Convenience / ready meals
Machines and complete lines for convenience and ready meals
From intake and washing to mixing, dosing, cooling and packing. Sticomax Group designs, builds and installs machines and lines for vegetable salads, ready meals, soups and sauces, and meal components. A single point of contact guides your project, from the initial design through to service after handover.
We design and build ready meal lines that fill every portion accurately and keep running day and night.
Our customers
Trusted by leading food producers
Producers across the food industry work with machines and lines from Sticomax Group every day.
End products
Solutions for every convenience product
Your challenge, our solution
One line, fully aligned
Many recipes, giveaway on every portion and a product with a short shelf life: in ready meals and convenience food, every gram and every minute counts. Within Sticomax Group, specialist machine builders work together on every step, so that your line performs as a whole.
- Accuracy: multihead feed shakers, batch weighers and Eqlipse dosing systems for a consistent portion weight and less giveaway
- Hygiene: open, easy-to-clean stainless steel designs, with ViwateQ’s unique surface treatment so that sauces and product residues adhere less
- Cold chain: spiral coolers and spiral freezers that bring your product evenly to temperature
- Flexibility: machines and lines that we tailor to changing recipes, components and packaging
The process
From intake to packing, from a single partner
We supply individual machines and complete lines, including conveying, buffering, platforms and installation. These are the process steps in which we support you.
Intake & unloading
Tote dumpers, lift dumpers, box tippers and dosing tippers for fragile products, with hoppers for an even supply.
Washing & dewatering
Washing belts, dewatering shakers, dewatering conveyors and dewatering screws for vegetables and salad components.
Mixing
Paddle mixers, mixing screws and powder dosing units for blending components with powders and other ingredients.
Distribution & buffering
Distribution shakers, distribution screws, buffer conveyors and buffer systems that feed multiple filling and packing stations evenly.
Weighing, dosing & filling
Multihead feed shakers, scale feeders, batch weighers, weighing screws, weigh belts and Eqlipse dosing systems for accurate filling.
Topping & assembly
Topping lines with ingredient hoppers for assembling meals, salads and meal components.
Cooling & freezing
Spiral coolers for ready meals and spiral freezers for ready meals, soups and sauces, with a long dwell time on a small footprint.
Inspection & end of line
Inspection and metal detection conveyors, crate washers, box and crate handling and logistics conveying to dispatch.
Machines
Machines for every step in your ready meal line
Line advice
How much are giveaway and downtime still costing your line?
Discuss capacity, dosing accuracy or hygiene with a specialist. Together we will look at where your line is losing out and which change will deliver the most.
Sticomax at a glance
Focused on the lowest TCO for your ready meal line
Producers of ready meals and convenience food work with many recipes, tight margins and a short shelf life. That is why we do not look at the price of a single machine, but at the costs and yield of your entire line over its full service life.
2,500+
Machines delivered
Our machines are in operation at food producers around the world, from pre-processing to packaging.
70+
Countries
Installation and service wherever your plant is located, including fast delivery of parts.
±300
Specialists
Engineers, fitters and service technicians with many years of expertise in dosing, weighing, cooling and freezing.
30 years
Experience per company
An average of 30 years of machine building per company, refined in practice at food producers.
200+
Machine types
From tote dumper to spiral freezer: a broad range for the steps in your line.
4
End products
Vegetable salads, ready meals, soups and sauces, and meal components.
1
Point of contact
One project team for the design, construction, installation and servicing of your line.
24/7
Service
Your production often runs day and night. So does our service department, with preventive maintenance and inspections.
Our specialists
Six specialists, one team
Sticomax Group brings together specialist companies from Belgium and the Netherlands. For ready meals and convenience food, five machine builders work together with ViwateQ, a specialist in the surface treatment of stainless steel. You have one project team and one point of contact for your line.
Stumaco
Integrator of complete lines. Stumaco brings all machines together, including those from external suppliers, manages the master 3D model and takes final responsibility for delivery, installation and start-up. In Staden, Stumaco also builds its own conveyors, screw conveyors, hoppers, platforms and installations for process water and residual streams.
FoodeQ
FoodeQ, based in Steenbergen, specialises in vibratory technology, with more than 2,500 vibratory conveyors delivered. For convenience food, it supplies multihead feed shakers, dewatering and distribution shakers, Eqlipse dosing systems, weigh belts and metal detection.
Romonta
Romonta supplies topping lines with ingredient hoppers for assembling meals and salads. It also builds transport, dosing and dewatering conveyors, buffer systems, tippers for fragile products and crate handling.
ICS Spiral Freezers
ICS builds spiral coolers for ready meals and spiral freezers for ready meals, soups and sauces. A spiral combines a long dwell time with a compact footprint.
IntOCon
IntOCon takes care of the end of the line with custom box and crate handling, buffers, mergers and logistics conveying. With the IntOWI, products are loaded into a thermoforming packaging machine.
ViwateQ
ViwateQ has developed a unique, chemical-free treatment for stainless steel. It makes the surface of machines and lines microscopically smooth, so that sauces, fat and product residues adhere less and cleaning is quicker and more thorough.
Cases
Experience with leading food producers
24/7
Industry-leading service & maintenance
A ready meal line often runs in multiple shifts, with a tight schedule and a product with a short shelf life. Any downtime then costs production straight away. That is why we stay involved after installation, so that your line keeps running and you get the most out of your investment.
- On-site installation and commissioning
- Training for your operators and maintenance department
- Preventive maintenance and inspections
- Fast delivery of parts, including across borders
We are here to help
Contact
Discuss your ready meal line with a specialist
Tell us what you produce, what capacity you need or what issues your current line is running into. A specialist will contact you personally to discuss the options.
