Suspension cables strong enough to anchor a landmark New York bridge, and fine china good enough for White House state dinners, both came out of Trenton's 19th-century factories. That manufacturing legacy is why the city adopted the slogan 'Trenton Makes, The World Takes' and earned the nickname 'the Staffordshire of America' for its ceramics trade. Iron foundries, wire-rope mills, ceramics works, and rubber and plumbing-fixture plants once ran side by side along the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Camden and Amboy Railroad. Packaging automation is what lets today's manufacturers in that same corridor compete, running case erectors, case packers, and palletizing equipment instead of the manual casing, crating, and stacking those historic plants relied on.

Manufacturing overall has thinned out considerably since the 1970s, and Trenton's economy today is dominated by New Jersey state government, with some 20,000 state workers commuting into the city daily. Legacy infrastructure is mostly gone. The manufacturers that remain still need packaging equipment sized to compete regionally. If you're casing product for shipment along that same rail-and-river corridor, PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS baggers form and seal the bags, case erectors and packers box the finished goods, and PackMaster cobot palletizers stack them for the next leg. PLAN IT keeps this equipment in stock for the manufacturers still running Trenton's old rail-and-river corridor, and our solutions team sizes each line without the wait a custom order would take.