Packaging automation is what keeps Lansing's dairy and bakery lines moving today. A local inventor founded an automaker in Lansing in 1897, and a second car company followed in 1905, launching decades of vehicle production that still shape the local workforce. One of the country's major automakers still runs a high-tech manufacturing facility in Lansing, a top-4 area employer. The city's food side carries its own long production history: a locally owned dairy and bakery company, founded in 1936, still runs its dairy and bakery plants out of central Lansing near the REO Town district. The workforce didn't start from zero.

A major food-packaging manufacturer also runs production in Lansing, a top-10 area employer. A global battery maker signed a $4.3 billion agreement in 2026 to supply battery cells from a Lansing-area factory. Automotive work has slowed, and advanced manufacturing is filling the gap. There's no PLAN IT office in Lansing. What we put on the floor here is Pack Series flow wrappers and horizontal form-fill-seal machines for wrapping cookies, snack cakes and baked goods at line speed, plus automatic case packers for moving finished trays into shipping cases. That's the equipment for the bakery and dairy producers still running lines through central Lansing. You keep the ovens and the dairy lines running; we build what wraps and cases what comes off them. Our Michigan location page, baked-goods industry page, cookie-packaging case study, flow wrapping category, horizontal form-fill-seal category and full solutions catalog cover the fit for Lansing's dairy, bakery and food-production companies.