Metairie's food-processing roots run back to French tenant farms and a seasoning industry born in 1889. PLAN IT brings multihead weighers, auger fillers, and packaging automation to food and beverage producers across Jefferson Parish and greater New Orleans.
The name Metairie comes from a French term for a tenant-farming arrangement, metairie or metayage, and French tenant farmers and sharecroppers worked this stretch of Jefferson Parish from the 1720s until urbanization took over in the 1910s. That history left a food-processing base that still needs packaging automation today. Jefferson Parish's economy now runs on healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transportation, and food processing, with food processing tracing a straight line back to that agricultural start. A fourth-generation, family-owned food distribution and production company still operates in the parish.
The broader New Orleans-area food-products corridor near Metairie is also where a seasoning and food-products company got its start in 1889, a business that grew into part of a larger national spice-and-seasoning company. If you're blending seasoning or sauce recipes out of this corridor, that heritage lines up with what PLAN IT builds: PLAN IT's EliteWeigh multihead weighers and EliteFill auger fillers handle granular and powder seasoning blends at the accuracy those recipes need, while vertical form fill seal machines and automatic case packers move sauces, spice blends, and packaged foods from filled pouch to sealed case without manual handling. The blend has to hit weight. One regional food distributor has already scaled its production this way, moving from manual filling to a full automated line without changing recipes. A seasoning blend that's off by a gram changes the flavor profile on the shelf; PLAN IT's EliteWeigh multihead weighers are built to hold that line. PLAN IT supplies and integrates that packaging automation for food producers and distributors working out of Metairie and greater Jefferson Parish, and keeps EliteWeigh and EliteFill units in stock so a Jefferson Parish producer on a tight production schedule isn't stuck waiting through a full custom build.
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