Whether you’re in the processing industry or on the packaging side, food manufacturing requires a lot of heavy-duty equipment. This article will help you decide which machines are the ones right for your job.

1. Preparing

Chances are, whatever food you’re getting ready to sell needs to be prepared, whether that means cleaning, sorting, or peeling and skinning. You’ll need to identify if you need high powered washers or floatation tanks for your food prep, or more complex sorting machines to do the hard work for you. Sometimes it can be hard to know if work could be done more efficiently by employees or by machine, but finding that out will save you a lot of time and money in the long run.

2. Processing

If you’re in food manufacturing, you need high powered industrial blenders to mix your foods with various preservatives and other chemicals necessary to give food a longer shelf life. Or maybe your company makes bread, and you need a huge industrial mixer to handle the dough. Blenders can also be used to separate components of foods or make a solid into a liquid. Whatever you need it for, an industrial blender is almost certainly something that you’ll need in the food manufacturing industry.

3. Preserving and Packaging 

The final two steps of the food manufacturing process may take the biggest and most expensive equipment. If you need to dry or cure meat, for instance, you’ll need huge smokers or convective dryers. For packaging, you’ll need printers, fillers, and sealers, as well as some kind of quality control check at the end of the process. But preparing your food properly for shipping and selling is the most important detail, as it will ensure customers get the full quality of the work you put into making your product.

These three parts of the manufacturing process are a great place to start when considering what machines you might need and how expensive the process can be.