Kent, Washington runs packaging automation at the scale its manufacturing base demands, anchoring a stretch of the Seattle metro whose distribution industry ranks fourth among United States markets, an extensive base of warehousing and production built up over decades. A meat-snack food manufacturer has run its headquarters and production out of Kent for more than a century, long enough that the city named a street after the company in 2018 to mark its 100th anniversary there. A hundred years of continuous meat-snack production means that plant can't afford a bag seal slipping mid-shift. Our Mars Series VFFS bagging lines form and seal snack-format pouches at that pace without babysitting the film path. We've engineered VFFS lines for meat-snack and jerky-bar producers before, exactly the profile Kent's manufacturer fits.

Kent's industrial base runs wider still. Aerospace manufacturing keeps a sizable footprint in the city, and a legacy steel industry, made up of several long-running steel and metal-fabrication operations dating back to the early twentieth century, still anchors local employment today. For a producer stacking finished bags or pouches into shipping cases, we pair our Mars Series VFFS baggers with automatic case packers so your line moves from formed bag to sealed case without a manual hand-off. Given how much manufacturing and warehousing activity already runs through Kent, tightening the packaging end of the line is one of the more direct ways a local producer can add throughput without adding floor space.