Wichita earns its nickname, The Air Capital of the World, from a manufacturing base that today includes several major aircraft makers, and that precision-manufacturing standard is exactly what packaging automation has to meet for the city's food and beverage producers. The city started as a Chisholm Trail cattle-drive trading post and rail-head in the 1860s and 70s, a Cowtown identity that gave way to industrial manufacturing after a major aircraft company built its Wichita operations in 1934. That same era of the city produced a health-care products company founded here in 1889, a camping-gear maker, and what's widely credited as the first fast-food chain, founded in Wichita in 1921, proof that the city has exported consumer products at scale for well over a century.

Mars Series VFFS baggers and automatic case packers are what keep a Wichita bakery, snack producer, or beverage bottler's secondary packaging from lagging behind the primary line, and we supply both across Kansas. Tolerances here run tight. If you're weighing new equipment for a Wichita-area plant, PLAN IT's page on serving food and beverage producers and its full solutions lineup are the places to start, both organized around consultative service rather than a one-size machine sale. You know your dough, snack mix, or beverage formula; we know how to keep it filling, bagging, and casing at the rate an aircraft-town labor pool expects.