Lafayette is headquarters to one of the largest privately held food manufacturers in the country: a Cajun hot sauce and canned specialty foods company founded here in 1928 that has grown into a national operation, even though its four processing plants now sit outside the city, in New Iberia and Lozes, Louisiana, El Paso, Texas, and Wilson, North Carolina. Packaging machines matter here too. Even below corporate-headquarters scale, Lafayette's manufacturers need them. An industrial bakery in the city produces bread and buns with more than 200 production, maintenance and distribution staff on its payroll, and a nutritional-ingredient manufacturer keeps its headquarters here too, alongside a USDA- and FDA-inspected Cajun food producer that folded a Lafayette-founded specialty bread brand into its New Iberia plant.

We don't operate in Lafayette directly, but the mix of sauce, bread and ingredient manufacturers here lines up well with the baked-goods equipment we build. Your bread line already runs to a 200-person production staff. The flow wrapper just needs to keep up with it, and we supply that too. A Pack Series flow wrapper suits the bread and bun lines running at Lafayette's industrial bakery, sealing loaves and packs at the pace a 200-plus person production staff can keep up with, while a horizontal form fill seal machine handles pouched sauce or specialty-food formats for a Cajun food producer packaging product for retail. We serve manufacturers across Louisiana at this scale, and our checkweighing and case-level equipment covers what a food company approaching national scale, or a smaller one still growing into it, eventually needs once volume outgrows what a single line can handle by hand.