Pickering, in Durham Region east of Toronto, has real precedent for packaging automation and packaging equipment: a Canadian headquarters for pharmaceutical and health-and-beauty products has operated in the city for years, backed by makers of audio gear, electrical components, and industrial water-purification systems that give Pickering an established manufacturing base. The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, with eight reactors and 4,120 megawatts of capacity, remains the city's largest single employer and a sign of how much heavy industry this base supports. That base didn't appear overnight. In the late 19th century, a drop in wheat demand hit the farming economy of Pickering Township hard enough that it lost more than 40 percent of its population over the following decades, and a federally owned munitions plant later filled part of the industrial gap during the first half of the 20th century.

We build stick pack and sachet machines directly for that pharmaceutical and health-and-beauty base. Single-dose vitamins, topical products, and personal-care sachets run faster and more consistently through a stick pack line than through manual fill-and-seal work, and an in-line checkweigher at the end of that line catches underweight product before it reaches a truck, which matters for any health or beauty producer answering to regulatory audits. You know your formulations and the audits that come with them. We know how to keep a stick pack line clean enough to pass one. We supply and integrate that equipment for companies producing in and around Pickering, choosing in-stock machines from our solutions lineup where timelines are tight and building custom lines where they are not. Pickering has no PLAN IT storefront of its own. We run integration, service, and support remotely and on site, matching machines to Durham Region's pharmaceutical and health-and-beauty producers.