Citrus groves, cotton fields, and cattle ranches built Phoenix's original economy after Jack Swilling's 1867 irrigation canal opened the Salt River Valley to large-scale farming, an era historically summarized as the 5 Cs of copper, cattle, climate, cotton, and citrus. We build packaging automation, outlined further on our food and beverage page, for the food processors, grocery distributors, and e-commerce operations that have grown up in that valley since, running food-grade lines instead of groves and gins. Phoenix's agricultural base gave way over the twentieth century to a metro built on construction and retirement communities, including Sun City, which opened in 1960 during the postwar boom.

Grocery and logistics now drive much of that demand. A regional grocery chain employs roughly 21,000 people across the Phoenix metro, and a major e-commerce and logistics employer accounts for close to 37,600 more, figures that show how much of the area's economy now runs on food distribution and order fulfillment rather than farming alone. You know what's moving through the metro's grocery and fulfillment warehouses. Our lines are sized to bag and case it at that volume. Our Mars Series VFFS baggers, detailed on our VFFS page, handle produce, snack, and dry-goods packaging at that throughput, and our automatic case packers, which our case-packer page runs through in detail, carton finished bags for palletized shipping. Our Arizona page covers the wider region, and our solutions page walks through what happens between a first quote and a bagging line running in your warehouse. We don't keep an office in Phoenix, but the metro's grocery and food producers already run our machines, and we're the ones who show up for service after.