High-tech case packing

摘要

A new case packer at Super-Pufft Snacks, Mississauga, ON, is having a noteworthy impact on the Canadian company's bagging operation. Super-Pufft Snacks, which has a 160,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art plant outside of Toronto, produces a variety of snacks under both its own name and store brands for many of North America's largest companies, including Walmart, Aldi and Sobeys.Super-Pufft was case packing products by hand, but this presented a number of disadvantages. Yousif Al-Ali, owner and general manager, says, "We were hand packing from an accumulation table, which is very labor intensive, and it was awkward to fit the personnel required to perform the hand-packing operation.