Brownsville has packed citrus for more than a century, tracing back to the region's first commercial orchard, planted here in 1904, and that volume still needs packaging equipment made for high-moisture produce. That orchard launched citrus into one of the Rio Grande Valley's leading industries, and citrus and other produce still move through Brownsville alongside a growing manufacturing base built on cross-border trade. The maquiladora boom across the border in Matamoros drove growth in Brownsville's air-cargo and manufacturing sectors through the late 1980s, and the city's manufacturing sector is recognized as one of the fastest-growing in the country. A short-line railroad headquartered in the city moves steel, farm, and food products to and from the Port of Brownsville, home to five of the nation's eight ship-recycling firms and a ship channel deepened from 42 to 52 feet since 2016.

We supply VFFS baggers (Mars Series) and automatic case packers for that produce and food-product volume: VFFS machines that form, fill, and seal citrus segments, dried produce, and other packaged food product, and case packers that build and load shipping cases for produce and commodities moving through the port and rail network. Citrus doesn't wait. A century of citrus volume moving through a deepened ship channel and rail line means product arrives faster than a manual packing line can keep up. A separate case study on our site covers how a growing food producer added VFFS bagging and case packing without adding headcount. Our solutions page covers a VFFS or case-packing install here, our Texas location page and food and beverage industry page cover the wider region and sector, and our VFFS packaging machine and automatic case packer category pages break down individual specs. Brownsville has no PLAN IT branch, but Rio Grande Valley produce packers and food processors bring us in to bag and case citrus and produce at the pace the port and rail network moves it.