Ready Meals Packaging Machine
The ready meals market is expanding rapidly, driven by consumers seeking convenience without compromising on quality. In this dynamic landscape, the introduction of the Smart Weigh ready meals packing machine marks a significant advancement.
Smartpack's Unique Approach
Unlike traditional packing machines that mainly focus on the packing aspect, Smartpack’s machine integrates the entire process.
Automation from auto-feeding to auto-weighing, filling, and finally packing, each step is meticulously designed to work in harmony, ensuring a seamless operation that enhances productivity and reduces labor costs.
At the heart of the Smart Weigh system is its advanced multihead weigher and filling mechanism. Capable of handling a diverse range of ready to eat food products such as cooked meats, vegetables cubes and slice, rice, and noodles, this feature is a game-changer in the world of food packaging. It ensures that each tray is filled with precision, maintaining consistent quality across all products.
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Ready meals packing machine list and process
1. Single bucket conveyor: auto feed meals and rice to relevant multihead weigher;
2. Multihead weigher: auto weigh, filling and portioning each main food into food trays;
3. Support platform
4. Linear weigher: weigh and filling side dishes into meal trays;
5. Tray sealing machine: auto vacuum seal and pack food trays;
6. Metal detector: detect if metal in trays;
7. Checkweigher: double check final net weight;
8. 2 to 4 Conveyor: shunt the ready trays to conveyors;
9. Freezer: freeze ready meals;
10. Cardboard sleeving: automatic sleeve the trays with paper label;
11. Carton erector: auto form and open the cartons;
12. Parallel robot: the robot pick the trays into carton for box packing;
13. Cartoning sealing machine: seal and tape the carton / box;
14. Palletizing system: auto palletizing.
Ready meal packing machines can be a valuable addition to your food production business, offering numerous benefits that can help improve efficiency, reduce costs, maintain quality and extend shelf life. At Smartpack, our ready to eat food packaging machines are focusing on fully-automatic process, includes feeding, weighing, filling and portioning cook meals into several trays at one time, seal and pack the food trays after filling. In addition, automatic coding, labeling, cartoning and palletizing machines are supported.
Packaging Machines for Ready Meals
To meet the diverse packaging needs of the ready meals industry, there are various types of packaging machines available. These machines are designed to handle different packaging formats, materials, and production requirements. Some common types of packaging machines for ready meals include: MAP tray sealer, Pouches Vacuum Packaging Machines and Thermoforming Packaging Machines,.
MAP Tray Sealers
MAP tray sealers combine the benefits of modified atmosphere packaging with tray sealing. These machines heat-seal a plastic film to the tray, creating a secure and oxygen-free environment for the ready meals.
Vacuum Packaging Machines
Vacuum packaging machines remove air from the packaging and create a vacuum seal. They are ideal for preserving the freshness and extending the shelf life of ready meals.
Thermoforming Packaging Machines
Thermoforming machines create a horizontal form, fill, and seal process using roll stock. They can be used for MAP, vacuum, and skin applications, providing a versatile packaging solution for a wide range of ready meals.
Successful Cases of Ready-to-eat Food Packaging Solutions
We have rich experiences in easy or challenging ready food packing projects, from semi-automatic to full automatic process, there is a right solution that suitable for your projects!
Until now, we have helped companies automate their weighing and packaging, saving at least 60% labor totally.
Ready Meal Packaging Machines For Train
Automatically weigh rice, spaghetti, carrot cubes, sliced beef, sauce, etc. are all placed in the same tray along with four other items and fill 4 trays at the same time.
Function: fully automatic tray denesting, filling, sealing, and printing.
Maximum speed: 1,500 trays per hour
Vacuum Bag System for ready pickle food
There are 13 vacuum packing lines in all, with 6 employees capable of producing up to 3,000 packs/hour per line, and 13 lines capable of producing a total of 39,000 packs/hour.
“The machines are using less time and less labour for higher packaging capacity!” Feedback from the boss of this company, “this is really a wise invest.”
Ready Noodles Tray Sealing Line
Soft noodles weighing packing machines are an integral part of the food packaging industry, streamlining the process of packaging soft noodles into bags or containers. These machines are designed to automate the weighing, filling, and sealing process, ensuring a consistent and efficient packaging process.
More Solutions We Provided
The ready to eat food weighing system is able to work with various types of packaging machine, including vacuum skin packaging machine, modified atmosphere packaging machine and more. If you already have packaging machines, we can design ready meal tray filling equipment based on your current machines.
How to choose ready meal packaging machine?
Choosing the right ready meal packaging machine requires careful consideration of various factors to ensure that the machine meets the specific needs of your production line and product type. Here are the key factors to consider:
1. Type of Ready Meals:
Different machines are suited for different types of meals. For instance, vacuum packing is ideal for perishable items, while tray sealing might be better for meals like pasta or salads.
2. Speed and Efficiency:
The speed of the machine should match your production requirements. Consider the entire process, including filling, sealing, and labeling.
3. Packaging Material:
Consider the types of packaging materials compatible with the machine, such as plastic, foil, or biodegradable materials, and ensure they align with your product needs and sustainability goals. The packaging material affects machine model selection.
4. Package Size and Versatility:
The machine should accommodate the sizes and shapes of packaging you intend to use. Some machines offer greater versatility to handle multiple package sizes and formats.
5. Automation Level:
Decide how automated you want the process to be. Higher automation can reduce labor costs but might require a larger initial investment.
6. Integration with Existing Systems:
The new machine should integrate seamlessly with your existing production line, including any conveyor systems, or vacuum packing machine.
7. Customization and Scalability:
Look for machines that offer customization options to cater to specific packaging needs and scalability to accommodate future business growth.
8. Cost and ROI:
Consider not only the initial purchase price but also the long-term operating costs, maintenance, and potential return on investment.
9. After-Sales Support:
Good after-sales support, including maintenance, spare parts availability, and customer service, is essential for the smooth operation of the machine.
By carefully evaluating these factors, you can select a ready meal packaging machine that aligns with your product requirements, production capacity, and business objectives, ensuring efficiency, food safety, and customer satisfaction. Smartpack team is your good partner of ready meals packaging machine system.
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