Montréal's manufacturing base today spans aerospace, electronics, pharmaceuticals, printed goods, textile and apparel production, tobacco, and petrochemicals, a mix that has kept Montréal's packaging automation needs broad rather than tied to one industry. The city is home to the only Canadian manufacturing facility of a major international cigarette maker, a reminder that tobacco packaging, alongside pharmaceutical and consumer-goods packaging, still runs through Montréal at meaningful volume. Petrochemical processing has deep roots here too. What was once the largest oil-refining centre in Canada operated out of Montréal for decades, before a global energy major closed its refinery there in 2010. Petrochemical manufacturing more broadly has remained part of Montréal's industrial identity, alongside the aerospace and electronics production that fills out the rest of its manufacturing base.

PLAN IT's pouch and sachet lines are built for exactly that range of formats. EcoBagger and RotoBagger premade-pouch machines and stick-pack equipment handle small-format pouch and sachet packaging for pharmaceutical and personal-care producers, while Mars Series vertical form fill seal lines cover bagged and granular products at higher volume for the same plants. Pharmaceutical runs tend to need tamper-evident sachets or blister-ready pouches, tobacco and personal-care lines often use smaller stick-pack formats, and higher-volume consumer goods call for VFFS instead. Montréal's manufacturing base moves across all of those formats depending on which plant is running that week, and PLAN IT's premade-pouch, stick-pack, and VFFS equipment is built to switch between them rather than lock a line into one package type. Our premade-pouch category, VFFS machine category, and full solutions overview cover the equipment we build for Montréal's varied production floor.