Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

ROGERS SUGAR
Industry: Food Products
Sub Industry: Sugar
Location: Vancouver
Size (sales): $C163 million (2002)
Purchasing Potential: Not provided
Specific Business
Opportunities:
1. Company Description:
Open-mouth type 20/40 kg
bagging equipment
Rogers Sugar is the leading refiner, processor, distributor and marketer of sugar
products in Western Canada. As the sole sugar processor in Western Canada,
Rogers supplies over 90% of the demand for refined sugar in this area. Rogers has
been in the sugar business since 1890. The Company has two sugar processing
facilities, a cane sugar refinery in Vancouver, British Columbia and a sugar beet
processing facility in Taber, Alberta. The Company's sugar products are marketed
primarily under the "Rogers" trade name, and include granulated, icing, cube, yellow
and brown sugars, liquid sugars and speciality sugars and syrups.
Rogers generated revenue of $C163 million in fiscal 2002. If the results of wholly
owned Lantic Sugar Limited are included, combined revenue amounted to $C309
million.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
White sugar Paper bags
Soft sugars Polythene bags
3. Installed Packaging Machinery:
Current Machinery Used
Brand No. of Country of
By Category
Units Origin
Premade bag hanging, opening, weighing, Fawema
1 Germany
filling and closing/sealing machinery;
Bottling line machinery
Date coders
Bonar
1
Filling (dry products) St. Regis
1
Thayer
1
Form/fill/seal machinery – vertical Bosch 3 Germany
Metal detectors Thermo
Ramsey
Palletizing, depalletizing, and pallet unitizing
machinery
Alvey 3
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