Boise is headquarters to two of the country's major potato and frozen-food processors, along with a large grocery chain and a second major grocery retailer, and outgrowing a packaging line here isn't a hypothetical. Frozen fries, hash browns, and dehydrated potato flakes move through these plants at serious volume, three different textures that call for three different bagging and filling setups. A line that can't hold pace becomes the bottleneck for everything behind it. We build for all three. Your fill line doesn't become the one part of the plant that can't keep up.

That food-processing base sits alongside a forest-products and packaging manufacturer and two lumber companies headquartered in Boise, plus a semiconductor manufacturer that ranks as the area's largest private employer. Technology and high-tech manufacturing have grown alongside the food-processing base rather than replacing it. For the potato and frozen-food side of that mix, PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS baggers form and fill frozen and powdered product at line speed, EliteFill auger fillers handle dehydrated potato granules and flakes with consistent fill weight, and metal detectors and X-ray inspection catch contamination before product reaches a case. Automatic case packers then move filled bags into shippers without added labor on the floor. Boise producers can lean on that experience: our Idaho locations page shows what's already installed nearby, our case study on scaling food production follows a frozen-food line that outgrew its original capacity, and our VFFS packaging machines, automatic case packers, food and beverage industry page, and full range of packaging solutions round out the options for matching equipment to your plant.