Asheville serves as the eastern-U.S. production base for two major craft breweries, both running large-scale local canning and bottling facilities that outgrow packaging equipment faster than most operations plan for. The same metro area is also home to the headquarters of a regional grocery chain and a natural-foods grocery chain, both moving packaged product through retail distribution at a scale most cities Asheville's size never reach. A creative and tourism economy that took real hits from COVID-19 in 2020 and Hurricane Helene in 2024 makes equipment reliability matter more for the breweries and grocers still running here.

Bottling and canning lines like the ones Asheville's breweries run need case erectors and sealers that build and close cases as fast as the filler runs upstream, plus our PackMaster cobot palletizers to stack finished pallets without adding headcount to a night shift. Case packers handle the same job for the grocery chains' private-label and packaged-food lines, moving cases from filler to truck without a manual bottleneck in between, while our Mars Series VFFS baggers handle any private-label snack, coffee, or dry-goods lines running behind those same grocery brands. If your Asheville operation runs anywhere near that volume, our North Carolina location page covers how we support bottling and canning lines like these across the state, and our food and beverage industry page covers the equipment categories that fit breweries, grocers, and co-packers alike. A case study on our site follows a regional food producer that scaled production with new automation, worth a look before your next expansion. Every project starts on our solutions page with a walkthrough of the filler-to-case handoff, matched to what a brewery this size actually runs. Sized to the run. Two breweries and two grocery-chain headquarters keep Asheville's packaging volume well above what a city this size usually sees.