Barrie's most striking manufacturing fact is also its most current: a major global beverage bottler operates an active production plant in the city today, a direct beverage-packaging presence that signals real packaging automation demand in a city of 147,829 people. That is not a new development. A brewery founded in Barrie in 1869 stood as one of the city's largest employers for years, giving the beverage sector deep local roots that predate almost every other industry in town. A rail line reached Barrie in 1853, connecting it to Toronto and the rest of Simcoe County and enabling the industrial and commercial growth that made Barrie the county seat by 1869, the same year that early brewery got its start. Barrie has since diversified well beyond its old reputation as a Toronto-area bedroom community, but the beverage-manufacturing thread running from an 1869 brewery to a modern bottling plant has never really broken.

Our automatic case packers move finished bottles into shippable cases at the pace a bottling operation like Barrie's runs at, while our Mars Series vertical form fill seal (VFFS) machines cover the bagged and pouched side of the same food and beverage sector for other Simcoe County producers. Bottling speed sets the pace on Barrie's fill lines, and the case packer downstream has to match it stroke for stroke. More on the regional market lives on our Ontario location page and our food and beverage industry page. Machine specs for both families sit on our vertical form fill seal page and our automatic case packers page; our solutions page covers what a Barrie bottler should expect once a filling or case-packing order is placed. PLAN IT doesn't operate an office in Barrie. Simcoe County producers still deal with us directly, for the machines and what comes after installation.