Plant for packaging articles (A), in particular containers, to be filled with a product and closed with a closing element, comprising at least two modular apparatus for filling and closing randomly fed articles with randomly fed closing elements (C), each modular apparatus configured with a filling station , configured to feed and dispense a product inside one of said articles (A) arranged in a filling position, and a closing station for closing the filled articles, provided with means for applying a respective closing element onto a respective one of said filled articles (A) arranged in a closing position; the plant further comprising an extraction system for transporting the filled and closed articles, with an extraction plane on which the filled and closed articles (A') are transported in a longitudinal direction (X-X) and are arranged with a predefined extraction orientation and/or position and in an extraction sense from upstream to downstream; wherein said at least two modular filling and closing apparatus are arranged in series from upstream to downstream along the longitudinal direction (X-X) and are configured to position the respective filled and closed articles (A') on the same extraction plane in order to obtain a common flow of articles being extracted for the two or more modular apparatus; wherein the at least two modular apparatus comprise gripping and positioning means for holding and/or displacing the articles (A; A') and/or the closing elements to one or more of said positions; characterised in that the gripping and positioning means of each of the at least two modular apparatus include: - one or more first pick and place devices arranged and configured to pick up the articles (A) arranged randomly on a transport plane for transporting articles and to position them with a predefined orientation and/or position at the filling station ; and - one or more second pick and place devices , arranged and configured to pick up a closing element arranged randomly on a transport plane for transporting closing elements and to feed it to the application means of the closing station . wherein said at least two modular filling and closing apparatus are arranged in series from upstream to downstream along the longitudinal direction (X-X) and are configured to position the respective filled and closed articles (A') on the same extraction plane in order to obtain a common flow of articles being extracted for the two or more modular apparatus; wherein the at least two modular apparatus comprise gripping and positioning means for holding and/or displacing the articles (A; A') and/or the closing elements to one or more of said positions; characterised in that the gripping and positioning means of each of the at least two modular apparatus include: - one or more first pick and place devices arranged and configured to pick up the articles (A) arranged randomly on a transport plane for transporting articles and to position them with a predefined orientation and/or position at the filling station ; and - one or more second pick and place devices , arranged and configured to pick up a closing element arranged randomly on a transport plane for transporting closing elements and to feed it to the application means of the closing station . - one or more first pick and place devices arranged and configured to pick up the articles (A) arranged randomly on a transport plane for transporting articles and to position them with a predefined orientation and/or position at the filling station ; and - one or more second pick and place devices , arranged and configured to pick up a closing element arranged randomly on a transport plane for transporting closing elements and to feed it to the application means of the closing station . <EOS>