The I-275 and Michigan Avenue corridor running through Canton Township is one of metro Detroit's busiest logistics arteries, and packaging equipment plays a bigger role there than the township's quiet suburban feel suggests. Freight doesn't wait. North America's largest foodservice distributor runs a regional distribution campus on Van Born Road that ranks among Canton's top employers, with more than 450 people across sales, merchandising, and warehouse roles servicing customers from Mid-Ohio up through Midland, Michigan. Grocery, home-improvement, and e-commerce distribution operations round out the township's largest employers, alongside an automotive-parts supplier and a trucking carrier that also rank among Canton's top employers. This corridor runs on freight. The township also hosts Michigan's only location of a major home-furnishings retailer, adding retail-distribution volume to a corridor freight already runs through every day.

On distribution volume like this, our vertical form fill seal machines (Mars Series) and automatic case packers give plants and depots two of the most common lines: forming and sealing bags at the plant, then loading and closing cases before a truck backs up to the dock. A campus this size runs on dock times, not shift changes, so equipment that jams or drifts off calibration costs you more here than in a slower market. The distributor's 450-plus-person campus alone turns trucks all day on this corridor; we build the lines that keep pace with it, batch after batch. One of our published case studies covers a food producer that scaled its production line with a similar setup, worth a look for any Canton operation weighing new equipment, and our solutions page lays out how VFFS, case packing, and cobot palletizing (PackMaster) work together at this corridor's pace.