Over 25 Years of Service to the Poultry and Meat Processing Industry

Since 1984, Gainco has worked with customers in the meat and poultry industry to provide equipment, systems and service to solve the challenges of weighing, sizing, sorting and distributing products on the processing line. Founded in 1984 as Gainesville Scales, we began as a regional company, providing our products and services to poultry customers located in the southeastern United States. Our equipment emphasis in those very early years included whole bird sizing and distribution systems and in-motion portion sizers. Soon thereafter, weigh/bagging, hopper weighing, bird counting and sorting systems were introduced. In 1999, a new chapter in our company’s evolution began when we changed our name to Gainco and became a member of the Bettcher Industries family of companies. With a legacy of innovation that dates from 1944, Bettcher Industries is a leading name in the meat processing industry, with its pioneering meat trimming and cutting products used in processing plants throughout the world.

Expanding our Capabilities

Since 1999, we have expanded our product lines through innovation and selective product line acquisitions. Following our acquisition of Weigh Systems South in 2002, we introduced the Gainco Infiniti™ weight indicator, featuring a revolutionary design able to withstand washdown pressure and cleaning compounds and sanitizers. Comprehensive customer care and service activities were dramatically expanded with the creation of our Blue Ribbon Service division, which provides scale certification services and equipment maintenance services, including service contracts. And we’ve become authorized sales and service providers to the meat industry for a variety of other product brands, including GSE Scale Systems, Avery Weigh-tronix, Rice Lake Weighing Systems, Cardinal Scale, Fortress Technology, Datamax, and others.

Our growth and success resulted in opening a new, larger headquarters complex in Gainesville, GA in 2008 that includes an Innovation Center for R&D activities as well as manufacturing facilities and corporate offices. Today, the Gainco equipment line includes a broad range of product offerings covering more than 25 equipment categories and well over 100 models. These products also form the basis for unique system solutions such as our YieldPlus™ debone and trim management system, with its ability to report real-time performance results down to the individual operator level. We are proud to be the largest American-based company in our field, and we believe that our capabilities and the extent of our activities directly benefit our customers.  From humble beginnings as a local supplier of weighing systems in the southern United States, we’ve grown to become a company with a notable nationwide roster of leading chicken, turkey, pork, beef and seafood processing customers, along with customers in Latin America and elsewhere outside the United States.