Onions have long been Palmdale's most valuable export crop, moving from Antelope Valley farms to buyers as far away as Japan, Taiwan, Dubai, and Australia. Alfalfa, wheat, fruit, oats, and barley round out the region's agricultural base, all of it feeding demand for food-processing and packaging equipment even before Palmdale's newest chapter began. That chapter is a roughly $150 million, 1.03-million-square-foot food-assembly and distribution complex a national grocery retailer built at Avenue M and 10th Street West. It's made up of a hub building, a freezer building, and an accessory building, and it's expected to bring more than 800 jobs to the city.

Our Mars Series vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) baggers handle exactly that split: one line running the hub building's shelf-stable output, another running goods bound for the freezer building next door, while our case packers box both product lines for the same trucks. Palmdale's onion growers and other Antelope Valley produce operations add a second angle, needing packaging line automation that can bag and case fresh produce at export volume. Onions bound for buyers in Japan, Taiwan, Dubai, and Australia have to hold up through longer transit times without losing freshness, which leaves no room for a bagging line slowdown. Freshness has a deadline, and so does your export schedule. That's the volume our Mars Series baggers and case packers are built to hold. We keep no depot at Avenue M, and none anywhere else in the Antelope Valley. Our Mars Series and case-packing machines still get to California plants from stock, with support running out of Toronto and Tampa.