Recent job postings for bakery-operative shifts confirm that a commercial bakery on the Langley Bypass still runs continuous production today, turning out packaged bread at a volume that depends on packaging equipment matching oven output shift after shift. The bakery never really stopped. That plant sits inside a township whose farm economy still produces fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy and eggs sold through roadside stands and an annual farm tour, and whose Gloucester industrial area, one of four manufacturing clusters in the township, employs roughly 15,000 people across about 175 businesses working in food and chemical distribution, plastics and contract manufacturing. Two working wineries operate in the township as well, one of them award-winning at an international competition in 2012, real beverage-production facilities alongside the farms.

Keeping bread fresh on the shelf comes down to how fast it's wrapped and sealed off the oven, the job PLAN IT's flow wrappers are built for. PLAN IT keeps no facility on the ground in Langley, only the wrapping line this bakery already runs: Pack Series flow wrappers for wrapping bread, bagels and other baked goods at line speed, and horizontal form-fill-seal machines for the same high-volume bakery output, the kind of precision packaging problem PLAN IT solved in a client case study on cookie-packaging accuracy. The township's food-processing operations, wineries and the Gloucester cluster's contract manufacturers are equally strong candidates for that equipment as they scale past manual labor. For more on the equipment itself, our flow wrapper and horizontal form-fill-seal categories and the cookie-packaging case study go further, and our British Columbia location page and baked goods industry page cover the regional fit, with our solutions page holding the full catalog.