Automated workcell helps greenhouse operator achieve end-of-line packaging perfection to keep up with growing demand for its premium tomatoes. Growing healthy, tasty natural products consumers can’t seem to get enough of is every farmer’s dream. And for leading Canadian greenhouse operator NatureFresh Farms, living the proverbial American dream has been exciting and exhilarating ride ever since the Leamington, Ont.-based company made a momentous decicion to expand its operations into the nearby U.S. state of Ohio back in 2015.

“I just love doing what I do here,” says Cornelius Neufeld, operations manager of the company’s Ohio business who originally joined NatureFresh at its Leamington home base about eight years ago.

Founded exactly 40 years ago, Colmar, Pa.-headquartered Dorman Products Inc. has done many things right to virtually become a household name in the global automotive industry’s key aftermarkets. Generating annual revenues of over US$900 million, the company supplies thousands of different automotive replacement parts, automotive hardware,and brake products to the automotive aftermarkets and mass merchandise markets across North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East.Boasting a diverse product portfolio ranging from intake and exhaust manifolds to complex electronics, wheel bolts and door handles, the company’s strong market presence and prominence have been built both through strong organic growth and an aggressive acquisition strategy that last year saw Dorman purchase the assets of Boisbriand, Que.-based auto parts supplier MAS Industries.

WeighPack’s 24 head PrimoCombi multi-head weigher with three product mixing weighs product before it is bagged. EndFlex’s Pick & Place Automation precisely loads each Roca container into the case while simultaneously orienting all logos to ensure that shipments are retail-ready.