Charlottetown Metal Products Ltd. and FPS Food Process Solutions launch an Innovation Center located at CMP’s manufacturing complex on Prince Edward Island, Canada. This significant investment in both people and place will focus on the development of new innovative hygienic food processing solutions. With this commitment, the FPS and CMP team will continue to strengthen their partnerships with universities and colleges, various government agencies, strategic suppliers, and the food processing customers they serve globally.
Renovations of the 10,000-square-foot, or 930-square-meter, Innovation Center will be completed over the next year. There are currently seven innovation projects in the pipeline. The first project to be completed was the development of a state-of-the-art end-to-end solution for packaged food products. Several key technologies were incorporated into a 40-foot conveyor loop to handle the transfer, alignment, merge and diverge of packaged food products to and from chillers, freezers and other processing equipment. Projects now underway focus on full process line solutions that bring operational efficiencies in the areas of energy utilization, process automation and increasing production yields.