Concord sits inside the Charlotte metro's manufacturing corridor, and packaging automation has followed the city's industry as it shifted over time. Long before Charlotte Motor Speedway put the area on the map, Concord was settled around 1750 by German and Scots-Irish immigrants and grew into a cotton-trading center as the seat of Cabarrus County; by 1897 it had a cotton mill believed to be the first in the nation owned by Black Americans. The mill closed. The corridor didn't. Today the corridor includes a coffee processing and manufacturing operation and a national food-distribution company running operations out of Concord, both of which need packaging line automation to move product at volume: powder and granular filling for roasted and ground coffee, case erecting and case packing for palletized grocery shipments headed out to retail.

We build packaging equipment for exactly this kind of shift: a facility that used to run one product line taking on new categories without retooling its whole floor. A Mars Series VFFS machine, our vertical form-fill-seal line, forms, fills, and seals coffee and powder products into stand-up or pillow bags at the speeds a growing distribution operation needs, and an automatic case packer takes finished bags into shipping cases ready for palletizing. You know your roast and your route; we run the VFFS machine for the coffee and the case packer for the pallets it ships out on. For Concord's food and beverage producers and distributors, that means fewer manual packing stations and a line that can flex between products as the corridor's manufacturing base keeps diversifying. We keep machines in stock for operations that need to add a line before the next contract starts, not after a season of missed pallets.