Toronto was once the largest spirits-distillation center in North America, a fact that still shapes how the city thinks about packaging automation for food and beverage production today. Built between 1859 and 1861, a distillery complex along Toronto Harbour became the country's largest whisky producer; its preserved buildings now form the Distillery District, the largest collection of Victorian industrial architecture in North America. The same waterfront stretch once held a stockyard and a pork-processing plant large enough that its scale earned the city the old nickname 'Hogtown,' and a garment trade grew up along lower Spadina Avenue in what's now called the Fashion District.

That legacy of high-volume food and drink production carries into Toronto's current standing as Canada's financial and industrial capital, home to the country's biggest banks and a business base that still includes food and beverage manufacturers needing to move product fast. For CPG co-packers and beverage producers in the Toronto area, PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS baggers form pouches and bags in one continuous run, while case packers handle palletizing for distribution across Ontario and beyond. EliteWeigh multihead weighing and EliteFill filling equipment round out lines suited to granular and powder products, and metal detection or checkweighing adds a food-safety layer many CPG plants build into a line before product reaches a case packer. Toronto's co-packers move product at Hogtown speed; the equipment just has to keep up. PLAN IT's VFFS machine category and case-packer lineup, alongside the food-and-beverage resources and full solutions overview on our site, cover the configurations suited to a Toronto production floor.