When making a plan for a food company last year, the other party slapped the table and said: "Use vacuum packaging to transport pork with preserved vegetables, and half of the soup leaked before it arrived!" This sounds exaggerated, but it hits the pain point of the industry. It takes at least 24 hours and at most 72 hours for pre-prepared dishes to reach the consumer's table from production. Ordinary packaging machines rely solely on physical squeezing to lock in freshness. If they encounter bumps or temperature differences, the appearance of the dishes will be directly reduced by half.
The situation is very different now! The fully automatic modified atmosphere packaging machine, which was just delivered to a customer in East China last week, uses gas replacement technology to put "invisible protective clothing" on the dishes. When Mr. Wang from the technical department demonstrated, he threw the packaging machine sample filled with a specific gas ratio into a 40¡æ environmental box. After 72 hours, the broccoli was still green and crisp when it was unpacked. "This is not a magic trick," he pointed to the gas ratio parameters on the control panel, "precisely controlling the concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide is the key to locking in freshness."
Industry data shows that the scale of the domestic pre-prepared food market has exceeded the 100 billion mark, of which more than 65% require cold chain distribution. This means that the requirements for packaging machines are no longer just "firm sealing", but also to become a "mobile fresh-keeping cabin". Our newly developed packaging machine is equipped with an intelligent sensor system that can automatically adjust the packaging parameters according to the characteristics of the dishes. Even the most difficult-to-serve garlic scallops can be perfectly packaged.
In the past, the most common question asked by customers was "how much does the packaging machine cost?" Now, the first question is "can it do gas conditioning + microwave dual functions?" The marketing department reported that the proportion of orders for high-end packaging machines with gas mixing devices jumped from 18% in the same period last year to 43%. This transformation has forced us to continuously optimize the production line. The recently launched modular design packaging machine makes it as easy for customers to upgrade the gas conditioning function as changing the phone case.
Looking at the gas conditioning packaging machines in the workshop that are about to be shipped to all parts of the country, the workshop director Lao Chen sighed: "Ten years ago, no one thought that the packaging machine would change from a backstage supporting role to a fresh-keeping protagonist." In the table revolution of pre-prepared meals, we produce not only equipment, but also the "fresh" link between the field and the tip of the tongue. The next time you unpack the pre-prepared meal package, maybe our "fresh lock code" is hidden inside.
