Hillsboro grew from a 5,000-person farm town into Oregon's tech-manufacturing anchor, but a decades-old condiment maker and a major biologics packaging facility still call it home. Pouch machines, weighers, and inspection systems sit behind both, and we build them.
Hillsboro's demand for packaging equipment goes back further than its tech-manufacturing reputation suggests. The city was a farm town of about 5,000 people in 1950, long before high-tech manufacturers arrived in the 1980s and turned the area into what's now called the Silicon Forest. Manufacturing runs wider than chips here. It's still Hillsboro's leading employment sector at 24 percent of the workforce, led by a major semiconductor manufacturer whose largest site, spread across three campuses, employs about 16,000 workers. A condiment manufacturer founded in 1929 still operates in the area with more than 70 employees and roughly $25 million in annual sales, and a biotechnology company opened a $400 million facility here in 2010 built specifically for biologics packaging and distribution, a sign that precision packaging has a real foothold in the local economy alongside semiconductors.
For a condiment producer running small-batch, high-mix production, we supply RotoBagger premade-pouch machines and stick pack equipment for portion-controlled formats, along with EliteFill auger fillers and multihead weighers that hold fill accuracy across recipe changes without slowing a production run. Case packers and VFFS baggers handle the outbound cartons and bagged formats that move alongside those pouch lines. For biologics and health-product packaging and distribution, checkweighers and X-ray inspection systems add the verification layer that regulated product demands before it ships. Fill accuracy doesn't get relaxed for a recipe change, or for a regulated biologics batch either. PLAN IT isn't based in Hillsboro, but we work with food, personal-care, and health-product manufacturers across Oregon, supplying and servicing equipment with machines kept in stock so a condiment producer or biologics packager isn't left waiting on a custom order while a line sits idle. A city known for chips also runs on fill accuracy and inspection, the same discipline our equipment is built around for condiment producers and biologics packagers alike.
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