In 1897, a submarine builder based in Elizabeth launched the USS Holland, the Navy's first commissioned submarine, from the Crescent Shipyard, a detail people rarely associate with a city they know mainly as a highway exit. Manufacturing came earlier still: Elizabeth's first major employer was a sewing-machine maker that at its peak employed roughly 2,000 people. That manufacturing base has since given way to logistics and heavy industry, which is exactly where packaging automation questions come up now. The city holds the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, one of the busiest ports in the world, beside Newark Liberty International Airport, and a large petroleum refinery on its border processes roughly 230,000 barrels a day.

Port and refinery throughput at that scale keeps freight moving through Elizabeth around the clock, and it keeps palletizers and case packers busy behind it. Our PackMaster cobot palletizers stack and wrap outbound pallets at the pace a distribution hub like this expects, and automatic case packers keep filled cases moving so a line doesn't back up before it reaches a container. VFFS machines handle the form, fill, and seal work for manufacturers and co-packers running general industrial and consumer goods through the corridor. We supply and integrate palletizing, case-packing, and VFFS lines for the New Jersey manufacturers and distributors who work this port and refinery corridor, a co-packing scale-up we've covered in one of our own case studies. A vessel doesn't wait on custom-built equipment. Neither do we. Our solutions team keeps this machinery in stock, ready to install before your next sailing.