Greater Austin's metro GDP hit $248 billion in 2023, split between a dense base of electronics and chip manufacturers headquartered in the city and a packaged food and beverage sector turning to packaging automation to keep pace with its own growth. That same base of engineering and automation talent is available to food producers looking to scale their lines. A grocery chain built around fresh and packaged foods was founded in Austin and is still headquartered there, and it has grown alongside a wave of Austin-founded frozen-treat and tea brands that started small and needed to industrialize their packaging as demand grew. Manual lines can't keep pace forever.

Austin is also home to roughly 85 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, placing it among the country's fastest-growing life-sciences clusters, which brings a parallel demand for precision filling and inspection equipment built to exacting standards. If your packaged-food line is scaling out of Austin, an EliteWeigh multihead weigher and Mars Series VFFS bagger handle snack packaging and frozen foods at volume, an EliteFill auger filler manages powders and granular product for personal-care or household lines, and a stick pack or sachet machine covers single-serve tea and beverage formats. A checkweigher and metal detector close out the line for quality control before product ships. You know your recipe and your growth curve; we know how to size a packaging line to match it. PLAN IT builds and installs the VFFS baggers, multihead weighers, auger fillers, and inspection systems that Austin's packaged-food brands and co-packers run on.