The largest tea manufacturer in North America is headquartered in Boulder, turning out enough tea to fill about 1.6 billion cups a year from a facility in the city's Gunbarrel area. That volume depends on packaging automation: stick-pack and sachet lines built to fill and seal small, individual portions fast and consistently, exactly the category PLAN IT's stick pack and sachet machines cover for loose-leaf tea, powdered drink mix, and single-serve supplements alike.

Boulder's food-manufacturing footprint doesn't stop at tea. The city has anchored a natural and organic CPG cluster for decades, spanning frozen meals, plant-based spreads, nut butters, and snack chips. One packaged-foods maker in that cluster posted more than $500 million in net sales in 2014 across frozen meals, gluten-free foods, and plant-based spreads, before it was acquired by a national food company in 2016 that kept the Boulder headquarters. A nut-butter and organic-chocolate maker headquartered in Boulder returned to independent, Boulder-based ownership in 2025 after a period under national ownership. If your line runs chips, spreads, or single-serve portions at anything close to that scale, PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS baggers handle the chips and snacks, our EliteFill auger and powder fillers handle the nut butters and spreads, and automatic case packers get finished product palletized and out the door. You know tea, nut butter, or chips; PLAN IT knows how to keep each packaged at the scale it takes to compete with players many times your size. We bring that support to food producers across Colorado too, including the work behind one of our project case studies, and our consultative model means the equipment gets integrated and supported after it arrives, rather than dropped off on a loading dock and left to run on its own.