A $50-million, 140,000-square-foot chip-processing facility built in Airdrie in 2022 runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, processing 78,000 tonnes of Alberta potatoes a year. It's one of the largest private-label salty-snack co-packers in the province. More than 100 jobs depend on it. High-volume salty-snack production like that depends on packaging automation: flow wrappers and VFFS baggers that bag chips continuously without jamming on odd-shaped or oily product, running at speeds a hand-packing line could never sustain. PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS bagging equipment and case packers are designed for continuous snack-food runs, forming and sealing bags before casing finished product for shipment.

Airdrie's snack-food base isn't limited to potato chips. An Airdrie-based food manufacturer produces organic tortilla chips, guacamole, and dips for wholesale and retail distribution across Alberta, and three operating craft breweries, led by one that opened in 2017, add a growing beverage-production side to Airdrie's food economy. A warehousing and distribution operator based in Airdrie handles transloading and pick-and-pack work for regional food and consumer-goods shippers, rounding out a local supply chain sized for volume. Wet dip and dry chip product don't run through packaging the same way, and if that's what you're bagging, PLAN IT's EcoBagger premade-pouch machines and tray-fill equipment handle both without a changeover, while PackMaster cobot palletizers keep the brewery side stacking cans and cases without added labor. PLAN IT has helped food producers work through the same kind of volume jump Super-Pufft's Airdrie plant now represents, and our solutions team sizes the right VFFS, pouch, or palletizing line to match it. If your line can't afford downtime, PLAN IT keeps flow wrappers and VFFS baggers in stock for round-the-clock snack production like Airdrie's chip plant runs.