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that making more local food available in the province’s markets, schools, cafeteria and restaurants will
spur greater innovation and accelerated job creation.
“It’s an important and historic step forward.”
Forward to what, exactly? If it’s forward to more
government intervention at taxpayers’ expense,
than we could suggest many more productive ways
of spending $30 million over the next three years
than propping up an industry that was not vocally
begging for government handouts to begin with.
According to the government’s own statistics, food
processors in Ontario already purchase about twothirds of all the livestock, dairy, poultry, grains, and
fruits and vegetables that is produced on the province’s farms, so it seems a case of a solution looking
for a problem, rather than the other way around.
Moreover, the new act seems to f ly in the face of
the premier’s own publicly-stated long-term goals
of doubling the province’s agri-food exports by
2020 from last year’s estimated total of $10.8 billion, while also positioning the province as “one of
the top five places in North America in revenues
for food and beverage manufacturing.”
Wonderful goals, but it’s hard to see how inf luencing the food purchasing decisions of Ontario
public organizations with artificial new targets
and quotas will nurture the export-oriented
mindset that the industry needs to get anywhere
near achieving those lofty aims, which also call for
the creation of 120,000 new jobs in the agri-food
sector by 2020.
Just because the new legislation happens to be “the
first of its kind in Canada” does not in itself make it
a good legislation, whatever the intent, especially if
other provinces follow suit by imposing their own
similar measures favoring their local food producers.
Canada already has far more interprovincial trade
barriers than most of its major global trade partners, and encouraging further impediments to the
f low of goods and services between our provinces
is an idea that is anything but a “step forward” to
anything good or helpful to anyone
in the food or other business.
Venerable Quebec sweets producer brings a beloved Canadian chocolate brand back into
the mainstream public spotlight with updated
packaging presentation and modernized production capabilities.
Cover photography by Mario Jobin.
DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS
3UPFRONT By George Guidoni
4-5NEWSPACK
Packaging news round-up.
6-7
FIRST GLANCE
Focus on metal detection.
8-10 ECO-PACK NOW
All about environmental sustainability.
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Noteworthy industry briefs.
31 EVENTS
Upcoming industry functions.
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PEOPLE
Packaging career moves
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Joe Public speaks out on packaging hits and misses.
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helping hand is always
welcome in times of
economic need, but
please forgive us for not dancing in the streets in light of
the Ontario government’s sudden outpouring of
affection for the province’s food sector—as ref lected
in this month’s passage of the Local Food Act.
Basically a subsidy for an industry that is actually
in pretty decent shape—given anemic economic
growth and fragile consumer confidence—this
display of government largess has all the trappings of misplaced good intentions rooted in preelection posturing and political opportunism than
sound economic judgment and logic.
Hailed by Queen’s Park as a way to create new
jobs and to expand the province’s agri-food sector, the legislation reeks of government favoritism,
micromanagement and protectionism that could
do more harm than good in the long term for an
industry facing some real testing challenges in
light of the pending, long-awaited free-trade deal
between Canada and the European Union, which
already has Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne
making loud noises about “compensation” for the
adversely-affected food producers and farmers.
Frankly, it’s hard to see how pampering small
local food producers through a $30-million Local
Food Fund and tax-breaks for farmers donating
their excess harvest to local food banks will prepare them for either taking advantage of greater
access to the vast consumer market of nearly 500
million people, or to develop the core competencies they will need to retain their existing domestic market share in face of added competition from
European food producers.
According to Wynne, “The Local Food Act will
benefit people by making the connection between
buying local and helping grow an important
Ontario industry.
“If we increase demand to homegrown food, we
will create jobs and boost the agri-food sector’s contributions to our economy,” says Wynne, arguing
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18 TEAM SPIRIT
By Andrew Joseph
Innovative home-grown industrial
adhesives manufacturer enjoying life in the
fast lane of the highly-competitive
global industry.
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CHAMPAGNE MOMENTS
Famed champagne house toasts new
automatic cartoning line.
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TUNNEL VISION
By Jim McMahon
Innovative automatic shrinkwrapper allows frozen-pizza
producer to keep rolling in dough.
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By Andrew Joseph
Toronto spice and seasonings upstart
making optimal use of tabletop color inkjet
label printing technology.
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NEWSPACK
JUICE GIANT EMBARKING ON MAJOR PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING UPGRADES
From Left: Quebec’s minister of finance and economy
Nicolas Marceau: Lasssonde Industries chief executive
officer Jean Gattuso; Quebec minister of agriculture,
fisheries and food François Gendron; and Iberville member of parliament Marie Bouillé during the recent official
announcement of the Québec government’s financial
support for Lassonde’s capital investment projects.
Leading Canadian juice producer A. Lassonde
Inc. is spending $19 million to carry out major
upgrades of the company’s manufacturing facilities
in Rougemont, Que., including installation of two
new preform lines that will enable the company to
manufacture its own PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles and caps right on-site—yielding major
improvements in both production efficiencies and
environmental performance.
Partly funded with a $1.85-million grant from
the government of Quebec, the upgrade projects—
consisting of implementation of new production
lines and modernization of existing facilities—are
expected to create up to 24 new jobs at Rougement,
where the company produces its f lagship Oasis,
Everfresh, Fairlee, Flavür, Fruité and other popular
brands of fruit and vegetable juices and juice-based
beverages.
“Lassonde operates in a rapidly developing North
American market, where it stands out by leveraging quality and innovation in product development and production,” says Jean Gattuso, president
of the juice producer’s parent company Lassonde
Industries Inc.
“Our Rougemont plants are the company’s very
first facilities, and these investments will ensure
that they remain on the cutting edge and maintain
their key operational role,” says Gattuso.
As part of the company’s broader sustainable
development strategy, the two new preform lines
will enable it to accelerate the reduction in the
packaging weight of its PET containers, according
to Lassonde, by making the bottles and caps up to
16 per cent lighter.
“In concrete terms, 1.2 million kilos will be
trimmed from selective collection each year, while
a series of projects related to the production of PET
bottles will result in a reduction of 2,400 trucks on the
road,” says Gattuso, adding the company also plans to
implement new automated production technologies
and to increase the size of its storage facilities.
Employing over 2,000 workers, A. Lassonde
operates 14 production facilities in Québec,
New preform production lines being installed at Lassonde’s manufacturing operations in Rougemont, Que.
Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia and the U.S., where
it currently ranks as the second-largest producer of
store brand ready-to-drink fruit juices and drinks,
as well as a major producer of cranberry juices,
drinks and sauces.
“Over the past 10 years, we have more than
doubled our production operations and created
hundreds of jobs in Rougemont,” states Gattuso.
“Firmly rooted in its community, Lassonde was
able to grow thanks to the support of its clients
and consumers—especially those in Quebec,” says
Gattuso, noting the company currently employs
about 800 people in Quebec.
“It is a source of great pride for us to keep growing and creating jobs at home.”
LEADING BOTTLED WATER BRANDS SPARKLE WITH BRIGHT PACKAGING DESIGNS
There must be something in the water this time of year
that makes leading Canadian bottled-water brands get
really worked up about their product packaging.
A few weeks ago, Puslinch, Ont.-headquartered
Nestlé Waters Canada (NWC) expanded the
packaging format for its bestselling carbonated
Nestlé Pure Life Sparkling Natural Spring
Water with the launch of several brand varieties in fully-recyclable, 355-ml aluminum cans.
Containing zero calories, sugar or
sodium, the brand’s Original, Lemon,
Lime and Raspberry Lime f lavors are
retailed across Canada in 12-pack cartons manufactured by the company’s
long-time packaging partner Hammer
Packaging, as well as in six-packs of
500-ml PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
plastic containers and one-liter single
PET bottles.
“Our Nestlé Pure Life
Sparkling Natural Spring
Water has been the fastestgrowing sparkling water
brand in Canada in the history of the category,” says
Carol Guier, NWC’s marketing manager for domestic
brands.
“Nestle Pure Life Sparkling in cans is a convenient, affordable and healthy carbonated alternative
to sugared beverages, particularly for consumers
who want to stay properly hydrated but are looking for a little more than f lat water and want to
avoid calories.”
In addition, NWC has also launched a limitededition glass bottle for one of its bestselling import
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brands to commemorate one of the world’s greatest
singing voices of all time in limited-time marketing collaboration with the Luciano Pavarotti
Foundation in Italy.
Available primarily at fine dining restaurants across Canada, the limited-edition oneliter glass bottles of the renowned
S.Pellegrino Sparkling Natural Mineral
Water boast a specially-designed,
opera-inspired silver label that
features a gray-and-white image
of a smiling Luciano Pavarotti—
one of the world’s most celebrated opera singers and an
enduring symbol of Italian culture—dressed in a fancy black
suit and white shirt, with his
arms spread wide in one of his
best-known stage poses.
“The collaboration with the
Luciano
Pavarotti
Foundation
and special edition S.
Pellegrino bottle represents a new and important landmark in our
ongoing efforts to create and nurture relationships with esteemed Italian organizations that
are symbols of style, innovation, culture and prestige,” explains NWC’s marketing manager for premium brands Jennifer Semley Robert.
“In a year of extraordinary happenings in the
world of music and Italian opera, we are happy
to celebrate Luciano Pavarotti, whose remarkable
voice and personality helped to develop a strong,
positive image of Italy and the Italian way of living
throughout the world.”
“Just as S.Pellegrino Sparkling Natural Mineral
Water does,” says Semley Robert, citing the
brand’s earlier similar limited-time bottle launches
of Canada’s second-bestselling brand of sparkling
water collaboratively designed with Missoni in
2010 and Bulgari in 2011 as a way to celebrate
Italy’s renowned creative talents and passion.
Not to be outdone, the famed French mineral water bottler Evian has also launched a
limited-edition glass bottle of its evian Natural
Spring Water through a marketing collaboration with internationally-acclaimed
Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab.
According to the product’s brand-owner
Danone Waters of North America,
the new 750-ml glass bottle was launched
earlier this month at select restaurants
and hotels across Canada as a joint celebration of both
brands’ pursuit of
purity in design.”
Representing the evian
brand’s sixth collaborations
with international fashion brands, “The bottle is
decorated with a signature
Elie Saab lace pattern that
recalls the feminine and
elegant designs featured so
prominently in the brand’s
collections,” according to
Danone Waters.
“The delicate white
lace has been applied with architectural accuracy,
bringing added refinement to the clean lines of the
bottle’s silhouette.”
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GREAT TASTE AND PACKAGING GIVE NEW PROTEIN
MILKSHAKE DRINK A STRONG GAME-WINNING EDGE
Most Canadian consumers know all about
milk’s important role in promoting healthy
bone growth and development, and thanks
to a brand new product from the Montrealheadquartered dairy products group Saputo
Inc., many more may soon discover its similarly impressive muscle-building potential.
Packing 26 grams of protein per 325-ml
bottle, the new Milk2Go Sport is a readyto-drink, milk-based protein shake that
not only helps stimulate muscle repair after
workouts, according to the company, but
also dulls hunger, further assisting people
trying to lose weight.
“People are increasingly mindful about their
protein intake, but are often pressed
for time or unsure about what to consume post-workout to ensure proper
recovery,” says Philippe Duhamel,
marketing manager at Saputo Dairy
Products Canada.
“Many products currently on the
market contain many undesirable
ingredients, and require considerable time to measure and mix,” says
Duhamel, “whereas Milk2Go Sport
was specifically formulated for on-thego people who are looking for a greattasting product that is high in protein,
with the natural goodness of milk.”
Manufactured at a Saputo dairy processing plant in Ottawa and retailing at
most major convenience and grocery
stores across Canada in vanilla and
chocolate f lavors, the Milk2Go Sport
also contains five essential nutrients
and vitamins in each resealable, single-serve container shaped to resemble
a muscular human torso.
Decorated with sporty graphics designed by Saputo’s marketing
team in collaboration with Torontobased package design specialists
TraffikGroup, Inc., the new protein beverages are said to have already
made their way into the training routines of world-class athletes such as
NHL (National Hockey League)
star Jason Spezza, captain of the
Ottawa Senators team; MLS (Major
League Soccer) all-star midfielder
Patrice Bernier of Montreal Impact;
and the Canadian ‘triple threat’ sister
team of freestyle skiers Chloé, Justine
and Maxime Dufour-Lapointe.
“I’ve tried many different protein
drinks and Milk2Go Sport is the perfect kind of fuel to help keep my body
going.” says Spezza. “With 26 grams
of protein, it definitely helps me
recover after a tough workout, but I
also like it because it tastes much better than other protein drinks.”
Following an illustrious career as
an elite short-track speed skater,
Olympic gold medalist Nathalie
Lambert’s focus has turned to helping
others find the right balance between
training, nutrition and healthy habits
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as part of her work at the Montreal Athletic
Association (MAA), and she says she’s
enthused by this `new rookie’ in the sports
drink category.
“A lot of people ask me about the protein
beverage craze and I’ve always been a little
hesitant to recommend any of the products
on the market,” says Lambert.
“As a woman and mom who juggles a
crazy schedule and is vigilant not only about
protein intake, but also getting enough calcium in her diet because of concerns over
osteoporosis, I feel strongly that Milk2Go
Sport strikes the right balance, given it has
only 200 calories per bottle.”
RIDING THE GRAVY TRAIN
Although Canadians consume vast
amounts of gravy between Thanksgiving and Christmas, making a
perfect gravy for each festive meal is
often the home chefs’ toughest challenge—especially when it must be
gluten-free. But not this holiday season, thanks to the new Club House
Gluten-Free Turkey and Club House
Gluten-Free Brown gravy mixes from
the London, Ont.-based McCormick Canada.
Packaged in 25-gram pouches designed by Toronto-based Forthought Branding & Design,
the gluten-free gravies contain 25 per cent less salt
than the original Club House mixes, says McCormick, which offers many innovative gluten-free
recipe suggestions online at www.clubhouse.ca
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FIRST GLANCE METAL DETECTION
BUILT LIKE A FORTRESS
The new Stealth Pharmaceutical
metal detector from Fortress
Technology was developed
specifically to meet the most
demanding quality standards of
the healthcare industry, according to the company, with
capabilities to detect metal
contaminants and particles in high line speeds
with a throughput of 30,000 tablets per
minute. Built to withstand harsh cleaning regimens and featuring adjustable height/head tilt settings and wheels for easy integration, the Stealth
Pharmaceutical boasts a special USB feature to
facilitate quick access to QA reports from the system’s software. Like other Fortress metal detector systems, Stealth Pharmaceutical incorporates the
latest Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology for
superior speed and precision, along with the ability
to detect and reject ferrous and nonferrous metals,
including nonmagnetic stainless steel.
Fortress Technology
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FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
Manufactured by Eagle Product Inspection and
distributed in Canada by PLAN Automation,
the new Eagle Pack 550 PRO X-Ray inspection system was designed to meet product inspection needs of food processors and manufacturers
with mid- to large-sized bulk packaged food items
such as cereals, rice, f lour, sugar, potatoes, fruit
and vegetables. Offering numerous inspection and
operational benefits such as an enhanced graphical
interface, high-speed imaging, increased contaminant detection for difficult product applications, onscreen self-diagnostics, full
multilane and multiview
capabilities, Eagle Pack 550
PRO’s robust technology also offers users
the ability to count
components, check
seal integrity,
measure mass,
and assess fill
levels to enable bulk packaged food processors to
accurately document production in order to improve
operational processes and efficiency. In addition, the
Eagle Pack 550 PRO provides food processors and
manufacturers with the option to integrate Material
Discrimination X-ray (MDX) technology into their
X-ray system, which enables customers to detect
and remove historically undetectable inorganic contaminants such as glass shards, rocks, rubber, and
plastics in applications where high levels of product density make X-ray images very busy and difficult to interpret accurately. Employing enhanced
Eagle SimulTask image processing software and dual
energy technology, the Pack 550 PRO with MDX
clearly identifies unwanted foreign bodies within
the packaged product to remove any contaminated
food items from the processing line.
Eagle Product Inspection
PLAN Automation
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DETECT TO PROTECT
Since the launch of the
GHF Detector line
with the promise to
deliver better performance compared to other
metal detectors, S+S
Inspection Inc. has won a
number of important trials in the food packaging
and process industries, according to the company,
thanks to recent expansion of the company’s new
advanced manufacturing and design facility in
Bartlett, Ill., to meet demand and to introduce a
new range of customized modular conveyor designs
to ensure that lead times are kept in line with market expectations. Offering top-rated IP69K washdown protection, the GHF Detector offers a robust
head design and an integral full-color touchscreen
control unit designed to make it easy to set up and
report back on line conditions that could affect the
integrity of the inspection system—offering the
type of performance to enable the detection of previously undetectable metal contaminants. In addition, the GHF Detector systems can be equipped
with monitoring technology that detects failures
in operational issues such as line blockage, overfilled reject bins, low reject air pressure, etc. With
a full diagnostic log and fail-safe alarms, the GHF
Detector provides immediate feedback to indicate
the necessary corrective actions.
S+S Inspection Inc.
SIGNATURE STYLE
Featuring a full-color
touchscreen,
a
membrane key panel and
product inspection data collection capability, the new
Signature metal detector from Mettler-Toledo
Safeline is designed for easy,
cost-effective easy integration into food production lines, according to the company. Combined
with material handling systems such as standard
or custom-made conveyor systems to achieve full
automation of the product inspection process, the
Signature detectors are available in a broad variety of
sizes, finishes and sealing standards, all which can
readily detect even the most difficult-to-spot nonmagnetic stainless-steel fragments and non-spherical
fine-wire contaminants. An optional sophisticated,
yet simple set-up routine allows end-users to configure Performance Validation Routine (PVR) testing
to their own needs, whereby they choose to test on
a ‘time basis’ or ‘pack count basis.’ Automatically
changing to the PVR screen whenever when the
testing is due or overdue and operating in conjunction with a Reject Confirmation Unit (RCU), the system provides the security and reliability to meet all
the pertinent Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards, according to Mettler-Toledo.
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UNRIVALED X-CELLENCE
The f lagship X⁵ X-ray inspection system from
Loma Systems incorporates a host of groundbreaking new features to ensure optimal product integrity for busiest of food packaging lines, according
to the company, with its recent redesign answering
the users’ call for easier cleaning and reduced maintenance to deliver maximum uptime in round-theclock manufacturing sites, while identifying and
rejecting the contaminants with
unprecedented accuracy and precision. With today’s
retailer
compliance
demanding
the highest levels
of cleanliness, the X⁵
system’s rounded, sloping surfaces help ensure
that food particles and washdown droplets cannot accumulate on its
surfaces, with the addition of impermeable seals onto the X-Ray eliminating
the risk of water ingress. Powered by a
Windows-based operating system, the X⁵
is designed to deliver accurate, reliable
product control at lines speeds up to 394
feet per minute, with the system’s proprietary Adaptive Array Technology (AAT)
dynamically tailoring resolution, depth
and scaling to give the best detection
performance for any product requiring
inspection. According to Loma, AAT
eliminates the previous need to specify the
diode array pixel size, as the X⁵ will automatically adjust from 0.4-mm, 0.8-mm
and 1.6-mm to select the optimal detection capabilities for the product being
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METAL DETECTION FIRST GLANCE
inspected. This high-speed operation is enhanced
with cutting-edge inspection technology that makes
light work of detecting contaminants such as metals, glass, PVC, bone, rubber, stones, and ingredient
clumps to divert the affected products off the line
for further examination, along with both underweight or overweight packs, or improperly packaged items with incorrect content levels. Offered
with a number of cooling options to suit individual
applications and an innovative energy-saving heat
exchange system delivers excellent thermal dissipation to achieve low overall energy consumption, the X⁵ comes with an intuitive 12-inch color
touchscreen and a dome signal lamp for displaying
the unit’s status at a glance. Moreover, the system’s
handy quick-release mechanism, mounted on a gas
strut for operator safety, allows for the conveyor belt
to be changed within just a few minutes.
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assist busy, high-volume
food processors to meet
HACCP, IFS HACCP,
BRC, IFS5, SQF 2000 and
FSSC 22000/PAS 220
safety standards by finding even the smallest particles of ferrous, nonferrous and stainless-steel contaminants, Cassel
metal detectors also offer reliable metal detection
capabilities for end-use applications in the food,
pharmaceutical, plastics, aggregate, recycling and
mining industries.
Magnetic Products, Inc.
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X-PERT ANALYSIS
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced
several upgrades for the company’s popular Xpert
C400 X-Ray system for detecting metals and other
foreign objects in food products, including a new
X-ray source with twice the power of
the original model, compact sanitary drum motors and shorter line
configurations. According to the
company, the X-Ray power boost
makes the system well-suited for
thicker, denser product and/or higher
speed production to target broader
range of food applications, including
challenging wet or semi-frozen products, as well as metallized packaging structures that
do not lend themselves to metal detection. The
upgraded Xpert C400 also features a new compact
sanitary drum motor to drive its conveyor, thereby
improving safety and performance, minimizing
maintenance requirements, and simplifying sanitation by enclosing all moving parts—for a smaller
overall footprint.
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X-TREME MEASURES
The new Xtreme Metal Detector system
from Eriez is loaded with enhanced
features, improved sensitivity, intuitive
operation and exceptional
reliability in an ultrasleek
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that
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simplicity and
sophistication
with its easyto-navigate
control, with
an extra-large color interface, to
raise industry bar in terms of superior
sensitivity, ease-of-use and reliability,
according to the company. “Our field
sales engineers and customers played
a vital role in the development of our
new Xtreme Metal Detector,” explains
Eriez product manager for metal detection John Klinge. “We gathered crucial
information from our customers about
what they want and need in metal
detection equipment in order to design
the Xtreme Metal Detector to exceed
these demands and expectations.” Wellsuited for a broad range of industry
applications—including chemical, food
processing, packaging, pharmaceuticals, plastics and rubber—the Xtreme
Metal Detector boasts a user-friendly
interface with a full QWERTY keyboard, robust auto set-up, a dedicated
reject log, and a vivid display.
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broad range of Cassel metal detectors featuring proprietary FourQuadrant technology that ensures
extreme equipment reliability
to allow them to readily adjust settings to find metals in even the most
difficult products such as cheese or
high-salt-content foods, according
to the company. Boasting powerful
DDS technology and remote service
capabilities, users are taken through
a series of easy-to-follow, step-bystep, high-graphic screens to set standards for product testing. Designed to
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THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT GREEN
If the future of green packaging lies in the hands
of our next generation, then a recent repackaging
project by a German undergraduate design student—with a little help from a few inf luential
friends—is a good sign that the future just may
be in very hands indeed.
As part of her Bachelor of Arts course work
at the prestigious FH Aachen University of
Applied Sciences in western Germany earlier
this year, Sabine Zits decided to promote the
use of renewable materials in packaging in a special design project co-sponsored by the popular
funny-frisch potato chip brand manufactured by
major German snack-foods producer Intersnack.
“I decided to show designers what is already
possible for packaging by having some reallife samples of potato chips made up with a
clear renewability message,” Zits, relating how
she used metalized and clear samples of the
NatureFlex compostable film—manufactured by
the U.K.-based Innovia Films from renewable,
bio-based wood pulp—to produce the new biobased packaging featuring effective deadfold and
anti-static
properties;
high gloss and resistance
to grease and oil; good
barrier to gases, aromas
and mineral oils; and a
University student
wide heat-seal range.
Laminated by nearby Sabine Zits (left) and
converter Allf lex and Innovia’s sales manager
printed using a press Holger Eschenburg show
at the University of off the redesigned potato
Stuttgart, the new chip bags displayed at
chip-bags received high the FH Achen University
praise from the brand- design showcase.
owner and all other
business partners involved in the collaboration,
according to Innovia’s sales manager for the
German market Holger Eschenburg.
Says Eschenburg: “We were very pleased to
be able to facilitate this project, where designers
of the future like Sabine Zits can showcase the
advantages of our NatureFlex packaging films to
their peers, contemporaries, and the packaging
industry at large.”
PAPER TIGER PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON CONSERVATION
If little kittens are the essence of cuteness, then
the newest addition to the ROYALE paper tissue brand’s feline family has found a perfect
home to help the iconic brand to keep charming
Canadian consumers with an updated new look
that will help highlight one of the world’s most
acute wildlife conservation crises.
Launched lat month across
Canada under the Save the
Tiger Fund partnership with
Panthera—the world’s leading organization devoted
exclusively to the conservation of wild cats and their ecosystems—the new ROYALE
Tiger Towels line of multipurpose paper towels feature an
enlarged image of an adorable
tiger cub adorning the two-,
six- and twelve-pack plastic
overwraps, designed by the
Oakville, Ont.-based package design consultancy Pigeon Branding + Design, to complement
the brand’s venerable mascot duo of f luffy white
feline puff balls that have been at the core of its
marketing campaigns for the last 40 years.
Manufactured by Irving Tissue Company
Limited in Dieppe, N.B., the new Tiger Towels
use the company’s proprietary Thru-Air Dried
(TAD) technology to deliver a soft, strong and
more absorbent paper towels in handy, scent-free
half-sheets to accommodate both small and large
clean-ups, according to ROYALE, which also
offers an “absorbency guarantee, so Canadians can
be confident they will do the job every time.”
In addition to donating $40,000 to the fund to
help Panthera continue its campaign to preserve
the world’s remaining 3,200 wild tigers and
their habitats, the tissuemaker is also providing
ongoing support to raise awareness of the issue
and increase fundraising efforts throughout 2014,
including, online and social media support, retail
point-of-sale materials and community events.
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“We are extremely proud of our new partnership with Panthera through Save the Tiger Fund,
which lets us directly contribute to the preservation of tigers and their habitats worldwide,”
says Gary MacIntosh, director of marketing for
Irving’s ROYALE Canada business.
“During our research, as we developed the
Tiger Towel concept, we were
shocked to learn that tigers are
now an endangered species,”
says MacIntosh.
“Given the majestic beauty
of our new brand ambassador, we felt a responsibility to
ensure future generations will
grow up in a world with tigers.
“We hope this partnership
helps raise awareness and
interest for tiger conservation among Canadians.”
Adds Panthera’s vice-president
Andrea Heydlauff: “Right now, there are fewer than
3,200 tigers remaining in the wild, with one of the
world’s most iconic species in near extinction because
of rampant poaching for the illegal wildlife market.
“This is why we are delighted to have
ROYALE on board to help raise awareness
and support of our programs in Canada and
beyond to ensure a future for wild tigers,” says
Heydlauff, whose group was founded in 2006
with a mandate to protect the world’s most
endangered large cat species, also including
lions, jaguars and snow leopards.
“Tiger conservation is a global issue, and what
tigers need to survive is for the world to care,”
Established by the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation in 1995, Save the Tiger Fund (STF)
sponsors effective efforts to stop the killing of
wild tigers and enable wild tigers to recover and
thrive. To date, STF has invested in more than
300 projects in 13 tiger-range countries to reduce
and eliminate threats to wild tigers and to create
favorable conditions for their conservation.
NEW PLASTIC FOOD
CONTAINERS OFFER A
CLEAR GREEN CHOICE
With weight and
recyclability being the
biggest two hot-button
issues when it comes to
plastic packaging, the
benefits of choosing
good old polypropylene (PP) to package a
diverse range of food,
beverage and non-food
products are pretty
clear-cut, according to
one of the world’s largest manufacturers of
rigid plastic packaging products.
Headquartered in the U.K., RPC Group’s
global reach and market penetration are suitably
matched by its continuous innovation in developing better, stronger and more eco-friendly
plastic packaging such as the newly-launched
Clear PP containers. (See Pictures)
Treated with special food-safe Millad NX
8000 advanced clarifying agent produced by
Spartanburg, S.C.-headquartered specialty chemicals producer Milliken & Company, the Clear
PP containers achieve unprecedented levels of
clarity, according to RPC, while optimizing the
PP material’s inherent sustainability benefits of:
•
Low density to create lightweight finished
product;
• Low-temperature processing with low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during production;
• Low energy usage during raw PP production
and product manufacturing—resulting in shorter
cooling times and a lower carbon footprint.
•
Good compatibility with many recycling
streams—particularly for non-food packaging.
“Our high-clarity PP enables a new level of
brilliance and transparency for plastic packaging,” says David Baker, RPC Group’s general
manager for the U.K.
“The highly appealing aesthetics, achieved
through the addition of Milliken clarifying
agent, are supported by a host of performance
and sustainability benefits that add to PP’s overall viability and attractiveness, particularly in
the light of increasing environmental awareness
and tightening packaging regulations.”
Baker says the vast majority of RPC’s thermoformed, blowmolded and thin-walled injectionmolded food-grade containers are made with
PP precisely because of the material’s unique
combination of physical properties.
“The new Clear PP ensures good impact
protection and barrier protection for finished
packaging that help to extend the shelf-life of
products and prevent food waste by protecting
produce ‘from plot to plate.’
“Because this strong, yet lightweight packaging is easier to handle and transport, it also
lowers vehicle weight and overall energy consumption,” Baker explains, citing RPC’s participation in Britain’s nationwide WRAP initiative
aimed at developing a viable process to recycle
PP packaging waste into recycled PP suitable for
use in the manufacture of new food packaging.
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PAPER TISSUE PRODUCER HONORED FOR ITS GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN EFFORTS
Leading Canadian paper tissue products manufacturer Kruger Products L.P. has received
the 2013 Greening of the Supply Chain award of
the Canadian Association of Importers
and Exporters (CATIE) last month in recognition of ongoing concerted efforts to
reduce the environmental footprint
of its supply chain operations.
Currently in its fifth year, this distinction is awarded each year to a
Canadian company that has initiated, implemented, and proven a corporate commitment to greening its supply chain,
as well as reducing its carbon footprint.
Following in the footsteps of last-year’s award
winner Walmart Canada Corporation, Kruger
Products has demonstrated considerable progress
in its supply chain operations that enabled it to
finish ahead of the two other high-profile finalists Toshiba and Celestica.
“It is a privilege to be recognized for our projects, large and small, that are contributing to
lessening our impact on the environment,” says Kruger Products logistics vice-president John O’Hara,
citing specific environmental performance improvements such as
implementation of updated supplier
policies; Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
certification; reducing logistics and transportation inefficiencies; implementation of innovative
technologies to improve its sustainable perform-
ance; and achieving the targets set forth by the
company’s Sustainability 2015 strategic environmental improvement plan.
“The award is a real testament to our leadership and commitment to driving sustainable
change within our company, our broader industry and the industries of our customers,” adds
Kruger Products vice-president of sustainability
Steven Sage.
Employing over 2,300 people at four Canadian
and one U.S. mill to produce a diverse range
of tissue products for household, industrial and
commercial use, Kruger Products supplies the
Canadian consumer market with some of the
industry’s most popular tissue brands such as
Cashmere, Purex, SpongeTowels and Scotties.
TETRA PAK ON A
BIG SUGAR RUSH
FOOD SAFETY
OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
SHELF LIFE
EXTENSION
BRAND BUILDING
Global aseptic paperbox manufacturer Tetra Pak says it has broken
new ground in the carton packaging
industry’s drive towards fully renewable packaging by signing a with
Brazil’s leading plastics processor
Braskem to supply all of its manufacturing facilities in that country
with LDPE (low-density polyethylene)
resins derived from sugar cane.
Starting in 2014, Tetra Pak will
begin converting this bio-based
LDPE into the plastic caps used to
open and close all of the estimated
13 billion drink cartons that it
makes in Brazil each year—meaning that all of its cartons manufactured there will contain up to
82-precent
renewable-content
materials.
“The new agreement with
Braskem demonstrates our commitment to bring environmental
innovations to our customers and
is a further step in our journey to
develop fully renewable packages,”
says Tetra Pak president and chief
executive officer Dennis Jönsson,
noting that all the paper used in
the production of Tetra Pak packages in Brazil since 2008 has been
chain-of-custody certified by the
Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC) as being sourced from
responsibly managed forestlands.
According to Tetra Pak, Braskem
will use ethanol derived from sugar
cane to produce the ethylene which
will then be converted into LDPE
biopolymers—marketed under the
I´m green trademark—featuring the
same technical properties as LDPE
made from fossil fuel-based sources.
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NOVEMBER 2013
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The vital partner and catalyst for the packaging value chain
Founded 1950
Call to Action!
PAC Food Waste Initiative
33% of
all food
produced
globally is
wasted
Inaugural meeting of
PAC FOOD WASTE
December 5, 2013.
Hosted by Molson Coors.
FOOD
WASTE
PACKAGING SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD WASTE
Sign up now!
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In response to the recent Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Food Wastage Footprint Summary Report* and call for action,
the PAC board of directors announced the launch of the PAC Food Waste initiative.
S
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Bruce Smith
Director of Global Packaging
& PAC Chairman
FAO projects that global food production must increase 60% by 2050 in order
to meet the demands of the growing world population. Yet, more than 33% of
all food produced globally is lost or wasted. The FAO report provides a global
account of the environmental footprint of food waste along the food supply
chain, focusing on the impacts on climate, water, land and biodiversity.
Intervention Required – Inaugural Meeting Dec 5, 2013
The founding members will collectively create the program charter and lead
the path to identifying packaging solutions to reduce food waste. The initial
founding member meeting will take place on December 5, 2013 with expected
project launches shortly thereafter.
All organizations with touch points in the food supply chain could participate
including: agriculture, food distributors and processors, retailers, material/
package manufacturers, packaging machinery, waste management associations, NGOs and government.
Bruce Smith, Director of Global Packaging for Molson Coors and Chairman
of PAC, stated, “There are opportunities to reduce food waste throughout the
supply chain, through packaging improvements. The PAC wants to
investigate the causes, identify opportunities for innovation, extend product
shelf life, inform and educate the broader community.” If food waste is an important SEE issue – social, environmental and economic
– to your organization then become a founding member and get engaged now!
* Download report at bit.ly/11DyTJG
P R O D U C T’S F I R S T L I N E O F D E F E N S E
For more information contact James D. Downham, PAC, President & CEO at [email protected]
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CHOCK FULL OF CHOCOLATE
Canadian family with long history in the cookie industry takes pride in raising the
beloved Laura Secord image to new heights of packaging glory
ANDREW JOSEPH, FEATURES EDITOR
PHOTOGRAPHY: MARIO JOBIN
I
The Leclerc family, now led by the Laura Secord
president Jean (above) alongside his brother and vicepresident Jacques, has remained at the forefront of the
Canadian snack-food industry for over 100 years.
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t’s probably a testament to the manufacturer
of the delicious chocolates that its products are
more well-known in Canada than the historical heroine for whom it was named after.
To set the record straight, Laura Secord was in fact a
real-life heroine of the War of 1812 between Britishheld Upper and Lower Canada and the still fledgling
United States of America, but was never a chocolatier
and never ran a business hawking chocolates.
However, back in 1913 Frank P. O’Connor opened
a small candy store in Toronto, where he sold handmade chocolates. He named his store after the same
Laura Secord, who was still fondly remembered 100
years later as a Canadian symbol of courage, devotion
and loyalty.
While the Laura Secord company initially sold
chocolates, confectionary and ice-cream, over the
next 100 years, it has experienceed tremendous
success and transformation, now selling its highquality, premium goods to an appreciative customer base that extends across North America.
Purchased in 2010 by the Leclerc Brothers, Jean
and Jacques, the company is once again going
through a profound transformation thanks to these
gentlemen from Quebec City, who have been
working in the confectionary and chocolate industry their whole life.
If the name sounds familiar—and it should—the
Leclerc family began the well-known and wellrespected Group Biscuits Leclerc baked goods
business producing cookies and snack products
back in 1905.
Nowadays, the Leclerc brothers own and operate
Laura Secord and Nutriart Inc.
Purchased in 2005 by Biscuits Leclerc, Nutriart
employs 71 people out of its plant and headquarters in Quebec City. Operating as a separate entity
owned by the Leclerc brothers since 2009, it manufactures peanut-free chocolates from cocoa beans
that it produces and sells in both liquid and solid
form, along with offering: fruit purées, caramel,
yogurt coating, compound chocolate, chocolate
bars and various inclusions such as chocolate chips
and chunks.
Jacques is the president of Nutriart and Jean its
vice-president, “But, in a complete f lip-f lop of
responsibilities, I am the president of Laura Secord,
while my brother Jacques is its vice-president,”
Jean Leclerc told Canadian Packaging during a
recent interview.
Laura Secord currently owns and operates 108 stores
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A close-up view of clean, legible lot code data applied to
the thin protective layer of film covering chocolate-coated
cookies by a Domino A320i inkjet printer.
One of three Domino A320i inkjet printers at the Nutriart facility in Quebec City where Laura Secord chocolates are
produced and packaged, applies product codes to the outer wrapping of a tray of chocolate-covered cookies.
across Canada and has two head offices—one in
Mississauga, just west of Toronto, and one in Quebec
City—with a total of about 1,000 employees.
Today Laura Secord ranks as Canada’s largest and
best-known chocolatier selling a very wide variety of
premium-quality chocolates, including dark chocolate, white chocolate, flavored and pure chocolate,
and an assortment of unique confectionary items.
Along with being able to purchase the delicious
chocolates at the Laura Secord stores, customers
can also purchase the iconic brand in pharmacies
and grocery stores across Canada.
Prior to the Leclerc brothers’ purchase, Laura
Secord chocolates were actually manufactured in
Pennsylvania, but were not readily available in the
U.S., which is something the Leclerc’s say they hope
to remedy soon. Excluding the Laura Secord brand
chocolates, Leclerc says the Nutriart chocolates are
delivered to clients across Canada and the U.S.
“Of course, customers who visit our stores can also
purchase ice-cream and other treats such as caramel
crunch and chocolate fudge,” says Leclerc, noting
that about 15 per cent of the products sold by the
stores are manufactured by an outside third party.
“Still, with over 400 products under the Laura
Secord brand, we continue to use the time-honored recipes,” relates Leclerc. “Why mess with a
very good thing?”
Adds Leclerc: “At Nutriart, we produce only
chocolate-based products, which means we make
products ranging from a simple high-quality 100gram chocolate bar to chocolate-coated wafers,
and everything in-between.
“But what is extremely important to us is maintaining the reputation Laura Secord brand chocolates have with the consumer. Whether it’s through
providing excellent customer service or dedicating
ourselves to stringent quality controls, we backup
every product carrying our name with an unconditional guarantee of quality.”
Leclerc says that it’s been within the past two
years that they began to develop licensed products
for the Laura Secord brand with trusted partners.
He says that just in time for the holiday season this
December, partner Top Desert will be launching a full collection of Laura Secord Sorbets, along
with other frozen deserts. For its part, Brands
Unlimited will also be launching a full collection
of Laura Secord gift baskets, with Leclerc promising
that more innovative ideas will be forthcoming soon.
The Leclerc brothers are in full agreement about
the fairer sex being their primary targeted customer base.
“We know that women are big chocolate consumers, and they are therefore certainly a big part
of our target market,” explains Leclerc. “They are
the ones buying chocolates for kids and purchasing
gifts for others, and even for themselves.”
Back in Time
This helps explain why three years ago the Leclerc
brothers decided to revise the iconic Laura Secord
image of the bonneted heroine of 1812.
While Leclerc is adamant that no one at the company was ashamed of the age of the company or
its image, they simply looked at creating a more
modern version of Laura, as if she was still around
in 2013, as a way to attract younger consumers and
invigorate the brand.
There is a bit of a blurring of lines when it comes
to the two businesses operated by the Leclerc brothers, but whereas Laura Secord does not manufacture for Nutriart, Nutriart does produce a fair bit
for Laura Secord.
Prior to the Laura Secord purchase, Nutriart was
a plant without a brand, and Laura Secord was a
brand without a plant—so it was a perfect match,
and one of the reasons why the Leclerc brothers
purchased the Laura Secord business.
Operating under the Nutriart banner, Laura
Secord produces the majority of its products within
a 250,000-square-foot HACCP (Hazard Analysis
Critical Control Point)-certified processing facility
in Quebec City, with Leclerc adding that it will
be GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative)-accredited by
early 2014.
“There is no Laura Secord facility as such,” he
says. “About 85 per cent of Laura Secord’s products are actually made at the Nutriart facilities in
Quebec City, but Nutriart is the larger business,
with the Laura Secord production accounting for
about 10 per cent of its total production.
“However, Laura Secord is certainly the far better-known of the two entities when it comes to
consumers.”
According to Leclerc, Laura Secord processes
two billion cocoa beans per year to produce some
50 tons of chocolate daily.
“The majority of our cocoa beans are purchased in
the Ivory Coast of Africa, and a smaller amount of
a different cocoa bean from South Africa,” explains
Leclerc. “We have very specific requirements for
bean quality.”
Accoding to Leclerc, the Nutriart manufacturing
plant can operate three shifts in a 24-hour workday, five days a week.
Says Leclerc: “We don’t currently manufacture
during our night shift, which leaves us the oppor-
Laura Secord/Nutriart utilizes a 10-bucket XPdius weigher and bagger, manufactured by WeighPack Systems, to
ensure accurate pack fills of chocolates produced at the company’s 250,000-square-foot facility in Quebec City.
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The Quebec City plant operates four Loma Systems metal detection units and one LCW
3000 checkweigher system to ensure optimal product qualityand weight accuracy.
A Leclerc Robotique machine uses a Fanuc Robotics M-3iA/6S robot for quick and
accurate pick-and-place of individual chocolate pieces from one line onto another.
tunity to increase our production even more in the
future. In the meantime, we do a thorough cleaning of the equipment and premises during that
night-shift time.”
This past summer Nutriart expanded its operational footprint when it purchased a warehouse
next door, with plans to make it the primary distribution center for the Laura Secord brand.
The manufacturing plant has seven production
lines running at any given time, including:
• Two dropping lines for chocolate chunks, pellets
and pastry sticks;
• One molding line for chocolate bars, pieces, etc.;
• An enrobing line;
• One panning line;
•
One line to form
and produce seasonal products, such
as miniature chocolate Easter Eggs;
• Two lines of conching (surface scraping), which Leclerc
describes as topping
and creating a chocolate compound.
As with any quality
product, great care is
taken by the manufacturer to create it.
When the cocoa beans arrive at the Nutriart
facility, they are throroughly cleaned to remove
foreign materials such as rocks or dirt, and then
stored for processing.
After steaming and roasting, the beans are
cracked and sieved, with the shell vacuumed away.
After crushing, the beans are milled and turned
into a chocolate liquor.
It is at this point in time that the process can be
altered to create the desired recipe, with the liquor
mixed with sugar, cocoa butter and milk powder.
The paste that comes out then gets refined via a
five-roller machine.
“This is where the particle size really makes a big
difference,” says Leclerc.
“The more pressure the
refiners apply, the finer
the chocolate.”
After it is broken down
in a powdery form, the
chocolate is moved into a
conche for an eight-hour
period, where it is beaten
and heated at a high
temperature to achieve
just the right f lavor and
richness of the chocolate,
according to Leclerc.
The resulting mix is
then blended with more
cocoa butter to achieve
a silky smooth texture,
before being transferred to
45,000-kilogram tanks.
A close-up of the easy-to-use control panel on the D100+ laser scribing system used to
This chocolate mass is
mark the outer packaging, either tray boxes or bar wrappers, with the best-before data.
then ready for further
processing, such as molded shaping, after which it
is placed into refrigeration to harden.
“Once the product exits the refrigeration part of
the line, the chocolates move directly to the packaging area,” explains Leclerc.
The chocolates are then hand-placed into trays
and then are conveyed to a new wrapping machine
purchased earlier this year—a CM Fima from Carle
& Montanari-OPM s.p.a.—that wraps the trays
of chocolates at a speed of 400 units per minute.
Before the tray of plastic-wrapped chocolates is
placed in a presentation box, each tray is labeled with
lot code information on the plastic film by an A320i
continuous inkjet coder from Domino Printing
Sciences plc, one of the plant’s three model A320i’s.
After the trays are placed in a box, each box of
chocolates is labeled again with the best-before
date and lot number data by one of two Domino
D100+ laser coders.
Code of Conduct
After coding, each box is sealed by the automatic
hot-glue Nordson ProBlue 7 adhesive applicating
system and placed into master cases by hand before
being sealed and placed onto a pallet and taken to a
stretchwrapper, where it is prepared for either warehousing or immediate delivery to the customer.
Leclerc says he is equally happy with the performance of both Domino systems to date.
“Domino makes great equipment,” he says. “We
find that the A320i inkjet systems offers us an
impressively great low total cost of ownership.”
Founded in 1978, Domino has a global network of
25 subsidiary offices—including Canada—developing, manufacturing and selling total industrial coding and printing technologies.
According to Domino, the low total-cost-ofownership is enabled by the use of a new i-Tech—
intelligent technology—service-free ink system
that delivers ultra-low make-up usage, which
reduces costs and operator intervention.
The robust and easy-to-use D-Series plus line
is considered to be a highly versatile range of
industrial scribing lasers, which Domino says was
designed to provide high-quality coding across a
wide range of production speeds.
Laura Secord/Nutriart uses a Domino DPX
fumes extractor on the D100+ laser line to ensure
efficient extraction of fumes and particles for a safe
and clean working environment.
“We bought from Domino because of the industry-wide respect for the reliability of the equipment,” explains Leclerc.
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A close-up view of the Domino D100+ laser coder quickly applying best-before data and
lot-code information onto the Laura Secord 40-gram Milk Chocolate bar wrapper.
“As well, we felt that the cost-of-use was less than
the competition, as well as posessing a very efficient service team.
“Whenever we experience a problem with one
of the coders—and such problems are actually very
rare—the Domino team always finds an effective
solution quickly and without delay.
“The quality of their equipment is excellent, and
the coding inscriptions are very visible and highquality,” Leclerc states, adding that the most recent
Domino purchase at the plant was for an A320i
installation in early 2013.
“We use that particular machine to print onto
our new bulk-bag products,” relates Leclerc.
“Right from the get-go, as soon as it was installed,
it worked right away and without any problems.”
Another piece of impressive machinery at the
Laura Secord/Nutriart facility is a pick-and-place
work cell from Leclerc Robotique.
Founded by the Leclerc family in 2004, Leclerc
Robotique specializes in the integration of industrial robots and automation processes.
The Leclerc Robotique picker at the Laura Secord/
Nutriart facility utilizes a M-3iA/6S four-axis robot,
manufactured by Fanuc Robotics, to quickly and
accurately pick individual pieces of chocolate candy
from the manufacturing line and place them neatly
into a second line for further packing.
The M-3iA/6S robot utilizes a Fanuc iRVision
Visual Tracking system that aids the speed of the
robotic accuracy in picking chocolates placed at
various angles from the first moving conveyor.
According to Fanuc, encoders within the trackThe facility also operates four metal detection
ing system allow for greater speed, position and
units from Loma Systems, including the IQ3
model, as well as one LCW 3000 checkweigher
direction inputs for accurate location of the indialso designed and manufactured by Loma.
vidual chocolate pieces.
The LCW 3000 is a versatile machine designed
The Nutriart facility also utilizes a 10-bucket
to handle all types of f lexible and rigid products
XPdius weighing and bagging unit designed and
and packages, according to Loma.
manufactured by the Montreal-headquartered
For Laura Secord and Nutriart, the LCW 3000
WeighPack Systems, which is used by the chococheckweigher offers full advantage of being
late manufacturers to run at a speed of up to 30 bags
hygienic and easy to maintain, providing excellent
per minute depending on product weight.
line speeds up to 325 feet per minute, while being
As appropriate weights of chocolates are released
by the weigher, the
product passes through
a vertical Vertek bagger from WeighPack
as well as a Fortress
Technology Phantom
metal detector unit.
The Phantom metal
detectors are rugged
units ofering a heightened stability with
excellent
sensitivity
performance, thanks to
their DPS (Digital Signal
Processing) technology.
As well, the system’s
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The reverse side of a D100+ laser coder, inscribing lot-code data onto a paperboard
package before it is sealed by Nordson’s ProBlue 7 hotmelt adhesive applicator.
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The finished product of a 40-gram Mik Chocolate bears a permanent laser-scribed
coding applied by the Domino D100+ coder at the Laura Secord/Nutriart plant.
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A Leclerc Robotique case-erector uses Festo pneumatics (inset) to form corrugated cartons in a swift, gentle motion.
Perched on the floor, a SEW-Eurodrive motor provides smooth movement and power to the conveying system within the
Leclerc Robotique pick-and-place robotic workcell at one of many production lines at the Laura Secord/Nutriart plant.
Featuring a Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 700 operator touchscreen, the easy-to-use CM Fima
wrapping machine, manufactured by Carle & Montanari, quickly foil-wraps individual pieces of chocolate.
able to handle package weights up to 6.6 pounds.
Other notable packaging and supplier equipment
utilized at the Laura Secord/Nutriart plant includes:
• One Anritsu X-Ray system purchased from
Abbey Packaging;
• a Leclerc Robotique carton erector;
• an Econoseal horizontal carton erector built by
Econocorp;
•N
ordson hot-melt adhesive applicating systems
for sealing snack-packs;
• Chocolate boxes manufactured by Jones
Packaging of London, Ont.;
• Corrugated cases are from Norampac, a Div.
of Cascades Canada;
• 3 M-Matic case sealers manufactured by 3M
Company.
For Laura Secord, being green does not just mean
its delicious French Mint chocolates.
“Sustainability is very important to us,” explains
Leclerc.
“We are in the process of installing a brand new
furnace that was designed specifically for us to
allow us to heat our premises by burning all the
refuse cocoa bean shells rejected from the chocolate-making process.”
Leclerc points out that at store level, customers are asked if they would like a bag, and if they
answer yes, they are always provided one made
from recycled materials.
Within the packaging itself, molded trays inside
are now made of corn-based materials and are
100-percent biodegradable.
“By standardizing many of our box formats, we
have reduced production time and, therefore, our
energy consumption,” Leclerc notes.
“In addition, we have optimized our box-production planning processes, thereby considerably
reducing the number of our deliveries and cutting
our CO 2 emissions.”
It’s all part-and-parcel for Laura Secord, as it
continues to support responsible cocoa cultivation,
sound environmental management, respect for all
communities, and recognition of international fair
labor standards and more.
“For Laura Secord, the packaging is the core of
our marketing strategy since we adapt the way we
do business in accordance to every big holiday during the year,” sums up Leclerc.
“It’s our mission to offer best-quality products in
a package that’s going to please our loyal customers
and to attract new ones.”
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Loma Systems Canada Inc.
Anritsu Company
Abbey Packaging Equipment Ltd.
Fanuc Robotics Canada Ltd.
WeighPack Systems, Inc.
Jones Packaging Inc.
Norampac (Div. of Cascades Canada ULC)
Nordson Canada Limited
Carle & Montanari-OPM s.p.a.
Leclerc Robotique
Econocorp Inc.
3M Company Co.
Fortress Technology Inc.
Loma Systems
Festo Inc.
Rockwell Automation Inc.
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ADHESIVES
Lou Cavallo,
Vice-President, Operations
Conrad Maziarczyk,
President,
Technical Adhesives Ltd.
TEAM CHEMISTRY
Feisty Canadian adhesives innovator happy to take on
the industry’s Big Boys on its own terms
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F
or some folks, having a stick-with-it attitude
can be a sign of stubbornness or immaturity,
whereas for others, having a never-say-die
perspective can be downright admirable.
In any case, it is hard not to admire what
Technical Adhesives Ltd. has achieved over the
years of growing its privately-owned business in its
unique, fun-loving way to become one of the major
players in a highly competitive market segment.
Crazy Canucks or shrewd business acumen—
whatever the case, the folks at the Mississauga,
Ont.-headquartered Technical Adhesives have certainly made a name for themselves as manufacturers of adhesives for a variety of different industries,
such as: bookbinding, envelopes, paper converting,
tissue and towel, automotive, wood industry, consumer packaging and more.
Perhaps owing to a bit of cultural Canadian humility, company president Conrad Maziarczyk takes a
bit of pride in the fact that it’s a company from the
Great White North that is not only playing amongst
the global leaders, but doing so successfully.
“My father started the company back in 1961,”
Technical Adhesive president Maziarczyk told
Canadian Packaging during a recent visit to the
company’s headquarters.
“He was a chemist who got into the business
the honest way by manufacturing glues himself;
mostly inexpensive, water-based adhesive glues.”
According to Maziarczyk, when the company
Not yet reaching its super-sticky stage, freshly-manufactured strips of hot-melt adhesive quickly move along the production line running at the main Technical Adhesives production
facility in Mississauga, Ont., where they are cut to chicklet-size pieces, before being packed into plastic film bags inserted inside corrugated cartons for delivery to customers.
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became involved in the hot-melt adhesive market
in the mid-1980s, it was able to become a more
high-end business.
“And after that, it was about 10 years ago that
Technical Adhesives took its next big step by becoming involved in the U.S. market,” says Maziarczyk.
“For us, it was the next phase in the decision
to take on the billion-dollar adhesive companies
throughout North America,” he says. “Now the
American market accounts for about 30 per cent of
our business.”
Water-based adhesives are still a major market for
Technical Adhesives, which manufacturs a diverse
range of formulations for dextrines (starch-based),
animal glues, latex adhesives, pressure-sensitive
acrylics and, of course, hot-melts.
Maziarczyk adds: “I would say that Technical
Adhesives has a fairly even 50-50 split in producing
water-based and hot-melt adhesives.”
Technical Adhesives national sales
manager Brian St. Germain says,
“Our sales were around $17.5 million
in 2010, $19.5 million the next year,
$22.5 million in 2012, and we are on
pace to do $24 million this year.”
“And I’m sure we’ll top that next
year,” he states, adding the company
actively seeks and gains about 10
new accounts a month, typically split
evenly between Canada and the U.S.
Working at the
Technical Adhesive
laboratory at the
Mississauga facility,
a chemist tests a
batch of freshlymade adhesive to
ensure product
consistency and
quality matches
all customer
specifications.
Stuck On You
Despite the company’s burgeoning
success—or perhaps one has something
to do with the other—Maziarczyk
has seen fit to create a relaxed family
atmosphere in the workplace.
While fostering goodwill towards
one’s co-workers may seem like a
given for any company, Technical
Adhesives just seems to go above and
beyond the norm in this respect.
“It may sound like a cliché, but we
work hard and we play hard too, but
most of all,” explains vice-president
of operations Lou Cavallo, “we have
a lot of fun doing it.
“It’s perhaps because of our tendency
to not hire from within the industry—our success has been rooted in
training specifically for our industry.
“For us, it is extremely important that
we hire people who can fit in and do
the work that is required,” Covallo says.
Maziarczyk notes the fun, familylike atmosphere at Technical Adhesives
translates into practically zero turnover
at the company.
According to Maziarczyk, the
people working on the water-based
adhesive product lines have a minimum of five years experience while
St. Germain has 15 years and Cavallo
and Maziarczyk have 26 years apiece
with the company, making a compelling case for dedication and experience translating into customer trust.
Located just on the western outskirts
of Toronto with close access to the
major highways, Technical Adhesive
actually consists of three buildings
next-door to each other. This includes
a 25,000-square-foot headquarters
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and additional 15,000- and 10,000-square-foot
warehouses added when the company was last
expanded in 2008.
To facilitate quicker delivery to customers, the
company has also set up large warehousing and storage plants in Montreal, Vancouver and Chicago,
with 45 employees in Toronto and an additional 15
spread out at the other locales.
The Montreal area also boasts a manufacturing plant for water-based adhesive formulations,
according to Cavallo.
“We tend to focus on lean manufacturing here
at Technical Adhesives,” says Cavallo, “which is
aided by the fact we are privately-owned.
“If we weren’t a private business, we would probably have an additional 30 employees.
“We are constantly working to eliminate excesses
and deficiencies to run in the most effective way
possible,” he states.
“It is definitely an ongoing learning process
every day.”
For his part, St. Germain describes the company
as “a small business with a ton of sales people.”
St. Germain likes to tell his sales people to “just
have some fun, enjoy meeting new people and the
sales will happen.”
“But we also have the products and the service to
keep it going,” Maziarczyk interjects.
“You can talk the talk all you want, but eventually you have to walk the walk and give the customer what they want, when they want it, and for
a price that is mutually agreeable,” he asserts.
This easy-going corporate culture extends all the
way to the company’s customer base, according to
St. Germain.
“We treat our customers like friends,” says St.
Germain. “I think that’s why we have such great
customers.”
While obviously pleased with the continued
growth and success of the business, Maziarczyk
notes that there is no great secret to it.
“It might sound like suicide, but we go after the
companies seeking that one adhesive product that
no other adhesive manufacturer wants to work
As part of this year’s
$1.5-million capital
upgrades to the main
manufacturing facility,
Technical Adhesives
purchased a new
5,500-kilogram hot-melt
kettle to help increase
production volumes.
A close up of an SEWEurodrive motor (inset)
powering heating
elements of the new hotmelt kettle.
with,” he remarks.
“We have such great chemists in our laboratory
that creating that perfect mix of ingredients to give
the customer what they want, well... that’s how we
made a name for ourselves,” Maziarczyk enthuses.
Citing a recent example of doing the dirty jobs,
Maziarczyk relates: “We recently completed a project that other adhesive companies walked away
from or just couldn’t solve.
“The volume was one drum a month for a specialty
adhesive that had very difficult substrates to bond to,
it needed to pass indirect food contact guidelines.”
“In fact, we have our chemists test each batch to
ensure we are within the correct specification of the
recipe, which is a rarity in the adhesive industry.”
Speaking highly of his chemists, Maziarczyk
proudly recalls that Technical Adhesives not only created an adhesive that
the customer needed
but also improved their
line efficiencies.
“For us it was a great accomplishment,” relates
Maziarczyk. “It has now opened the door to supply
them with over 50 drums a month on other lines.”
For Technical Adhesives, the formulations it produces can actually provide more than what the customer
originally asked for—a core competitive advantage.
St. Germain notes that some customers have
claimed between 17 to 20 per cent less glue is
required to provide the bond they need—which
translates into real cost-savings for the customer.
“Customer cost-savings played a huge part in our
successful growth during the recent recession in
Canada and the U.S.,” chimes in St. Germain.
“A recession makes companies take a hard look
at how they run their business, and to ensure that
when buying a product or equipment that they
don’t simply choose the least expensive item.
“Simply put, at the end of the day, our high-quality
adhesives help us win customers, and retain them.
“The bottom line,” sums up St. Germain, “is we
are accountable for our products.”
A Lantech stretchwrapper quickly spins a plastic film around a pallet load of 48
cartons of hot-melt adhesives in preparation for transport to a customer.
Row upon row of chemical ingredients that will eventual become part of one of the
company’s many different binding adhesive formulations.
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Looking like strips of the world’s longest fettuccine pasta, strips of freshly-made hotmelt glue quickly cool off before heading to a cutter downstream inside the Technical
Adhesives manufacturing plant that turns out 20 million pounds of adhesives annually.
Adds Cavallo: “The first time we sell you, you
can be sure it will be the exact same product you
receive time and time again.”
Boasting great people skills and great products—
with over 3,000 active formulations derived from
an ingredient list of 500 different chemicals—
Maziarczyk says it is imperative to keep upgrading
its processing equipment to stay one step ahead of
the competition in this tough market.
While not mentioning specific names, he points
out that with smaller companies being bought
out by bigger companies, about 40 per cent of
Technical Adhesive’s competition has dried up in
recent years, meaning that those who are left have
bigger bankrolls behind them.
While the company regularly sets aside monies
for capital investment upgrades, Maziarczyk calmly
reveals Technical Adhesives made a $1.5-million
investment this year to upgrade the three hot-melt
production lines, and is thinking about something
Technical Adhesives national sales manager Brian St. Germain says that along with
enjoying the constant growth in sales over the past several years, employees also enjoy
the company’s easy-going, fun-loving social activities after work and on days off.
similar for the six water-based adhesive lines for an
upcoming project.
Family Bond
Maziarczyk’s eldest son Jake—an engineering
graduate from Queens University—was instrumental in spearheading the recent upgrade.
“This project included the installation of a new
5,500-kilogram capacity hot-melt kettle and overhauling the hot-melt extruder to enable us to produce hot-melt adhesive faster, while providing us
with the ability to double our production rate,”
explains St. Germain.
Along with equipment upgrades, Technical
Adhesives also improved its carbon footprint with
some notable environmental upgrades:
• New high-efficiency lighting installed throughout all the offices, manufacturing area, and both
Toronto-area warehouses;
•
A ll electric heaters for all three Mississauga
buildings converted to
natural gas heaters;
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ew
high-efficiency
natural
gas
boilers
installed in both hotmelt and water-based
lines to reduce companywide electrical consumption by 60 per cent.
With all those new
accounts coming into
the collective fold every
month, keeping up with
demand is imperative
for Technical Adhesives,
which now currently
manufactures some 10
million pounds apiece of
hot-melt and water-based
adhesive products a year.
Twenty years ago,
Technical
Adhesives
became one of the first
adhesive companies to
create a hot-melt glue
that could be deemed
‘environmentally sustainable’ with its Enviromelt
1001, a repulpable adhesAs part of its sustainability and energy conservation efforts, Technical Adhesives has
ive that when used to glue
installed a high-efficiency thermal fluid heater, manufactured by Fulton Thermal Corp.
together such things such
as cereal boxes, it can still be easily recycled.
“That was 20 years ago,” says Maziarczyk, “and
we’ve certainly grown our sustainable formulations since then.”
Always devising better adhesives, the company
has created the 9033A adhesive, a hot-melt glue
that operates best at a temperature of 105° to 110
°C, a full 15 degrees less than that of a standard
low-temperature hot-melt.
And, according to Technical Adhesives, extra low
temperatures have been shown to extend the life of
the application system with other benefits including:
• Aggressive tack for high-speed equipment;
• Reduced downtime;
• Clean running;
• Reduced charring;
• Excellent viscosity stability;
• Strong bonds.
The company also has good working relationships with Norampac (a Division of Cascades
Canada), and Atlantic Packaging Products
who provide Technical Adhesives with the corrugated boxes it uses to pack its product for shipping. After filling, these cartons are sealed using
a Nordson ProBlue adhesive application system.
With great company success comes the inevitable
offers for Maziarczyk to sell the company.
“It’s been going on for years and years,” says
Maziarczyk humbly, noting that such offers are a
good indicator that Technical Adhesives must be
making its mark in the packaging industry.
All in all, Maziarczyk sees the next five years as
the ideal time to further capitalize on the many
positive factors currently at play, including stable
oil and raw material pricing, an improving U.S.
economy, and an incredibly loyal customer base.
To strengthen his company’s position,
Maziarczyk promises an inevitable U.S. acquisition
to enhance his company’s manufacturing capabilities and cement its frontrunner status in the North
American adhesives market.
Technical Adhesives
Nordson Canada Limited
Norampac, a Div. of Cascades Canada ULC
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
Lantech LLC
Fulton Thermal Corp.
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CHAMPAGNE MOMENTS
Robotic cartoning line a sparkling addition for renowned champagne house
W
hen you’re in the luxury goods business, presentation is often as important as the product itself—a fact that
the famed champagne house Veuve Clicquot
Ponsardin of Reims, France, takes very seriously.
Just like the premium-priced bubbly inside each
distinctive corked bottle that was once the drink of
choice of the ruling Romanov dynasty in imperial
Russia’s heyday, the sheer indulgence of the Veuve
Clicquot brand overwhelms the senses before the
bottle is even opened—with the refined printed
label and high-quality glass body making an exquisite first impression.
Because this luxurious presentation of the champagne must never be impaired during the automatic
cartoning operations, the Reims winery recently
invested into a new, state-of-the art packaging line
supplied by a prominent German packaging machinery manufacturer Gerhard Schubert GmbH.
Featuring innovative design to prevent the suction surface from ever touching the bottle’s famed brand label,
six TLM-F4 robots pick up and tilt the bottles at 90
degrees before placing them into the carton inserts.
Installed earlier this year, the new TLM (toploading machine) system is used to package the
Veuve Clicquot 750-ml glass bottles into two different box sizes: with the smaller box containing two cardboard inserts to hold
three bottles each, while the large
box design features room for
four inserts. (see pictures
below)
Consisting of eight
separate
submachines
to
facilitate
production
throughput
of
150 bottles per
minute, the TLM
system
replaced
the plant’s earlier
mono-format system that could only
achieve output of 100 bottles per minute.
The innovative TLM line
design (see opening picture) integrates
a product belt for the incoming bottles,
a transmodule section for the boxes, and
another section for the carton inserts.
Each of the line’s patented TLM transmodules is a single-axle, autonomously operating, railbased robot with a turning unit at each end.
Utilizing interchangeable size plates placed
on the transport carriages, the TLM line
at Veuve Clicquot is configured in a
compact design whereby unloaded
modules automatically return to
the other end on a lower
track.
In operation, a
TLM-F3 robot
removes
two
f lat blanks for
the carton inserts
from the magazine
and transfers them to
a TLM-F2 robot, which
erects them and places
them into the size plate of
the waiting transmodule, using a
special tool to affix the carton inserts
inside without using any glue.
After the TLM-F2 has placed two more
carton inserts inside, the transmodule starts
and connects to the transmodule group that begins
moving as a chain, with its speed controlled by the
product f low of the pick-andplace process.
In accordance with the timetested counter-directional running principle, the bottles reach
the picker stations from the
opposite direction, with highsensitivity photocells instantly
detecting their respective positions on the product belt.
At this point, six four-axis TLMF4 robots swing into action to
pick up the bottles individually,
tilt them horizontally by
90°, and gently place
them into the carton inserts in the
required ‘head to
foot’ alignment.
Remarkably, the
TLM system arranges the bottle formations in the carton insert
without using a grouping
chain.
Fundamentally different from conventional solutions, this process offers
significant advantages in terms of protecting
the product due to the absence of a mechanical
grouping chain that puts extra stress on the handled bottles.
For added product protection for the elegant
cover, the Schubert line employs the TLM-F44
picker stations, featuring specially-designed tools
constructed in such a way that the suction surface
never comes into direct contact with the label.
There is also no further impact of direct
contact with the label during the rest of
the process, according to Schubert,
ensuring that each bottle of champagne leaves the machine as
unscathed as when it was
first fed in.
At the end of the
picker section, all
the carton inserts
on the transmodule are loaded
with bottles, and
another transmodule is
released from the group to
proceed to the filling station—
with each bottle being marked with
all the appropriate product codes by a
laser coder along the way.
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The carton inserts are filled with bottles and placed
inside the decorative, signature-yellow carrying cases.
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Transmodules on the left transport the
boxes, transmodules in the center transport the carton inserts, and the product
belt on the right moves the champagne
bottles through their packaging stages.
When the traveling transmodules—
carrying two boxes each—arrive to
the filling station from the opposite
direction, a TLM-F2 that had previously erected these boxes from a f lat
blank places them onto another free
transmodule.
During the loading process, the
two TLM-F2 robot work in synch by
simultaneously placing two layer of
carton inserts into both box sizes at
the same time.
The transmodules join this process individually, meaning that while
the front transmodule is proceeding
to be closed, the rear transmodule
moves up to the front position and
receives a second layer of cardboard
inserts, while a transmodule carrying
empty cartons moves up to the initial
position.
Because each of the single-axle
robots can move on the rail section
autonomously, all the individual packaging processes are ideally decoupled
for the Veuve Clicquot operation—
part of the headquartered LVMH
(Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton)
luxury products group—that prizes
operational f lexibility and strict quality assurance.
“Thanks to this new line, we are
now able to package our champagne
with higher output and f lexibility,”
enthuses the winery’s technical director Henri Darré.
“We really did not feel it was necessary for us to accept more system
complexity to achieve this,” says
Darré, citing the TLM line’s compact
design with only a three-meter-wide
footprint.
“On the contrary, the operation, the
maintenance ... everything is simple
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TUNNEL VISION
Custom shrinkwrapper and heat tunnel boost pizza maker’s speed and output
by Jim McMahon
W
hile food trends come and go, frozen
pizza remains one of the ubiquitous foods
in the typical North American household, with convenience, low price and a constantly
growing assortment of topping and flavors making it
one of the continent’s heat-and-serve choice for any
households constrained by time and budgets.
According to the American Frozen Food
Institute, 66 per cent of U.S. households consumed frozen pizza in 2010, with sales of US$3.2
billion accounting for almost 10 per cent of the
country’s mass-market frozen food sales.
Keeping up with market demand for this very
popular consumer product can be a challenge for
food processors—not only because of the high
throughputs required, but also because frozen
pizza can be a difficult product to package.
Few frozen food products require more careful
handling through the packaging process than pizza,
and nowhere in the packaging cycle is this more
critical than during the shrinkwrapping stage.
Automated shrinkwrapping of frozen pizzas has
long tested the patience of many food processors,
requiring extremely delicate handling of frozen
pizza pies in order to keep the sauce and loose
toppings—pepperoni,
mushrooms,
sausage, etc.—fully intact during wrapping. These ingredients tend to shift around and fall
to the bottom of the shrink bag
before sealing.
However, most continuous side-seal wrappers
have a limited speed range—topping out at about
100 pizzas per minute—leaving processors with
the hard choice between quality and speed at the
other’s expense.
But that’s no longer the case for the Milwaukee,
Wis.-based Palermo’s Pizza—at least not since
it started using a new generation of continuousmotion side-seal shrinkwrapper employing continuous side-sealing technology.
Opened on Milwaukee’s east side in 1964 by
Sicilian immigrants Gaspare and Zina Fallucca, the
popular eatery started manufacturing frozen pizza
in 1979, using traditional Sicilian recipes.
Widely acknowledged as an innovator in the frozen pizza category—credited with creating the
industry’s first self-rising frozen pizza and its first
ultra-thin crust product—the company produces a
diverse range of popular Palermo’s f lagship brand
products, including Primo Thin, Naturally Rising,
Stone Baked, Classics by Palermo’s and, most recently,
the Palermo’s Hand Tossed Style pizza featuring
‘family-favorite f lavors’ on a middle-thickness crust.
Low Profile
Being a low-profile product, frozen pizza is
also prone to shingling while traveling backto-back on the infeed conveyor before entering
the wrapper—often resulting in poor infeed registration, missed f lights, double product bagging and
broken crust.
The conventional machinery employed for highspeed shrink wrapping of frozen pizzas—at the
rate of 100 to 150 pizzas per minute—typically
uses lap-seal technology for sealing the shrink bag.
The lap-seal method wraps the film around the
pizza as it goes through a forming shoe, and then
overlaps the film on the bottom of the pizza—
thereby static sealing it before going into the shrink
tunnel. A key problem with this sealing method is
that pizza toppings will frequently fall underneath
where the seal is being made, thereby compromising the integrity of the seal.
When the wrapped pizza comes out of the tunnel, the loose or open lap-seal can be very hard to
detect, so it is often consumers who discover that
the pizza they purchased was not securely sealed.
To ensure a better-quality seal, some food processors have utilized continuous-motion side-seal
shrink wrappers. Because the seal is being formed
on the edge of the pizza, rather than across the bottom, the risk of loose toppings contaminating the
seal area is eliminated—resulting in a much more
reliably sealed package.
at a double-digit rate every year,” says Walz. “As
we grew and the demand for product went up, it
generated a need for us to operate at a higher level
of speed to meet the demand.
“The challenge we were facing as we tried to
push our line speeds up was the ability of our existing lap-seal wrappers to run at the higher rate of
speed, and provide a reliable seal,” recalls Walz.
“The lap-sealers use a static sealing process, with
an overlap on the bottom of the pizza, but sometimes we would lose that seal, which would then
open up in the shrink tunnel.
“That tended to be a limiting factor when running at higher speeds,” Walz relates. “Moreover,
our main packaging line was using a lap sealer that
was operating at less than 90 12-inch pizzas per
minute, prompting us to embark on a project to
increase the line rate on that line first.
“After reviewing several shrinkwrap designs,
we settled on one system that could be customconfigured to meet our specific needs, instead of
adapting to an existing format.”
The system ultimately chosen by Palermo’s is
a high-speed, continuous-motion, servo-controlled side-seal shrinkwrapper manufactured by
Texwrap Packaging Systems, a well-established manufacturer of fully-automatic shrinkwrapping systems based in Washington, Mo.
What makes this system unique, according
to Texwrap, is its utilization of multiple
technologies which are integrated
into one system architecture—enabling high-speed
throughput of up to 150 frozen pizzas per minute with
consistent high-quality seals
and no product damage.
Built for Speed
The popularity of these brands has
made Palermo’s one of the fastest growing
manufacturers of frozen pizzas in the U.S.,
ultimately prompting it to expand its manufacturing facility.
Started up in 2011, the company’s new
250,000-square-foot, USDA-approved plant is a
veritable showpiece of packaging technology—
operating four packaging lines.
According to the plant’s vice-president of operations Mike Walz, the plant’s main packaging line
is dedicated to producing the company’s bestselling
12-inch frozen pizzas, which arrive there after having the sauce and topping deposited onto dough
to form the pizzas, which then travel through an
ammonia-based spiral freezer.
Exiting the freezer, the now-frozen pizzas are
conveyed through the shrinkwrapper and shrink
tunnel, followed by labeling and cartoning. The
finished product is then cased, palletized and sent
off to shipping or deep freeze storage.
“We have been experiencing continued growth
The robust throughput speed of the
wrapper is achieved by the sealing head,
incorporating a patented servo orbitalmotion technology that eliminates the need
for the head to move with the product while
the seal is being made.
The sealing head moves in an ellipse without the
back-and-forth motion of typical sealing heads,
which dramatically increases the throughput speed
of the wrapper.
The orbital head is controlled by very fast and precise servo motors, as is the entire wrapper and infeed.
The system is built with Generation 3 servo technology, meaning that it was designed from the
ground-up to integrate servo technology, PLC (programmable logic controller) and the mechanical elements of the system, with the system’s 10-axis servo
controls ensuring extremely accurate registration,
minimizing the amount of film used for wrapping,
and reducing the need for maintenance.
The wrapper is also equipped with an innovative product protection system which ensures that
the orbital head will not close down on any pizza,
using a sensor to map the position of each pizza as
it enters the orbital head operating space.
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Automate Now
Frozen pizzas being spaced out for loading inside the
plastic shrinkwrap bags.
Pizzas and supporting cardboard disks being matched up
before entering the shrinkwrapper.
Bagged frozen pizzas entering the plant’s newly-installed
Texwrap shrinkwrapper.
“We tested the wrapper at 180 pizzas per minute,”
relates Walz. “This is very fast throughput, but it
performed just as promised, with accurate registration, secure seals and no product damage.
“On a continual basis, we normally operate the
system at 120 to 140 pizzas per minute, which is
considerably faster than the maximum 90 pizzas
per minute with our previous lap-sealer.”
During sealing, the self-compensating system’s
belts grip the film securely over a long distance—
allowing the seal to be made on the pizza, with
the excess trim cleanly separated with the use of a
special heating element.
The line’s infeed has also been optimized for
maximized throughput and careful product handling, with a Texwrap-designed lane-combining
system taking three lanes of pizzas exiting the
freezer and consolidating them onto one lane.
Likewise, a servo-driven f lying nose bar is pro-
grammed to not only place the pizzas inline at a set
spacing without touching each other, but also to
automatically adjust the speed of the entire line to
match incoming production.
Engineered to meet the highest sanitary standards, the entire infeed and shrinkwrap system features washdown-rated, corrosion-resistant, welded
stainless-steel design that eliminate all crevices and
areas where food particles may collect.
As Walz sums up: “Both the speed and the quality of the seal have been tremendously improved
with this continuous system.
“We were able to get a shrinkwrap system on our
primary line that not only met our design specifications, but exceeded it.”
Seal the Deal
After the seal is made, a lug conveyor automatically inserts a cardboard circle underneath the pizzas, and indexes the product into the wrapper.
To support the shrinkwrapper, Palermo’s
installed a Texwrap triple-chamber forced air convection tunnel equipped with digital temperature
controls, high-velocity fans, individual top and
bottom controls for air direction, and variablespeed conveyors.
The heat tunnel incorporates a special feature
called Seams Down, which ensures that the sideseal seams do not position over the printed circular
label on top of the pizza.
Jim McMahon is a freelance writer specializing in foodprocessing automation.
Texwrap Packaging Systems
Shrink Packaging Systems Corp.
APPOINTMENT
WeighPack Systems Inc, a
leading provider of high performance
packaging equipment, is pleased
to announce the appointment of
Andy Wischmann as Sales Manager
– Distributor Accounts effective
September 2013.
This important position at
WeighPack will allow Andy to
provide focused attention to
Distributors and Agents throughout North and South
America. His vast experience in the food industry
will help WeighPack to expand its services within the
Americas as well and provide significant support for its
partners and re-sellers.
Andy’s prior experience includes being Managing
Director, Principal Operator, and Owner of WHG, Inc.
and the Wischmann Company in Hamburg, Germany.
In 1994 Andy moved to the USA to build and
oversee international distribution for Beehive, Inc. /
Provisur Technologies, a leading manufacturer of food
processing equipment.
“I do look forward to work not only with the excellent
team at WeighPack but also with our partners
concentrating on streamlining and supporting the
relationship between our Distributors and Agents with
WeighPack as we consider this as one of our most
important business relations,” says Andy.
For more information, visit us at www.weighpack.com
or call 1.888.934.4472
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LABELING
Jason Lam of Universal Impex holds up a bottle
of the company’s Cool Runnings brand Parsley
Flakes sporting a label created with the newly
purchased QuickLabel Systems Kiaro! color
label printer.
A SEASONING FOR
ALL OCCASIONS
A Toronto spice and seasonings business entrepreneur
using colorful labels to create on-demand shelf impact
PHOTOGRAPHY: COLE GARSIDE
I
t is probably a given that everybody remembers
their first job while still in high school—usually something horrible and low-paying involving sweeping f loors or early morning delivery of
newspapers. It’s a very rare individual indeed,
whose first job is running a startup business they
created themselves, and using it to jumpstart a successful and growing career into adulthood.
Paul Bridgemohan, self-described as an operations manager, but humbly downplaying his
actual role as president and owner of Universal
Impex Corporation, is one such a person, happily running a thriving business distributing gourmet Caribbean products, with a heavy emphasis on
spices, in Toronto.
“Actually, I prefer to say that we deal in blended
seasonings,” Bridgemohan told Canadian
Packaging magazine during a recent interview at
his 25,000-square-foot facility.
“Of course, these blended seasonings are made
up of spices.”
With all the trappings of a prototypical immigrant success story, Bridgemohan didn’t actually
start his business in his garage—but rather by renting out a high school buddy’s garage.
“It was back in 1992, and I decided that I wanted
to earn my own money and had no interest in working as a clerk or delivering things, so I thought I
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would start my own spice import business,” recalls
Bridgemohan.
“Because I lived in an apartment complex with
my family,” he recounts, “I rented out the garage
of a friend who wasn’t a business partner, to store
my spices and to have a place to hand-pack them
for sale to mom-and-pop shops in the Toronto
area.”
Remarkably, Bridgemohan was 15 years old when
he started down the road of entrepreneurship.
“At the time, I focused on a pair of products: glu-
cose and barley f lour. These two items are quite
big in the Caribbean diet,” explains Bridgemohan
noting that over there glucose is an inexpensive
sweetener used in coffee and teas, and barley f lour
is used for an adult afternoon snack, as well as a
nutritional porridge for babies.
Because Bridgemohan and his family moved
to Canada in 1989 from the Caribbean nation of
Guyana, one might think he was importing spices
into his adopted country. Instead, he says he was
buying bulk quantities of the barley f lour and glucose from outside sources to repackage them under
the British Class brand, and exporting it back to
the Caribbean.
Growing a one-man operation to a 25 employee
enterprise nowadays, Universal Impex still buys in
bulk, and ships to markets around the world, but
it has also created four specific brands for different
markets.
According to Bridgemohan, the British Class
brand is designed for the South Asian market, the
Mekong brand caters to the Asian segment, the
Baby Treasures brand name is just for the original
two company products, and Cool Runnings, which
consists of seasonings, spices and other Caribbean
A selection of spices and blended seasonings marketed under Universal Impex’s Cool Runnings brand name feature
newly-created labels produced in true on-demand fashion on the QuickLabel Systems Kiaro! color inkjet label printer.
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LABELING
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products, for markets all over Canada
and around the world.
Bridgemohan readily admits that
he named the brand Cool Runnings
in homage to the American sports
comedy movie about the Jamaican
Olympic bobsled team back in the
1980s, but there is no joking about the
success that the brand and the company as a whole have achieved.
While the early days of buying the
spices in bulk, storing them in his
friend’s garage and then repacking
them are long gone, Bridgemohan
says that he’s still essentially doing
the same thing over 20 years later. It
just happens to be all done on a larger scale, with more product offerings
and packaging equipment, to keep up
with the increasing customer demand
and with far greater purchasing and
operating costs as well, he relates.
“Pepper, thanks to increased
demand and less supply, is something
that comes from India, Vietnam and
Brazil,” says Bridgemohan, “which
costs about US $6,000 a metric tonne.”
According to Bridgemohan the
top sellers for Universal Impex are
its: Blended Seasonings; All-purpose
Seasonings; Caribbean Spice & Roasted
Garlic; and Jerk Seasoning Powder.
“While we continue to sell our products throughout Africa, the Caribbean
and Canada, with the Caribbean ethnic market being our original target market, the ever-growing South
Asian community is huge for us,” says
Bridgemohan, describing Universal
Impex as being somewhere between
a small and medium-sized company.
“But we’re getting there,” he chuckles.
These days, Universal Impex continues to supply mom-and-pop shops
in Toronto, but its products can
now be found in large independent supermarkets such as five
Danforth Food Market locations,
Top Foods Supermarket, Jian
Hing Supermarket, Fresh Value
Supermarket, as well as at Walmart,
Metro, Food Basics, No Frills,
Fortinos, Loblaws, Real Canadian
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The Kiaro! printer from QuickLabel Systems
quickly and neatly spooling labels onto a rewinder.
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LABELING
The user-friendly Custom QuickLabel software developed by QuickLabel Systems allows Universal Impex to create and
tweak its own customizable labels virtually on-the-fly.
Superstores, Zehrs, Sobeys, IGA, Foodland,
Fresh Co and Price Chopper retail stores.
Although Bridgemohan does not wish to divulge
specific product production, he did estimate that
Universal Impex produces about 400,000 units of
various-sized seasonings per month.
While extremely confident in the continuing
success of dry-goods brands under the Universal
Impex umbrella, Bridgemohan says that in order to
grow the business, he is now focusing on products
unrelated to the blended seasoning market.
“I’m moving towards liquids such as hot sauces,
beverages and coconut-based products, but I don’t
want to pack or repack them,” relates Bridgemohan.
“While I have no problem packing the dry goods
for my brands, if I’m going to expand the product
line, I want the products to be already packed by
other companies,” he continues, adding that when
it comes to the dry seasonings, Universal Impex
creates each recipe from scratch.
“Even so, we are very careful about what product
we attach our name to.”
Although reluctant to spill the beans about the
production line equipment he has on his singular
bottle and bag lines, aside from acknowledging that
he has a filler, capper and label application system,
Bridgemohan was extremely candid when discussing the company’s brand new Kiaro! inkjet label
printer manufactured by QuickLabel Systems.
Test Pattern
When Universal Impex purchased the Kiaro! from QuickLabel Systems, it also purchased the optional rewinder to
collect the just-processed labels into neat and workable rolls.
Manufactured by Jokey Plastics, the clean, stackable, white plastic tubs are extensively used by Universal Impex to
pack larger bulk quantities of its spices and blended seasonings at the Toronto facility.
Although Universal Impex still has an outside printing company produce labels for its retail packaging
needs, Bridgemohan says he purchased the Kiaro! in
March of 2013 to use solely as a “testing tool.”
“Although I have certainly been aware of
QuickLabel for quite some time, it was after I saw
them at a local trade show that I thought about
how the Kiaro! could be a beneficial machine for
us,” Bridgemohan relates.
For the company to grow, Bridgemohan says it
was imperative to be able to have a tool to help
with ideas and demonstration.
“We aren’t the type of company to sit back and
watch the world go by,” explains Bridgemohan.
“We want to help inf luence it.”
As such, he and his employees tend to come up
with a lot of ideas to try and improve the overall
look of the products.
But rather than asking a printing company to create a few sample labels—impossible given that he is
expected to purchase labels in quantities of 200,000
or so—Universal Impex judiciously uses the Kiaro!
to create professional-looking labels on demand.
“The Kiaro inkjet label printer has already helped
us with a few projects,” Bridgemohan admits.
“Before committing to a huge print run of labels,
we print off a few high-quality labels on the Kiaro!
to ensure the bottles will look as good as we have
imagined them in our own head.
“It’s how we do our R&D.”
Featuring a fixed-head CMYK (Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow and blacK) inkjet technology, the Kiaro!
digital color label printer provides a print resolution of 1,200x1,200-dpi (dots per inch), to create a
nice, clean and crisp label every time.
Bridgemohan recalls that QuickLabel Systems
invited his employee Jason Lam to the headquarters
of its parent company Astro-Med, Inc. of West
Warwick, R.I. for a live demonstration and training.
Described by Bridgemohan as his go-to guy when
it comes time to make the demonstration labels, Lam
says that the Kiaro! was actually pretty easy to use.
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LABELING
A vast selection of oils, beverages, dried foods, spices and
blended seasoning products sit within a large showroom
at the Toronto headquarters of Universal Impex. The Cool
Runnings product line brand (right) is the company’s
biggest selling brand in Canada.
“For the short-run label production, the Kiaro! is
an inexpensive alternative for us,” says Lam.
“In fact, the colors printed by the Kiaro! are
sharper with more pop than what we normally
get in the larger-run labels done by an outside
company.”
After becoming the first company to introduce an in-house digital color label back in 1984,
QuickLabel Systems has become a leading manufacturer of production-capacity, full-color digital
label printers, barcode printers and labeling software that allows businesses of any size to print their
own labels whenever they want it: on-demand and
just-in-time.
Bang for the Buck
When Universal Impex purchased its Kiaro!, the
printer came supplied with the intuitive Custom
QuickLabel software program to help run the
machine, along with an optional rewinder to
gather the printed labels after they are printed.
The Custom QuickLabel software comes with the
purchase, and is used to lay out the label design,
add barcodes and print variable fields that connect
directly to a database, helping create any label format or shape.
Although not actually part of Universal Impex’s
milieu, the Kiaro! is capable of printing high-quality
color labels at very high speeds—7,200 three-byfour-inch labels per hour.
Along with creating labels for the bottles, the
printer can be used to create demo labels for any
type of packaging Universal Impex chooses. This
includes the large, white plastic tubs provided by
Jokey Plastics capable of holding five to eight
pounds of seasoning blends or more, depending on
the product density.
As far as future growth prospects for Universal
Impex, Bridgemohan sees the continued strengthening of the company’s branded products as key, with
increased growth in Canada, and complemented
with some penetration to the lucrative U.S. markets.
“One way we can do that is by staying focused on
our core products,” says Bridgemohan.
“Yes, I want to expand the product line with
more private-label speciality products, but when it
comes to our own dry goods—our seasonings and
other non-perishable items that can have a shelflife of two to three years maintaining its aromatic
potency—there’s a reason why we have been successful over the years.
Bridgemohan adds: “I also want to increase our
presence on social media, with the point being that
the more people who see our name, the greater the
chance we gain a new customer.”
As Bridgemohan sums up, “Universal Impex has
been making and packing a wide variety of popular and special spice blends and original seasoning
for over 20 years now, and all can add a little special something-something to any dish with just a
dash here or a pinch there.
“While I obviously won’t take credit for a product like pepper—though ensuring we get only the
highest quality pepper in is extremely important—
our seasoning recipes are something I am quite
proud of,” he concludes.
“It has helped get Universal Impex this far, and I
am curious to see to what heights we’ll be able to
reach next.”
QuickLabel Systems
Astro-Med, Inc.
Jokey Plastics North America Inc.
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NOTES & QUOTES
 Label manufacturer and converter ASL Print
FX of Vaughan, Ont., has been awarded the prestigious Best of the Best worldwide honors for technical
excellence of its print quality during the recentlyheld international Labelexpo Europe 2013 exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. Competing against
numerous entries from seven continents across five
different printing process categories, the label produced by ASL for the Niagara, Ont.-based vintner Rennie Estates Winery captured top place
in the f lexographic category of the World Label
Awards competition by excelling at all evaluation
criteria assessed by the international judging panel:
from registration to color reproduction. “This label
pushes the boundaries of traditional f lexo printing,”
according to the World Label Association’s judging panel. “The definition of the image is excellent and the registration
is exact,” the judges
added, while also praising the label’s high-end
features such as dome
lacquer registration and
cold foil-stamping on
the label. Says ASL Print
FX president Charlie
Maclean: “It is terrific
to be recognized by your
peers, and an honor to be
recognized as a leader in
this highly competitive
industry.”
 Industrial robotic tooling and subsystems
manufacturer ATI Industrial Automation has
commenced the first phase of a major expansion of
the company’s manufacturing facilities at its global
headquarters in Apex, N.C., in response to fastgrowing global demand for the company’s robotic
end-effectors used across automotive, consumer
packaged goods, aerospace, electronics and many
other manufacturing industries. To be carried out
in two phases over the next three to five years,
the expansion will more than double the company’s current production space to over 129,000
square feet, according to ATI, while creating an
estimated 200 new jobs. “The diversity in our customer base, coupled with our focus on innovation
and customer service, has allowed us to succeed
in a sluggish global economy despite lower-cost
competition from overseas,” says ATI chief executive officer Robert Little, who co-founded the
company in 1989 with
two other business partners. “Over 40 per cent
of our sales are exported
to world markets and we
expect that percentage
to increase,” says Little,
adding the company’s
sales have increased more
than tenfold since 1998,
with its staff growing to
over 200 people.
SHAWPAK SYSTEMS LTD. COMPLETES
CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP
Shawpak Systems Ltd.
announced today the completion
of the sale and transfer of
ownership of the company.
Gerry Cellucci, President of
Shawpak Systems Ltd., said,
“This transaction marks 27
years of ownership and effective
stewardship of Shawpak
Systems by Pete Skinner Jr.
and Peter Skinner Sr. Together the Skinners have made tremendous
positive contributions to the Company and, as a result, to our
customers and our employees. We look forward to continuing in the
same tradition and with same commitment. We greatly appreciate the
support we received on this ownership change from our employees
and so many of our stakeholders.”
Shawpak Systems Ltd. has been acquired by two former salesmen
of Shawpak Systems Ltd., Rick Topp and Larry Swift as well as four
partners of Alex E. Jones & Associates Ltd.: Gerry Cellucci, Paul
Duke, Stephane Morin, and Christian Charbonneau. Following the
acquisition, Nigel Turnpenny, formerly of Mettler Toledo joined the
company as a partner as well as Regional Manager for Western
Canada now providing local sales and service support to the area.
The new organizational change will focus on delivering exceptional
sales and service to a client base with an ever increasing expectation
of product knowledge and professionalism from their partners and
vendors. Rick Topp, VP of Sales, Larry Swift VP of Technical Services
and Nigel Turnpenny, Sales and Service, Western Canada, will each
have a significant roll in shaping the future of the company. Our
combined wealth of knowledge and experience will be utilized to
achieve our goal of being the premier source for product inspection
systems in Canada.
For more information, contact:
Gail Misener
Tel: 905-847-1022, Ext 321
[email protected]
www.shawpak.com
www.alexejones.ca
 New York Citybased private venture
capital firm Cove
Point
Holdings,
LLC has completed
the acquisition of the
Clysar
polyolefin
shrink film manufacturing business from
f lexible
packaging
products group Bemis
Company, Inc. for
an undisclosed sum.
Operating under the
Clysar, LLC corporate banner, the
company plans to
move its headquarters from Oshkosh,
Wis., to Clinton,
Iowa, which already
houses its extrusion
and converting campus. “Our philosophy
is to acquire stable,
American-based companies with excellent
growth potential, and
then invest in valuecreation strategies that
help them f lourish,”
says Cove Point chairman William Morris.
 Reusable transit
packaging and services supplier ORBIS
Corporation
of
Oconomowoc, Wis.,
has opened up a new
RPM (reusable pack-
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ORBIS RPM services president Albert Seecharan (second
from left) joins local Mexican officials at formal unveiling
of the company’s new service center in Queretaro.
aging management) service center in Queretaro,
Mexico, to provide logistical support—including
demand planning, shipping, tracking, cleaning,
sorting and replenishment—for the nearby Rexam
Mexico production facility. “We consider this new
center in Queretaro to be the next step in creating a long-term relationship with Rexam by moving from not just providing reusable packaging,
but going one step further to leverage our experience and expertise to optimize their entire shipping
system,” says Albert Seecharan, president of the
company’s RPM services.
 Labeling manufacturer and converter Fort
Dearborn Company of Elk Grove, Ill., has completed the acquisition of AC Label from Emigrant
Capital Corp. for an undisclosed amount.
Employing about 200 people at three operating
divisions in Louisville, Ky., Provo, Utah, and St.
Louis, Mo., AC Label is a well-established supplier
of pressure-sensitive, cut-and-stack, rollfed and
digitally-printed labels for the beverage, nutraceutical and spirits industries. “This acquisition enhances our leadership position in the decorative label
marketplace by broadening our geographic footprint, capabilities and market penetration,” says
Fort Dearborn chief executive officer Jeff Brezek.
 The Motoman Robotics Division of
Miamisburg, Ohio-headquartered industrial automation systems group Yaskawa America, Inc.
has completed the acquisition of Agile Planet
Inc., Austin, Tex.-based developer of software
programs and hardware accessories for industrial
robotics, including the robot/motion control software products used in Yaskawa Motoman’s MLX
Robot Gateway platform.
 Paperboard packaging products manufacturer Keystone Folding Box Co. of Newark,
N.J., has picked up the 2013 AmeriStar Award for
pharmaceutical packaging from the Institute of
Packaging Professionals (IoPP) for the company’s innovative Ecoslide-RX sustainable compliance package (see picture), which also placed as the
first runner-up for the 2013 Columbus Award for
compliance-enhancing packaging design from the
Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council
of Europe (HCPC-Europe). Made from
100-percent recyclable material, the child-resistant, senior-friendly package contains no plastic in
its secondary packaging, according to Keystone.
NOVEMBER 2013
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EVENTS
PEOPLE
Nov. 19
Feb. 10-13
Mississauga, Ont.: Top 50 Packaging Ideas Expo,
packaging solutions tabletop fair by the Canadian
Packaging magazine. At Mississauga Convention
Centre. Contact Stephen Dean at (416) 510-5198; or
via email [email protected]
Orlando, Fla.: Industry in Transition: The
Information-driven Enterprise, annual industry
forum by ARC Advisory Group. At Renaissance
Orlando at SeaWorld. To register, go to:
www.arcweb.com/events/
Nov. 20-21
Feb. 12-14
Montreal: Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo
(CWRE), by Messe Frankfurt Inc. At Palais des
congrès de Montréal. Contact Kim Porter at (770)
984-8016; or go to: www.cwre.ca
Brussels, Belgium: PACE (Packaging and Converting
Executive) Forum 2014, by Arena International. To
register, go to: www.arena-international.com/
pace
Nov. 20-22
Feb. 19-21
Düsseldorf, Germany: COMPAMED 2013, medical technologies supply chain exhibition and conference by Messe Düsseldorf GmbH. At Messe
Düsseldorf Fairgrounds. Contact Messe Düsseldorf
(Canada) at (416) 598-1524; or go to:
www.messe-duesseldorf.de
Orlando, Fla.: NPE 2015, international plastics
exposition by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade
Association. At the Orange County Convention
Center. To register, go to: www.npe.org
Nov. 21-23
Toronto: Graphics Canada, graphics, printing and
converting show by Printing Equipment & Supply
Dealers’ Association of Canada (PESDA). At the
Toronto International Centre. To register, go to:
www.graphicscanada.com
Nov. 26-28
Nairobi, Kenya: Food Processing and Packaging
Exposium (FPPE), by Messe Düsseldorf Gmbh. At
the Kenyatta Conference Center. Contact Messe
Düsseldorf (Canada) at (416) 598-1524; or go to:
www.messe-duesseldorf.com
Dec. 3-5
March 13
Green Bay, Wis.: Converters Expo, package converting technologies exhibition by BNP Media. At
the Lambeau Atrium. To register, go to:
www.convertersexpo.com
March 17-20
Atlanta, Ga.: MODEX 2014, manufacturing and
supply chain exhibition and conference by MHI
and Reed Exhibitions. Concurently with Supply
Chain and Transporation USA and Georgia
Logisitcs Summit. All the the Georgia World
Congress Center. To register, go to:
www.modexshow.com
March 18-20
Cologne, Germany: Thin Wall Packaging, conference by Applied Market Information (AMI). At
Maritim Hotel. To register, go to:
www.amiconferences.com
Cologne, Germany: Green Polymer Chemistry 2014,
international conference on sustainable production of plastics and elastomers by Applied Market
Information Ltd. At Maritim Hotel. To register, go
to: www.amiplastics.com
Dec. 3-6
March 24-26
Shanghai, China: Labelexpo Asia 2013, exhibition
and conference by Tarsus Group Limited. At the
Shanghai New International Export Center. To
register, go to: www.labelexpo-asia.com
Bangkok, Thailand: Multilayer Packaging Films
2014, Asia-Pacific conference on specialty f lexible packaging applications, materials, markets and
manufacturing by Applied Market Information
Ltd (AMI). At Swissotel Nai Lert Park. To register,
go to: www.amiplastics.com/events
Dec. 9-11
Abu Dhabi, UAE: Flexible Packaging Middle East
2013 conference by Applied Market Information
Ltd (AMI). At Sofitel Hotel. To register, go to:
www.amiplastics.com/events
,
Dec. 10-11
Berlin, Germany: European Bioplastics Conference,
by European Bioplastics. At Intercontinental Hotel
Berlin. To register, go to:
www.en.european-bioplastics.org
Dec. 11-14
Delhi, India: CeMAT India, international trade fair
for material handling and logistics by Deutsche
Messe AG. Contact the Canadian Chamber of
Industry and Commere at (416) 598-7129; or go to:
www.win-india.com
2014
Feb. 5-6
Paris, France: Aerosol & Dispensing Forum 2014,
international summit by Oriex Communication.
At the Espace Champerret. To register, go to:
www.aerosol-forum.com
NOVEMBER 2013 • CANADIAN PACKAGING
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April 16-17
Shanghai, China: Luxe Pack Shanghai 2014,
luxury goods packaging exhibition. At the
Shanghai Exhibition Center. To register, go
to: www.luxepack.com
May 8-14
Düsseldorf, Germany: interpack 2014, international packaging technologies fair by Messe
Düsseldorf GmbH. At Messe Düsseldorf
Fairgrounds. Contact Messe Düsseldorf
(Canada) at (416) 598-1524; or go to:
www.interpack.com
May 6-10
Essen: Germany: METPACK 2014, global
metal packaging trade fair and conference
by Messe Essen GmbH. At Messe Essen. To
register, go to: www.messe-essen.de
May 14-15
New York City: Luxe Pack New York, luxury
goods packaging exhibition by Idice Monaco. At
Pier 92. Go to: www.luxepacknewyork.com
 Nestlé Waters Canada (NWC), Puslinch,
Ont.-headquartered producer of bottled water
and other enhanced water beverages operating
Canadian-based bottling facilities in Puslinch and
Port Hope, B.C., has appointed Debbie Moore as
company president to replace the
recently-departed former president John Zupo, who has been
appointed as business executive
manager and general manager of
NWC’s parent company Nestlé
Waters North America in
Moore
Stamford, Conn.
 Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based digital printing
systems supplier Screen USA, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Kyoto, Japan-based
printing and graphic arts systems manufacturer Dainippon
Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., has
appointed Jeff Sammons as
regional sales manager for territory comprising U.S. northeast
Sammons
and eastern Canada.
 SKG, Cincinnati, Ohioheadquartered branding development services provider formerly
known as Schawk, Inc., has
appointed Scott Lucas as managing director of the company’s
Brandimage and Anthem
operations in the Cincinnati area.
Lucas
 Evansville, Ind.-headquartered Berry Plastics
Group, Inc. has appointed William Norman as
president of the Rigid Open Top Division unit,
and Adam Unfried as executive vice-president of
strategic planning.
 MOCON, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minn.-based manufacturer of
instrumentation and testing
equipment for food and pharmaceutical industry applications,
has appointed Rich Barrett as
regional manager for North and
South America.
Barrett
Appointment
Frank Fisico is
promoted at Sealed
Air to the position
of Regional Sales
Manager -Canada,
Food Care Division.
As a part of the Food
Care division of Sealed
Air, the Cryovac® brand develops
innovative technologies to keep
food fresh, better tasting and more
accessible. We do this with a strong
understanding of consumer needs
and a focus on delivering packaging
systems, equipment solutions and
services that enable manufacturers
and their retail customers to be more
productive and profitable.
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HORROR SHOW PACKAGING FRIGHTFULLY FUN
A
lways pushing the
boundaries of human
imagination
with
his unique blend of psychological and physical horror
with infamous films such as
The Fly (1986) and A History
of Violence (2005), David Cronenberg is considered
to be one of the most challenging and exhilarating directors to come out of Canada. Hence it is
fabulously fitting for the Toronto International
Film Festival (TIFF) to be hosting the currentlyrunning David Cronenberg: Evolution multimedia
exhibition strictly dedicated to the audacious
and thrilling work of Canada’s prolific director.
Naturally, the marketing products and packaging
produced for the exhibit—opened to the public
earlier this month—were carefully selected to not
only highlight Cronenberg’s unique body of work,
but also to entice and excite long-time fans as well
as the casual curiosity-seekers.
No stranger to film, The TIFF Shop in Toronto
is currently carrying copies of popular Cronenberg
films such as The Naked Lunch (1991), Cosmopolis
(2012) and, of course, the strange and mind-bending Videodrome (1983) as part of the special-edition
Criterion Collection package. In terms of immediate far-out impact, the Videodrome packaging is
really a sight to behold—boasting some iconic
disturbing graphics from the film and the infam-
ous hand-scribbled “Long Live the New Flesh”
quote on a DVD case that perfectly mimics the
old-school videotapes of years gone by. The clever
use of the color bars and broadcast test card for the
Criterion logo on the side of DVD perfectly ties in
with the wicked plot of the Videodrome movie,
striking a very responsive chord not only with the
fans but also anyone who wants to take a little bit of
Cronenberg home from the spellbinding exhibit.
For newbies to the mind-bending world of
Cronenberg, The TIFF Shop also features products with packaging that are not specifically tied
to Cronenberg’s prolific body of work,
but rather pointedly alluding
to his dark and transformative style of
film-making. For
example, the small
tin Pocket Box for
general items boasts
bright and bold colors of black and crimson
red as a nod to his devotion to body horror, with
the macabre graphics and all-caps font spelling
out POISON sure to grab immediate attention
of any die-hard Cronenberg fan. The use of the
old- school lab f lask and a bird image on the back
further pushes the horror element of the packaging
to transform what is really a very simple product
into a ‘must-have’ keepsake, stylishly oozing dark
intent with its ‘dangerous content’ warning labels.
While coffee mugs tend to be a rather standard
take-home memento at many cultural events, the
packaging for the so-called Creepy Mug really
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
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Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd
Bosch Rexroth Canada
For more
information
on Classified
Advertising
please
contact:
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Cryovac
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Farm Credit Canada
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Fortress Technology Inc.
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Haremar Plastic Manufacturing
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THE ADVERTISEMENT OR ARTICLE OF INTEREST.
FAX THIS BACK TO US AT (416) 510-5140
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Megan Moffat is a recent graduate of the Film Studies
program at the Wilfrid Laurier University
currently working at The TIFF Shop in Toronto.
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For its part, the packaging for the director’s Red
Cars art-book uses intentional ambiguity to optimize the hidden horror element to full advantage.
Targeted specifically at the die-hard Cronenberg
fans—featuring a Cronenberg-written screenplay
that never made it to the sliver screen—the simple
white cardboard box, decorated only with a red
string and stylized red
lettering, is intriguing
precisely because of its
simplicity—drawing
attention of not only
hard-core cinephiles
but also regular consumers who don’t have
a clue about the product by triggering a natural “What’s inside the box?”
reaction. This element of mystery works perfectly
throughout most of this unique, mind-altering
exhibit that runs through January of 2014.
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stands out from the
crowd with its graphic,
cringe-worthy “hidden creepers in your
mug” tag line. While
definitely pushing the
boundaries of creepiness with its graphic
“creepy crawler” depiction, the packaging also provides a lot of useful consumer information about
the mug’s size, dishwasher directions and microwave-safe features—all that useful stuff you hardly
ever get from a standard paperbox.
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