IMA IN THE FOOD MARKET

IMA serves the international Food market with the best platforms and machines now available to satisfy any industry need, consistently providing tailored technologies for the processing and packaging of tea & herbs, coffee, confectionery, stock cubes and savory, dairy and baby food, bakery, protein, produce and more, offering fully engineered turn-key solutions delivery highly efficient packaging lines.

Innovation is a keyword to success and IMA FOOD counts on a variety of specific solutions starting from the Tea & Coffee sector, strong of a world leading position in the manufacturing of tea bag packaging machines and counting on the renowned know-how and competence on processing and packaging solutions for the entire coffee industry chain.

In 2023, at least two new packaging platforms will see the light of day: the new high speed C24-IQ Tea Bag Packaging machine and the new SYNKRO, a latest generation high-speed coffee capsule filling and sealing machine.

IMA FOOD supports the Confectionery international industry responding to the most diverse processing and packaging requirements with machines and platforms conceived to handle gums, candies, coated sweets and bars.

A variety of technologies are available to respond to the fast-moving industry trends and needs: compression and coating, wrapping and primary packaging for cartons, rigid containers, flow-packs, doy-pack and blisters up to case packing and palletizing.

IMA FOOD also boasts an undiscussed leadership in the manufacturing of low, medium and high-speed dosing, pressing and wrapping lines for hard and soft stock cubes with a wide choice of solutions, ranging from stand-alone machines to fully integrated, turnkey lines including boxing and cartoning machines and end-of-line packaging in display and bulk containers.

Ready to be launched in 2023, the new IMA CORAZZA PDP24, a compact, reliable and flexible hard stock cubes pressing machine.

For the dosing, wrapping and packaging of cream, fresh or processed cheese IMA is a reference brand, with a wide range of machines for triangular, rectangular or square portions guaranteeing high flexibility with its dosing systems.

IMA also provides equipment for dosing and wrapping, filling and sealing (FS), cartoning and end-ofline solutions for butter and margarine products packed into mini, consumer and big portions.

IMA offers the most revolutionary technology in the field of flexible stand-up spouted and unspouted pouches, pre-formed and thermoformed cups for yoghurt, beverages and baby food, leaving the customer free to choose shape and marketing solutions.

Form, fill and seal machines (FFS) for cups, portion packs, stick packs and sachets, fill and seal machines (FS) for pre-formed cups, tubs, and bottles complete the range of solutions for the dairy & food industry.

To respond to the demanding request for flexible packaging solutions on any food market segment, IMA offers the widest variety of HFFS and VFFS packaging lines constantly researching innovative solutions and new eco-compatible materials.

Fruit of IMA ILAPAK’s innovation and ready to be launched: the new Delta OF-360 X (HFFS) able to switch from a material type to another with no effort at all , and the new DOYTRONIC 120 (VFFS) compact, modular and easy to use.

A wide range of end-of-line solutions complete the range, enabling the handling of countless types of products and packages: overwrapping, stretch banding and shrink wrapping, case packing and palletizing.

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