Waco's manufacturing base runs deep: manufacturing accounts for more than 13% of the Greater Waco economy, 1.5 times the state and national averages, anchored by a major confectionery manufacturer, a global food and agribusiness processor, and two large-scale poultry processors, one of which alone employs around 1,200 people locally. Packaging automation demand tracks that base directly. Production at that scale needs equipment sized for candy, snack, and protein lines running at volume, not machinery meant for a small batch operation.

That industrial base isn't new. Waco built its 19th-century economy on cotton processing, celebrated at the 1894 Cotton Palace exposition that drew more than 8 million visitors over 23 years, and downtown grain silos raised in 1950 for a regional cotton-oil processor still stand today. Waco also carries a nationally recognized aerospace and defense sector, evidence of a skilled manufacturing workforce beyond food production. You already know how fast Waco's confectionery and poultry lines move. We build packaging that keeps pace with them. Pack Series flow wrappers handle candy and confectionery packaging at commercial speed. VFFS baggers and fillers portion and bag snack and powder products accurately, and metal detection and X-ray inspection systems catch contamination risks before poultry and frozen-food cases ship. Nothing here runs slow. Our Texas location page, confectionery industry page, flow wrapping and feeding systems category, VFFS machine category, and solutions page cover the full equipment lineup.