Norfolk built its economy on moving freight, and that same infrastructure now shapes demand for packaging equipment among the region's food processors. The region's container terminals have handled more than 2 million TEUs and hundreds of thousands of tons of breakbulk cargo in a single year, and a nearby coal terminal ranks as the largest coal trans-shipment point in the Northern Hemisphere. A Fortune 500 meat processor headquartered just outside Norfolk anchors a regional food-processing base that ships packaged product through those same terminals and rail lines. For decades, an automaker also ran an assembly plant along the Elizabeth River, a reminder of how much heavy manufacturing this stretch of the Hampton Roads waterfront has absorbed over the years. For a plant packaging meat or packaged food at that volume, equipment has to keep pace with container and rail departure times set well before the product reaches the dock.

You ship on a freight schedule. We build to match it. PackMaster robotic case packers and cobot palletizers handle the physical volume of loading export-ready product onto pallets built for container shipment, while case erectors and sealers form and close cartons at the speed a high-throughput meat or food line requires. A Mars Series vertical form fill seal machine handles bagged and pouched formats for products moving through the same distribution network. Norfolk's terminals and rail lines have carried this kind of volume for decades: PLAN IT's Virginia location page and food & beverage industry page cover the regional detail, and the VFFS and automatic case-packer equipment categories break down the machines built for a Hampton Roads plant, with our solutions team ready to match a line to current export volume.