The Ygnacio and Clayton valleys around Concord were once a major agricultural area, growing grapes, walnuts, almonds, wheat, hay, and tomatoes, before the region urbanized and that valley economy disappeared. Concord also spent decades as a military logistics site: the Concord Naval Weapons Station, established in 1942, supplied armaments to ships at Port Chicago through the Vietnam War and Gulf War era, before its inland portion closed for redevelopment. Today, a biomedical-products manufacturer is the one operation left in Concord that still runs packaging equipment on-site, with the rest of the city's largest employers concentrated in healthcare and public utilities.

There's limited food and beverage manufacturing inside city limits today, so the more useful frame is regional. Concord sits inside a broader East Bay food-production corridor, where VFFS machines and automatic case packers, a pairing we walk through in a case study of our own, still see steady demand from processors upstream and downstream of the city. The biomedical-products manufacturer is the clearest sign of how far Concord has moved from its farming and Naval Weapons Station past, and the land now being redeveloped there could bring more manufacturing back inside city limits over time. We supply and integrate VFFS and case-packing lines for food and beverage producers elsewhere in California who supply or distribute through the Concord area. Our solutions team sizes that equipment for your region, not one plant alone.