Optimize protection and preservation with the right meal packaging equipment.
Ready meals make the perfect companion for hardworking students, busy parents, or professionals on the go. With advanced tray forming, tray sealing, flow pack, and thermoforming machinery from Harpak-ULMA, you have the automated packaging solutions to ensure filling, ready-to-eat, nutritious products for every type of consumer.
Air-tight packaging & Modified Atmosphere (MAP) compatibility
Limitless frozen & hot meal packaging applications
Product-to-pallet process automation
We give you “product to pallet” packaging solutions you can’t get anywhere else.
Perfectly packed meals at the highest production speeds.
Changes in lifestyle, eating habits, and demographics are creating new trends and behaviors when it comes to mealtimes. Consumers are finding there is less time to cook meals from scratch with busy work and social schedules and are looking to fresh ready meals to fill their demands.
In response, savvy foodservice companies are producing smart, healthy, ready-to-eat entrees that offer the same quality, variety, and nutrition consumers expect from home-cooked alternatives. Whether fresh or frozen, purchased retail, or delivered straight to consumers’ doors, modern producers are seeking complete packaging solutions that offer the safety, freshness, first-class appearance, and delicious flavors time-strapped consumers need.
Unrivaled flexibility for a variety of packaging formats.
Bakery offers a wide variety of product types with different shapes, sizes, consistencies, and orientations. Packaging must be flexible, easy-to-use, and deliver a traditional trusted presentation to attract customers.
At Harpak-ULMA, our packaging solutions seamlessly enhance product image while conserving quality, freshness, and shelf life. We integrate state-of-the-art features, such as easy-open and reclosable zippers and adhesive stripes, steady bottom packaging, MAP for prolonged shelf life, individual and multipack formats, and more, to give customers more convenience and conservation.
Whether rigid, carton, or tray, our solutions provide the modern packaging formats to perfectly package every type of bakery application, including:
- Snack Cakes
- Pastry & Bread
- Pizza
- Wraps
- Buns
- Biscuits
- Crackers & Wafers
- Snack Bars & Sweets
Unrivaled flexibility for a variety of packaging formats.
Our experts work with you to address critical ready-meal packaging trends and essential operational logistics such as sustainability, portion control, shelf life, resealable shelf-ready packaging, product consistency, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and more. We deliver innovative, complete solutions that range from product handling and row distribution to direct-from-the-oven processing, boxing, palletizing, and end-of-line packing.
- Sandwiches
- Burritos
- Pizza
- Pasta Dishes
- Prepared Meals
- Breaded/Battered
Achieve faster, more flexible ready meals packaging with advanced automation.
Meal packaging requires efficient, high-speed automation at every stage of the packaging cycle. At Harpak-ULMA, we can integrate multiple, fully automated components into your existing lines to optimize efficiency and productivity and meet your production needs.
Depanning, infeeding, robotic handling and loading, cartoning, case packing, palletizing, basket management, our custom-designed systems can help streamline your production, increase speed and reduce waste.
With our capabilities, complete with Allen Bradley® Integrated Architecture™ control platforms from Rockwell Automation, you get tailored, product-to-pallet handling of your entire bakery line.