Winnipeg's food-manufacturing corridor keeps packaging equipment running at full tilt in more than one plant. The corridor never really stops. It stretches across the city, from a Bentall Street snack-food facility to a Lagimodiere Boulevard meat-processing plant on the opposite side. A snack-food manufacturer has run its flagship potato-chip production, administration, and distribution out of that Bentall Street facility since 1954. Farther along the corridor, a meat processor on Lagimodiere Boulevard turns fresh pork into bacon and ham at plant scale. More recently, a pea- and canola-protein processing plant built a 94,000-square-foot facility in the city, backed by international food and ingredient investors. Winnipeg is also headquarters to a company that manufactures flexible and rigid packaging materials and packaging machinery for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and personal-care customers across North America, which makes the city both a packaging-equipment customer base and a packaging-industry peer.

Our Mars series VFFS baggers are built for exactly the potato-chip and snack-bagging volume Winnipeg's plants run daily, forming, filling, and sealing bags at the speed retail snack accounts expect. Our automatic case packers and case erectors handle the boxing step for both bagged snacks and packaged meat, trimming the manual labor a high-volume meat or protein plant would otherwise carry on that line. For a protein-processing operation scaling up production, our packaging line automation reduces the changeover time between SKUs without adding headcount. We've helped a Canadian food producer cut changeover time while scaling output. It's the same problem Winnipeg's protein and snack plants are solving now. Your product mix shifts from run to run. Keeping the line moving through those changes is our job. Winnipeg already has its own packaging-machinery manufacturer on Saulteaux Crescent; we're the supplier that shows up when a Bentall Street or Lagimodiere Boulevard plant needs a VFFS bagger or case packer in stock now, backed by our own install and service team.