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Warehouse automation projects across Latin America

STOKA optimizes and automates warehouses across Latin America, from its base in Mendoza, Argentina. We evaluate your operation remotely with the data you provide, and we travel when the project justifies it. This page covers the countries where we evaluate projects and what changes in each one.

What this page covers

Four things: where STOKA works from and what that means for you, what changes from one country to another in an intralogistics project, which countries have their own page and which are covered as a section here, and how a project is run remotely.

Where we work from, and what that means for you

STOKA's base is in Mendoza, Argentina. It is the only one, and saying so is more useful than implying eight: projects across the region are evaluated and executed from there.

The evaluation is done remotely with data from your operation — the floor plan with dimensions and clear height, the product list with its load unit, and the movements of a representative period — and we travel when the project justifies it. We speak the same language and work in nearby time zones, so a round of questions does not cost a day.

What you will not read here is an office where there is none, or a time-to-site we cannot sustain. A structure that does not exist cannot hold up a service promise, and the visitor who finds that out later stops believing the rest.

What changes from one country to another

Three things, and none of them is the language. What changes a project is the cost of floor space, the regulations that reach it, and the regime under which the equipment enters.

  1. The cost and the availability of floor space

    An expensive market with space available is not the same as one where there is simply none. In Argentina, premium rent in Greater Buenos Aires stands at USD 7.33 per square meter per month with premium vacancy at 10.15% (CBRE, second quarter of 2026, published by MDZ on July 20, 2026): there is supply, and the price still rose. In Chile, premium rent runs between 0.17 and 0.20 UF per square meter per month and class A vacancy is close to zero (Cushman & Wakefield, first quarter of 2026): there the problem is not the price, it is that there is no space. Those are two different conversations.

  2. The regulations that reach storage

    The rules change, and so does who verifies them. In Chile the framework comes from DS 594, which sets the basic sanitary and environmental conditions of workplaces, Ley 16.744 on workplace accidents, and the Chilean seismic design standards. In Argentina the sector's labor framework is collective agreement CCT 40/89 for the logistics branch. What does not change is the criterion: floor flatness tolerance and permissible load are set by the manufacturer of the equipment chosen and verified by a licensed professional.

  3. The regime under which the equipment enters

    This is the one that moves the final figure the most and gets looked at last. In Argentina there is a verified set of instruments in force for capital goods, with their requirements and access thresholds, developed on its own page. For the rest of the countries we publish nothing yet: a benefit from one country applied by analogy to another is the fastest way to ruin a budget.

Where we evaluate projects

Two countries have their own page, because for those there is verified data that makes the page say something. The rest are covered as a section below, with what is actually verified and nothing padded around it.

Cost of floor space, warehouse labor cost and the regime under which equipment enters.warehouse automation in Argentina
Warehouse rent and vacancy, and the regulations that reach high-bay storage.how a warehouse is automated in Chile

Mexico · Colombia · Peru · Brazil · Uruguay · Central America
The other six do not have their own page, and we say so plainly: we do not yet have the verified data that would justify one. Six pages that swap the country name and one word are the same page written six times, and that serves nobody.

The other countries, one by one

Mexico

We evaluate projects in Mexico. The load unit there is the tarima, the local pallet, and that changes the survey more than it looks: a pallet that is not standard forces the sizing onto the worst of its variants. On the regulatory side we have identified NOM-006-STPS, which governs the handling and storage of materials, but we have not confirmed its exact scope over high-bay storage, so we do not publish it as though we had. Nor do we publish a Mexican cost per square meter: without a consultancy and a date, a figure like that is an opinion. What we can do today is evaluate your operation with your data and tell you what can be improved with what you already have. In Mexico the question that pays off earliest is usually how many pallet variants coexist in the same warehouse: when there are three or four, the problem is not volume but standardization, and that gets solved before buying anything. If your operation is there, write to us with the floor plan, the product list and the peak movements: that is enough to evaluate from here.

What is missing for it to have a pageCost per square meter with a source, confirmed scope of NOM-006-STPS, and the import regime.

Colombia

We evaluate projects in Colombia, where the load unit is the estiba. For Colombia we do not yet have any market, regulatory or customs data verified with a source, and we would rather say so than fill a page with generalities that would serve equally well for the country next door. That does not change what can be done: the first step of a project — sorting out the layout, defining storage locations, reviewing slotting and standardizing the load unit — depends on no market data at all, and it is usually the one that returns the most per unit invested. What we do need from your side is the same as in any other country: the floor plan with dimensions and clear height, the product list with its load unit, and the movements of a representative period, measured at peak rather than on average. With that the diagnosis is done remotely, and it does not depend on us having published the Colombian cost per square meter.

What is missing for it to have a pageAll three.

Peru

We evaluate projects in Peru, where the pallet is also called parihuela. For Peru we have no verified data of our own on the cost of floor space, the applicable regulations or the import regime, and that is why there is no page. What we do know is what to ask: how many storage locations you have today, what the real clear height is up to the lowest point of the roof, and how many movements per hour the operation sustains at peak rather than on average. That is enough to start evaluating from here. There is one detail of the Peruvian survey worth anticipating: when the parihuela and the standard pallet coexist in the same warehouse, the system is sized on the least favorable variant, so knowing the real mix changes the result. None of that depends on a published market figure: it depends on your numbers, and those you already have.

What is missing for it to have a pageAll three.

Brazil

We evaluate projects in Brazil, and it is the country where the language genuinely changes the work: armazém, empilhadeira, palete. There is a vocabulary trap worth knowing from the survey onward, because it changes what is being measured: in Portuguese estoque is the goods and inventário is the process of counting them, and they are not synonyms. On the regulatory side we have identified NR-11, which governs the transport, movement, storage and handling of materials, but we have not yet confirmed the official text in force. We have neither cost per square meter nor an import regime verified. A Brazil page, moreover, is not translated from Spanish: it comes from its own search research and requires review by a native speaker before publication. In the meantime we evaluate all the same: if your operation is in Brazil, the survey is done with the floor plan, the palete you use and the peak movements, and the conversation happens in whichever language suits you. What we will not do is publish a machine-translated page with another country’s data inside it.

What is missing for it to have a pageCost per square meter, the official text of NR-11, the import regime, and a native Portuguese reviewer.

Uruguay

We evaluate projects in Uruguay, which shares its warehouse vocabulary with Argentina. It is the country where proximity to the Mendoza base shows most in day-to-day coordination, and even so we have no verified data of our own for it: no cost per square meter with a consultancy and a date, no regulation with its number, no import regime. Without that there is no page, and a Uruguayan page that repeated the Argentine figures would be exactly the mistake this section avoids. The Uruguayan market has a different scale, a different cost structure and a different customs regime, and assuming otherwise because the vocabulary matches is the kind of shortcut that shows up in the first meeting. If your warehouse is in Uruguay, the survey is done the same way and with the same data: the floor plan, the load unit and the peak movements.

What is missing for it to have a pageAll three.

Central America

We evaluate projects in Central America. Here there is a question that comes before the data: which countries. Central America is not a country but a group, and the regulatory and customs framework changes from one to the next, so a single page would have to say which one it is talking about in every paragraph. Until the scope is defined and the data for each country exists, a section is what corresponds. If your operation is in the region, write to us anyway: the survey is done with the data of your warehouse, not that of the country. What does change from one country in the region to another is the regime under which the equipment enters, and that gets resolved with the appropriate customs broker in each case, not with a generalization written in advance. Tell us where the warehouse is, what floor area and what clear height it has, and we evaluate from there.

What is missing for it to have a pageWhich countries make up the region, and then the three data points for each.

How a project is run remotely

We work from our base in Mendoza, Argentina. We evaluate your operation remotely with the data you provide — floor area, available height, storage locations, daily movement — and we travel when the project justifies it. We speak the same language and work in nearby time zones: coordination does not lose a day on every exchange.

In practice it is three steps. You write with the symptom and whatever data you have at hand. We reply within 24 business hours, saying whether there is anything to evaluate, which data is missing and what the next step would be. And if there is a project, what gets measured, how and by whom is agreed before anyone draws anything.

Frequently asked questions

Across Latin America. Two countries have their own page today — Argentina, and also Chile — because for them there is verified data that makes the page say something; Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Central America are covered as a section on this page.

From its base in Mendoza, Argentina. It is the only one, and outside it there is no office, branch or resident staff in any other country. Projects across the region are evaluated and executed from there.

Remotely, with data from your operation: the floor plan with dimensions and clear height, the product list with its load unit, and the movements of a representative period. If you are missing one, helping you put it together is part of the initial work.

When the project justifies it, and we tell you beforehand what will be verified during that visit. What we will not give you is a time-to-site: from a single base that is a promise that does not hold, and making it would be the first thing we broke.

Three things: how much floor space costs and how much of it there is, which regulations reach storage, and under what regime the equipment enters. The working method does not change, and the sizing always comes from the data of your operation.

Because for those there is verified data of our own — cost per square meter with its source, regulation with its number, import regime — and for the others there is not yet. We prefer a short, honest section to a long page that says nothing that would not serve the country next door just as well.

The next step

Tell us what is happening in your operation and which country you are writing from. We reply within 24 business hours, saying whether there is anything to evaluate, which data is missing and what the next step would be.

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