Provide Agro recently announced a partnership with Sorma USA to market and sell the line in Eastern Canada and Northeastern USA. Sorma is an Italian based company that has 45 years experience in the development and production of packaging materials and equipment.
“We felt that Sorma was on the cutting edge for packaging materials and equipment with a strong history in both fruit and vegetable sectors” Said Sean Bartlett, Business Unit Manager, Provide Agro Corporation.
“Our company is focused on bringing our customers new technologies to compete in the global marketplace. With the launch of the partnership, Provide Agro has an opportunity to compliment its current packhouse lines with another top tier brand, providing a more turn key project."
Established in the 1970’s, Sorma quickly became one of the world’s largest suppliers of “Turn Key” packaging and palletizing lines for the fresh produce industries. Because of its European roots, where high labor costs forced the industry to seek out automated technologies, Sorma was driven to be a key dynamic leader in the fruit and vegetable scene. Some of Sorma’s most renowned machines were designed in this era, including box palletizers, bin dumpers, and check weighers.
In the 1980’s, Sorma realized the key to industry innovation was in automated packaging, which led to their first line of weighing and packaging machines. In the 1990’s, Sorma expanded in two directions: (1) packaging materials, with the establishment of Netpack; and (2) the global growth and establishment of several subsidiary companies – one of them being the North American sector, Sorma USA. Today, these 10+ globally established businesses make up Sorma Group, creating a full line of innovative, high speed packaging machines.
In celebration of its 100 year anniversary in 2012, N. M. Bartlett Inc. purchased a 22,000 square foot building to house the new operations of its equipment line of business. The equipment and service division has been rebranded under the name of Provide Agro Corporation.
Provide Agro Corporation is still a Bartlett Company operating with the same long standing values started by the founder, Norman Bartlett, in 1912. This new organizational structure will allow the Equipment Line of business to grow with a more defined focus.
For more information;
Sean Bartlett
Provide Agro Corp
Tel: +1 905-563-8261
Email: sbartlett@bartlett.ca
www.provideag.ca