Modernizing Manufacturing to Accommodate Growth

A much-needed upgrade of conveyors and seasoning equipment help snack manufacturer G&S Foods handle rapid expansion while maintaining product quality.

Snack manufacturing scales
At G&S Foods, seasoned product is moved on horizontal motion conveyors, which gently transport the items to weighing and bagging or packaging.
G&S Foods

G&S Foods is a longtime contract manufacturer of snacks located in Hanover, Pa., known as “The Snack Food Capital of the World” due to the concentration of successful snack brands in the area. G&S Foods started in the early 1990s and quickly grew due to its specialty of producing items like pretzels, chips, popcorn, puffs, enrobed treats, and other snacks customized to exact seasoning and packaging specifications for clients.

As the company’s business and revenues expanded rapidly into the 2010s, so did its need for more capacity on its production lines to keep up with orders. As 2020 approached, G&S Foods’ original infrastructure was not equipped to support this exponential growth, and needed equipment that could handle a high volume and variety of snack production for its clients.

“The company tripled in size,” says Wade Fitzkee, VP of operations at G&S Foods. “We had a lot of older equipment, and the lines were small in capacity. So, as we started to upgrade those lines to match our business levels, we also made them bigger. Now I needed a bigger seasoner and bigger conveyers to move products, and when we stop to clean the lines, we needed to do that faster than before too.” 


   Global snack food market projected at $800 billion by 2030.

When deciding to re-configure its production lines to handle more capacity, G&S Foods looked to PPM Technologies for solutions. The snack maker purchased PPM’s vibratory conveyors, rotating seasoning and coating equipment, and horizontal motion conveyors to replace the older machines on the line.

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