1、 Industry background and market opportunities

In recent years, China's pre packaged food industry has shown explosive growth, with a market size of 485 billion yuan in 2024 and further climbing to 617.3 billion yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of about 27.3%. From the policy perspective, in 2023, the No. 1 central document of the Central Government clearly proposed to "improve the standardization and normalization level of industries such as clean dishes and central kitchens, and cultivate and develop the prefabricated vegetable industry". In 2024, the General Administration of Market Supervision and other six departments jointly issued the Notice on Strengthening the Supervision of Food Safety of Prefabricated Vegetables to Promote the High Quality Development of the Industry, which for the first time defined the definition and scope of prefabricated vegetables at the national level. The current industry is transitioning from high-speed growth to high-quality development, with increasingly strict policy compliance requirements and accelerated reshaping of the market competition landscape. This poses new requirements for the automation level of processing equipment, hygiene and safety standards, and precise process control.

Among numerous pre made dishes, meat and vegetables occupy a core share. Pre made meat dishes include braised, sauce made, and seasoned meat skewers, while vegetables are represented by pickled vegetables, seasoned leafy vegetables, and root and stem pre made products. The processing technology paths of the two have their own characteristics, and there is also a differentiated demand for specialized processing equipment - this is exactly the field that our company has been deeply cultivating for a long time.

2、 The core pain points faced by prefabricated vegetable factories

High dependence on manual labor: The industry as a whole is currently in a "semi automated" stage, especially in the pre-processing stages such as food cleaning, cutting, and bone removal, which still heavily rely on manual labor. The automation rate of the production line is less than 60%.

Low domestication rate of equipment: More than half of high-end processing equipment relies on imports, and the domestication rate of key equipment such as poultry cracking and fish descaling is less than 30%. The procurement cost is high and the after-sales service cycle is long.

The new regulations have high compliance pressure: national standards clearly stipulate that pre made dishes cannot add preservatives, and require freshness preservation through processes and packaging. Higher requirements are put forward for processes such as vacuum rolling and pickling, modified atmosphere packaging, and high-temperature sterilization.

Insufficient integration of production lines: Traditional single machine equipment is difficult to achieve seamless connection between upstream and downstream processes, resulting in efficiency losses and labor waste.

Difficult food safety traceability: Traditional management models are difficult to cover the full process monitoring from raw material storage to finished product outbound, and lack intelligent data collection and traceability capabilities.

3、 Our solution

Based on the industry pain points mentioned above and the latest policy standards, our company provides a one-stop solution for prefabricated vegetable factories covering the two major categories of meat and vegetables, from raw material pretreatment to finished product packaging. The plan is based on the core concept of "efficient automated production line+high standard food safety compliance+intelligent digital control", providing full cycle engineering projects including whole plant planning, equipment selection, installation, commissioning, and upgrade services.

1. Solution for processing pre made meat dishes

The core process of pre made meat dishes is: thawing of raw materials → cutting → pickling/injection → cooking (braising/frying/deep frying) → cooling → packaging → sterilization. Our company can provide full process meat processing equipment from raw material segmentation to finished product packaging, including:

Raw material pretreatment section: low-temperature thawing machine, intelligent saw bone machine, automatic sorting line, bone removal machine, meat grinder, diced/diced machine

Marination and conditioning section: Vacuum rolling machine, saltwater injection machine, vacuum mixer, beater/emulsifier. The rolling and kneading machine can promote uniform penetration of marinade in a vacuum environment, significantly improving the tenderness and flavor stability of meat products

Cooking and processing section: sandwich pot, fully automatic braising line, planetary frying machine, continuous frying machine, steamer/smoking equipment

Supporting packaging section: Modified atmosphere fresh-keeping packaging machine, vacuum packaging machine, bag feeding packaging machine, high-temperature sterilization kettle, metal detection machine

The plan can meet the large-scale and standardized production needs of pre made livestock and poultry meat dishes (braised, sauce braised, braised, conditioned meat skewers, sausages, frozen meat patties, etc.). The equipment material strictly follows the food grade stainless steel standard and meets the HACCP system management for the entire production process. At the same time, customized continuous production line design can be provided based on customer production capacity and product categories.

2. Vegetable (vegetable) processing solutions

Prefabricated vegetable processing covers the entire process from raw material cleaning, sorting, cutting to dehydration and packaging. The core processes include: raw material sorting → cleaning → water control/dehydration → cutting/shaping → if cooking is required, connecting cooking/blanching → packaging → inspection and storage.

Cleaning equipment: high-pressure bubble cleaning machine, vortex vibration cleaning machine (compatible with two cleaning modes), effectively removing sediment and impurities, reducing stem and leaf damage

Water control equipment: vegetable drying and draining machine, high-power fan and food grade mesh belt conveyor, achieving efficient and continuous water control

Cutting equipment: multifunctional vegetable cutter, crawler chopper, slicer, slicer, high-speed chopper. The cutting tool parameters and speed can be adjusted according to different vegetable textures (leafy vegetables/rhizomes) and processing specifications to ensure smooth cutting and high yield

Cooking connection equipment: automatic blanching pot, steaming pot, to meet the cooking pretreatment of main vegetable items

Packaging and testing equipment: vacuum packaging machine, modified atmosphere packaging machine, metal detection machine, weight sorting machine

Our vegetable processing equipment fully supports major vegetable items such as leafy vegetables, root and stem vegetables, and beans. We can design a composite cleaning line that is compatible with multiple cleaning methods to help prefabricated vegetable factories reduce labor, increase efficiency, and standardize quality in the vegetable processing process.

3. Automation integration and intelligent control solutions

On the basis of standalone equipment, our company can provide a full line automation integration and digital upgrade solution for prefabricated vegetable factories:

Integrated production line design: Connecting cleaning, cutting, cooking, packaging and other processes into a complete production line, reducing material turnover nodes, and achieving a continuous production mode of "one end for raw materials and one end for finished products". Adopting an assembly line layout to reduce material transfer and manual intervention.

Intelligent control system integration: Based on PLC and SCADA systems, achieve coordinated operation, real-time monitoring, and data acquisition between devices. The control system can quickly respond to fault alarms and diagnose them, ensuring production continuity and stability.

MES Production Execution System: Import specialized industrial software for prefabricated food processing, covering modules such as production planning management, quality traceability, and material tracking, to achieve transparent management of the entire production process. Industry practice has shown that the average production efficiency of enterprises using MES systems can be improved by about 25%, and the quality defect rate can be reduced by about 60%.

Remote operation and warning: Support remote monitoring of equipment status and fault warning, reduce unexpected downtime, and ensure stable operation of the production line.

4、 Advantages and technical features of core equipment

Food grade hygiene design: The main body of the entire equipment is made of SUS304 or higher grade stainless steel, and the parts in contact with the food are precision polished. The pipeline and structural design have no dead corners to prevent cross contamination.

Precise process control: Key processes such as rolling, steaming, and sterilization are equipped with PID intelligent temperature control and time modules, strictly controlling the temperature fluctuation range to ensure highly consistent quality between batches.

Energy saving and consumption reducing design: Optimize the heat recovery and water recycling system to reduce energy consumption and operating costs.

Full process compliance assurance: The proposed process path can meet regulatory requirements such as the National Standard for Food Safety of Prefabricated Vegetables, assisting customers in smoothly passing compliance reviews.

5、 Customer revenue

Comprehensive cost reduction of 20% -30% (more than 50% reduction in manual labor, decrease in waste rate, and reduction in water and electricity consumption)

Quality standardization (significant reduction in inter batch differences, stable consumer taste experience)

Doubling production capacity (the unit time production capacity of the production line can be significantly improved)

Full traceability throughout the entire chain (helping brands break through and differentiate in competition)

6、 Service Commitment

From factory process layout planning to equipment installation and commissioning, from operator training to lifelong maintenance services - our company creates a turnkey engineering level service experience for prefabricated vegetable factory customers, fully safeguarding production and operation.