A major North American brewery has run in Fort Worth since 1966, anchoring a brewing and meatpacking base in North Texas that's more than a century old. The brewery now produces up to nine million barrels a year, backed by a $65 million packaging-warehouse expansion completed in 2022 to handle variety packs at a pace no manual case-building crew could sustain shift after shift. If your line needs packaging automation to fill variety packs at that scale, hand-building them isn't an option: a case packer and PackMaster cobot palletizer build and stack mixed-format cases without slowing the filling line behind them, and a case erector keeps corrugated moving as fast as the bottles or cans come off it.

Meatpacking runs just as deep here. Major national plants processed meat at the historic Fort Worth Stockyards from 1901 to 1971, and in 2025 a new 200,000-square-foot protein-processing plant opened on the same grounds, reviving an industry the city built its name on. Fresh protein at that scale calls for a checkweigher and Mars Series VFFS bagger on the line, confirming pack weight and sealing product fast enough to keep cold-chain timelines intact. The clock never really stops. A beverage co-packer also expanded into Fort Worth in 2014, running high-speed production lines out of its own distribution center, adding a third packaging-automation buyer to a city already running brewing and meatpacking at scale. You know what it takes to run a brewery or a meatpacking floor at this pace; we know how to package what comes off the end of it. PLAN IT equips Fort Worth's brewers, meatpackers, and beverage co-packers with that same case packing, palletizing, checkweighing, and VFFS bagging lineup.