San Leandro's own list of top-10 employers includes a major chocolate manufacturer and a large beverage bottling plant, each with hundreds of workers on staff per the city's 2015 financial report, evidence that confectionery and beverage production in this East Bay city goes back generations. Packaging machinery has real history here too. A coffee-roasting and packaging plant also operated in the city for decades before it closed, adding to a food and beverage manufacturing base that goes back to San Leandro's founding on a Mexican land grant. By the 1910 census, a Portuguese immigrant community made up nearly two-thirds of the city's population, and many of those residents farmed the produce that fed the area's early food-processing plants. That agricultural and food-manufacturing base carried through to today, when confectionery and bottling still anchor San Leandro's employer list.

We design Pack Series horizontal flow wrappers and Mars Series VFFS machines around exactly that confectionery-and-bottling combination. A Pack Series flow wrapper seals individual chocolate bars and confections at the speed a plant the size of San Leandro's chocolate operation needs, while a Mars Series VFFS machine bags loose or multi-piece candy and snack products without slowing down a multi-shift line. You know your chocolate and beverage lines. We know how to wrap, bag, and case what comes off them at volume. Our case study on a candy and confectionery producer expanding its packaging capacity, part of our solutions lineup, covers exactly this scale-up. PLAN IT doesn't manufacture in San Leandro itself. East Bay and California confectionery and beverage producers still get machines matched to what's already running, with service after install.