Packaging equipment buyers in High Point are shopping in a city that was shipping eight fully loaded rail freight cars of furniture out of town every single day by 1898. That volume grew out of the city's first furniture factory, built in 1889; within the next decade, 13 of the 38 new furniture factories built across North Carolina opened in High Point, and by 1900 it was the South's leading furniture center, with more than 40 companies running production. The semi-annual High Point Market, launched in 1905 and anchored since 1921 by the Southern Furniture Exhibition Building, has grown into the world's largest furniture and furnishings trade show, drawing roughly 12 million square feet of showroom space, 2,300 exhibitors, and visitors from more than 100 countries twice a year. The Market never really stops.

High Point's economy has since spread into hosiery, yacht manufacturing, distribution, logistics, banking, and pharmaceuticals, but the underlying skill the city built around moving finished product out the door at volume hasn't gone anywhere. Our case-erecting, case-packing, and Mars Series vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) equipment covers exactly that. Case packers and erectors box finished goods for the furniture, hosiery, and yacht manufacturers that built this shipping-heavy market. Our PackMaster cobot palletizers stage pallets for the next High Point Market load-out, and VFFS machines bag and pouch product for the pharmaceutical manufacturers now diversifying the local economy. If you're shipping at this market's pace, you can't wait on a machine order. We keep case-packing, palletizing, and VFFS lines in stock for High Point-area manufacturers timing a changeover to the next Market. Our solutions team sizes each line to the shipping volume behind it.