popcorn fully intact—still hanging
around with class and dignity by its wire handles at
supermarkets across the country. And with the new
Jiffy Pop package top bragging about a new pan that
promises to pop faster than ever before—surrounded
by a frenzy of popcorn graphics, safety tips, nutrition
facts and instructions on removing the panel without damaging the foil layer below—this is one old
standby that continues to make every television event
just a little bit more special and memorable.
It is uncanny how often product packaging can
instantly reconnect you with the past. One of my
more recent trips down the memory lane was triggered by an impulsive visit to a neighborhood
candy store catering to the nostalgia of long-forgotten sweets, where nestled in between some
ring-pops and pop-rocks were none other than
the Nerds brand rock candies manufactured by
the Swiss-based Nestlé SA. Nowadays marketed
under the Willy Wonka Candy Company label, this
candy nearly single-handedly launched a real sugar
revolution back in 1983—f lying off the shelves of
convenience stores before they could be restocked
at times! Looking at them nearly 30 years later, it
strikes me that it was the package that I loved the
most. Truth be told, I couldn’t remember what the
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
•Label Sys. Front-Back-Top-Wrap Labeler LS10080 • WS Pack Sys. 1600 Front-Back Labeler
•UET Compact 4/M Vertical Cartoner
• Complete Water Filling & Pack Line
•Phoenix Eng. Go-Packer 1000 Pouch Filler
• Lepel Heat Induction Sealer TR300A
•New Thermal Shrink Packaging Tunnel BS-G450
• Visual Pak Rotary Blister Heat Sealers
•New & Used 3’-18’ Stainless Steel Conveyors
• 3M-Matic Top & Bottom Case Sealer 77R
•New Net Weigh/Fillers(customizable)
• Sleever Bander-Sleever P100 & Tunnel MS1200
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ABB Robotics
41
Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd. 4, 10
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. 2
Canadian Corrugated and
13
Containerboard Association
Capmatic Ltd.
9
Corrupal Inc.
25
Eriez Manufacturing Co.
39
Farm Credit Canada
37
FlexLink
15
Fortress Technology Inc.
18
Harlund Industries Ltd.
30
Intelligrated
5
Krones Machinery Inc.
35
Lapp Canada
18
Markem-Imaje Ltd.
6
Muller Martini Canada Inc.
45
Multipond America Inc.
4
Multivac Canada
31
Nordson Canada
17
Omnifission/SMI
IFC
Premier Tech Systems
30
Primera Technology Inc.
19
Propack Processing &
20
Packaging Systems Inc.
Quicklabel Systems
11
Robert Reiser & Co. Inc.
8
Samuel Strapping Systems
29
Schubert Packaging Machines 22-23
SEW-Eurodrive Co. of Canada
33
UBM Canon
42
Unisource Canada Inc.
46
VC999 Packaging
4, 44
VideoJet Technologies Canada
1
Weighpack Systems
7
little sugary balls of rock candy actually tasted like,
but the package used to separate the two different
f lavors in each 46.7-gram box—wildberry/peach
and wild cherry/watermelon for
me—is simply unforgettable.
Just pull the top tab, slide out
the sides, and let the tasty treats
pour out. No wonder that so
many kids still dig their Nerds in
a big way today.
Like bacon and eggs, some things are just meant to
be together. So as a proud Canadian, I really wonder why it took the Canadian Club Whisky
Company of Walkerville, Ont., so long to come out
with its 473-ml cans of Mixed & Ready rye-and-cola
and rye-and-ginger cocktails. To a long-time fan of
the Canadian Club brand, it always seemed like the
quintessential non-brainer. Alas, high expectations
can lead to disappointment, and tasting it for the first
time left me largely underwhelmed. While the convenient packaging is all fine-and-dandy, it suddenly
hit me that a good mixed drink is something that is
rather personal—requiring a human touch that just
seems to be too nuanced for machines to replicate.
This lack of personal connection is only reinforced
with the cold-looking silver color of the cans, which
rely almost exclusively on narrow colored bands to
distinguish between the two recipes—maroon for
cola and green for ginger ale—to
make both look like a ‘no name’
brand. Which all adds up to a bit
of a buzzkill in the end, alas.
Paul Pethick is a writer and editor
with the Toronto-based healthcare
media services provider Invivo
Communications Inc.
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20 Caldari Rd. Concord, ON L4K 4N8
Telephone 905-660-9595 Fax 905-660-9555
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