“The majority of our sales are to customers in the U.S. and Canada,” relates D’Amato, “with about 75 per cent of them involved in the food-and-beverage industry; 20 per cent in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry; and the remaining five per cent involved in miscellaneous manufacturing.”
While cartoning machines account for about 70 per cent of Consolidated’s revenues, the manufacture of case-packing equipment is an important fast-growth segment of the company’s business that really allows it to utilize its full range of in-house automation expertise.
“We’ve found that a wide variety of case-packaging solutions offered by Consolidated Technologies, as well as the palletizing systems, will really help increase our customers’ productivity, reduce lost production time and help reduce worker stress from repetitive motion injuries, while at the same time save floorspace thanks to a very compact footprint,” asserts D’Amato.
Adds Lapointe: “Most of our equipment is standardized—built in large quantities over the past few years with proven designs, standard high-quality components, and the utilization of high-quality materials like stainless steel.”
Claiming high product quality can often be risky business for companies making the claim on a hope-and-prayer, but Consolidated takes pride in stressing the state-of-the-art nature of automation technologies and components utilized in its equipment.
“When it comes to manufacturing machinery with robotics, for example, we use only Motoman robots,” points out Lapointe.
“In fact, we are an authorized Motoman dealer,” adds Lapointe, which enables the company not only to incorporate the robots supplied by Yaskawa Motoman Canada Ltd. in its case-packing machinery, but across the full gamut of fully-integrated, automated packaging lines.
In terms of control systems, Consolidated makes extensive use of the high-quality PLCs (programmable logic controllers), relays, timers, counters, switches, sensors and HMIs (human-machine interface) supplied by Omron Canada, Inc.
Other notable suppliers and partners helping Consolidated manufacture outstanding end-of-line packaging machinery include:
• Power transmission equipment distributor Bonfiglioli Canada Inc. supplying the motors;
• Festo Inc. with a comprehensive range of pneumatic components and devices;
• Product coding systems supplier Domino Printing Solutions Inc., which supplies the A100+ , S100 and C6000+ series inkjet coders.
• Nordson Canada, Limited, which supplies the seven-liter-capacity Pro Blue 7 adhesive application systems used in Consolidated’s cartoning machines.
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