Beverage automation is a large segment of our focus. We support all traditional beverage companies including the beer, wine and liquor industries. Plant Automation Group has supported national breweries,  liquor and spirit brands, juice, juice box, sodas, and carbonated products, bag in box, bottled water, milk and dairy products, coffee drinks and bags, cosmetic liquid, pharmaceutical liquid’s, fruit cups, soups, sauce, energy drinks, single-serve markets, with speeds ranging from 30 containers a minute upwards of 1000 containers a minute. Supporting containers from glass, aluminum can, PET, single-serve, and flexible packaging. As most of these clients require multiple size containers, multiple label types, and multiple types of final case packaging configurations. Our ability to provide a wide range of equipment solutions across each segment of machinery has never been more important within the ever changing market demands of today’s beverage industry.

The cosmetic industry has always been a growing segment and key point of interest for several high priority projects throughout the northeastern United States. With ever-growing market trends and the demand cosmetic companies face in producing products in the United States. With the extended growth in all-natural products, this industry segment has never been stronger. Plant Automation Group has been a part of several cosmetic systems throughout the years ranging from moderate to high-speed applications. These would range from a simple soap or shampoo system, through the multi-component complex assembly. Cosmetic products utilizing several types of packages from tubes, bottles, cartons, blister packs, pumps, sprays, and aerosol cans.  Applications within this segment would include, lip balms, shampoos and conditioners, cosmetics, face masks,  creams, oils, coco butter, essential oils, hair coloring, hair paste and gels, toiletries, toothpaste, mouthwash, mints and gums, dental floss, colognes, perfumes, and fragrances.

The Pharmaceutical industry is a serious, dedicated, and structured segment of the market for Plant Automation Group. Projects often focus on tablet or capsule manufacturing, typically supporting prescription drug manufacturing. This equipment is built with the highest standards utilizing IQ,OQ, PQ, validations and verification checks exiting each machine on an automated line. Supporting solutions for code verification and serialization. Often working in constraints of clean rooms and external classifications. Projects would extend to both liquid and powder packaging, utilizing various package materials in the latest technology in consumables. As with the majority of projects we support in other industries, non-disclosure agreements are required as most pharmaceutical projects support proprietary products and technologies. Plant Automation Group has also provided equipment for syringe filling automation, labeling, vial filling, blister forming, loading, and sealing, code and vision detection, and tube filling.

The heart of our company revolves around supporting food manufacturing companies. Typically products need physical protection or the enclosure of a food item. Our Expertise starts with filling or loading a food item into a rigid container or a flexible package.  Sealing or closing the filled product, often injecting nitrogen or providing modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) to extend the shelf life. All equipment is built to specific container per minute (CPM) rates supporting yearly production requirements for a food brand or contract manufacture. Plant Automation Group provides systems to mix and blend several types of food ingredients including liquids, powders, and granule materials from bulk. Delivering a batch of product to an automated line. Weighing or dosing the product into the desired package at rate.  Successful food projects include ready meals, bagged potato chips, IQF fruits, rice, spices, fish and poultry, meats, nuts, Italian ice, Ice cream, liquid eggs and dairy products, cartons or eggs, milk and juice, salads, bulk Inclusions, snack bars, pub snacks snack food, cereal, gummies, yogurt, cookies – crackers – wafers, confection and candy, soups, meal delivery services, food dry, bulk institutional products, canned goods, sugar and flowers, edible oils, cake mix, complete retail packaging abilities, shelf-ready packaging, tea, coffee, drink boxes, condiments. Plant Automation Group offers several levels of equipment and equipment types to meet the goals of any food product. Within this segment of automation, we are typically challenged to think outside the box related to new emerging markets and packaging designs.  Plant Automation Group has provided many of the industries “first solutions” or re-applicated existing equipment from a different industry to support the package requirement.

A never-ending focus for automation continues across all industrial industry applications. Typically supporting difficult, high viscosity products. Often flammable components, requiring explosion proof certifications (C1D1, C1D2, C2D2). This is an industry segment where Plant Automation Group has extensive experience based around liquid’s, epoxies, powders, paints, oils, lubricants, automotive, stains, chemicals, bleach, pesticides, home and garden, household cleaners, and petrochemicals. This segment of the industry is vast and typically harsh. Plant Automation Group has been called to support some of the United States largest oil and petrochemical companies for both retail and industrial bulk packaged lubricants. These would include a standard 16-ounce F style motor oil container through automation of 55-gallon drum filling systems. Plant Automation Group also has a large focus within Pesticides and home and garden or household cleaners. Supporting fully automatic liquid filling lines from 30 through 150 containers a minute. Offering solutions across various rigid container sizes, from 8 ounces through 10-gallon liquids. Automatic trigger sprayer inserting systems as well as zero downtime labeling solutions provide our customers with fully automatic multi shift production advantages to meet today’s large box store volume requirements. Typical containers/components to include: multiple size PET / HDPE  pails, metal pails, metal crimp lidding, plastic pail lidding, bail handle control, round gallon containers, square, aerosols, triggers and pump sprayers, drums, and totes (IBC), carboys (2 1/5 gallons).

As a large portion of our business is generated around powder (free-flowing or non- free flowing) or granule filling, Plant Automation Group offers a true edge in any powder filling application. From bulk processing mixing and blending (major and minor Ingredients). Capsule and tablet encapsulating or pressing and through fully automatic complex powder filling lines utilizing intermittent or continuous motion solutions. The protein powder and health supplement industry has been growing for several years with what seems to be no end in sight.  Plant Automation Group has been called upon to automate several protein facilities over the years supporting both small rigid PET containers through large rigid 10 to 15-pound containers, running at speeds upwards of 50 containers a minute. A growing market for protein powders is now utilizing premade pouches with resealable zippers. Several solutions are available in this market based around volume and expectations.  Plant Automation Group regularly supports manufacturers in the dietary supplement business and vitamin industry. This also includes minerals, herbs, cannabis, CBD, CBD oils, extracts, softgels, gelcaps, for both liquids and powders.  . Plant Automation Group regularly supplies vertical bagging equipment, multi-lane stick pack equipment, automatic auger fillers, multiple up linear liquid servo fillers, high-speed Rotary Mono-block filling and closing, fully automatic cappers, and simple to complex cartoning solutions.