Feeding & Manipulation for Food

IMA’s fully integrated HFFS flow packaging lines are equipped with advanced row distribution systems, engineered to handle a wide variety of confectionery and bakery items arranged in rows. 
Directly connected to the customer processing lines, these solutions deliver exceptional automation and performance, ensuring gentle product handling even at high speeds. IMA’s offering includes horizontal and vertical buffering systems, precise timing units, and both in-line and cross-belt feeding systems – designed to maximise efficiency and flexibility in your production environment. 

HFFS flow packaging lines designed to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of customised aligning systems. Perfect for handling randomly arriving confectionery and bakery products, our solutions deliver speed and efficiency. 
Connected directly to the customer’s processing lines, IMA servo-driven aligning belts, centrifugal disc feeders and multiple feeding solutions ensure smooth product collection and alignment for flow-wrapping .

Complete packaging lines with integrated robotic solutions for handling randomly positioned or misaligned products. These systems offer high flexibility with quick format changes for various product types and pack configurations – single, stacked or on edge – while ensuring continuous flow to wrappers. Designed for high-speed performance, they support single or multiple picks and handle products at any angle up to 360°. Compact design and anti-collision software optimise space.

Complete flow packaging lines equipped with tailored-made gravity feeders engineered to efficiently create product stacks. Leveraging extensive industry expertise, we offer a comprehensive range of piling solutions designed to meet varying automation levels and performance requirements. 
The IMA portoflio also inlcudes customised grouping systems for a wide range of bakery products, ensuring flexibility, precision and high productivity across your packaging operations.

HFFS flow packaging lines integrated with advanced counting and volumetric slug feeders designed to seamlessly collect products from the processing line, stack them accurately, and form precise slugs based on count or volume. These slugs are then efficiently flow-wrapped, ensuring maximum accuracy, speed and product integrity throughout the packaging process.

Range of unscrambling, singulating and feeding solutions for croutons and a wide variety of products, including pre-packaged items that need to be taken from bulk and delivered correctly oriented and precisely pitched to downstream equipment or processes.