John Tavares

Site Operations Manager at Belvika Trade & Packaging

John Tavares currently serves as the Site Operations Manager at Belvika Trade & Packaging since August 2023. With extensive experience in operations management, John has held significant roles such as Senior Motorcycle Instructor at the Motorcycle Training Organization of Halton/Peel since March 2002, Plant Manager and General Manager at ETERNITY SYSTEMS from November 2017 to August 2023, Production Manager at Veg-Pak Produce Ltd from September 2014 to November 2017, Operations Manager at SucroCan Sourcing LLC for a brief period in 2014, and Operations Manager at Malabar Ingredients from January 2006 to December 2013. John excels in overseeing plant operations, fostering high-performance teams, developing Standard Operating Procedures, and implementing lean management principles to drive operational efficiency.

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Belvika Trade & Packaging

Belvika Trade & Packaging is a full service supplier and has extensive experience in managing both manual processing and automated equipment to handle primary and secondary packaging of products. A sample of available processes includes: flexible packaging for VFFS, flow wrap HFFS, and pouches from roll stock or premade. Belvika’s specialty form, fill, and seal capabilities have surpassed the competition in all areas. Top-of-the-line equipment enables us to fill a variety of products to meet the specific needs of each individual client. Our filling capabilities range from naked product to wrapped individual snack-size items, as well as full-size wrapped product. No weight range has thus far been a challenge. We fill using methods of piece count, linear weight, combination weight, by volume or auger fillers. Our fully computerized multi-head weigh scale systems ensure that all products are consistently weighed/filled to the proper specifications. Belvika has extensive experience in the co packing industry and provides the following services; • Co filling naked items in Primary Packaging • Sourcing Materials • Inventory Management of all materials– Identification and full lot tracking capabilities • Manual Assembly – Kitting, Speciality Packs, Promotional Items • Assembly and repacking counter and floor displays, DRP, PDQ and RRP • Semi Automated Packing – Flow Wrapping, Shrink Wrapping, Shrink Bundling, • Tip on Glue Dispensing, Re-labelling • Blister Packaging • Metal detection • Vertical Form Fill and Sealing of flexible primary and secondary packaging • Horizontal Form Fill and Sealing of flexible primary and secondary packaging • Volumetric Filling and Sealing • Vertical Cartoning • Horizontal Bagging • Sorting/QA Inspection • Fulfillment • Application of tamper evidence seals • EnviroShells • Reworking & retrofitting • Gifts and Promotional packing • Product rework • Third party logistics


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