Fresh Produce
Advanced technologies for fresh produce, from whole and fresh-cut to cooked ready-to-eat
Producing whole, fresh-cut and cooked ready-to-eat fruit and vegetables calls for technologies that preserve product quality along the entire production line, ensuring gentle handling, dosing precision and rigorous quality control.
From bagged salads to berries, from mushrooms to cherry tomatoes and multi-component ready meals, Libra offers solutions designed to maintain high quality standards, reduce waste and extend the shelf life of the packaged product.
Key challenges
Extremely delicate products
Salads, berries, mushrooms and other fresh products need handling systems designed to preserve their integrity, appearance and shelf life
High product variability
Shape, weight, volume and density can vary considerably depending on the season and the raw material
Small products
Cherry tomatoes, peas, blueberries, raspberries and other berries require high precision even at high production speeds
Handling mixes and complex recipes
Ready-to-eat salads, toppings and multi-component meals need different ingredients to be dosed and checked correctly, keeping the recipe composition consistent
Pack quality and completeness
With fresh-cut products it is essential to check that all the intended ingredients and accessories are present, ensuring a uniform, high-quality final product
Food safety
Contaminants and foreign bodies call for reliable inspection systems along the entire line
Libra's solutions
Multihead weighers
- Dedicated configurations for weighing fresh salads, fresh-cut and cooked ready-to-eat products
- Solutions designed for handling mixes for ready-to-eat salads, toppings and multi-component meals
- High precision when weighing small products such as cherry tomatoes, peas, blueberries, raspberries and other berries
- Dedicated configurations for particularly delicate, high-value products such as mushrooms and truffle shavings, with handling systems designed to preserve their integrity
- Reduced giveaway while maintaining high production speeds
Optical sorters
- High-resolution optical sorters for inspecting fresh produce and loose vegetable products
- Feeding and conveying systems designed for extremely gentle handling, preserving the integrity of even the most sensitive products
- Artificial intelligence algorithms developed to optimise inspection even of complex mixes, recognising the different ingredients and applying dedicated sorting criteria to each product
- Detection and removal of contaminants, foreign bodies, and defective or non-compliant products
- Greater quality consistency, less waste and maximum reliability, even in the most complex applications
Packaging
- Reliable solutions for a wide range of fresh, fresh-cut and cooked ready-to-eat products
- Seamless integration with the weighing systems
- High operational continuity, even in intensive production
Quality control
- X-ray systems with artificial intelligence algorithms for detecting contaminants, defects and product anomalies
- Inspection of multi-component packs, meal kits and bento boxes, checking that all ingredients are present in their compartments
- Checking for accessories included in the pack, such as dressing sachets, sauces, cutlery or other components
- Dedicated quality control also for mixed products and complex recipes
- High-precision dynamic checkweighers
- High-performance metal detectors for maximum food safety
Hygienic design
- Stainless steel construction
- Solutions designed for easy cleaning and sanitisation
- Maximum reliability, even in high-humidity environments with frequent washdowns
The machines
Tailor-made solutions. Real tests.
We test your product free of charge to identify the technology and configuration best suited to your application. Real trials, performance analysis and dedicated reports allow us to develop every project starting from concrete data and from the customer's specific production needs. First we test. Then we build the solution.