Every Kansas project we take on starts with a free consultation, because the equipment answer depends entirely on that. Five of the six cities we cover, Wichita, Overland Park, Topeka, Olathe, and Lawrence, run food and beverage operations, which usually calls for a weigher upstream of a bagger, portioning product by count or by weight before the film ever forms around it.
The sixth city in our Kansas coverage, Kansas City, includes a pet care account, where the bagger runs a larger frame sized for kibble or litter, and the fill setup shifts to handle coarser, dustier, heavier product than a snack food line would ever see. That frame also tends to run slower, since a heavier fill takes longer to settle evenly before the seal closes.
Once we understand what a Kansas plant is running, we build the machine around that rather than selling a stock frame off a lot somewhere. A purchased machine does not ship until it has run the plant's own product here, on our floor, start to finish. Checkweighers and metal detectors typically close out these lines, confirming weight and screening for contamination before product moves on to case packing and, from there, to the pallet.
Cities we support in Kansas
Local packaging automation support is available across the region, including Kansas City, Lawrence, Olathe, Overland Park, Topeka, Wichita.