Sterling Heights builds one of America's best-selling full-size pickup trucks, assembled at a plant that produced its two-millionth unit in April 2025 and now employs roughly 3,700 workers directly. Packaging automation depends on exactly the robotics and controls expertise that a plant like this builds into the local workforce and supplier base. The plant converted from car assembly to truck assembly between 2016 and 2018, and roughly $235 million has gone into adding hybrid and battery-electric versions to the line since.

Before the plants, this was farmland. Until the 1950s, the area mostly grew rhubarb and other crops sold into Detroit, and it suburbanized around automobile-plant jobs through the 1960s and 70s before incorporating as its own city in 1968. That industrial base built a deep bench of automation and robotics talent, exactly what food and beverage producers in the Detroit-Macomb corridor need when they add packaging lines. You already know what reliability looks like on a line that just built its two-millionth truck. We hold food and beverage packaging to that same standard, with Mars Series VFFS baggers and PackMaster cobot palletizers, and no local office required. Automatic case packers and robotic case packers handle the repetitive, high-volume work this region's manufacturing base already runs on. Robots don't get tired here. Our Michigan location page, food and beverage industry page, case study on scaling food production, VFFS machine category, automatic case packer lineup, and full solutions page detail the complete lineup.