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Individual machines solve individual tasks. CAM’s value comes from understanding how equipment, product flow, and controls need to work together — across the full line.

We start with what you’re running today, where performance is being lost, what equipment is worth keeping, and what level of automation actually makes sense. From there, we engineer the right combination.

What a Custom Solution Solves

Reduce Manual Handling and Labour Dependency

Too much being done by hand? Automate it.

Integrate or Modernize Your Line

You may not need a complete new line.

Increase Capacity and Throughput

Speed things up or fit more into every package.

Build Flexibility Into Your Line

Production needs change. If you can prepare for that now, why wouldn’t you?

Reduce Manual Handling & Labour Dependency

When good employees are hard to find, and even harder to keep, the answer isn’t always more hiring.

 

Adding more people stops being the answer at some point. Whether it’s counting, filling, bagging, case packing or end-of-line handling, there’s usually a smarter way to get it done:

  • manual stages limiting output or consistency
  • labour dependency that creates risk in your operation
  • processes where automation would free your team for higher-value work
  • packaging steps you’re still doing by hand that don’t need to be

Integrate or Modernize Your Line

Sometimes a couple of targeted upgrades, or integrating new equipment with what you already have, is enough to bring your operation up to speed.

A bagger doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Neither does a scale, counter, conveyor or control system. It all has to work together, and when it doesn’t, the whole line pays for it:

  • equipment that wasn’t designed to work together but needs to
  • older lines that still run but create bottlenecks downstream
  • controls and integration that make the full system easier to operate
  • modernizing without replacing what’s still working

Increase Capacity and Throughput

We look at where your line is losing time and engineer solutions that move more product, more efficiently.

Production is growing, but one stage of the line is holding everything else back. The goal isn’t just more speed, it’s balance, reliability and output you can count on shift after shift.

  • production speed and line balance
  • feeding, flow and manual stages limiting output
  • secondary and end-of-line capacity
  • expanding through targeted automation or a new line

Build Flexibility Into Your Line

We design lines that adapt as your products and volumes evolve.

The product changes. The package changes. Sales lands a new customer. Volume takes off. Another SKU gets added. Your next opportunity could bring a completely different product or format to the floor, your equipment needs to be ready for it:

  • multiple SKUs or formats running on the same line
  • changeover time and what it costs you
  • new products or customers that don’t fit your current setup
  • building in the flexibility to handle what comes next

How We Work

Great packaging solutions come from true partnership. We’ve spent 30+ years growing alongside our customers, and many have trusted CAM through decades of change, upgrades, and new product lines.

  • Understand the operation

    We start by listening to your application, your operation, and your floor, so we can understand where performance is being lost and whether CAM is genuinely the right fit to help.

  • Evaluate the right approach

    Speed isn’t always the answer. We look closely at your production goals and weigh your options carefully, because consistency and reliability matter more than the most impressive spec on paper.

  • Engineer and integrate

    Not every older machine needs to be replaced. We look at what can be kept, what can be improved, and how new equipment can be integrated to make the full line work better as one system.

  • Test and Validate

    We run your actual product on the actual machine, using the intended packaging media, to confirm that what we’ve committed to delivering will perform exactly as agreed before it ever reaches your facility.

  • Commission and Support

    Because of the FAT and preparation completed upfront, commissioning at your facility is typically shorter and less disruptive. CAM continues to stay engaged long after the system is running with ongoing assistance, spare parts, and training as new employees join your team.

See What Kinds of Custom Solutions Are Possible

More Variety-Pack Opportunities. Less Manual Labour. Competing on manual labour costs limited this customer's variety-pack bids. CAM designed two automated lines with four interchangeable feeding and … Full Case Study
One System. Two Packaging Formats. A New Retail Opportunity. To move from institutional formats into retail, this customer needed smaller consumer-ready packages at a manageable cost. CAM delivered one turnke… Full Case Study
Under 1 Million → 40+ Million Bags Per Year A candy contract packager started with two manual packaging lines. Over 13 years, CAM helped them grow to 12 automated lines, and their output grew… Full Case Study
22 People → 4 People. Same Production. A contract packager needed 22 people to singulate and count truffles by hand. A first-of-its-kind six-lane CAM Singulator cut that to 4 people with… Full Case Study
6 Production Lines → 2 Fully Automatic Lines Six production lines each needed 10 to 24 people to run. CAM consolidated them into two flexible, fully automatic lines that run with 2 to 6 people… Full Case Study
0-Minute Changeovers. No Robotics Required. Operators were counting products and placing them into cartons by hand. CAM Singulators and 1LR Switchback conveyors automated the process without … Full Case Study
Same Labour. 3× the Customer Base. A small coffee roaster was spending days packaging by hand with one employee. CAM connected automated packaging directly to the roaster, which remo… Full Case Study
3 Days of Packaging → Same-Day Packaging A growing granola producer was spending three days packaging what it made in one. A turnkey CAM premade bagging system let them manufacture and pac… Full Case Study

Why CAM?

  • 30+ years of packaging expertise

    Practical experience across evolving production environments.

  • From individual equipment to complete lines

    Project scope matched to the real needs of the operation — not the most complex solution available.

  • North American delivery and support

    Engineering, integration, commissioning, and ongoing service across North America.

  • Performance proven before delivery

    Systems tested against agreed production requirements before they ship.

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