- Business
- General Packer Co., Ltd. designs, manufactures, and sells automatic packaging machines and peripheral equipment for food, pharmaceutical, medical, and other industries in Japan and internationally. The company, founded in 1961 and headquartered in Kitanagoya, Aichi, Japan, operates through two segments: Packaging Machinery and Production Machinery; it offers bag supply type automatic packaging machines, bag making type automatic packaging machines, gas filling automatic packaging machines including N2 gas flushing models, horizontal insertion type automatic packaging machines, tray and desiccant insert bag feeding packaging machines, non-instructive residual oxygen analyzers, carton casers, cardboard casers, palletizers, valetizers, vacuum degassing packaging machines, pharmaceutical and medical device related inspection equipment, packaging systems, and food and confectionery manufacturing machines such as chocolate making equipment. General Packer serves markets including pet foods, frozen foods, flour, pasta, rice, drip coffee, health foods, seeds, intravenous solutions, ampoules, and medical devices with customized systems like flour packaging systems, pet food packaging systems, and medical device packaging systems. Subsidiaries include Osa Machinery Co., Ltd. in Yokohama, Japan, for chocolate production machinery; General Packer China Co., Ltd. in Changshu, Jiangsu, China; General Packer America Corporation in Illinois, USA; and affiliate GPJ Packer Co., Ltd. in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. Recent developments encompass the establishment of a new Ichinomiya Plant in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture in 2025, a south building plant extension in 2022, and a factory expansion in Nagoya with over 50 packaging systems installed in North and South America.