Manitoba, Canada Co-Packers to Make and Package Your Food Product: Jams, Salsa, Sauces, Pickles, Cookies, Pies, cakes, whatever!

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Manitoba, Canada Co-Packers to Make and Package Your Food Product: Jams, Salsa, Sauces, Pickles, Cookies, Pies, cakes, whatever!

Manitoba, Canada Co-Packers: Want to Sell Your Salsa, Preserves, Jams, Etc.? Learn About Using A CoPacker to Prepare It!

If you want to make and sell your home-made preserves, salsa, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, apple butter, jams, jellies, or whatever, you will need a licensed kitchen to prepare and can the food. That's fine for relatively small quantities, and if there is a licensed kitchen to rent nearby at a good cost. See this page for shared use kitchens in Manitoba, Canada. But it may be less expensive (and less risky) for your new business to use a CoPacker to prepare their food, according to you recipe and process. 

What is a Co-Packer?

Co-packers manufacture and package foods for other companies to sell.  These products range from nationally-known brands to private labels.  Entrepreneurs choose to use the services of copackers for many reasons.  Copackers can provide entrepreneurs with a variety of services in addition to manufacturing and packaging products.  They can often help in the formulation of the product.  The copacker may function only as a packer of other people's products or may be in business with his own product line.  They may be, in fact, manufacturing several competing products.  The range of services available from a copacker will vary depending on the size and experience of the copacker and the type of facilities and the capacity of their plant.

Choosing a Co-Packer

You will want to choose a co-packer who has experience making the type of product and packaging that you need.  You may also want to choose a co-packer that is located close to you or your source materials and/or market or distribution centers to reduce costs.

See this page for much, much more about co-packers, like advantages, disadvantages and how to choose a copacker.

The following list consists of companies in Manitoba, Canada that have co-packing capabilities. This list is neither all-inclusive, nor is it meant to serve as an endorsement.

If you are a co-packer wishing to be added to this list, add your information here.

Manitoba, Canada Co-Packers

• Adagio Acres - , Uncooked Grains, Gluten Free, organic grain milling
  Box 718, Lundar, MB R0C 1Y0. Phone: 204-762-5892. Email: amy@adagioacres.com.
  Certifications: Organic
  Packaging capabilities: Heat sealed flexible pouches
• Canadian Copacking Group - , Uncooked Grains, Baked Goods and Confectionary, Copacking Services, Automation Solutions,
  90 de Baets Street, Winnipeg, MB, R2J 3S9. Phone: (204) 406-8128. Email: kheming@canadiancpg.com. Food & Health Safety Products. One Stop Service ; Fully Integrated ; Working for You. Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
  Copacking services include warehouse logistics, storage, quality management, food safety, tracking and traceability, and order fulfilment. Dry filling and liquid filling, capping, labeling, sealing, product inspection and traceability, coding and marking, case packing, palletizing, order fulfillment, raw materials storage, finished goods storage and warehouse logistics, semi-automatic systems for smaller runs.
  Packaging capabilities: Stand up pouch, flexible packaging, pillow pouch, rigid container (bottles, jars and cups), caps and labels, cases and trays, pallets and totes.
  No minimum runs, hours of operation may vary.
• Canadian Gold Beverages - , Beverages
  45137 Highway 210, Marchand, MB R0A 0Z0. Phone: 204-424-5479. Email: peter@canadiangoldbeverages.com or order@canadiangoldbeverages.com.
  Specialty: Co-packing of bottled water, sparkling mineral water, soft drinks and specialty beverages.
  Certifications: Inspected by Manitoba Agriculture and CFIA, HACCP
  Packaging capabilities: P.E.T. bottles, glass bottles
  Minimum run of 1 pallet per SKU
• Cavalier Candies - , Baked Goods and Confectionary
  185 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4. Phone: 204-957-8777, extension 22. Email: sales@cavaliercandies.com. Specializes in: private label sugar confectionary manufacturer
  Certifications: Kosher, SQF Level 2, HACCP. Packaging capabilities: bagging, boxes, gable boxes, trays, allergy free facility.
• Creative Food Products - , Baked Goods and Confectionary
  35 Winfield Way, Winnipeg MB, R2R 1V8. Phone: 204-694-9390. Email: info@creativefp.ca. Specialty: Able to make frozen pizza crust, pre-baked pizza crust, pizza dough balls, pastries, croissants
  Certifications: SFCA License
  Packaging capabilities: poly bag, wholesale cases, shrink wrap
  minimum runs vary based on product.
• DeRuyck's Top of the Hill Farm - , Uncooked Grains, organic grains, flours and flakes
  Box 153, Treherne, MB R0G 2V0. Phone: 204-526-2066. Email: dderuyck@mymts.net.
  Certifications: Organic, Manitoba Health.
  Packaging capabilities: seed cleaning, de-hulling, milling, flaking, bagging; small paper bags, small plastic bags, plastic grain bags and plastic totes.
• Eautopia Biological Technology - , Beverages
  57 - 59 Airport Road, Winnipeg, MB R3H 0V5. Phone: 204-505-9000 or 431-777-5598. Email: john.fu@eautopiabiotech.com .
  Specialty: Producing and filling non-carbonated spring water, RO water, beverages and alcoholic beverages with PET bottles.
  UHT pasteurization of beverages before filling bottles.
  Certifications: CFIA, FDC, HACCP
  Packaging capabilities: PET bottles for 355 ml or 500 ml
  20,000 litre minimum run
• Floating Leaf Fine Foods - , Uncooked Grains, wild rice
  GRP 525, RR5 Box 31, Winnipeg, MB R2C 2Z2. Phone: (cellular) 204-791-6639; (office) 204-989-7696. Email: Murray@slwr.com.
  Certifications: BRC, Kosher COR, Non GMP Verified, Organic OPAM
  Packaging capabilities: pack remade pouches, boxes or bulk totes and blending dry goods to flour
  gluten and allergy free facility, and RBC standards to all co-packing and private label jobs.
• GORP Energy Bars and Mixes - , Dry Mixes and Bars
  1683 P.R. 311, Niverville, MB R0A 1E0. Phone: 855-328-4677. Email: colleen@gorpworld.com.
  Specialty: Packaging applications suitable for horizontal form fill packaging machine, contract production of products that can be rolled into forms, dry ingredient blending.
  Certifications: HACCP, NSF Food Safety System
  Packaging capabilities: Horizontal Form Fill
  2000 units minimum run
• Harvest Bakery and Deli - , Baked Goods and Confectionary
  1857 - A Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3N 1Z2. Phone: 204-489-1086, Extension 102. Email: harvest@mymts.net. Specialty: Baked fresh, par baked, frozen breads, buns, pastries
  Certifications held: Manitoba GMP/HACCP
  Packaging capabilities: poly bag, wholesale cases, bulk retail, palletized case shipping, small retail vacuum sealing
  production and packing capabilities have room to scale up, location has on-site cake decoration and deli/kitchen for smaller scale sweets production, single main production line so products would have to adhere to allergen rules.
• Notre Dame Creamery - , Dairy, Co-processing and packing services for dairy operations,
  35 Provencher Street, Notre Dame-de-Lourdes, MB R0G 1M0. Phone: 204-248-2212. Email: groch@mymts.net.
  Specialty: Fluid milk, kefir, and butter. 6-head bottling line, conventional butter churn and butter press.
  Certifications: Federal dairy plant, organic
  Packaging capabilities: Plastic jugs for fluid milk and kefir (1,2 abd 4l), foil packaging for butter (1 lb and 25 kg boxes)
• Pitura Seed Farms Ltd - , Uncooked Grains, cereals, pulses and oilseeds
  40088 Road 3 East, Box 2, Domain, MB R0G 0M0. Phone: 204-736-2849. Email: tom@pituraseeds.ca.
  Certifications: Authorized importers through CFIA, Approved BSF
  Packaging capabilities: Clean seed and package in bulk, totes and bags
  Bulk seed establishment, select seed growers and processors.
• Prairie Flax Products - , Uncooked Grains
  1/2 mile East of Junction of HWY #1 and HWY #242, near Portage la Prairie, MB. Phone: (cellular) 204-856-3313; (office) 204-252-2940. Email: jason@prairieflax.com . Specialty: All co-packing is subject to Prairie Flax time schedules.
  Certifications: Canadian Grain Commission HACCP, CFIA, Kosher
  Packaging capabilities: packaging whole grains/pulses or flour. Small retail packaging or larger packaging: 10 kg, 20 kg, 25 kg, 25 lb, 50 lb bags paper of poly-woven, as well as totes 1000 kg max.
• Prairie West - , Dairy, Co-packing services for ice cream. Minimum run 4000 litre batch sizes.
  7-130 Omands Creek Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R2R 1V7. Phone: 204-633-7031. Email: nichole@prairiewesticecream.ca.
  Certifications: Registered dairy plant with CFIA. British Retail Consortium (GFSI), peanut free facility
  Packaging capabilities: Cardboard cartons, cardboard rounds, plastic tubs. Various sizes: 100 ml, 500 ml, 1l, 2l, 4l and 11.4 l.
• Sweet C Bakery Inc - , Baked Goods and Confectionary
  1171 Kildare Avenue East - Unit B, Winnipeg, MB R2C 3R7. Phone: 204-291-6331. Email: cori@sweetcbakery.ca.
  Specialty: cookie production - run through an automated cookie depositor.
• The John Russell Honey Co - , Co-packing liquid honey, creamed honey and blended honey. Co-packing services for regulated retail markets and for personal, farm gate and farmers market sales.
  128 Victoria Avenue West, Winnipeg, MB R2C 1S5. Phone: 204-612-2337. Email: honeyb@mymts.net.
  Certifications: SFC/CFIA inspected and licensed
  Packaging capabilities: All legal sizes, in all available styles of glass and plastic. Application of labels, nutritional labels and security labels.
  Other details: A full co-packing fees and services outline available by emailing honeyb@mymts.net.
• True North Foods - , Meats, laughter/primal boxed beef, bison and elk, no minimal runs
  39079 PTH 13, Carman, MB R0G 0J0. Phone: 204-745-3068. Email: calvin@truenorthfoods.ca .
  Certifications: Federal Facility, BRC, Organic
  Packaging capabilities: vacuum packed and boxed
• W.H. Escott Company Ltd - , Uncooked Grains
  95 Ale95 Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2Y8. Phone: 204-942-5127. Email: don@whescott.com. ecialty: dried pulse crops
  Certifications: HAACP, Kosher (OU)
  PackagPackaging capabilities: Three different style machines that can pack from 200g to 10kg or larger. Can do pillow packs, pillow pack with zipper, square bottom and stand up pouch, box with liner, Ldpe film, laminated boxes and burlap sack.
• Wild West Seasonings - , Spices and  Seasonings
  48 Headingley Street, Headingley, MB R4H 0A8. Phone: cellular 204-999-5001, office 204-992-2104. Email: rod@wildwestseasonings.com.
  Specialty: Bartlet form, fill and seal machine, pouch filling machine and packaging machine for shaker bottles. Note: No blending is available.
  Certifications: Food handling establishment
  Packaging capabilities: roll stock, pouches and shaker bottles
  

 

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