Healthcare runs Redding's economy now, and the packaging automation behind medical and personal-care products looks nothing like what a mining or lumber town once needed. Two regional hospital systems sit alongside county government and a national retailer as the city's top employers, and no manufacturer cracks the top 10, according to the city's own 2016 financial report. That is a real shift. Copper and iron mining drove Redding's growth in the early 20th century until the market for those minerals collapsed and the economy stalled by 1920. Construction of Shasta Dam, completed in 1945, nearly doubled the city's population and pulled Redding out of that slump, and the lumber and logging industry carried growth through the 1950s alongside a wave of dam-driven tourism.

Redding does not have a packaging plant to point to the way some cities do, and there is no point pretending otherwise. What it has is two hospital systems and a county government processing real volumes of medical supplies, pharmacy items, and personal-care products, all of which move through some form of packaging line before they reach a shelf or a patient. We build in-line checkweighers and stick pack machines for producers who supply markets like Redding's, catching underweight product before it ships and packaging single-dose medications and personal-care items faster than manual lines can manage. You know your dosing and labeling specs. We know how to keep a checkweigher catching errors before product ships into Redding's hospital supply chain. Redding has no PLAN IT office. Checkweighers and stick pack lines from our solutions lineup still get shipped, installed, and supported for the medical and personal-care producers shipping into this part of Northern California.