PACKAGING FOR FRESHNES
Pizza Romana plant manager Eva Maraj (center) keeps a watchful eye on the production flow a the company’s busy Lachine facility that turns out well over 30,000 premium-quality frozen pizza per day for retail customers across eastern Canada.
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20 CANADIANPACKAGING · May 2021
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he frozen pizza business is a highly competitive marketplace. To remain competitive, producers need to invest in the latest technologies in their operations in an effort to constantly improve efficiencies. Les Aliments Pizza Romana understands this well. Employing between 35 to 40 people and operating out of a 60,000-square-foot HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points)-certified facility in Lachine, Que., the company produces between six and seven million frozen pizzas annually for the grocery retail market for a wide variety of customers largely based in eastern Canada— stretching from Ontario to Atlantic Canada.
They company offers a diverse variety of rising crust and stuffed crust frozen pizzas using authentic ingredients to bring the flavors of Italy to consumers. “We have about 20 different pizzas, including our rising crust and stuffed crust,” says Eva Maraj, plant manager for Pizza Romana, adding that the most popular items are their eight different stuffed crust pizzas. “We have chicken, sausage, double pepperoni. We have one called ‘The Works,’ with every type of meat imaginable. “We also have an ‘All-Star’ with all kinds of meat but also has peppers and mushrooms.” A few years ago, Pizza Romana was looking to increase its production capacity, but the company was struggling with a bottleneck in its packaging departCANADIANPACKAGING.COM
