Packaging equipment buyers in St. John's are working in a city that built its industrial base on food and drink long before oil rigs arrived offshore. A confectionery and bakery manufacturer founded in 1924 has run continuously out of the city since, producing traditional Newfoundland cream crackers, hard bread, cookies, and candies alongside jams and syrups across more than 50 product lines. A soft-drink bottler with roots in an 1860s St. John's merger has held a major national bottling franchise for the province since 1944 and still bottles soft drinks in the city today. That century-long run of confectionery, bakery, and beverage production sits alongside one of Atlantic Canada's largest seafood harvesting and processing operations, headquartered in the city with five plants and more than 1,700 employees province-wide, plus the province's largest craft brewery, based in the Quidi Vidi village area within city limits.

Our Pack Series flow wrappers seal individual cookies, candies, crackers, and hard bread at high speed, while our Mars Series vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machines form and fill pouches of pourable product like jams and syrups. A smoked-fish producer's move to automated packaging, documented in our case studies, applies just as well to Newfoundland's seafood processors. Delicate, moisture-heavy product needs a gentler line. If your confectionery line runs anywhere near 50 product lines, you can't afford equipment that sits on backorder. We keep flow-wrapping and VFFS machines in stock for St. John's producers. From there, our solutions team sizes the line to the product.