Plantation's industrial history starts in 1957, when its first plant, an electronics and circuit-breaker manufacturer, opened on Sunrise Boulevard in what's now Plantation Technology Park. A telecommunications-equipment maker ran a major manufacturing and office campus there from 1969 to 2015, and a large financial-services employer operated a regional processing center from 1975 to 2017. Plantation carries that industrial legacy forward: a global express-logistics carrier now runs its U.S. head office from the city, putting local manufacturers and co-packers within easy reach of the packaging automation and case-packing equipment that gets product ready to ship.

A distribution corridor like this needs packaging equipment that keeps pace with outbound freight schedules as much as with production runs. A compact Mars Series vertical form fill seal (VFFS) machine bags small parts, hardware, or bulk components for a co-packer or light manufacturer working out of a hub like this one, while our case erectors and automatic case packers load and seal the cartons before they reach those outbound pallets. Our palletizing systems handle the stacking and wrapping for the road, and a checkweigher catches an underfilled case before it ever reaches the dock. A plant running one line this year and three the next gets equipment sized to whichever volume shows up, not the other way around. We stock that same range for manufacturers building out of this South Florida logistics corridor.