A pulp and chemical manufacturing complex ran on Bellingham's downtown waterfront for nearly four decades, from 1963 to 2001, part of more than a century of industrial activity in this Whatcom County port city that packaging equipment has since had to keep pace with. A chlor-alkali chemical plant operated on that same stretch of waterfront starting in 1965. That waterfront heritage runs alongside a food-manufacturing tradition: a well-known Puget Sound meat-snack maker with roots in the wider Bellingham region turns out beef jerky, pepperoni, and snack sausages sold at retailers across the Pacific Northwest, and the area once hosted a condensed-milk company that helped build the Pacific Northwest's dairy processing industry from the ground up.

Our Pack Series flow wrappers and stick pack machines seal jerky, pepperoni, and snack sausage into single-serve portions, and metal detectors paired with X-ray inspection catch bone fragments or foreign material before product ships. Bone fragments don't get a second inspection once a bag is sealed. Portion weights can't drift either. A meat-snack producer already watches shelf life and run rate like a hawk. We build the line so neither one slips when volume climbs. If your lineup moves beyond jerky into snack-mix or bite-size formats, Mars Series VFFS baggers handle that shift, and case packers box finished product for the trip down the I-5 corridor. We install and service every one of those machines ourselves for food and beverage producers in Bellingham and across the greater Puget Sound region.