Nine of the fourteen Michigan cities we cover, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Ann Arbor, run food and beverage operations, and on those lines changeover time usually comes down to the weigher rather than the bagger. A bagger can switch bag length and film width in minutes, but a weigher needs its head count and target weight reset for each new product, which is where most of the downtime during a changeover actually happens.
Three Michigan cities in our coverage run general industrial product, where cartons and pallets matter more than portioning, so the spend goes into a case packer paired with a palletizer instead of a scale, and two run baked goods, typically built around a flow wrapper paired with a checkweigher and a metal detector that confirm weight and catch stray contamination before cartons close.
A Michigan project never starts with a stock frame off the lot. It starts with a plain, no cost conversation about the product, before anything gets specified. The machine has to handle the plant's own product here before we crate it, and once it lands in Lansing, Flint, Warren, or another Michigan city on our list, our crew handles the install and trains the operators. Design and engineering happen in Mississauga, just outside Toronto, and Tampa is home base for the customer experience group that fields support calls afterward.
Cities we support in Michigan
Local packaging automation support is available across the region, including Ann Arbor, Canton, Clinton Township, Dearborn, Detroit, Farmington Hills, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Livonia, Sterling Heights, Troy, Warren, Westland.