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Robotic case packer for fruit in Mexico

It takes each piece with a tool suited to your crop and places it in the box the way your customer wants it. You will also hear case packer robot; in Mexico, robot empacador or encajadora automática; inside the company, encajillador.

Blue soft-finger gripper picking a yellow bell pepper from a belt

What a robotic case packer for fruit does and does not do

The Agro Robotics robotic case packer for fruit is a robot that takes each piece from the line and places it in a cardboard or plastic box, in the pack pattern the customer asks for. It is built in San Luis Potosí and quoted with each packing house's own fruit, box and pack pattern.

It works at the end of your line, where the fruit already comes clean and sized. One robot serves one outlet. If your line puts out 5 t/h through several outlets, you pick the one that ties up the most people.

3D model of the case packer: the arm lifts a tray of twenty fruits off the table and lowers it into the carton.

Illustrative demonstration. Your cell comes from your layout.

Stainless steel case packing cell: the yellow arm picks cucumbers from a tray and places them in cardboard boxes
Case packing cell, render.

Robot, filler or mechanical case packer?

The robot wins when you have several formats and fruit that cannot take a drop. If you pack a single format in bulk, another machine will serve you better.

TypeHow it packsPublished rateWhen it fits
Robot that places piece by piecePicks and sets each fruit, in a pack patternFrom 100 to 240 pieces per minute, depending on the maker and the fruitSeveral formats, delicate fruit, export with a pack pattern
Bulk fillerDrops fruit into the box, by count or weightDepends on the modelFruit that can take it, bulk format
Weigher-fillerWeighs and fills to the target weightFrom 4 to 5 boxes per minuteSold by weight, little pattern work
Mechanical case packerMoves full rows into the boxFrom 500 to 1,000 boxes per hour in citrusOne fruit, one format, high volume
By hand, at a tableA person places the fruitWhatever your crew doesShort season and formats that change a lot

Rates as manufacturers declare them on their spec sheets, checked on November 3, 2026. By equipment type. What each one is, in the questions below.

What you tell us for a quote

  1. What you pack

    Fruit, sizes and the outgoing box.

  2. How you pack it

    The pack pattern your customer asks for and how often you change formats.

  3. How much comes out

    Boxes per minute at the outlet you want to automate and how many people it ties up today.

  4. What your table looks like

    A video of that outlet is enough to start.

Questions about the robotic case packer for fruit

What is a robotic case packer for fruit?
A case packer for fruit is the machine that puts fruit in the outgoing box, in the pack pattern or at the weight the customer asks for. There are several types: a robot that places piece by piece, a bulk filler, a weigher-filler and a mechanical case packer. The one from Agro Robotics is a robot; inside the company it goes by encajillador.
How many pieces per minute does it place?
It depends on your fruit, your size and your pack pattern, and it gets measured with them. One case packer serves one outlet of the line, so the math goes by outlet and by size.
Are Agro case packers already running in packing houses?
In public, Agro has shown demonstrations. When you request a quote, ask what can be seen today and how it would be tested with your fruit and your format before you decide.
Does it bruise the fruit?
The tool gets chosen for the crop. How much it bruises depends on your fruit and your packing ripeness, because nobody else's number helps you here: ask to see it with your fruit before you decide.
What happens when I change formats?
You change the program and, if needed, the tool. How many minutes that takes depends on your case, so ask about it when you request a quote. If you change formats several times a day, say so when you request a quote: that decides which tool makes sense.
Does it also fill clamshells or trays?
Today we focus on cardboard or plastic boxes. For berry clamshells, which also get packed in the field, we have no machine.

What pack pattern does your customer ask for?

With your fruit, box and pack pattern, we will tell you what fits and what is left to measure.

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