Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

DARE FOODS LIMITED
Industry: Food Products
Sub Industry: Cookies, crackers, fine breads, and
soft and hard candies
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Size (sales): Not Available
Purchasing Potential: Not provided. Plans not yet certain
but possibly a cartoner, a Palletizer
(robotic), a form fill machine & a
Specific Business
Opportunities:
1. Company Description:
case packer.
Cartoners, vertical form fill,
Palletizers, horizontal wrappings,
automatic tray loading system
Dare Foods is a Canadian manufacturer of cookies, crackers, fine breads, and soft
and hard candies. Dare has baking facilities in Kitchener, Ontario, Denver, Colorado,
and Spartanburg, South Carolina as well three locations in Quebec: Montreal, St.
Lambert, and St. Martine, QC. Dare candies are made in new plants in Toronto and
Milton, Ontario. Dare has 1,800 employees across Canada and the United States.
Dare products are sold across Canada and the United States, and select products
are also sold in more than 25 countries around the world. Dare's strategy has always
stressed stable growth through internal financing and the 110 year old company has,
as a result, remained one of the few Canadian owned, independent food
manufacturers in all of North America.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
Candies Individually wrapped, then packaged into
bags, boxes and cartons
Crackers Boxes and cartons
Cookies Boxes, bags and cartons
3. Installed Packaging Machinery:
Current Machinery Used
By Category
Vertical Filling Machines
Brand No. of
Units
Triangle 2
Country of Average
Origin Age
USA 15
Tin Tie Bag machine SIG 2 Switzerland 10 & 1
Cartoning Langen 6 Canada 5-20
Case packer Edson 3 Canada 5-10
Goodman 1 USA 1
Case forming/Closing Pearson 2 USA 1
Slug Loaders SIG 1 Switzerland 8
FMS 1 USA 4
Slug Wrappers SIG 3 Switzerland 8-15
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