Newport Beach hosts corporate headquarters for national food and beverage brands rather than production plants. PLAN IT works with the supply-chain and operations teams behind those brands, supplying packaging automation for the co-packers and plants that fill their orders nationwide.
The packaging automation behind the burrito bowls and bagged salads sold at fast-casual restaurants nationwide, and the canned functional beverages stocked in grocery coolers, gets specified in part by decision-makers who sit in Newport Beach, not by any factory in the city itself. The plant is elsewhere. A national fast-casual restaurant chain moved its global headquarters to Newport Center Drive in 2018, consolidating supply-chain, food-safety, and operations functions there, and a wellness beverage company also runs its headquarters from the same Newport Center area. Neither company runs a production line in Newport Beach: the packaging automation and food packaging equipment those brands rely on gets specified for plants and co-packers elsewhere, but the purchasing and packaging-format decisions get made here.
That split between headquarters and plant floor is common across food and beverage brands, and PLAN IT's consultative model closes exactly that gap. Our team engages the operations and supply-chain people who specify equipment standards even when they're not the ones running the machines day to day. The shelf format gets decided in a Newport Center boardroom long before a machine runs it; PLAN IT builds the line that turns that decision into product. If your plant fills orders for a Newport Beach-headquartered brand, PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS baggers, flow wrappers, and EliteWeigh multihead weighers match the specs that brand sets, backed by food-safety inspection equipment for the sign-off those headquarters require before product ships. Every plant executing a Newport Center packaging spec elsewhere in California shows up on PLAN IT's locations page, cross-referenced with our food and beverage industry page, and the case study on our site follows one of those producers through its own scale-up. Configuration specifics sit on our VFFS and case-packer category pages, and the solutions overview covers the rest. In-stock machines mean a co-packer under pressure from a Newport Beach client doesn't have to wait months to add a line.
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PLAN IT Packaging designs, supplies, and integrates automated packaging solutions for a wide range of industries. From primary packaging to end-of-line systems, we help manufacturers streamline production, improve efficiency, and scale with confidence.
PLAN IT Packaging offers a comprehensive range of equipment, including flow wrappers, vertical and horizontal form-fill-seal machines (VFFS/HFFS), premade pouch systems, case packers, palletizers, and complete turnkey packaging lines. Each solution is tailored to specific products and production needs.
Automation packaging refers to the use of machinery and integrated systems to perform packaging tasks with minimal manual intervention. This includes processes like filling, sealing, labeling, case packing, and palletizing, improving speed, consistency, and overall production efficiency.
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