Our hands-on application specialists can help to create a customized packaging or equipment solution that addresses the specific requirements of your manufacturing.
Conveyors are an integral part of the success of many automation system projects. From simple systems to large complex, servo controlled, automated systems, we can assist in the implementation of conveyors for all types of automation system needs.
We offer virtually every type of filler present on the market today and across all industries, providing filler equipment that supports any product this type of automation system supports. And, can either implement filler equipment to current systems or create a filler approach to meet specific manufacturing needs.
We offer systems for Checkweighing, Metal Detection, and X-Ray Inspection for all applications. Confirm weight, check for metals, and/or inspect with X-ray technology to ensure successful and efficient product inspection.
We support various equipment technologies for the capping, lidding, and sealing of containers or flexible packaging. We can implement these systems to either support a current line or a fully automatic system.
Labeling allows your product to stand out from the crowd and capture your audience’s attention. Plant Automation Group is proud to provide a full line of versatile labeling equipment across several market industries and packaging segments
Streamline secondary packaging requirements and reduce packaging material costs with bundling and tray packaging solutions, which typically go hand-in-hand. This packaging approach is optimal if containers can support their own weight while palletized.
Increase efficiency and reduce labor with one of the leading segments of our business, cartoning and case packing machinery. This includes machinery systems that work to automatically pack and load various materials to meet the needs of manufacturers across a wide range of industries.
Increase efficiency, reduce worker fatigue, and decrease ergonomic issues with the use of Palletizing application systems from Plant Automation Group. We extensively use technology supporting the two bookends of automation; Bulk De-Palletizing and Palletization.
Have a unique automated equipment or system need? Our years of application-based project knowledge and combined 150 plus years of industry expertise allow us to come up with solutions to unique requests and needs.
Vertical Form Fill and Seal (VFFS) solutions for products and industries including powders, granules, liquids, confection, coffee, bakery, and seafood. Plant Automation Group can integrate several types of automatic filling solutions to be installed above a Vertical Form Fill and Seal Bagging machine.
Technology for several flexible pouch filling applications such as powders, granules, and liquids. Equipment is available to run stand-up pouches, doy style pouches, side, and bottom gusseted pouches.
Coding systems based upon the application goals and product requirements help to assist in maintenance and promote the regular function of every machine or line automation project.
Plant Automation Group is a leading provider of packaging equipment across several manufacturing industries. Partnering with many equipment manufacturers in providing our customers with a unbiased, application-driven equipment approach. Offering machinery within every market segment and across the entire packaging machinery industry. Proudly supporting the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, beverage, dairy, and industrial consumer goods industries.
Provide outstanding experience and application knowledge to support equipment automation requirements. Offering companies dedicated application sales engineers. Highly focused on the packaging equipment industry. Delivering a complete and transparent partnership in project development, segment guidance, and equipment line automation design. Supporting clients as a single point of contact for any facilities machinery needs at the highest level of customer service found within the packaging equipment industry. Strictly dedicated to our customer’s equipment requirements, expectations, and goals.
We’ve been servicing the northeast with advanced automation equipment and packaging solutions for over 120 years. Check out the map to see if we service your location!
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We equip manufacturers of all types of industries with the machinery equipment and packaging processes they need to maintain optimal productivity. Find out more about some of the industries we help service.
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.
Dan with Plant Automation Group has helped us a lot. Our company produces Food Ingredients to industry. I have been in the industry since 1984. We Just spent $35 million upgrading our facility and I appreciate Dan’s suggestions, equipment solutions, and ideas. We would recommend Dan and his team without hesitation.
In 2021, Sonny’s Car Wash Chemistry embarked on the challenge of building a new state-of-the-art chemical production facility to produce an array of products for the commercial car wash industry. At the time, we had limited in-house large-scale production expertise, and we were looking to increase our production capacity by several fold. After gathering packaging line quotes from multiple companies, we decided to partner with Plant Automation Group because our companies both believe strongly in adding value through customer service and building long-term relationships. Plant Automation Group was not the lowest bidder but rather provided us with the best fit. They do not specialize in designing and building what you need entirely from scratch but rather specialize in helping bring a complete solution to life, often leveraging their relationships with experts to use a combination of industry-tested solutions. Sonny’s Car Wash Chemistry products are primarily packaged in 2 forms- plastic drums and boxes of two, 2 ½ gal bottles. Ultimately, PAG partnered with us to install 2 semi-automatic drum filling machines and two fully automatic small packaging lines. The drum fillers reduced the needed manpower by 33% while drastically improving output, while the small packaging lines tripled our capacity at approximately the same headcount requirement and eliminated several safety concerns. During the worse supply chain challenges most of us have ever seen, the project was completed on-time and in-budget, a seemingly impossible feat. Patrick and the PAG team have been very supportive in helping us through the inevitable start-up hiccups, ensuring we have been able to continue to produce our products.
I would recommend Patrick and the Plant Automation Group to anyone looking to install semi-automatic or fully automatic packaging lines, but especially if your team has limited in-house expertise. Having the PAG team experts to help you see and address issues before they become fires is critical to keeping a project on-time and in-budget.
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SDC Nutrition is a contract manufacturer of powder and dry dose encapsulated dietary supplements since 2008. Plant Automation Group, specifically Dave Goodine has been a fundamental partner of ours as we have grown from a startup to over 100,000 sq. ft. facility with multiple packaging lines. We would consider PAG more of a consultant than a vendor because they are so knowledgeable, we rarely have to do any of our own research at all to find the right solution to satisfy our Capex and automation needs. Dave is always available for a quick call and knows the right equipment to solve our problems in our price range without hesitation. We have purchased multiple pieces of equipment from PAG over the years without any issues whatsoever. We do not even think to contact anyone else at this point because the risk is too high to forgo this level of service and knowledge from any other provider.
Joe Sciullo
Chief Operating Officer
We here at Bison Laboratories, Inc. have been contract packaging various chemicals for the swimming pool and water treatment industries since 1946. I had the pleasure of working with Patrick Coakley and PAG over the past five years. Patrick put together a fantastic filling line to satisfy our growing gallon bottle market. We went from very antiquated filling equipment to a state-of-the-art line. We have continued to work together through the years and have a couple of projects that we’re looking at move forward. I would highly recommend PAG to anyone looking at packaging equipment.
Steven P. Morber
Vice president
Bison Laboratories, Inc.
My name is Karmann Henderson, a Facility Management Professional for 2 facilities in Baltimore MD.
I have worked with Dave Goodine and the awesome PAG team for just about 20 years and they have always come through for us when time, money, and solutions have been critical for business.
We are in the Bio Science business. We are doing our part to keep the public safe and coordination with our vendors is essential. Dave Goodine & PAG understand the importance of lead times, accuracy, risk, safety, and precision. I have been in the industry for over 20 years not only as an FMP but an auditor as well and PAG has been consistent period.
A few of our success stories have been working with automation starting back in 2004. We were having issues with ergonomics and meeting customers ship dates. So I started to focus on our staff needs and customers’ outputs. I called Dave Goodine of PAG (awesome) for a few solutions and he came through big time with automation suggestions, visits onsite, cost reduction ideas, and held our hands until we were comfortable. We continue to use their guidance today because service is the key and they do it right! PAG has been our only point of contact for our automation needs and challenges for our company. The same service I experienced in 2004 resonates today in 2020 and beyond for sure. (PAG) awesome thanks Dave Goodine and the PAG team
I would absolutely recommend PAG to any company that needs great service and a staff that knows what they are talking about. A good point I would like to make is automation is what they DO.
THANKS Dave Goodine awesome to work with you and we look forward to working with PAG more.
For as long as I have been with Vanns Spices, we have worked with Dave, so for at least the last 13 years. He has been an invaluable resource to help troubleshoot issues, find solutions to automate new products and help streamline current processes. Dave always makes himself available either in person, phone, or email to talk through whatever project is going on. Quick turnaround and service are cornerstones of PAG. Always thoughtful with strong character, I would certainly recommend working with Dave.
I have worked with John Carvalho for about 5 years. We manufacture Tortilla Chips and have been in this industry of just over 5 years. We worked with John Carvalho on getting a packaging machine to handle the speed we needed with the space restrictions that were quite a challenge for our facility. John found a company that had the solution for us. John met us in Philadelphia to drive us to meet the staff and see the equipment in their facility. It was a great experience and everyone we met were great. They designed a machine for us and we have been using it for several years and we are very pleased with its performance. John Carvalho has always been available when needed, via email or a phone call. Anytime we have questions on a project, John is right there at our facility to review what we need. John is very honest and upfront with everything we talk about. That is much appreciated! I would absolutely recommend John and his team with PAG.
We have worked with Plant Automation Group on small projects as well as complete lines and have found their ability to review all applications helpful in the capital acceptance process. Over my 25 Years of manufacturing experience we continue to value their input on various applications for our future growth.
We have worked with Don of plant Automation Group for over 20 years on a variety of projects for our NJ facilities. His experience assists us with the technical details and assuredness to complete a capital project.”
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