Mobile's food and beverage sector has expanded fast over the past few years. A seafood processor invested $12.4 million to open a processing and distribution hub in a former bakery building along the Interstate 65 service road, creating 54 jobs. A cold-storage logistics company broke ground on a 300,000-square-foot facility directly across from the container port, adding the kind of cold-chain capacity that frozen seafood and other perishables need to move at scale. Packaging automation has had to keep up. On the beverage side, a major bottler completed a $48 million expansion at a Mobile plant that now turns out more than 13 million cases a year and employs over 300 people serving roughly 3,300 customers along the Gulf Coast, while a second bottler and distributor runs a location of its own in the city.

Mars Series VFFS machines bag portioned and frozen seafood efficiently, at the volume a new processing hub like this is scaling toward. Automatic case packers keep pace with the cold-chain throughput a facility that size needs. High-speed filling and case packing suit bottling lines running millions of cases a year, and PackMaster cobot palletizers close out the line without slowing a plant near capacity. Your seafood or bottling line has its own numbers to hit; getting the equipment to match them is our job. Our case study on a smoked fish business upscaling with automation shows how a similar line handles growing seafood volume. Our Alabama location page and food and beverage industry page round out the region and industries we work across. Specs on individual machines live on our VFFS packaging machine and automatic case packer category pages, and our solutions page runs through what happens between a first call and an installed line. We don't keep an office in Mobile; we work the relationship directly, handling spec, install, and support personally for Gulf Coast processors and bottlers.