Convenience Food | Food-to-Go
The Convenience Food / Food-to-Go sector covers a variety of highly processed and prepared foods, whether they are frozen, chilled, baked or unbaked. This includes products such as ready meals or ready-to-eat meals, soups, wraps, pizzas, burritos, pies, salads, sushi, sandwiches and sauces.
Challenges in this Sector
Some challenges found within this sector include:
- Large amount of processing and production of the food product, which increase the chance of stainless steel contamination caused by processing and packaging machine failure
- Use of metallized film or aluminium foil to pack products for freshness and quality
- Multiple elements or ingredients packaged in different compartments in ready meals, which include additional items like cutlery or sauces, which can have high salt content
- Increase in private label manufacture, requiring food manufacturers to be serving multiple retailers with multiple products
- Smaller portion sizes, leading to lightweight and difficult to handle packaging
Why Use Loma?
Loma has a well-developed experience of working with many food manufacturers around the world to deliver convenience food to the consumer.
- We deliver solutions for metal detection, dynamic in-line Checkweighing and x-ray inspection, including combination systems
- Newly developed X5C Compact X-ray system designed to cope with the challenges of the Convenience Food / Food-to-Go sector, which include metal detection and looking at product integrity
- Simple Product Learn algorithms in detection equipment that make light work of set-up for different products
X5C Compact X-Ray Inspection
Designed for retail-packed food products, the X5C is the smallest X-Ray system available, with a machine length of 1000mm and offers first-class CCP protection in the smallest footprint possible - and Designed to Survive.Ideal for:
- Convenience Food | Food-to-Go
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Bakery
- Dairy and Egg Products
- Confectionery & Snack Foods
- Fruit, Vegetables & Nuts
- Other / General Industries
- Dried Foods, Cereals & Grains
- Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical
X5 Pack X-ray Inspection System
Designed to be integrated into line with built-in automatic reject and available in 300, 500 and 600 mm belt width models, the X5 Pack is perfect for a variety of unpackaged and packaged products.Ideal for:
- Convenience Food | Food-to-Go
- Dairy and Egg Products
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Bakery
- Confectionery & Snack Foods
X5C & CW3 Check & Detect Combination System
The X5c & CW3 Check & Detect Combination System is designed for detecting contaminants and reducing giveaway in food products. This system is perfect for inspecting retail-packed convenience food, ready meals in foil trays and small end-of-line packaged goods up to 280mm wide by 110mm high.
Ideal for:
- Convenience Food | Food-to-Go
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Bakery
- Confectionery & Snack Foods
- Dairy and Egg Products
- Fruit, Vegetables & Nuts
- Other / General Industries
X5 Space Saver/CW3 Check & Detect Combination System
The X5 Spacesaver/CW3 Check & Detect Combination System is designed for detecting contaminants and reducing giveaway in food products. This system is perfect for inspecting retail-packed convenience food, ready meals in foil trays and small end-of-line packaged goods.
Ideal for:
- Convenience Food | Food-to-Go
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Bakery
- Confectionery & Snack Foods
- Dairy and Egg Products
- Fruit, Vegetables & Nuts
- Dried Foods, Cereals & Grains
- Other / General Industries
X5 Space Saver X-ray Inspection System
Designed to be integrated into line with optional free standing reject, it is available in 300mm and 500mm belt width models, and is perfect for products with a height of up to 180mm.Ideal for:
- Convenience Food | Food-to-Go
- Dairy and Egg Products
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Bakery
- Confectionery & Snack Foods
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