Clarksville manufactures at serious scale today. The city is home to a major tire manufacturing plant and a related rubber-processing operation, a metal forging division, and an HVAC and climate-systems manufacturer that ranks as Clarksville's largest private employer. A plumbing and bath-fixture manufacturer rounds out the industrial base, and a printing and publishing operation relocated production here from Kansas in 2012, adding roughly 372 jobs. That heavy manufacturing runs on packaging equipment behind the scenes just as much as it runs on the primary production line, from case packing finished HVAC components to palletizing forged metal parts for shipment, the kind of work our VFFS machine category and automatic case packer lineup are built to cover.

Clarksville's manufacturing depth has old roots. The Tennessee legislature designated the city an official tobacco inspection point in 1789, and by the early 1800s it was exporting flour, tobacco, cotton, and corn by steamboat down the Cumberland River to New Orleans and Pittsburgh. National distribution centers and the nearby presence of Fort Campbell add further scale to that manufacturing base today. PLAN IT runs this business without a Clarksville address, and the co-packers and CPG plants that need this level of case-packing and palletizing speed are a natural fit alongside the city's tire, HVAC, and metal-forging base. Our Tennessee location page and food and beverage industry page cover that same territory in more depth. You're forging metal or building HVAC systems at Clarksville's pace; our case erectors and robotic case packers handle secondary packaging for household and personal-care goods, and our PackMaster cobot palletizers keep pallets stacked correctly across shifts without adding headcount. The full solutions page rounds out the rest of what we build.