Lake Forest holds a small, dense cluster of manufacturers inside Orange County, and packaging automation here mostly runs on powders and liquids rather than solid food. A nutrition and supplement company operates a 133,000-square-foot production facility in the city, turning out protein powders and aloe-based liquid nutrition products; more than 65 percent of its worldwide output is made in-house at this one site, which has produced over 630 million units since opening in 2009. The plant runs an NSF-certified, cGMP-compliant quality lab and holds ISO 45001 safety certification, the kind of operation that needs filling and pouching equipment built for pharmaceutical-grade consistency at high speed. The city's manufacturing base isn't limited to nutrition products either: a crafting-equipment maker has manufactured and distributed from Lake Forest since 1977, and a home-improvement hardware division employs several hundred more people locally.

We build the fill lines that plants like this depend on: auger fillers that meter powder by weight into pouches, stick packs, or sachets, and premade-pouch machines that handle pre-formed bags instead of forming film from a roll, a common setup for single-serve protein and supplement packs. The dosing has to be exact. If your production run needs powder dosed to a gram and sealed without cross-contamination, that's the equipment category we specialize in. There's no PLAN IT plant sitting in Lake Forest, but we equip powder and supplement manufacturers like the one running this city's 133,000-square-foot facility across Southern California, and our solutions page covers the auger, multihead, and pouch systems available now.