A charcuterie processor that's operated out of Niagara Falls since 2001 has grown from a local supplier into a foodservice and gourmet-retail source for prosciutto, capicola, pancetta, salami, guanciale, and sausage, one piece of a food-processing base that's built up around the city over the past two decades. A contract beverage manufacturer also based in Niagara Falls now offers canning, bottling, blending, and storage for whisky, vodka, beer, wine, and cider brands, with order minimums low enough to serve smaller producers alongside larger ones. Charcuterie and contract-beverage lines each need their own packaging equipment here, from pouch and stick-pack machines for portioned meat to filling and case-packing lines for cans and bottles.

A specialty frozen-food producer also operates in Niagara Falls, preserving fruit and vegetables that draw on a horticultural sector 163 greenhouses strong across the wider Niagara Region, covering 21.4 million square feet and contributing $1.71 billion to the region's GDP in 2021, with agriculture jobs up 21% since 2016. That greenhouse volume doesn't slow down for anyone, and PLAN IT keeps the pouching and canning lines that handle it running at the same pace. PLAN IT's RotoBagger and EcoBagger premade-pouch machines, along with our stick pack and sachet machines, handle charcuterie and portioned meat product, our Mars Series VFFS baggers form and seal bags for frozen fruit and vegetable lines, and case erectors and automatic case packers close out cartons of canned and bottled beverage product at the end of the run. A food producer case study on our site shows how a comparable operation scaled to match that greenhouse-fed supply base, and our Ontario location page and food and beverage industry page round out the equipment lineup that our full solutions install and service on-site.