Industry Sector - RTE, Prepared/Frozen Foods
The global ready meals market size was estimated at USD 143.86 billion in 2021 and is estimated to reach USD 149 billion in 2022, young consumers spend most of there income on convenient ready to eat food products and are the easiest targets for ready to eat food manufacturing companies.
The ready and convenience meal sector is viewed as a one stop shop for customers on the go, offering everything from frozen sweets to appetizers, and meals such as frozen pizza, vegetable meals and microwavable ethnic meals.
Some facilities produce a range of products which have a variety of ingredients which raises the risk of exposure to cross contamination to possible food allergens like gluten, lactose or peanuts.
While Allergens are still the number one reason for recalls affecting ready to eat meal producers, and although equipment cleaning is not often just the root cause, there is a growing awareness that poor cleaning practices from either equipment such as depositors, mixers and kettles and poor personal hygiene should not become a contributing factor in allergen recalls.
CM Process Solutions is a leading and trusted supplier of material handling, Industrial washing and sanitizing equipment for the ready and convenience meal sector, our equipment is designed be easily cleaned and built with strict hygiene principles, thus eliminating potential bacteria and pathogen breeding traps.
Washing Machine Solutions
CM Process Solutions offers a complete line of Industrial washing and sanitizing solutions to the ready and convenience meal sector we have a proven track record of suppling washing machines for items such stainless steel cooking trays, gastronorm trays, plastic food lugs, and buckets.
Our range of cabinet utensil washers are specifically suited for cleaning and sanitizing product contact surfaces and tooling from depositors, blenders or mixers.
Product batches are often made up in the standard 400 & 600 lb Euro style buggy’s and are then either dumped by single column dumpers into a depositor hopper or used in a Euro style buggy tumbler for product mixing.
Sanitizer tunnels should be installed between low care to high care divides so to reduce the risk of contaminants and increase food safety, every day packaged ingredients such as mayonnaise in buckets or cheese wrapped in outer packaging are brought into processing plants on delivery trucks, which could have been exposed to contaminants or pathogens, a sanitizer tunnel spraying solution on all sides will help to eliminate bacteria or contaminants.
Personal Hygiene Equipment
Employees can be a major source of contamination since they come in frequent contact with food during processing, lack of proper hand washing is the second most cause of foodborne illness from bacteria or viruses.
Personal hygiene is nothing but ensuring that there is no contamination getting introduced in the product or equipment from personnel who are working inside the processing plant.
CM Process Solutions offer an extensive range of equipment from boot washers and sole washers to complete all in one hygiene stations and from hand wash sinks to hair net dispensers within our portfolio of products.
Our range of boot washers are hygienically designed to facilitate the cleaning of large rubber boots prior to entering the production areas.
We also have a complete range of PPE storage dispensers for ear plugs, hair nets and beard covers.
Mechanical Handling Equipment
We have a complete range of material handling equipment dedicated to the readymade meal and convenience industry, we offer the Single Euro style buggy solution designed to eliminate time consuming and manually intensive processes.
The Single Euro Buggy Solution is designed so that only one 400 or 600 lb. Euro buggy is used in the whole process whether it be weighing, mixing, dumping, washing or storage.
Our range of material handling equipment is designed to prevent the risk of injury from repetitive strains and skeletal injuries, Employees in the bakery industry contend with many challenging factors, employees can become less efficient and suffer loss of time from work from manual handling products from bulk product containers such as stainless-steel vats or Euro style buggys.
Demonstration ​Center
Seeing is believing! Our newly commissioned demonstration center is the ideal environment to test equipment for your process requirement and put the equipment through its paces. Our team are on hand to welcome customers visiting this unique test center.