IMA serves the international Food market with the best platforms available to satisfy any industry need. A full array of processing, filling and packaging is available to cover the major industries: tea & herbs, coffee, chocolate and confectionery, bouillon cubes and savoury, dairy & baby food, beverages, bakery, protein, produce and more.
Taking advantage of synergies and integrations with the Group companies, IMA offers fully engineered turn-key solutions delivering highly efficient packaging lines.
Dairy market
In the dairy sector, IMA provides an unmatched portfolio covering dosing, thermoforming, and filling applications. Benhil is a world leader in butter and margarine dosing and wrapping, alongside versatile filling and sealing machines for cups and tubs.
IMA Corazza, with over 4,500 installations worldwide, dominates the market for dosing, wrapping, and packaging processed cheese, as well as paste and pressed bouillon cubes, supplying everything from high-speed tablet presses, wrapping machines, cartoners to tray packers. Specializing in Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) and FS technology, Erca engineers award-winning, customizable thermoformed cup formats for liquid and pasty dairy products. Gasti Verpackungsmaschinen brings over 120 years of expertise in continuous-motion FS systems for plastic, paper, aluminum, and laminated preformed cups, suitable for sterile environments and delicate desserts. Hassia Verpackungsmaschinen, a market leader in aseptic packaging for about 70 years, supplies high-end solutions for cups and stick packs, complemented by Hamba pre-formed cup filling systems. Intecma covers low-speed FFS machines and features the patented ZERO Technology, an innovative tool design optimizing the runnability of mono-materials like PET, PP, and PLA while extending tool life and maintenance intervals.
Flexible packaging solutions
Regarding flexible packaging, IMA Fillshape specializes in the design and production of solutions for packaging stand-up pouches of any shape, with or without spouts. The range includes both machines that form the pouch from pre-printed rolls and machines that fill pre-formed pouches. Fillshape’s filling technologies allow for the processing of liquid, and highly viscous products in the food, beverage & baby food, and dairy industries. Ilapak, Delta Systems, Record, Eurosicma and Tecmar offer the widest range of solutions for the packaging of food products in flowpacks, Doypacks, sticks, etc. made with flexible film the applications of which are widely spread in the main food product sectors: from bakery to produce, to protein, IQF, etc. The range includes vertical packaging (VFFS) and horizontal packaging (HFFS), modified atmosphere (M.A.P.), product handling and feeding and even fully automated lines.
Tea & coffee solutions
IMA maintains an undisputed global market share of 70% in automatic tea bag packaging machines.
Through IMA Tea & Herbs, IMA RI, and IMA Mai S.A.U., the Group provides a complete range of solutions for the packaging of tea and herbal tea filter bags.
For the coffee sector, the IMA Coffee Hub—combining expertise from IMA, Spreafico, Tecmar, and Petroncini—delivers full A-to-Z process and packaging capabilities, covering everything from green coffee handling and roasting to single-serve capsule filling and cartoning.
Chocolate & Confectionery
In the chocolate and confectionery sector, IMA Gima, IMA Active, IMA Safe, Ilapak, Delta Systems, Eurosicma, IMA BFB, Ciemme, Mespic and Labeling are the reference for the design and production of complete customised processing and packaging lines dedicated to chewing-gums, candies, dried fruit, bars and other confectionery products. From powder handling, granulation, compression and coating, up to primary, secondary and end-of-line packaging machines, IMA produces machines such as horizontal flow wrapping machines, vertical baggers, cartoning/filling machines, blister packers, flowpack packers, overwrapping machines, wrap around tray packers, side and top loading display packers for counter or shelf displays, and lastly, case packers, palletizers and solutions for the printing and application of labels.
End of line solutions
IMA BFB, Ciemme, Mespic and Labeling complete the range of IMA FOOD by offering the markets machines for end of line packaging and solutions for the printing and application of labels.
