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Automation

Americold integrates automation into tailored, customer-driven solutions. Purposefully designed, rationally deployed automation enables a faster, safer, more transparent cold chain, helping customers improve service, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

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Innovation with Impact

At Americold, we believe there’s no one size fits all approach to automation. We take the time to understand your business’s unique needs and design automated solutions that solve your real operational challenges. Our systems reduce handling time, strengthen product safety, and yield real-time visibility so customers gain clearer, actionable insights for every decision.

Across our global network, automation elevates safety, accuracy, and throughput while also enabling our teams to move into higher-skill roles tied to system care and precision. This blend of advanced tools and human oversight deepens trust, reduces errors, and strengthens service performance at every node.

Each automation solution is custom-calibrated to achieve our customer’s unique goals, accommodate any facility requirements, and maintain product temperature needs. We don’t deal in templated approaches; we deliver tailored answers.

Americold’s Fully Automated Russellville Facility

Our Russellville facility deploys advanced automation to move product seamlessly from manufacturing into the cold chain. The facility highlights how technology-driven efficiency strengthens customer operations.

Automated Solutions

Global Operating Command Center

Our central hub monitors automated sites in real time, resolves issues quickly and transparently, and circulates best practices across the network.

Automated Control Tower

Each facility's Automated Control Tower software simplifies decision, reduces manual error, and provides a world-class customer experience and a single interface.

Automated Storage and Retrieval

High-density, high-throughput systems to increase capacity, improve accuracy, and support rapid fulfillment, all inside temperature-controlled environments.

Robotic Mixed-Case Palletization

Build consistently steady, store-ready pallets with multiple SKUs, optimizing truck space, reducing damage risk, and smoothing receiving flow for retail customers.

Automated Loading and Unloading

Touchless lines empty trucks in a matter of minutes, streamlining warehouse flow, shrinking staging time, and reducing risk of temperature fluctuation.

Integrated Data Platforms

Unified systems provide real-time visibility to the Automated Control Tower, delivering data on inventory, temperature, flow, and position for stronger, more agile decision-making.

Camera Vision

Automated forklift cameras photograph and scan palletized product during unloading, automatically correcting any discrepancies. Accountability begins as soon as the trailer door opens.

Flexibility for Existing Buildings

Modular systems designed to work with current sites, enabling dense storage, smoother flow, and faster work without full rebuilds or high-bay construction.