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Customer Stories


How Boxed Water Is Taking the Strain Out of the Line with Automation

At Boxed Water, sustainability drives every decision, from manufacturing cartons made of up to 96% plant-based materials to planting over 1.5 million trees across the United States. Consumers are responding, and demand for the product continues to soar. But as orders spike further during the hottest months of the year, employees at the company’s Holland, Michigan, facility face a tough...

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Venus Wafers Cracks the Smart Manufacturing Code with Automated Palletizing

For nearly a century, Venus Wafers has proudly served as a pillar of New England’s food manufacturing community, producing premium crackers and flatbreads for leading private label and specialty brands such as CäPeachio’s, Mariner, and South Shore. Now, under the new ownership of David Lewis and a revitalized leadership team, the company is entering a new era marked by innovation, investment, and...

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How Automation Is Powering the Next Chapter at Uncle Crumbles

When James Shutts took over as the CEO of Bakery on Main nearly two years ago, he stepped into a company with decades of history — and decades of operational inertia. He immediately recognized the opportunity for the Connecticut-based granola company to scale its business while simultaneously cutting back on inefficiencies, and he made a to-do list. “Manufacturers often get...

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Rumiano Automates with Formic to Drive Community, Culture, & Organic Cheese Dominance

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...

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How Taffy Town Stretched Innovation Further with Automation

Making 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...

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Land O’Frost Enhances Production with 5 Robotic Gantry Palletizers

The first thing you notice when you enter the Land O’Frost facility in Lansing, Illinois, is the pace of the operation. There are forklift trucks buzzing from station to station, pallets being stretched wrapped, and workers packing case after case of deli meats and hot dogs. After all, you don’t pack and ship 128,000 pounds of meat daily by moving...

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Mi Rancho Makes Production Leap with Automated Stacking of Millions of Tortillas per Year

Mi Rancho has been delighting customers with authentic and fresh tortillas, chips, and salsas since its establishment in 1939. Originally founded as a grocery store in Oakland, California the business has evolved and grown into a food provider for large nation-wide retail partners. Today, the company operates from their 150,000 square foot facility in Elk Grove and is growing more...

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Cameron’s Coffee Hits Automation “Easy Button”, Scaling from 0 to 5 Systems in 12 Months

Since 1978, Cameron's Coffee has been bringing the taste of delicious, locally-brewed coffee to more and more coffee lovers. What started as a small-batch roastery offering packaged coffee for grocery stores in the midwest has grown to a large-scale operation that produces and packages over 50,000 lbs. of coffee daily!  As their business has rapidly grown, one of the challenges...

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Georgia Nut and Formic Deploy First Robot in Company's History

Georgia Nut is a true testament to the engine of American work, having evolved from humble beginnings as a small shelling and roasting operation in 1945 into an industry-leading provider of wholesale confections, contract manufacturing, and private-label food production services. This remarkable success story has remained within the same family for generations – proof of its enduring dedication to quality...

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Compact Industries Partners with Formic to Combat Labor Shortages and Accelerate Factory Productivity

Formic helped revolutionize Compact Industries' production process, jumpstarting their automation journey. In record time, the 1963-founded food and beverage packaging specialist went from delivery to palletization with a collaborative robotic system – ushering in unprecedented productivity and efficiency gains for the company. The Challenge "We were driven towards robotics to maintain a high level of quality and consistency for our...

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Chemical Manufacturing Leader Polysciences Partners With Formic to Introduce Automation To Their Production Process

Polysciences has been providing innovative chemical solutions since 1961. Staffed by  best-in-class chemical and biochemical scientists and equipped with everything from research and development labs to full production facilities, they provide a wide variety of chemical solutions, with a catalog of over 4,000 products. With a unique capability of offering concept-to-commercialization services to their clients, making continuous production improvements for...

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3D Machine Finds New Competitive Edge with Automation Partner Formic

Manufacturing accounts for roughly 12% of the U.S. economy and totals more than 600,000 businesses. Although large enterprises like Magna or Jabil often come to mind, the reality is that most American manufacturing businesses have fewer than 30 employees and many of them are private and family-owned. In the Midwestern heartland of Goodland, Indiana, 3D Machine Inc. is one of...

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Polar Manufacturing and Formic Partner to Overcome Legacy Equipment Challenges and Boost Productivity

Polar Manufacturing has been designing and manufacturing door and truck body hardware for industrial applications since 1915. From locking handles to rope rings, their extensive product catalog is made possible with the help of a robust line of machines like their 50-year-old press machine used for forming heavy metal bars with two bends - all controlled by human operators. It...

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ICON Injection Molding Deploys Formic Tend to Boost Production by 20% with Automation Partnership that is “Too Good to be True”

In the competitive manufacturing sector, there are few names that have risen as quickly as ICON Injection Molding. Founded in 2001 by three brothers with a wealth of industry experience, ICON has grown organically to become a go-to provider of custom plastic injection molding solutions. From medical devices to defense equipment for clients like Axon, they make plastic parts that...

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