Cambridge, Ontario was once known as the 'Manchester of Canada,' a nod to the foundries, an axe factory, woolen mills, and a flour mill that lined the Grand River in the 19th century. The Hespeler area of the city industrialized the same way starting in 1845, building out woollen and textile mills, a flour mill, a sawmill, and a distillery. That manufacturing identity never left. Today it runs on packaging machines built for automated, high-volume lines. An automotive assembly plant opened in Cambridge in 1988. It now employs about 4,500 people, the city's largest employer, and the city is also headquarters to a major global industrial-automation and robotics integrator.

PackMaster cobot palletizers and automatic case-forming and case-packing equipment are built for floors already this automated, slotting into the line instead of needing a cell of their own. Case formers set up each box before a case packer loads it, and PackMaster palletizers then stack finished cases onto pallets without the safety cage a traditional industrial robot needs, which matters for manufacturers retrofitting existing floor space. You've already automated the rest of the plant. We make sure packaging doesn't lag behind it. A line built around cobots and automated material handling doesn't need a packaging cell that stands apart from the rest of the process. Our crews install and integrate this equipment into the existing line, and units in stock mean a Cambridge producer can add a case packer or palletizer without waiting on a build slot. Manufacturers across that same automation base need packaging that keeps pace, and our solutions team makes sure a Cambridge line runs at the same speed as everything else already on the floor.