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From left James, Louis and Justin Taraborelli pose for a family group shot at WeighPack’s state-of-the-art factory in Montreal, one of Paxiom Group’s nine global facilities that include manufacturing operations in four countries.
THE SUM OF ALL PARTS Leading-edge automation technologies help Canadian OEM set new benchmark for machine performance and equipment effectiveness By Andrew Snook Photos by Pierre Longtin
22 CANADIANPACKAGING · October 2021
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hat sets a strong service-oriented company apart from a weak one? If you ask Justin Taraborelli, vice-president of operations for Montreal-based WeighPack Systems Inc., it’s a complete supply chain. “To be a strong service company and a strong people company, you also need a strong supply chain and that includes the way you treat your supply chain,” Taraborelli states. “We choose partners, we don’t just buy from suppliers. We make sure they can support us so we can support our clients, and it’s a completely integrated chain,” he says.
Part of the globally operating Paxiom Group of companies, WeighPack is a renowned provider of automated primary packaging machines, including weighing, filling, bagging, wrapping, conveying and turnkey systems. The company serves a variety of industries around the globe, predominantly related to consumer goods for the food and pharmaceutical sectors. “Basically, anything you see when you walk through a grocery store or a pharmacy, we’ve got a machine for that,” Taraborelli says. For WeighPack to offer high-precision packaging machines to clients around the world, they require a strong global supply chain, and one of the key components of that supply chain for the past 20 years has been Omron Automation Americas. Headquartered in the Americas out of CANADIANPACKAGING.COM
