Lawrence sits on a stretch of the Kansas River that has done real industrial work since 1874, when the Bowersock Dam went up as the only hydropower dam in the state, and that industrial base still shapes packaging automation demand in the city today. The dam still matters. The city's economy diversified into agriculture, manufacturing, and education, starting with the founding of the University of Kansas in 1865 and Haskell Indian Nations University in 1884. The university system anchors the local economy now, with the University of Kansas alone employing more than 10,000 people, but manufacturing never left. A large-scale greeting-card production plant operates in Lawrence today and ranks among the city's biggest non-university employers, alongside Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

A high-volume paper-goods plant needs the same case-erecting and case-packing equipment PLAN IT builds for converting lines elsewhere in Kansas. Our automatic case erectors form cartons on demand instead of running pre-glued blanks, and our robotic case packers load finished product at the pace a converting line needs, matching the throughput a paper-goods plant runs on a normal shift. Paper stock is Lawrence's converting operators' expertise, not PLAN IT's. Ours is making sure the cartons your stock becomes are erected and packed without a slowdown at changeover. For food and beverage producers elsewhere along the Kansas River corridor, our Mars Series VFFS baggers form and seal snack pouches and our EliteWeigh multihead weighers dose granular ingredients, both built for the same shift-long reliability a converting line depends on. Lawrence sits far from any PLAN IT plant. What we service is the case-erecting and VFFS equipment Kansas converting operations run day to day, and it doesn't get left behind once the invoice clears.