August 2017 Newsletter

Inspection & control of your bottling & packaging line with FT System.  Do you need innovative solutions for the inspection and control of your bottling and packaging line?

FT System is a leading supplier of inspection equipment for food, beverage, household chemical and personal care markets.  Their systems are used to inspect filling level, leak detection, internal pressure and vacuum, absence or presence of a specific gas, full case or keg inspection, cap and label inspection, as well as full line monitoring.

Click here to read our August 2017 newsletter.

Metal Detection / X-ray Inspection eBook

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Food manufacturers have two lines of defense against foreign object contamination – metal detectors and x-ray inspection systems.  Which one will work best for your products?  Click here to download Thermo Fischer Scientific’s FREE eBook.

Civic Holiday

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Our office will be closed Monday August 7th for the Civic Holiday! We will re-open Tuesday August 8th.

Is Your Checkweigher a Millennial or Baby Boomer?

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If your facility has had a checkweigher(s) in place for awhile, you might want to do some investigation to see if it has kept up with the times.  Your plant has probably undergone many changes over the years…in equipment, labour, even the type of products and packaging that are being processed.  It might be time to take a second look at your checkweighing equipment and see if it is doing today’s job.  And if you don’t have a checkweigher, it might be time you get one.  Click here for more info.

Happy Canada Day!

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Our office will be closed Friday June 30th and Monday July 3rd for Canada Day!  We will re-open Tuesday July 4th.  Happy Canada Day!

We are Moving!

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We are moving!  As of July 24th, MD Packaging will be moving to Uxbridge!  Our new address is 141 Reach Street Unit #5A Uxbridge, ON L9P 1L3.  Our new facility will allow us to serve you better with more space and an even larger technical training/demonstration area!  Our phone number will remain the same – 416-291-9229.  Stay tuned for the date of our open house!

Thermo Case Study | Aliments Ouimet-Cordon Bleu

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Checkweighing helps Aliments Ouimet-Cordon Bleu ensure product quality as it grows.

The Thermo Scientific Versa 8120 Checkweigher identifies irregular-weight cans with a robust software capability to capture weighing trends, standard deviation and average weight.  Using this data, the production team at Aliments Ouimet-Cordon Bleu can now adjust the fillers in real time to ensure consistent product weight.  Click here to read the Thermo Case Study.

10 Tips for Top Checkweigher Performance

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Setting up your checkweigher to achieve optimum performance isn’t a luxury – it is critical to meeting your production obligations. This means knowing the signs of when and where you need to take action – and what action to take quickly and effectively to get back in the zone of peak operation. Minimize give-away while making sure all your products meet labeled weight and nutritional information. Click here to read the 10 Tips for Top Checkweigher Performance.