Business View Magazine - August 2023

92 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 8 Trans-Atlantic Preforms, based in Nova Scotia, Canada, has been manufacturing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) preforms for over 30-years for customers across the world and is a proud supplier of quality preforms to its partner Browning Harvey. The company values long-standing customer relationships and are proud to say that they take special satisfaction seeing its customers succeed and grow their businesses over the years. President & CEO Shannon Lynch states, “We have a stable, very experienced team that is committed to providing reliable, high-quality service to our customers that we partner with to solve their preform needs. Our team has over 30-years of experience mastering the use of colors/tints, various resins including virgin, recycled (rPET) and virgin blends and 100% rPET preforms of various sizes and finishes. We are also at the forefront of and are fully committed to helping our customers adapt and pivot towards a more sustainable future through lightweighting, as well as the increased use of rPET in our preforms. What sets us apart is we have almost two decades of experience manufacturing rPET preforms and have built a strong reputation for quality, consistency, and reliability. Sustainability matters and we are excited to help our customers differentiate themselves with innovative packaging solutions.” For more information, visit: www.capebretonpartnership.com Trans-Atlantic Preforms – Facilitating the Path to a More Sustainable Future BROWNING HARVEY LTD. “Browning Harvey Ltd is a privately-owned franchise bottler,” says Williams, adding that “Browning Harvey Ltd has been bottling since 1944, here in St. John’s, Newfoundland. We’re committed to the people of the province, investing in the operation to sustain success within the province. The majority of what we sell, we manufacture here in St. John’s. We have an operation that includes a bottling line, a can line and a line that produces fountain products.” Built 60 years ago, the company’s present plant features some 140,000 square feet. It boasts the most state-of-the- art bottling equipment in the world. Then there’s also the warehousing operation. It’s quite the multi-faceted organization: a tasty set-up, you might say, creating a soda fountain—indeed, a stream of revenue. That wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated workers, as Williams says. We mainly try to keep up and adapt as much as we can,” she says.“Gary has been phenomenal in helping us and setting us up with a new plan for equipment as needed.We attend meetings in Europe to see this equipment, to see what actually flows and to see if it will work with our warehouse.