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CANADA’S
K ETCHUP
Select Food Products:
On the front line of
the condiment war
Be the disrupter, not the disruptee
Automotive and aerospace embrace IIoT
Artificial intelligence: Let the machines do it
CFTA offers freer interprovincial trade
Short on maintenance pros? Try multiskilling
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APPLICATION NOTE
Why you should add
motor analysis to your
maintenance routine
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CONTENTS
September 2017
Vol. 76, No. 06
FEATURES
19 PRODUCTIVITY Are eldercare issues
affecting your business?
21 PACKAGING A BC box company invests
in high-end labelling machinery.
22 HUMAN RESOURCES Fill maintenance
skills gaps with multiskilling.
24 THINK LEAN By the numbers is an
effective way to track production output.
25 INVESTMENT Pilkington boosts its
Collingwood plant’s auto glass capacity.
26 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Join the
AI revolution and let the machines
12 FOOD
figure it out.
Select Food Products Ltd. is on the front line of Canada’s ketchup war.
INDUSTRY 4.0 CRIQ’s cyber lab aims
to bolster digital transformation.
28 GOVERNMENT FUNDING SR&ED
headache? There are other programs
that will ease the pain.
APPLICATION NOTE
Why you should add 29 ENERGY EFFICIENCY New federal program
motor analysis to your
maintenance routine helps reduce consumption.
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10 PLANT Online
11 PLANT Pulse
31 CIEN Feature: Automate
repeatable tasks with AGVs
Supply Lines
33 Product Focus: Material handling
34 Products and Equipment
37 Plantware
18 TRAINING A better way to teach how to 20 INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE Provincial
use new industrial software. CFTA deal levels the playing field across Events
Canada. 38 Postscript
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NEWS
Oetiker in Alliston celebrates 75 years
Taxes take a big bite:
BULLETINS
Swiss parent began as a one-person workshop
Average family paid
in 1942, now employs 1,885
General Electric (GE) is closing its 42.5% of income
Peterborough, Ont. manufacturing plant
by the end of Q3 in 2018, eliminating VANCOUVER — The average Canadian
358 jobs. The facility produces engines family spent more on taxes in 2016 than
for the oil and mining industries. An housing, food and clothing combined,
engineering division will remain at the according to a new study by the Fraser
plant retaining 50 jobs. Work from the Institute.
Peterborough plant will be shifted to the The Canadian Consumer Tax Index
UK, France, Brazil and Mexico. shows the average household earned
$83,105 and paid $35,283 in total taxes
Savaria Corp., a manufacturer that last year, compared to $31,069 on
builds stairlifts and elevators for homes housing (including rent and mortgage
and workplaces, is expanding its lineup payments), food and clothing or 37.4%.
with the acquisition of Visilift LLC in a In 1961, the average family spent
deal worth $6.3 million. Visilift, based in Oetiker’s Alliston, Ont. team. PHOTO: OETIKER 33.5% on taxes and 56.5% on food,
Eaton, Colo., builds octagonal panoram- clothing and housing (56.5%).
ic glass elevators for the residential ALLISTON, Ont. — Oetiker Ltd. in Alliston, Ont. is cele- The total includes visible and hidden
market. Savaria plans to shift Visilift’s brating 75 years as a developer and manufacturer of clamps taxes paid to the federal, provincial and
production to its plant in Brampton, Ont. and rings for automotive and other industrial applications. local governments covering income,
The plant employs about 150 people. payroll, sales, property, carbon, health,
Aerospace manufacturer CAE Inc. has The Canadian company, a member of the Excellence in fuel and alcohol.
purchased full control of three aviation Manufacturing Consortium, is part of the Swiss-based The jump from 1961 levels represents
training centres it owns jointly with global manufacturer that began with one 24-year-old a 2,006% increase. For comparison,
Malaysia’s AirAsia Berhad for US$100 employee in a mechanical workshop that was part of a housing costs have risen 1,527%, cloth-
million. The training centres in Sepang, small house in Horgen. By 1951, founder Hans Oetiker had ing by 677%, and food by 639%.
Malaysia; Singapore; and Ho Chi Minh patented the world’s first ear clamp. Taking inflation into account, the
City, Vietnam are the three hubs of the Today the company has 1,885 employees in 28 countries. think tank says the tax increase works
Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence Thirteen locations on three continents help produce nearly out to 157.6% over the period.
(AACE), a joint venture between CAE 2 billion clamps, rings, straps, quick connects and thermal
and Air Asia. management products annually.
Export Development Canada is
providing US$15 million in financing to Redpath upgrades Belleville plant
Great Lakes
Discover Energy Corp. to acquire a plant
Manufacturing $5.2 million project to create 80 jobs
in South Korea. The Vancouver-based
manufacturer develops battery products Council ceases
for transportation, motive, energy stor-
operations
age and distributed power applications.
Charles Deguire, president and CEO of DETROIT — Following 10 years of
Kinova, will chair the federal govern- working to improve the conditions for
ment’s advanced manufacturing table, successful manufacturing in the Great
one of six Economic Strategy Tables. Lakes region, the board of directors
Participants will identify opportunities of the Great Lakes Manufacturing
for innovation. Kinova manufactures Council (GLMC) has decided to cease
assistive robotics in Boisbriand, Que. operations.
Redpath’s Toronto sugar refinery. PHOTO: REDPATH
The organization will pass the torch
Thales Canada Inc. and Thales Austra- to the Council of the Great Lakes Region BELLEVILLE, Ont. — Redpath Sugar Ltd. is investing
lia Ltd. have won an $800 million, eight- (CGLR). $5.2 million to upgrade its Belleville, Ont. plant to add new
year service contract for Canadian navy Established in 2007 as a bi-national pouch packaging capabilities.
ships. The joint venture will provide organization, GLMC played a pivotal The investment includes a $624,263 contribution by the
refit, repair, maintenance and training role in advancing the idea that the Great Ontario government’s Eastern Ontario Development Fund.
for the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships, Lakes economic region – comprised of The project will create 80 jobs.
and Joint Support Ships. The federal eight US states, Ontario and Quebec – Redpath, which employs 291 people, refines cane sugar
government has an option to extend represents the third largest economy in for a range of products supplied to consumers, food service
services for up to 35 years – worth an the world. outlets and food manufacturers across Canada.
estimated $5.2 billion for the life of the As GMLC winds down, CGLR will take The Belleville plant co-manufactures major retail brands
vessels. up the focus on manufacturing. and private label products, such as iced tea, hot chocolate,
drink crystals, gelatins and milk powder blends.
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Structurlam first Canadian firm certified to SFI Vantage Foods
scales up with
Will use the designation to expand its timber products into new markets
$18M expansion
lighter than concrete construction material used
for any floor, wall, roof or core. BELLEVILLE, Ont. — A Canadian meat
The timber manufacturer in Penticton, BC has processing company with production
manufactured the wood product for six years facilities in Ontario, BC and Manitoba is
and supplied it to more than 350 North American investing $18 million to expand its plant
projects. in Belleville, Ont.
The SFI 2015-2019 Chain-of-Custody Standard, Vantage Foods Inc., which packages
administered by the non-profit Sustainable case-ready meats for Metro and Food
Forestry Initiative, tracks certified forest fibre Basics grocery stores, said the invest-
content through production and manufacturing ment will add a new seafood line to the
to the end product. facility, which opened in 2011. The move
It applies to the supply chains of more than is expected to add 70 jobs.
The wood looks nice but there’s also a green benefit. 740 organizations, representing more than 2,000 The project, which includes a $1.5
PHOTO: STRUCTURLAM sites, in 45 US states, seven Canadian provinces million contribution from the Ontario
and 23 countries. government, will outfit the facility with
PENTICTON, BC — Structurlam is the first Wood products sold as certified under the SFI new equipment and general upgrades
Canadian manufacturer of cross-laminated Chain-of-Custody Standard are good for Lead- aimed at improving productivity and
timber (CLT) to be certified to the SFI 2015 2019 ership in Energy and Environmental Design increasing capacity.
Chain-of-Custody Standard. (LEED) credits through the LEED Alternative Vantage is to finish the expansion by
CLT is a multi-layer timber product spanning Compliance Path, or credits through the Green late 2019.
two directions that provides a secure, airtight, Globes Rating System.
ACOA provides
Bombardier wins US$143.7M rail contract $1.5M for Dynamic
Air Shelters
Will replace direct currrent motors on London Central line trains
BERLIN — Bombardier’s rail division has been GRAND BANK, NL – Dynamic Air
awarded a contract by the London Underground Shelters Ltd. is receiving $1.5 million
to supply new motors and traction control equip- in repayable funding from the Atlantic
ment for its fleet of Central line trains. Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
The contract, which commenced in August, to expand its business.
will run until 2024. The deal is valued at approx- The manufacturer in Grand Banks,
imately US$143.7 million. NL, custom designs, engineers and
Bombardier will also provide ongoing mainte- manufactures lightweight, rapidly
nance support. deployable textile shelters. Its main
The transportation manufacturer will replace product is a blast-resistant shelter
the direct current traction motors on Central line but it also supplies the oil and gas,
trains with Mitrac alternating current traction construction industries, emergency
motors and Mitrac traction control equipment. and first responder operations, and
The Central line trains are the last Under- The contract runs until 2024. PHOTO: BOMBARDIER the promotional sector.
ground trains to use DC traction motors. The company plans to expand its
Bombardier says the Mitrac motors improve per- Västeras site in Sweden. fleet of rental inflatable air shelters,
formance and reliability while reducing energy The installation of the first train, plus asso- carry out international marketing ac-
consumption. ciated vehicle integration works and testing, tivities and construct a 3,500 square-
The contract involves 680 cars. will be performed at Bombardier’s Derby site foot facility expansion in Grand Bank
The project will be led from Bombardier’s in the UK. that will consolidate operations in
one location.
The Department of Tourism,
Winli Apparel fined $49,000 for not paying employees Culture, Industry and Innovation is
providing an investment of $570,000
TORONTO — A Toronto-based Ontario’s Employment Standards Orders to Pay amounting to about in the project.
garment manufacturer that went Act by the Chinese and Southeast $26,000, which the company failed Other financial details were not
out of business and failed to provide Asian Legal Clinic on behalf of the to comply. Winli was then charged provided.
termination pay to some of its work- workers. The provincial government with 14 counts of failing to comply. Dynamic Air Shelters is based in
ers after being ordered to do so, has says many of the garment workers The court has also imposed a 25% Calgary, with plants in Grand Bank
been fined $49,000 in court. were vulnerable and not fluent in victim fine surcharge as required by and Fortune, NL and a sales office
Claims were filed against Winli English. the Provincial Offences Act, which in Houston. The company employs
Apparel Manufacturing Inc. under The Ministry of Labour issued assists victims of crime. almost 70 people, including over 50
employees at its Grand Bank facility.
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NEWS
SSL to provide EchoStar XXIV
Cascades closes
CAREERS
satellite to Hughes Jupiter system
New York City plant
Siemens Canada PALO ALTO, Calif. — ogies include 18 patented
has a new president Space Systems Loral (SSL) “advances” that provide KINGSEY FALLS, Que. — Cascades
and CEO. Faisal has signed a contract to more concentrated capaci- Inc. will close its packaging plant in
Kazi is replacing provide an ultra high-den- ty over high-use areas. Maspeth, NY, as part of the company’s
Robert Hardt, who sity satellite to Hughes Its new architecture modernization and optimization efforts
left the company Network Systems LLC. includes miniaturized in the Northeastern US.
in June to take on The EchoStar XXIV electronics, solid-state am- The plant, which currently employs
a partner role at will be part of the Hughes plifiers and more efficient 148 people, will close by the end of Dec.
Faisal Kazi next47, Siemens’ JUPITER System, a antenna designs. 2018.
separate unit for high-throughput platform “The new capabilities Employees will be offered jobs at the
start-ups. Kazi, who joined the company of more than 20 satellites that we have developed company’s other facilities.
in 1981 and has held various positions operated by various provid- will underpin the next Cascades produces packaging and
in the Netherlands, Germany and the ers of broadband enter- generation of satellite tissue products composed mainly of
US, will be responsible for leading the prise, mobility and cellular systems that will serve the recycled fibres. The company has 11,000
company’s overall strategic direction. services. increasing consumption employees at 90 production facilities in
He was previously Siemens’ senior No financial details were of data around the world,” North America and Europe.
vice-president responsible for the ener- provided. said Dario Zamarian, SSL’s
gy management division in Canada. SSL, the Palo Alto, Ca- group president.
$200,000 fine
lif.-based manufacturing Hughes, based in
Danfoss has a new arm of communications Germantown, Md., is a for worker death
Canadian sales company MacDonald, Dett- wholly owned subsidiary
manager to support wiler and Associates Ltd. of EchoStar Corp., a global SUDBURY, Ont. — Glencore has
its heating business. (MDA) in Richmond, BC, provider of satellite oper- fined $200,000 for an incident at its
Ashwani Girdhar said the satellite’s technol- ations. Sudbury, Ont. mine that left one
takes over the posi- worker dead.
tion for the manufac- Rope-maker embarks The accident took place at the
turer of high-effi- company’s Nickel Rim South Mine on
Ashwani Girdhar ciency components on $5.85M plant expansion the outskirts of the northern Ontario
and controls for city in October 2015. It involved a
Includes a new building and production
air-conditioning, heating, refrigeration, heavy mining vehicle being used
equipment to broaden its product range
industrial, and water systems. He will underground.
also support the company’s business in There were no witnesses to the
district energy. Girdhar spent six years incident, but Glencore and the
as a senior sales manager for Danfoss Ministry of Labour reached sever-
in India. al conclusions following separate
investigations.
The Excellence in Manufacturing The Ministry of Labour says a
Consortium (EMC) has appointed Tonya worker was operating a load haul
Starr field service advisor for Brampton, dump machine, when the vehicle’s
Mississauga, Milton and Orangeville, bucket collided with a wall. The
Ont. Previous positions include AG worker, who wasn’t wearing a seat-
Simpson, Hermatite and Velcro Canada, belt, was thrown from the cab and
and brings more than 20 years of manu- run over by one of the vehicle’s tires.
facturing experience to the not-for-profit It also appears the cab door opened
organization based in Owen Sound, Atlantic’s ABL soft shackles rope. PHOTO: ATLANTIC BRAIDS just before the loader’s bucket hit the
Ont. EMC also appointed Kevin Lenko wall.
as senior advisor for lean program CHUTE-A-BLONDEAU, Ont. — Atlantic Braids Ltd. has The labour ministry said it’s likely
development. He has a 30-year career in started work on a $5.8 million expansion project at its facili- the worker would have been injured
manufacturing and extensive experi- ties in Chute-à-Blondeau, Ont. rather than killed if the seatbelt,
ence in lean management systems. The expansion will add nine new jobs to its current 18 which was found to be functioning
positions with the help of a $837,750 investment from the properly, was used.
Resolute Forest Products Inc. has Ontario government’s Eastern Ontario Development Fund. Glencore pleaded guilty to vio-
appointed Patrice Minguez president of The company is a family-owned manufacturer that lating the Occupational Health and
the tissue group. Minguez will oversee makes rope products for industries including oil and gas, Safety Act, specifically for failing to
all tissue operations as well as sales arboriculture, agriculture, utilities and mining. provide sufficient information about
and marketing functions at Atlas Tissue The expansion includes the purchase of a new building the use of a seatbelt in a load haul
in Florida, and tissue and converting and production equipment that will improve productivity, dump machine.
facilities at Calhoun, Tenn. expand the company’s product range and boost exports. – Files from CanadianManufactur-
The expansion is to be completed by September 2020. ing.com
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Schneider Electric, Claroty
Thermotech scores
partner on cybersecurity
$450,000 to automate
Allows manufacturers access
production
to real-time ICS/OT monitoring
MONT-LAURIER, Que. — A Quebec
MISSISSUAGA, Ont. — Claroty and Schneider thermal glass manufacturer will use
Electric are partnering to address safety and $450,000 in federal funding to support
cybersecurity challenges in Canada’s industrial the purchase of new equipment and
infrastructure. establish an automated production line.
Claroty, a cybersecurity company headquar- Thermotech is a thermal glass man-
tered in New York, will market its real-time OT/ ufacturer based in Mont-Laurier. Its
ICS network monitoring and detection product products are used in door and window
to Schneider Electric’s energy management and manufacturing.
automation customers through the company’s The funding comes from the Quebec
Collaborative Automation Partner Program Economic Development Program.
(CAPP).
Claroty says its platform protects industrial Protecting industrial control systems. PHOTO: FOTOLIA Bleacher-maker lands
control systems and continuously monitors
$180,500 investment
networks for cyber threats. End users identify third party access to critical systems, and re-
anomalies while protecting complex and sen- cords the sessions. in plant expansion
sitive industrial networks. Passive-monitoring Schneifer Electric, based in Mississauga, Ont.,
safely inspects traffic without the disruption says the partnership adds a key component to ALMONTE, Ont. — Sport Systems
that can result from traditional IT security its cybersecurity efforts. It protects connected Canada will use $180,500 from On-
software using active queries or requiring a and edge control products within EcoStruxure, tario’s Eastern Ontario Development
footprint on the network. its IoT-enabled, open and interoperable system Fund to add 10 jobs to its existing 21
The system secures remote employee and architecture and platform. positions.
The company, based in Almonte,
Kuntz Electroplating kicks off $10.8M expansion Ont., manufactures and assembles
bleachers and sports equipment
KITCHENER, Ont. — An Ontario manufacturer that supplies Ford, General Motors, Harley-Davidson and a number for the Canadian and international
of other major automakers with polished and plated parts is scaling up its operations in Kitchener, Ont. markets.
Kuntz Electroplating Inc. plans to spend approximately $10.8 million to modernize its equipment, expand one of Customers include schools, univer-
its four automated electroplating lines and install an automated material handling system. sities and municipalities.
The company employs more than 400 workers at its approximately 400,000 square-foot facility in Kitchener. The provincial funding will support
The new project will create an additional 25 jobs at the site. a $1.38 million plant expansion and
The Ontario government has agreed to commit just over $1 million to the expansion, while the company will the purchase of new production
contribute nearly $9.8 million. equipment.
The project is to be complete by August 2020. The project is to be completed by
the end of 2019.
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NEWS
Jobs at risk from Ont. labour reforms
Business groups project job losses at 185,000 over two years
TORONTO — A coalition of business implemented.
groups says Ontario’s proposed changes to The minimum wage will rise with
labour laws will put 185,000 jobs at risk in inflation from $11.40 an hour to $11.60
the first two years of being implemented. in October, up to $14 on Jan. 1, 2018, and
The Keep Ontario Working Coalition, $15 the following year.
which includes groups such as the On- Data from the economic impact anal-
tario Chamber of Commerce and the ysis shows businesses would take a $23
Retail Council of Canada, has released an billion hit over the next two years alone.
economic impact analysis of the labour Of the 185,000 jobs at immediate risk
reforms in Bill 148. over the next two years, 30,000 will be Business groups have expressed concerns about the minimum
A spokesman for the coalition says the workers under 25. wage increase. PHOTO: FOTOLIA
bill will have “dramatic unintended conse- The coalition asserts the Ontario gov-
quences,” including job losses. ernment would need to borrow $440 million The Ontario Federation of Labour doesn’t
The proposed legislation would, among more to cover the increases in new costs agree with the coalition’s analysis.
other things, raise the minimum wage to from this legislation. If the government The labour group, which represents 54
$15 an hour, require equal pay for part-time were to provide offsets to businesses, as unions and more than one million workers,
workers and expand personal emergency they have indicated, the province’s treasury says the analysis doesn’t acknowledge in-
leave. will take a bigger hit. creases in consumer spending, reduced de-
Business groups have repeatedly ex- Municipalities will also be forced to mand on social services and the strengthen-
pressed concerns about the minimum wage increase employee wages by $500 million ing of household financial stability resulting
increase and the pace at which it would be without additional offsetting revenues. from a more equal distribution of income.
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headlines that have inspired benefits manufacturers enjoy. tools to intercept illegal drugs,” need Chinese garbage. I am a
members of the Canadian manu- The average workers’ lives have Calvin Christiansen, the agency’s proud Canadian manufacturer.
facturing community to chime in. improved marginally but remain Atlantic director-general, said Free trade was dreamed up
They’re edited, but use the links far behind their North American in a statement. Are you kidding for crooked politicians and the
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longer versions of their remarks to do with instinct or training or Canada.
plus the stories that inspired Wynne promises unspecified anything else.
their reactions. relief for businesses amid Softwood dispute redux
Stay up-to-date on the devel- planned minimum wage hikes Freeland concerned Canadi- – it’s time to secure new
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NAFTA issue: Getting Mexi- or penalty to the very people she government for dealing with the pressure was off in the US.
can workers a pay raise claims to assist. them at all. I’m sure a lot of Ca- If American consumers realize
www.plant.ca/i1tTf nadians agree with me. price increases resulting from
Mexico has been raped and 200 kgs of hash found in the duties are permanent, even
plundered by industrialized shipment of chocolate bars Interesting times, be after we win our cases, they will
nations for years. Close prox- in Halifax prepared be very angry at the politicians.
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non-existent environmental a great example of how our bor- TPP. You save the Canadian well as minerals and agriculture.
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