Chico is home to the largest craft brewer in the United States, an operation large enough to make packaging automation a daily operational question rather than an upgrade someday. The surrounding countryside adds another layer of volume: almonds are now the top crop in the Chico area, a title that only recently passed rice, alongside walnuts, kiwis, olives, peaches, and plums. Orchards run to the edge of the city limits, and beekeepers truck in millions of bees each spring just to pollinate the bloom. A walnut variety is even named Chico.

We serve California's food and beverage producers with Mars Series VFFS baggers and automatic case packers, matched to what your plant is actually shipping, whether that is cased bottles and cans or bagged almonds and walnuts headed to a co-packer. A brewery running high-speed case packing needs different case-erecting and end-of-line inspection specs than a nut processor bagging retail and bulk formats, and we size VFFS baggers, checkweighers, and case packing lines to the product actually running through them, not a standard spec sheet. A high-speed bottling line and a bulk nut-bagging line do not run on the same case-packing spec, and matching that gap is the job before a single machine ships. Machines are supplied and integrated rather than dropped off at the loading dock, with in-stock units available for producers who need a line running before harvest season starts. Our solutions team works directly with Chico-area brewers and growers to match equipment to a case volume or a harvest calendar, whichever is driving your packaging decision.