Erie became a major iron and steel manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution, and for a stretch of that era it was home to the country's leading maker of cast-iron cookware. That manufacturing identity carried forward: a locomotive and rail-equipment manufacturer and a materials-science company are both major employers in Erie today, and the city has become an emerging center for biofuel production, generating more than 45 million gallons a year. The clearest case for packaging equipment in Erie is plastics. more than 10% of the nation's plastics are manufactured or finished in Erie-based plants, with roughly a tenth of the entire tri-state area's tooling and molding work also happening here.

That concentration of film, tray, and pouch-stock production feeds directly into the packaging lines the region's plastics converters and tooling shops already run in-house, and PLAN IT supplies the machinery for that step. PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS machines form, fill, and seal bags from Erie-area film stock, our PackMaster cobot palletizers stack finished cases at the end of the run without adding headcount, and automatic case packers close out pallet loads right behind them. Our palletizing equipment page and Pennsylvania location page cover the full equipment lineup for producers in the region, and our full solutions handle the integration and service work an Erie plastics-converter or tooling-shop line needs day to day.