IMA for: Food IMA provides the global food market with tailor-made and turnkey solutions designed to meet every industry need.

IMA FOOD, your ideal partner for any processing, filling and packaging need  

Since the 1960s, IMA has been worldwide renowned as a leader in the production of tea bag packaging machines. Its expansion into the FOOD sector began in 2010 through the acquisition of well-established companies and continued over the following years. This strategic growth aimed to bring together the best-in-class platforms and technologies available, enabling IMA FOOD today to meet the needs of virtually any segment of the food industry.

The market segments we focus on  

Bakery

Beverages & Baby Food

Biscuits & Cookies

Bouillon Cubes & Sauces

Breakfast Cereals

Chocolate & Confectionery

Dairy & Plant-Based Products

Fish & Seafood

Meat & Poultry

Pasta, Noodles & Rice

Pet Food & Animal Feed

Produce

Savoury snacks

Snack Bars

Snack Fruit & Nuts

Spreadable Food

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Bakery

With nearly 55 years of experience, IMA is a trusted partner in the bakery industry, offering complete and innovative packaging solutions tailored to the evolving demands of producers worldwide.

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Beverages & Baby Food

Best solutions for Beverages and Baby Food

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Biscuits & Cookies

Thanks to the high expertise and the technological know-how, IMA is your reliable partner in fully automated packaging solutions for biscuits, cookies and wafers.

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Bouillon Cubes & Sauces

IMA is a leading provider of packaging solutions for preserves, condiments and bouillon cubes.

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Breakfast Cereals

IMA offers packaging solutions that make every cereal pack stand out.

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Chocolate & Confectionery

IMA serves the international Chocolate and Confectionery market with the best platforms and machines available to satisfy the process and packaging industry needs.

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Dairy & Plant-Based Products

IMA stands out as a key technological partner and business advisor for packaging technology suppliers in the Dairy, Cheese and Alternatives markets.

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Fish & Seafood

From frozen crustaceans, fillets, and shrimps to whole fresh fish, each product demands tailored handling to maintain quality and extend shelf life. Our packaging solutions protect these delicate products throughout the supply chain, ensuring food safety and optimal freshness.

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Meat & Poultry

IMA engineers have developed hygienic packaging solutions for fresh and frozen products, ensuring leak-proof hermetic seals and M.A.P.

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Pasta, Noodles & Rice

Thanks to high-level expertise and innovative technological know-how, IMA confirms itself as the ideal partner for fully automated packaging solutions, perfect for a wide range of pasta, instant noodles and rice.

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Pet Food & Animal Feed

Complete packaging solutions for pet care and animal nutrition, from dry and wet food to accessories, designed to preserve product integrity, enhance shelf appeal, and ensure maximum efficiency across the entire supply chain.

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Produce

The proven experience of IMA in the fresh fruit and vegetable packaging industry is thoughtfully applied to our entire range of packaging machinery and automatic packaging lines, designed and manufactured to meet all sector packaging needs. 

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Savoury snacks

IMA solutions ensure attractive packs with leak-proof seals that lock in freshness and flavour, keeping products safe, appetizing, and shelf-ready.

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Snack Bars

IMA offers fully automated packaging solutions designed to handle these products with care, preserving their freshness and flavour every step of the process.

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Snack Fruit & Nuts

IMA helps preserve freshness, taste, and nutritional value from production to consumption.

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Spreadable Food

Spreadable food is a very diverse category which comes in various forms, ranging from creamy to savory and spicy up to sweet

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50.000+ ​  ​

Machines in operation

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20

Manufacturing Plants

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35

Branches

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90+

Agents and distributors

Latest innovations for the Food industry

R-Line

Cup & Tub Filling and Sealing

BK NEO

Cup & Tub Filling and Sealing

Integrated turn-key packaging lines
primary, secondary and end-of-line solutions

IMA FLX. At the centre of your next complete flexible packaging line

Let us answer your demands with an infinity of targeted technologies developed through the synergies within the IMA FLX HUB. Our primary, secondary and end-of-line packaging solutions combine with each other to form tailored turnkey lines able to handle the broadest variety of flexible pack styles.

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Expertise delivered by our Brands

Blindeisenweg 17, 41468 Neuss, Germany

Factory, Sales, Service

Benhil Gmbh

Benhil GmbH, based in Germany, and 100% owned by IMA S.p.A., designs and manufactures dosing and wrapping machines for butter, margarine and other pasty products, as well as cup & tub filling machines and secondary packaging solutions.

Via Padre P. Meroni, 10, 22031 Albavilla, Como, Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA End of Line

CIEMME Srl

Since 1985, experts in carton packaging machinery, closing and forming machines and automatic loading systems for different market sectors.

211 Commerce Parkway, Lowell, Arkansas, 72745 USA

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

Delta Systems & Automation LLC

IMA Delta Systems designs and manufactures automated flow wrapping solutions for the North American market, specializing in custom feeding, grouping, stacking, collating, and handling systems. Based in Lowell, AR, USA.

11, Avenue des Andes – Zone d’Activités de Courtaboeuf, 91940 Les Ulis, France

Factory, Sales, Service

Erca S.A.S.

Packaging experts for pasty & liquid products – with a long experience in the dairy industry – and inventor of FFS technology – IMA ERCA has a long lasting experience in designing packaging solutions to ensure maximum productivity. The packaging solutions of FS machines comprise low to mid speed machines.

Via Cassanese 102/104, 20052 Vignate (MI), Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

Eurosicma – Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.

HFFS wrappers and fully automated lines for the packaging of candies, jellies, gums, chocolates, bars, biscuits, wafers and noodles are IMA Eurosicma’s core business. Starting from the end of the processing lines, customized handling, portoning and buffering systems can be supplied with flow and fold wrappers, both single and multipack.

Raiffeisenstraße 8, 74523, Schwaebisch Hall, Germany

Factory, Sales, Service

GASTI Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH

Located in Schwäbisch Hall (Germany), with more than 100 years of experience in developing and manufacturing filling and sealing machines, especially continuous motion machines, for pre-formed cups.

Heegweg 19, 63691 Ranstadt, Germany

Factory, Sales, Service

Hassia Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH

From portion cups to single cups, double chamber cups, stick packs and sachets, IMA HASSIA supplies both – user-friendly and reliable FFS machines as well as high-performance filling and sealing machines for pre-formed cups and bottles from the long established IMA HAMBA brand.

Via Luciano Lama 11-13 , 52045, Foiano della Chiana, Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

Ilapak Italia S.p.A.

IMA Ilapak VFFS Division designs and manufactures VFFS baggers and dosing systems such as multi-head weighers and auger fillers, delivering complete vertical packaging solutions for the fresh and IQF food industry. Based in Foiano della Chiana, Italy.

Ilapak Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH Marie-Curie-Allee 8, 25358 Horst, Germany

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

Ilapak Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH

IMA Ilapak IVC Division specializes in designing and manufacturing linear weighers, vision and counting systems for the produce and bakery industries, offering advanced weighing and inspection solutions. Based in Horst, Germany.

Phoenix Italia S.r.l. Via S. Andrea 11/b, 20008 Bareggio (MI), Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA End of Line

IMA Labeling

A designer, manufacturer, and provider of labeling solutions with high and constant quality standards for the needs of distributors, system integrators and OEMs.

Via Romagnoli 2, 40100 Bentivoglio (Bo) Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA End of Line

IMA S.p.A. – BFB Division

IMA BFB designs and manufactures end-of-line packaging machines, including bundling, overwrapping, case packing, palletizing, and product handling systems. Serving sectors from personal care to pharmaceuticals and food, its solutions combine compact design, easy access, and attention to detail, with the flexibility to handle any shape, size, or product consistency.

Via Natalino Corazza 9, 40128 Bologna, Italy

Factory, Sales, Service

IMA S.p.A. – CORAZZA Division

IMA Corazza designs and manufactures dosing and wrapping machines for processed cheese, bouillon cubes, yeast and butter. It also provides tableting solutions for bouillon cubes, and wrap-around, banding, tray-packing machines and cartoners.

Via Ugo Ferrandi 43126 Parma, Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

IMA S.p.A. – FILLSHAPE Division

IMA Fillshape designs and manufactures pouch making and filling machines for flexible stand-up pouches – with and without spout – for dairy, food, beverage and personal care sectors. It offers the most revolutionary technology in the field of flexible containers, but it leaves the customer free to choose the shape of the pouch, spout and cap.

Via John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 17, 40069 Bologna, Italy

Factory, Sales, Service

IMA S.p.A. – GIMA Division

IMA Gima designs and manufactures primary packaging machines for confectionery and secondary packaging solutions for food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and personal care industries, including cartoners, overwrapping machines, and tray packers.

Via Nobel Alfred Bernhard, 34, 40064 Bologna, Italy

Factory, Service

IMA S.p.A. – RI Division

IMA RI Division ensures top performance with a state-of-the-art service center, offering expert overhaul for IMA Tea&Herbs teabag machines and IMA Corazza dosing and wrapping systems for cheese and bouillon cubes.

Calle Narcís Monturiol 21-25, 8960 Barcelona, Spain

Factory, Sales, Service

INTECMA S.A.

With the patented solutions ZERO Technology IMA Intecma offers an optimal solution for the use of mono-materials, such as PET, PP and PLA to produce multipacks on FFS machines. IMA Intecma also designs and manufactures FFS machines for cups.

Via Pana 36, 48018 Faenza (RA) Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA End of Line

Mespic S.r.l.

Designers and developers of secondary packaging solutions, including case packing, palletizing, handling and robotics for different industries.

Via Italia, 46, 23846, Garbagnate Monastero (LC), Italy

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

Record S.p.A.

IMA Record designs and builds horizontal flow pack machines technologically advanced, durable and reliable, interfaced with modular composed automatic feeders, easy to be integrated into automated packaging systems.

Calle 1 entre 6 y 8 Parcela 16 Parque Industrial Gral Savio, B7608BJB Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Factory, Sales, Service • Part of IMA FLX Hub

Tecmar S.A.

IMA Tecmar is a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of packaging machines and flexible packaging systems for South American market. Vertical baggers, 4 side seals multi-lane and sticks machines are the IMA Tecmar’s flagship products.

OPENLab

OpenLab is the IMA Group’s network of technological laboratories and testing area, dedicated to the research on sustainable materials, technologies and production optimization processes. OpenLab analyzes most of the new sustainable and innovative materials as new compostable, biodegradable, paper-based or ultra-thin film, before they are commercially available in order to run them on vertical and horizontal packaging lines.

Meet us at trade shows

Djazagro

Algiers, Algeria. Booth C129