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A leading North American dairy manufacturer needed to adapt its palletizing process to comply with the specific logistics requirements of a large supermarket chain.

At Storcan, for nearly 50 years, our engineering, manufacturing, integration, and service teams have supported manufacturers across North America on a daily basis. Here are their recommendations for 2026.

Product recalls and safety incidents have a direct impact on profitability and brand reputation. Storcan delivers reliable, hygienic automation solutions that reduce contamination risks, improve traceability, and ensure full compliance with standards.

For this high-standard mandate, Storcan delivered a turnkey solution of stainless steel sanitary conveyors for pallets, designed for automation and integrating engineering, in-house manufacturing, and on-site installation.

CO₂ refrigeration (R-744) stands out as an efficient, sustainable, and already accessible solution for cooling and freezing lines. This article helps you understand why and how to make the transition.

To support its rapid growth and fulfill major new contracts, Ragozzino, a family-owned company specializing in frozen ready meals for over three generations—undertook a progressive modernization of its production equipment.

A Quebec-based allergen-free cereal bar manufacturer partnered with Storcan to add a third automated packaging line, following a surge in demand across Canada and the United States, without expanding its facility.

In today’s food processing plants, hygiene, safety, and performance standards are constantly rising. In response to these demands, a new type of conveyor system is gaining popularity, particularly at the end-of-line stage for box and crate transport

Summer means opportunity. Take advantage of the seasonal slowdown to optimize your food production lines. Diagnostics, maintenance, training, discover our 5 top tips.

The objective: design a robust, hygienic, ergonomic, and scalable packaging line capable of supporting high harvest volumes (68,000 kg/week) while meeting the highest food safety standards

Their objective? Increase bottling speed, improve operational flexibility, and integrate new strategic equipment

In the food and beverage industry, the ability to produce multiple product formats or varieties on the same line is becoming a major competitive advantage.

An industrial bakery located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was looking to increase its production capacity while stabilizing bread temperature at the bagging stage.

At Storcan, we integrate a variety of accumulation solutions tailored to your production environment, whether you’re handling boxes, cartons, containers, or bottles.

In an industry where food safety standards are constantly evolving, aging equipment may no longer comply with regulations, jeopardizing your brand image and product safety.

The year 2025 will be pivotal for food manufacturing plants aiming to optimize productivity and ensure profitability. This article explores the strategic and technological choices operators should consider to address these challenges and improve their per

A global leader in the dairy sector entrusted Storcan with the task of automating and optimizing one of its production lines at its plant in Quebec. The primary goal was to improve efficiency and productivity while ensuring a technical yield exceeding 99.

In the food industry, optimizing profitability while reducing costs is essential to remain competitive. Key strategies include automation, lean manufacturing, flexible equipment, predictive maintenance, etc.

How to prepare, what are the right choices to make and how Storcan can help you?

Discover how Storcan revolutionized a major North American meat processor's packaging line, boosting productivity and enhancing food safety. By integrating cutting-edge technologies, we achieved remarkable efficiency and hygiene improvements.

Spintech, a new division of Storcan, is revolutionizing the food industry in North America with compact and flexible spiral conveyors. Offering solutions for fermentation, cooling, and freezing, Spintech enhances product quality and simplifies operations.

We asked a critical question to several members of our teams, from various departments including consultation, project management, engineering, automation, and manufacturing: "If you had to give advice to managers of a factory in the agri-food sector to m

Integrating new equipment into your production line is a project with numerous challenges to overcome for your operations. Storcan's project management team has compiled their best advice to guarantee a smooth and effective transition.

Storcan, a manufacturer and integrator of equipment for agri-food production lines in North America, reaches a new milestone in innovation with the launch of STRAPALL, an automatic box closer and strapper.

At Storcan, we are committed to this challenge, and we can assist you in integrating new technologies and automating your processes to avoid production losses and product recalls.

Our client, a co-packer located in Quebec, faced an exciting challenge: creating an entirely new line to accumulate and cool a new range of beauty care products seamlessly integrated into its existing infrastructure.

We have decided to dedicate a department to it to even better help our customers meet their challenge of automating their production lines and support them in their transformation towards industry 4.0.

At Storcan, the longevity of employees is not a mere coincidence; it is the result of a suitable work environment for professional growth. Today, we have the honor of presenting the inspiring story of Eric Colette.

In this interview below, the President of Sesotec Canada shares his vision and that of Sesotec and explains why investing in innovative inspection systems is more than strategic for a company in the food industry.

Our client, a highly recognized meat processor in the United States and around the world, has a production line that is essentially manual between tray packing and depalletizing. He seeks to automate it to speed up the production process.

In the constantly evolving agri-food sector, automation in production lines has become an essential trend. Companies that adopt these innovative technologies position themselves at the forefront of the industry and already enjoy significant advantages.

Maintenance is often viewed as a cost rather than an investment in many industries, including the agri-food sector. However, adopting a preventive or predictive maintenance approach can bring significant strategic advantages and change this perception.

Storcan, a leading manufacturer of innovative and automated solutions for production, bottling, food processing, and packaging lines, announced today its exclusive partnership with NEMX, a renowned Canadian skilled trades company.

The transportation and handling of agri-food products on a production line is no longer just a simple movement from point A to point B.

Our client, a leader in the industrial production of bakery products in North America, wanted to expand its plant, located in Ontario, by adding two new packaging lines, one for fresh bagels and another for frozen bagels.

We supported our client, an internationally recognized manufacturer of industrial bakery products, in the growth production at one of its plants in the USA : installation of new cooling and freezing systems then change of the entire packaging line.

Our customer, one of the leaders in the beer market in North America, wanted to increase its production by adding a new line ranging from the depalletizing system to case packing.

Reduce your unplanned production downtime by stocking critical spare parts: A stock of spare parts can contribute significantly to reducing unplanned production downtime in the event of a breakdown; but managing the stock level can be a difficult exercise

Facing labor shortages and pressure on sanitary protocols, our client, a major pork processor in the United States, wanted to optimize their meat crate palletizing line by automating it to increase their production rate and feed more accurately their pall

In the food processing market, meat product manufacturing is the largest sub-sector of the food and beverage processing industry and has been growing smoothly and steadily for several years. It is also one of the sectors where the labor force is important

Our client, a Canadian company that creates natural body care and household products, seeing its demand increase, needed more production capacity.

Our client, an industrial bakery of international stature, needed to freeze its bread at high industrial speed: 3456 kg per hour or 5400 units per hour. He did not have a lot of space and needed to find a flexible solution to have the possibility of futur

At Storcan, we have been manufacturing and installing conveyor systems for the food, bottling and packaging industries since 1976. Each project is unique, and our priority remains the same year after year, optimizing the performance and operational profi

Pick and Place robots have become almost commonplace in today's manufacturing industry.

Our client, a large producer of spirit drinks, wants to create a complete bottling line, at high speed, in their new factory.

Our client, a major pork processor in Canada, wants to automate the transport of his very heavy boxes of pork and their palletization.

Our client, one of the leaders in beer production in Canada, wants to modify the existing conveyors around their new packaging equipment.

Your project is to optimize the performance of your production line. To do this, with the help of an integrator like us, Storcan, you will select and install the best equipment that meets your needs and your constraints. But what about your organizational

Ronchi Mario SpA is recongnised worldwide as a leader company in industrial applications in the cosmetic, personal and household products : Fillers – Cappers – Unscramblers – Orientors are their principal products.

From the start of her story with Storcan, Colette understood that this would be a business where she was going to learn a lot and grow.

Following a flood, our customer, a historic industrial bakery in Quebec, has to redo his automated conveyor line of boxes of cream cake, very delicate products to transport.

Storcan is very proud to announce that we are now an official partner of the ROI program “Rolling on Interroll” of the group Interroll.

Our client, a leader in the processing of food products, has a new meat production plant and wants a new conveyor system to handle his boxes, innovative and sanitary.

Now that your internal need is defined to improve your existing production line or create a complete new line, it is time to make an important and strategic decision: to choose the right integrator. Here are our 3 recommendations:

Our client, a major cheese producer in Canada, needs to optimize their cheese production line to remain productive and competitive

Our client, a major player in the production of energy drinks, wishes to optimize his production line by transporting several formats of cans at the same time

On March 15, 2019, our CEO Jean-Martin Savoie announced the construction of a new head office in the Châteauguay industrial park, just a few hundred meters from its location

On Friday, March 15th, Storcan International had a drastic moment, announcing the beginning of a new era.