Food — ready-to-eat
Ready-to-eat
ingredient handling.
Convenience food plants run wet and dry sides under one roof — the dry side carries the same high-care hygiene burden, plus allergens.
In brief
Ready-to-eat production handles dry ingredients — rice, pasta, dehydrated vegetables, seasoning and sauce powders — under high-care hygiene rules. TLG builds the dry-goods side: contained intake, allergen-segregated storage and dosing, and equipment designed for the wash-down regimes RTE plants run.
The powder problem
Process requirements.
RTE hygiene is zone discipline: dry ingredients cross into high-care through controlled points, on equipment that strips and washes. Allergen scheduling — which lines run what, in which order, cleaned how — is designed into the plant layout, not added to the cleaning roster.
- Ingredients
- Rice, pasta, dehydrated vegetables, sauce powders
- Hygiene
- High-care zoning, wash-down equipment
- Allergens
- Segregated storage and dosing paths
- Dosing
- Recipe batching to kitchen vessels
The process — stage by stage
The ready-to-eat line, stage by stage.
Every stage below is equipment TLG designs and builds — follow any of them into the solutions range.
- 01
Raw material intake
Sacks and bulk bags enter the line contained — dust captured at the tip point, foreign objects screened out.
- 02
Conveying
Transfer matched to the powder — pneumatic phase chosen for friability, mechanical for short controlled runs.
- 03
Raw material & finished goods storage
Silos with discharge engineered to the powder's measured flow properties — storage that empties reliably.
- 04
Automated batching
Every ingredient weighed to recipe on isolated load cells, majors to minors, with the batch record generated automatically.
- 05
Mixing
Blenders matched to the recipe's shear tolerance, with discharge designed so the blend survives to the pack.
- 06
Foreign material removal
Magnets hold ferrous wear metal; check-sieves reject oversize — placed where HACCP analysis puts them.
- 07
Bulk packaging
Filling by weight on live load cells — densified, dust-sealed bags that stack and ship at declared weight.
- 08
Dust extraction
Capture at every transfer point, ducted to reverse-jet filtration — hygiene, compliance and recovered product.
- 09
Automation & controls
One control system sequencing the whole line — recipes, interlocks and records included.
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