One of North America's chemical-free coffee decaffeination facilities runs out of Burnaby, processing green coffee for roasters across the continent without a solvent bath, a niche operation that still depends on precise packaging equipment downstream. It's one thread in a bigger picture: a Burnaby nut and dried-fruit processor has turned roasted and raw nuts, dried fruit, nut butters, and trail mixes into grocery, foodservice, and industrial-bakery products since 1979, and a contract food manufacturer nearby packages foods and seasonings for other brands as a co-packer. The province's food and beverage manufacturing trade association is headquartered here too, which is less a coincidence than a reflection of how much powder, granular, and dried-goods processing already runs through this part of Metro Vancouver.

Nut processing, dried-goods packaging, and coffee handling all draw on the same powder and granular equipment PLAN IT builds. You know your nut, dried-fruit, and coffee mix. We know changeovers. We keep that mix flowing through one line instead of stalling on it. EliteFill auger fillers meter ground and granular coffee to an exact weight run after run, and EcoBagger and RotoBagger premade-pouch machines bag the chunkier mix, roasted nuts, dried fruit, and trail mix, into stand-up or flat pouches without jamming on an uneven fill. A contract manufacturer packaging foods and seasonings for other brands benefits most, since flexible tooling lets one line run several products across a week instead of dedicating a machine to each. PLAN IT doesn't keep a branch office in Burnaby, but the same multi-SKU flexibility a Burnaby co-packer needs on its line is what we build into every machine we supply across British Columbia, with units kept in stock for a plant that needs a line running before the next production run.