IMA for: 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.
Your bakery’s growth starts with the right packaging partner
From stand-alone machines to fully automatic high-throughput lines, our packaging technology is specially engineered to handle a wide variety of bakery products with the utmost care and efficiency. Whether your focus is on artisan quality or industrial-scale production, IMA ensures reliable performance and maximum uptime.
Over the decades, we’ve gained first-hand insight into the unique needs of bread, pizza and flatbread, cakes, patisseries, and sandwich products. Our systems are designed to handle products such as baguettes, buns, rolls, pretzels, bread rusks, whole or sliced loaves, donuts, muffins, croissants, and many other fresh or frozen specialties, including flat dough and rolled pastry.
Main segments
Bread & Sandwiches
Bagels, baguette, pretzel, rolls, sandwich thins, whole loaf, processed bread, sliced bread, breadsticks, crisp bread, buns, rusks, frozen bread, sandwiches
Several IMA packaging solutions for baked goods and sandwiches include complete automatic lines, HFFS flow wrapping platforms with and without Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP), and even combining Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) and Vacuum. Furthermore, IMA offers VFFS vertical baggers coupled with weighing (multi-head and linear) or vision systems.
To complete the process, our advanced end-of-line solutions, covering cartoning, case packing, palletizing, adapt to any packaging configuration, delivering precision and efficiency for every baked goods application.

Pizza & Flat Bread
Chilled Pizza, Frozen pizza, Pinsa and focaccia, Naan, Piadina, Tortilla
Specially designed for the Pizza and Flat bread industry, IMA’s individual machines and high quality, high throughput, fully automatic lines and Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) solutions, ensure that your product has maximum shelf life and an excellent appearance on your customer’s plate.
IMA’s proven know-how and long experience in the pizza industry are expertly applied to our entire range of reliable, flexible and innovative packaging machinery designed and manufactured with your needs in mind.
Finalizing the process, IMA’s flexible end‑of‑line systems for cartoning, case packing and palletizing are engineered to fit any packaging configuration, delivering reliability, speed and consistent quality for pizza and flatbread producers.

Cakes & Pastries
Cakes, layer cakes, pies and muffins, croissants & brioches, pain au chocolat, donuts, scones, crumpets, frozen pastries, flat and rolled dough
IMA offers a wide array of solutions for the packaging of fresh or frozen cakes and pastry products. The range includes complete automatic lines equipped with feeding and robotic systems combined with HFFS flow wrappers with and without Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) and with Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) and Vacuum mode on the same platform. In addition to horizontal flow wrapping, IMA also supplies high-speed HFFS Stand-Up Pouch machines and VFFS vertical baggers coupled with dosing systems.
Finally, our versatile end‑of‑line solutions support any packaging setup, ensuring efficient and accurate handling of cakes, pastries and bakery specialties.

Snacks
Snack bars, salty snacks (mini pizzas, tortillas chips, mini pretzels, pretzels sticks, rice cakes, bread chips), savoury biscuits (crackers, non-sweet biscuits)
Year after year the number and variety of snacks that appear on grocery store shelves, in vending machines and in lunch boxes is increasing at a rapid pace. From snack bars and salty snacks to savoury biscuits and crackers, the success of these products depends upon attractive pack aesthetics and leak-proof seals to preserve freshness.
IMA’s team of specialists takes great pride in its many years of hands-on experience in the snacks market, expertly applied to our entire range of reliable, flexible and innovative packaging machinery and automatic lines designed and manufactured with your needs in mind.
Supporting a wide range of packaging layouts with superior accuracy and efficiency, our end‑of‑line technologies—cartoning, case packing and palletizing—bring the entire process to a flawless finish.

Yeast
Yeast cubes
With a legacy dating back to 1954, IMA has established itself as the most reliable one-stop partner for complete yeast cube packaging solutions. From stand-alone machines to fully integrated turnkey lines, we offer comprehensive systems for dosing and wrapping, including tray packing, cartoning, and end-of-line solutions for both display and bulk containers.
Flexible end‑of‑line systems complete the process with efficient handling of products for transport, storage and display.

Main applications
Flow wrapping for baguettes and sandwiches
IMA offers flexible, hygienic flow wrapping solutions designed to preserve the freshness and integrity of baguette and sandwich fillings and toppings.
Flow wrapping for burger buns
IMA offers feeding systems and flow wrapping solutions, with and without Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP), for burger buns, granting high flexibility in terms of pack configurations.
Flow wrapping for pizza and tortillas
IMA designs and manufactures dedicated, end-to-end feeding and packaging solutions for fresh and frozen pizzas and flatbreads. Our hygienic, high-speed systems incorporate Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) and specialized technologies like VacMap to maximize shelf life for fresh, spongy products.
Flow wrapping for rolled dough in Modified Atmosphere Packaging
With or without carton feeding systems, IMA’s flow wrapping solutions feature long-dwell jaws and Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) technology, capable of handling new recyclable materials such as paper.
Weighing, counting and vertical bagging for rolls and croissants
Depending on the type of bakery product, IMA can provide weighing and counting solutions to integrate with vertical baggers or other packaging systems.
Dosing and wrapping for yeast cubes
Double-headed automatic dosing and wrapping machine for yeast, available for cold or warm dosing with an independent-drive dosing unit, performing traditional portfolio-style,
single-foil wrapping.
Distribution systems and flow wrapping for layer cakes
IMA designs and manufactures customised fully automated packaging lines for layer cakes, enrobed and not enrobed, starting from the end of the process line, granting high efficiency and top performance.
Flow wrapping for snack bars
Customized packaging lines for snack and healthy bars, granting high-performance automated feeding both from robot loading and distribution systems.
Turnkey solutions
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