Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

MIDWEST FOOD PRODUCTS
Industry: Food Products
Sub Industry: Potato products
Location: Carberry, Manitoba
Size (sales): Not Available
Purchasing Potential: Not provided
Specific Business
Opportunities:
1. Company Description:
Ink jet coders VFFS equipment
and palletizing equipment
Midwest Food Products is a joint venture of J. R. Simplot Company and Nestle
Canada Inc., and is managed by Nestle S. A. The factory, which has been in
operation since 1961 and is located in Carberry, Manitoba, produces frozen and
dehydrated specialty potato products. The facility is the largest potato processing
factory in Western Canada, which employs approximately 500 people and processes
17,000 truck loads of potatoes annually.
Midwest actively sells its products throughout the Canadian and United States
markets, and occasionally other countries. Its largest contracts are with large quick
service restaurant chains.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
Frozen Food Service French Fries Bulk vertical form fill and seal bags in a
corrugated case (4-lb to 6-lb sizes).
3. Installed Packaging Machinery:
Current Machinery Used
Brand No. of Country of Origin Average
By Category
Units
Age
Vertical Form, Fill & Seal Machines Eagle TPII 4 United States 10
Eagle Infinity 2 United States 5
Bosch
1 Germany 2
Triangle
2 United States 1
Automatic Case Erectors COP 8 United States 1 to 15
Automatic Case Fillers Dynpak 8 United States 1 to 15
Metal Detectors Loma
5 Britain 1 to 6
Safe Line
2 United States 8
Fortress
1 United States 1
Coding Markem ink jet 6 United States 8
Markem ribbon
coder
7 United States 2
4. Future Packaging Machinery Plans (next 3 years):
Midwest Foods will be looking at a palletising system within the next three years and
possibly new VFFS machines.
SMG/Columbia Consulting Group Page 96