Wisconsin cheese, snack foods, and hand tools are the kind of products people associate with this part of the state, and Kenosha sits right in the middle of that reputation. A well-known cheese stop along I-94 in Kenosha reflects a regional dairy economy that's produced Wisconsin's signature product for generations, while a tool manufacturer runs its world headquarters out of the city and an apparel company keeps its corporate offices here too. Cheese, snack, and dairy producers working near that reputation still need packaging equipment that can bag, weigh, and case product fast enough for I-94 distribution.

That manufacturing base runs deeper than tools and apparel. Kenosha spent more than eight decades as an automobile-manufacturing city, building cars and trucks on assembly lines from 1902 until the last plant closed in 1988. That plant's 107-acre site is being redeveloped today as the Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood, a STEM and workforce-training hub that drew $10 million in state funding in 2020, and that training pipeline sits next to a dairy economy shaped by cheese and snack production. Decades of assembly-line manufacturing built Kenosha's reputation for precision, and PLAN IT brings that precision to the packaging line. PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS machines form, fill, and seal bags for dairy and snack packaging, our EliteWeigh multihead weighers hold portioned cheese and snack product to accurate net weight, and automatic case packers close cartons at the end of the line. Our Wisconsin location page and food and beverage industry page cover the equipment lineup in more depth, and a food producer case study on our site walks through how a similar line scaled up.