Shreveport's current market for packaging machines grew out of a manufacturing history that reads like a survey of 20th-century American industry. An automobile assembly plant, an electric-transformer plant, and a payphone-manufacturing plant that once employed about 7,500 workers all operated in the city before that last plant closed in 2001. A single-operator chainsaw was invented in Shreveport and built there exclusively for decades, and a petrochemical-technology manufacturer and a glass manufacturer both ran production operations in the city during that same industrial era. Most of those plants have since closed, but a packaging manufacturer and that same petrochemical-technology producer both still operate as large manufacturing employers in Shreveport today, alongside a commercial food-service equipment maker that has built fryers at a Shreveport facility as part of a larger national manufacturing group.

We supply VFFS baggers (Mars Series) and automatic case packers for the food-processing and food-equipment manufacturing world Shreveport's surviving plants represent: VFFS machines that form, fill, and seal bagged food product at volume, and case packers that build and load shipping cases for packaged goods moving out of a plant at scale. Both suit a packaging manufacturer's own production lines and any food processor supplying or supplied by Shreveport's food-service equipment industry. That loop still runs through Shreveport. Its food-service equipment reaches kitchens well past Louisiana, and the food processors on the other end of that supply chain still need their own product bagged and cased before it ships. Individual specs sit on our VFFS packaging machine and automatic case packer category pages; our Louisiana location page and food and beverage industry page cover the wider region, and our solutions page covers what a VFFS or case-packing install involves for a processor here. Shreveport has no PLAN IT office, but Louisiana's food processors and packaging manufacturers turn to us to bag and case whatever moves through their plants next.