In recent years, the prepared food market has witnessed vigorous development and continuous expansion in scale. According to relevant data, the market size of prepared food exceeded 600 billion yuan in just the past year. Especially during festivals, such as "New Year's dishes" during the Spring Festival, prepared foods are highly favored by consumers due to their convenience and rich cultural connotations. However, with the rapid development of the industry, the drawbacks of traditional manual packaging models have become increasingly apparent and can no longer meet the needs of industrial production. Food enterprises urgently need to rely on automated packaging equipment to break the deadlock.
Packaging equipment is widely used in the production of prepared foods. In the vacuum packaging process, it can effectively isolate oxygen, prevent food oxidation and deterioration, and significantly extend the shelf life of food. Modified atmosphere packaging technology maintains the fresh taste of ingredients by precisely adjusting the gas ratio inside the packaging, and is widely used in high-end prepared food products. The use of automatic filling, labeling, and sealing equipment not only enhances the appearance of products but also strengthens market competitiveness. For example, for traditional prepared foods like Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables, after the introduction of advanced packaging equipment, the entire process from raw material filling to finished product packaging has been automated, resulting in a substantial increase in production efficiency and a significant reduction in labor costs.
To meet the diverse needs of the prepared food industry, packaging equipment manufacturers are actively investing in research and development, and a series of innovative achievements continue to emerge. In terms of automated production line integration, full-process automation is achieved through PLC control systems and robotics, greatly reducing human intervention and improving production efficiency. Intelligent detection systems use visual recognition and weight detection technologies to ensure packaging accuracy, effectively avoiding problems such as missed packaging and incorrect packaging, and significantly increasing the product qualification rate. Flexible production adopts modular design, enabling equipment to quickly switch between different packaging formats, meeting the production needs of enterprises for small batches and multiple varieties.
As a high-end category within prepared foods, "New Year's dishes" have extremely high requirements for packaging in terms of sealing, freshness preservation, and aesthetics. The vacuum freshness-locking technology of advanced packaging equipment keeps food fresh during storage. Heat-resistant steam packaging is suitable for ready-to-eat New Year's dishes, ensuring that products do not deform or leak during the heating process, providing consumers with a good experience.
Today, the state strongly supports the intelligent transformation of the food industry, and various regions have introduced policies to encourage enterprises to introduce advanced packaging equipment and improve the level of production automation. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the prepared food industry, packaging equipment has become an important engine for industrial upgrading, helping food enterprises achieve efficient mass production and quality upgrading, seize market opportunities, and push the prepared food industry to new heights.
