San Antonio's economy runs on the military, healthcare, government, professional services, oil and gas, and tourism sectors most people associate with the city, alongside a growing automotive-manufacturing base that has added to its industrial footprint. It's also headquarters to one of the largest privately held grocery retailers in the country, a national brewing company, and a regional barbecue restaurant chain. We build packaging automation for that food and beverage layer of the city's economy, covered in more depth on our food and beverage page. Government and civil service employment centers on installations including Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, and Randolph Air Force Base, but the grocery, brewing, and restaurant headquarters based in San Antonio create real local demand for food and beverage packaging equipment.
We published a case study about a food producer that scaled production by adding machines instead of headcount. San Antonio's growing food and beverage sector faces the same headcount math today. You know what's moving off San Antonio's grocery, brewing, and barbecue lines. Our equipment is built to bag and case it at that scale. Our Mars Series VFFS baggers, shown on our VFFS page, and our automatic case packers, detailed separately on our case-packer page, cover both ends of that scaling problem, forming and filling bags at speed and then cartoning them for shipment without slowing the line. Our Texas page fills in more on the region, and our solutions page spells out the steps between a first call and cartons coming off a working line. San Antonio has no PLAN IT office, only a working relationship: South Texas food and beverage producers call on us for sourcing, integration, and service.