Virginia Beach's economy started as plantation agriculture long before it became a resort town, a shift that began in 1883 when rail service reached the coast and opened the area to tourism and residential growth beyond farmland. Food and beverage producers here need packaging automation that can keep pace with a resort economy that swells every summer: restaurants, hotels, and food service pulling from a packaged food and beverage supply chain most tourists never think about. Hampton Roads has also grown into a base for advanced manufacturers, defense contractors, and international firms, with nearly 200 foreign companies keeping an office or North American headquarters in the region, and Naval Air Station Oceana sits within the city as well. Our Pack Series flow wrappers and Mars Series VFFS baggers keep snack, bakery, and beverage lines running at the volume a resort-driven supply chain demands, whether the product is headed to a grocery shelf or a hotel kitchen.

Tourism remains one of the region's largest economic engines, generating an estimated $857 million a year and supporting close to 14,900 jobs, much of it tied to restaurants, hotels, and food service that draw on a packaged food and beverage supply chain behind the scenes. If your bakery or snack line needs to restock a beach economy every weekend, our case-packing lines are built to hold that pace without a changeover eating into the shift. We point to a similar producer's case study on scaling output, backed by machines ready to ship rather than booked out for next season, so a Hampton Roads line doesn't wait on a summer rush to catch up.