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