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As a 106-year-old family-owned company, Rumiano Cheese is no stranger to thinking outside the box and experimenting with ways to constantly improve business processes and employee well-being. Founded in 1919, the dairy manufacturer has continually evolved — from supporting the Apollo crew in the first lunar landing in the 1960s to becoming the first plant on the West Coast to...
Read MoreThis week, Formic headed to Orlando, Florida, for Snac International’s SNAXPO 2025. We had a robot palletizing boxes, a sales team answering questions about automating end-of-line production, and our customers’ products on display — from tortilla chips to lotion. Additionally, Formic’s VP of Sales held a session on the Snac Bites Stage on the essential journey to successful automation for...
Read MoreManufacturers today are constantly exploring innovative solutions to address the ongoing challenges in industry, including labor shortages, increasing raw material costs, growing consumer demands for productivity, and profitability headwinds. In recent months, manufacturers have had even more business uncertainty with new tariffs increasing costs and demand, and new immigration laws raising labor costs but creating fewer available workers. In fact,...
Read MoreThis week, Formic showcased our accessible automation solutions at the Food Northwest Process & Packaging Expo in Portland, Oregon. Attendees stopped by our booth to learn about our Automate NOW palletizers — the easiest and fastest way to automate end-of-line stacking operations. If you visited Formic’s booth, you saw one of our Automate NOW robotic palletizers in action. Plus, we...
Read MoreFormic hosted a live Q&A event on February 25th, 2025, to answer your questions about end-of-line automation. Our automation experts got dozens of interesting questions from attendees curious about automation ROI, system reconfiguration as needs change, and training a team to operate a new automation system. If you missed the live event, we’re spotlighting questions on automation’s flexibility and the...
Read MoreCHICAGO—March 20, 2025—Formic, a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) automation provider for U.S. manufacturers, announced it has joined the New American Industrial Alliance (NAIA) to further its mission to revitalize the U.S. manufacturing sector through more accessible automation and workforce training initiatives. NAIA is a multi-sector trade association comprised of builders, investors, and policymakers focused on reindustrialization by restoring manufacturing capacity and strengthening...
Read MoreLast month, two of Formic’s CPG automation experts answered your questions about getting started with automation on your production lines. Danijel Lolic, our VP of Product & Solutions, and Nick DeLong, our Technical Operations Manager, offered key insights into when it’s time to switch from manual to automated, the biggest mistakes they’ve seen operations managers make when deploying automation for...
Read MoreThis week at PACK EXPO Southeast in Atlanta, Formic connected with thousands of industry leaders, innovators, and forward-thinkers to explore how we’re making automation easier and more accessible while transforming factory line work. Attendees stopped by to see our live palletizer demo in action, learn about the benefits of Full Service Automation, and hear insights from our Founder and CEO,...
Read MoreMaking candy is hard, even when the actual candy is quite soft. Jason Glade would know. While Jason’s currently the President and CEO of Taffy Town, a family-owned business based in Utah, he originally worked on the production line doing the strenuous work of making taffy. As an integral part of the family business from the start, he’s never overlooked...
Read MoreLast week, a Formic customer reached out with concerns about impending tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China. As prices threatened to climb, they were hit with a surge of orders from existing and new customers racing to secure domestic supplies before other companies got the same idea — creating both a challenge and an opportunity to scale fast....
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