Ready Meals
Advanced technologies for ready meals and convenience food
Ready meal production calls for technologies able to handle increasingly elaborate recipes, ensuring dosing precision, product quality and rigorous checks along the entire line.
From soups to chilled ready meals, from bento boxes to meal kits and frozen dishes, Libra offers solutions designed to ensure production efficiency, pack consistency and maximum food safety.
Key challenges
Multi-component recipes
Ready meals and meal kits need different ingredients to be dosed correctly, keeping the recipe composition consistent
Heterogeneous products
Ingredients with different shapes, textures and densities must be handled and weighed precisely without compromising their integrity
Delicate products
Ingredients such as vegetables, pasta, rice, meat, fish or cooked preparations need handling systems designed to preserve their quality and presentation
Checking pack completeness
It is essential to check that all the intended ingredients and accessories are present, avoiding packing errors
High productivity
Lines must ensure operational continuity and precision even at high speeds
Food safety
Contaminants and foreign bodies call for reliable inspection systems along the entire line
Libra's solutions
Multihead weighers
- Dedicated configurations for weighing ready meals, soups, and chilled and frozen preparations
- Handling of multi-component recipes while maintaining the correct pack composition
- Solutions designed for delicate ingredients and products with different characteristics
- Configurations also available for Frozen & IQF applications
- High dosing precision with reduced giveaway
Packaging
- Reliable solutions for a wide range of ready meals and convenience food
- 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, bento boxes and meal kits, 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
- Checking correct ingredient placement and pack integrity
- 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 intensive production with frequent washdown cycles
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.