To understand what makes us the business we are today, it helps if you know a few things about our past...

Packaging Automation Limited was established as 'designers and manufacturers of special purpose machinery' 

on the 16th May 1963 by Arthur Penn. Nearly 60 years later,

the business is still owned and managed by the Penn family and is still very much involved 

in the design and manufacture of machinery.

Arthur could not have forseen in 1963, the changes that would take place over the coming 50 odd years.  

Nor could he have predicted the huge demand for machines and in particular packaging machines 

that these changes would create.

PA has grown and developed with this demand but still retains the same principles 

that Arthur had in 1963 - a passion for invention, innovation and engineering.