Laredo's economy today runs on cold storage and produce, and every pallet of it eventually needs packaging equipment behind it. A dedicated distribution center that opened in September 2021 handles nothing but ripening and cold storage for Hass avocados imported from Mexico, spread across 262,000 square feet. Multiple large refrigerated distribution facilities operate nearby under one cold-storage operator, and a separate company has invested roughly $79 million in another new cold-storage facility in the city. A fresh and frozen vegetable producer built its own dedicated distribution center here too, and a temperature-controlled warehouse with 2,108 refrigerated positions and 2,476 frozen positions supports produce and meat moving across the border. Laredo is the busiest inland port in the country for produce crossings.

Produce and frozen-food operations moving pallets at this scale need Mars Series VFFS baggers that can run fruit and vegetable pouches at speed, case erectors and case packers that build and load cartons without slowing down a cold-chain line, and EliteWeigh checkweighers that flag underweight cases before they leave a refrigerated dock. PackMaster cobot palletizers pick up the rest of the job, stacking cases onto pallets at the pace a cross-border cold-storage operation actually needs, without adding bodies to a refrigerated floor. PLAN IT doesn't run a branch office in Laredo, but we supply and integrate this equipment across Texas for the cold-storage and produce operators moving pallets through this port every day, matching the round-the-clock pace those refrigerated docks already run on. You move produce against the clock. We build the packaging automation that keeps a cold-chain shipment clearing instead of sitting.