A frozen or dairy line in Bakersfield is up against a county that ranks among the top five US agricultural producers, and packaging automation is what lets a manual operation match that volume. Kern County's economy has long run on oil and agriculture; in 2013 it was the single most oil-productive county in the United States while also placing among the top five counties nationally for agricultural output value. Grapes, citrus, almonds, carrots, alfalfa, cotton, and roses move through the region at a scale few counties can match, and Bakersfield's own manufacturing base includes what's reported to be the world's largest ice cream plant. Food processing, distribution, and manufacturing sit explicitly alongside oil and agriculture as named local industries in Bakersfield today.

PLAN IT's EliteWeigh multihead weighers and EliteFill auger fillers handle produce, nut, and dairy runs at Kern County's scale, and Mars Series VFFS baggers and automatic case packers cover the bagged snack, dry-good, and high-volume frozen and dairy formats that follow it off the line, all supplied to food and beverage producers across California. Volume like that doesn't forgive downtime. If your Bakersfield-area plant is still portioning or bagging by hand, a multihead weigher or auger filler will move more product through the same shift without adding a line. Grapes, citrus, almonds, and dairy don't run through the same station, so the weighing and filling equipment gets specified per product rather than reused as one general-purpose setup. PLAN IT's case study on a food producer scaling production is worth a look for a Kern County operation sizing the same jump in volume, and our full solutions catalog covers everything else the line needs.