Fort Collins runs one of the largest brewery clusters in Colorado, and PLAN IT builds the packaging automation those canning lines depend on. The city's industrial roots go back to an early sugar-beet farming economy, when beet tops fed local sheep in such volume that by the early 1900s the region was known as the lamb feeding capital of the world; a sugar-processing plant went up in neighboring Loveland in 1901. That agricultural-processing base didn't disappear so much as change what it processes. The city now carries more than 20 breweries, including large-scale operations, and the local chamber estimated the brewing industry generated $309.9 million in output and 2,488 jobs in Larimer County. You're scaling can and bottle output here; we supply the case packers, palletizers, and inspection systems that keep those lines from becoming the bottleneck.

Beyond brewing, Fort Collins carries a broader manufacturing base in industrial controls, protective gear, and outdoor equipment, along with a growing high-tech and bioscience cluster tied to Colorado State University's agricultural research. Our Mars Series VFFS baggers and case-packing equipment, covered on the VFFS machine category and automatic case packer lineup pages, support scale across those categories too. High-speed can lines also benefit from checkweighing and inspection systems that catch underfills before product ships. PLAN IT keeps no plant in Fort Collins itself; we ship and install this equipment across the same brewery, outdoor-equipment, and high-tech corridor the Colorado location page covers. The food and beverage industry page and our solutions page cover the rest of what we build.