Ottawa is home to distribution centres for a homegrown grocery chain and a national discount retailer, both routing dry goods and fresh product to stores across the province. Warehouses shipping at that pace need packaging automation just to keep the trucks loaded on schedule, since cases have to be erected, filled, and sealed at the rate a distribution centre ships, not the rate a manual line can hold. A case erector and case packer paired with a checkweigher close that gap if your bagged, boxed, or multi-pack product moves through an Ottawa-area distribution centre.
West of downtown, in the rural community of Carp, a fourth-generation, family-owned grain mill has been milling since 1929 and recently landed federal investment to add a second mill nearby in Almonte. Powders and granular product need an EliteFill auger filler built for accurate small-format fills, run alongside a Mars Series VFFS bagger that handles your bag-in-box or stand-up pouch formats without constant adjustment. Grain doesn't pack itself. Ottawa's food and beverage scene also includes a craft brewery, an independent bakery, and a small-batch chocolate maker, the kind of businesses that eventually outgrow hand-packing or semi-automatic lines. From tonnes of milled grain to small batches of chocolate, the same auger filling, VFFS bagging, and case-packing equipment scales to match the batch. We supply and integrate VFFS bagging, auger and multihead filling, case packing, and inspection equipment for Ottawa's grocery distributors and its Carp mill alike, and none of it needs a local Ottawa office to install or run.