Take-and-bake pizzas boxed for grocery freezers, burgers served at a regional chain built here, and orchard fruit dried and canned for export are three of the more recognizable products with roots in Vancouver, Washington. That mix of packaged food and drink production is exactly where packaging automation earns its keep. A take-and-bake pizza chain and a regional burger company both keep national headquarters in the city, and the surrounding valley still ships apples, strawberries, and prunes that replaced subsistence crops as the region's economy developed into export agriculture. Each of those products, whether boxed, bagged, or canned, moves through a packaging line before it reaches a shelf.

Shipbuilding came first. The city became a shipbuilding center across both world wars, with three shipyards in operation; one, opened after Pearl Harbor, grew past 36,000 workers by 1944, while a hydropower-fed aluminum plant opened nearby in 1940 to draw on cheap power from the Bonneville Dam. That heavy-manufacturing legacy, plus a food-processing base that includes packaged pizza, bottled and canned drinks, and dried fruit, is where our equipment fits. Your pizza, fruit, and drink lines already run at volume; we build the Mars Series vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) baggers that bag fruit and snack formats and the automatic case packers that move boxed pizzas and cartoned drinks onto pallets at retail speed. You can see the full equipment list on our Washington location page and our food and beverage industry page; the VFFS packaging machine category and automatic case packers category break down the bagging and casing systems themselves, and our solutions page maps out how each runs from filling to the loading dock.