Ready Meals

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Reliable, High-Speed Packing for Ready Meal Producers

Ready meals are one of the fastest-growing categories in UK food retail, and the pressure to produce more, faster, with greater consistency, is only increasing. For manufacturers packing trays, pots, and containers at volume, the question is not whether to automate. It is whether your automation can keep up.

Brillopak’s UniPAKer is built for exactly this environment: high-throughput, high-precision packing that keeps lines running without compromising on the presentation your retail customers expect.

What Ready Meal Producers Are Up Against

Speed is the defining challenge in ready meals. Lines running at pace need automation that can match throughput consistently, not just at peak but across an entire shift, every day.

Presentation matters too. Ready meal packaging is highly visible at point of sale, and retailers hold producers to tight standards on how products are placed, oriented, and presented in the tray or container. Inconsistency on the line means rejections at the delivery bay.

Add to that the labour pressures affecting food manufacturing across the board, difficulty recruiting, high turnover, the cost of manual handling at speed, and the case for reliable automation becomes straightforward.

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How the UniPAKer Solves It 

The UniPAKer uses

delta robot technology with custom-designed end effectors to pick and place products at speed with consistent precision. Whether you are packing pots, placing sachets, or handling trays of prepared food, the system adapts to your product and packaging, not the other way around.

We design

for sustained performance, not just peak speed. A machine that runs at maximum pace for half a shift before requiring intervention costs you more than a machine running at a steady, reliable rate all day. Every UniPAKer installation maximises throughput and uptime, so you get more product out over a full production week.

PAKPerformance

our aftercare programme, is built into every installation from the outset, ensuring your line continues to perform at the level it was designed for, with the support to back it up.

Ready Meals Applications

Brillopak has worked across a range of ready meal applications, including:

Placing sachets and inserts into prepared meal containers, an application requiring high repeatability at speed for a major UK prepared foods producer

Packing quiches, pies, and pastry-based prepared foods into retail trays for Morrisons

Handling prepared potato products for major food producers

For ready meal producers operating in high care environments, the UniPAKer is designed to meet those requirements. The system handles both packaged and unpackaged products, making it suitable for manufacturers where product is transferred in an open, unprotected state prior to sealing, and where hygiene standards at the point of packing are paramount.

What Our Customers Say

“Brillopak’s modular automated concepts have proven to be extremely flexible and reliable… The true measure though has been the immediate improvements to operational efficiency effectiveness (OEE).”

Jason Kelly

Head of Operations, Morrisons

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Why Brillopak for Ready Meals

We have been building automation for food manufacturers since 2001. We understand that the measure of a good installation is not the speed it achieves on day one. It is how it is still performing in year three and beyond. 

That means being honest about what the right solution for your application looks like, designing end effectors specifically for your product, and being available when something needs attention. Every UniPAKer installation is backed by PAKPerformance, our aftercare programme, providing the ongoing support your line needs to keep performing at the level it was designed for. 

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If you are producing ready meals and want to understand what automation could do for your throughput, your team, and your line efficiency, let’s have a conversation.

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Trusted By Food Manufacturers Across The UK

From small operations to large-scale producers.

What Our Customers Say

Real experiences from operations managers who've integrated our machines into their production lines.

I wanted a system that would be straightforward to operate, with minimal downtime and line stoppages. The new system meets that requirement. Our operators appreciate the speed at which product changeovers can now be completed at the touch of a button. Our staff understood how to operate the system after a minimal period of training.

Muntons

The system has minimal downtime and I am pleased to recommend Brillopak to anyone considering packing automation.

TATA Steel

The new apple packing lines went live on time and on budget and have already achieved a step change in the quality of product that we deliver.

Morrisons |

I found that Brillopak were really focused on doing the job professionally. They also remained on site to make sure all of our people understood the systems before they left.

McVities

We were looking for a supplier who could meet the specification, contribute ideas and also offer the flexibility to modify their machines to work with our environment. Brillopak was a good fit.

Morrisons

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