Riverside sits at the origin point of a citrus-growing footprint that once reached across the state, and the industrial parks built up around that land now support food packaging equipment lines alongside a broader mix of manufacturing. In the 1870s, two of the first three navel orange trees ever planted in the US, grown from Brazilian budwood, went into the ground on Eliza and Luther Tibbets' Riverside property; the trees thrived, growers propagated them quickly, and the citrus boom that followed built much of the region's early economy. Citrus production and packing houses still operate in Riverside today, even as the industry has declined with urbanization and water scarcity. The city's modern economy runs largely on light industry instead, producing aircraft components, automotive parts, gas cylinders, electronic equipment, food products, and medical devices, spread across industrial parks including Hunter, Sycamore Canyon, and the Airport Industrial Area.

PLAN IT's Mars Series VFFS baggers suit bagged citrus and produce moving out of Riverside's packing houses, and automatic case packers carton those bags or boxed fruit for palletized shipping. Both machine types also fit the packaged food production running alongside Riverside's aircraft, automotive, and electronics manufacturing base. You grow and pack the citrus; we build the equipment that gets it into the bag. Two trees started it all. Our California location page and our food and beverage industry page cover the regional market, and our VFFS and automatic case packer category pages detail specific configurations; our solutions page breaks down what it takes to get a citrus bagging line like Riverside's up and running. PLAN IT has no local office in Riverside. You'll still get direct sourcing, integration, and service as an Inland Empire manufacturer.