Triangle in the News: Triangle Package Machinery featured in PP-OEM magazine. Check it out!
As successful manufacturing enterprises in Northeastern and Midwestern steel towns and metropoles have grown through and beyond the 20th century, many have undergone a sort of forced migration. Spatial limitations and a host of other factors have slowly marched them out of the city center and into fresh greenfield locations, sometimes in neighboringstates, so production could expand.
But family-owned Triangle Package Machinery Company, founded in 1923 by then-copacker Louis Muskat, has long been a city stalwart. Now known for high end vf/f/s baggers among other machines, the company grew from co-packing origins into a full-fledged machine builder, with all of the spatial demands that status historically entailed. But it had been able to incrementally expand the footprint of its current Chicago facility, acquired in the 1950s, over time to accommodate growth and long-standing customer relationships without moving.
The combination weigher feeding into this XYRJ bagger presents an end user with thousands of potential combinations for accuracy within a fraction of an ounce. Watch this video to see the bagger in action: www.pwgo.to/3189.
But in 2015, after more than 90 years in business, customer demand, particularly due to the explosion in flexible packaging was reaching a breakneck pace. Meanwhile, the facility had finally gone as far as it could go in terms of size, and the surrounding neighborhood had finally landlocked the space at 100,000 sq. ft. Third generation president Bryan Muskat was faced with a dilemma, and a hard one given that 82 percent of his employees lived within 12 miles of the facility. He knew he had to find a way to manage incoming business and shorten lead times, while retaining long-standing employees.
