Airline Catering and Air Cargo Packaging Solutions

Airline Meal Safety and Quality Inspection

Mettler Toledo Product Inspection solutions help flight caterers inspect packaged meals and food products before dispatch. Depending on the product and packaging, available technologies can:

• Detect physical contaminants
• Verify product weight
• Identify missing meal components
• Inspect labels, dates and barcodes

Application: Product inspection
Technology partner: Mettler Toledo Product Inspection

Automatic Meal Weighing and Labelling

ESPERA systems automatically weigh and label packaged food products, making them suitable for high-volume airline and airport catering operations.

Labels can include product information, weight, production and expiry dates, batch details, barcodes and meal-identification codes such as MOML, VGML and GFML.

Application: Meal weighing and labelling
Technology partner: ESPERA

Accurate Meal Portioning

TopControl weighing solutions help operators achieve accurate target-weight combinations when preparing individual food portions.

These systems can support the portioning of fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat and other meal components while helping reduce product giveaway and improve production consistency.

Application: Meal portioning
Technology partner: TopControl

Tray Packaging for Prepared Catering Meals

Group Fabbri tray sealing and tray stretch wrapping solutions support the efficient packaging of prepared meals, fresh food, meat, bakery products and other catering items.

The right tray-packaging solution can help protect food, maintain presentation quality and improve packing-line productivity.

Application: Catering tray packaging
Technology partner: Group Fabbri

Sustainable Banding for Onboard Service Items

ATS-Tanner paper banding solutions can securely bundle aircraft blankets, towels, napkins, cutlery, documents and amenity products while reducing the need for individual plastic packaging.

Paper bands can also carry printed information such as batch details, laundry dates, handling instructions, barcodes or branding.

Application: Onboard item banding
Technology partner: ATS-Tanner

Cold-Chain Temperature Monitoring

Gemini Tinytag data loggers provide reliable temperature and humidity monitoring for catering cold rooms, freezers, refrigerated vehicles and temperature-sensitive air cargo.

Recorded information helps operators identify temperature deviations, verify storage and transport conditions, and maintain clear cold-chain records for HACCP and IATA perishable-cargo documentation.

Application: Cold-chain monitoring
Technology partner: Gemini Tinytag

Pallet Load Stabilisation

Robopac mobile stretch-wrapping systems help stabilise palletised catering supplies, consumables and logistics loads.

The Robot S7 Stop and Go offers the flexibility to wrap loads in different warehouse locations. Its safety system detects obstacles within its operating area and stops the machine when required.

Application: Pallet load stabilisation
Technology partner: Robopac

Efficient Air-Cargo Handling

Meijer Handling Solutions provides specialised forklift attachments for palletless, slip-sheet and air-freight handling applications.

Depending on the operation, KOOI RollerForks and rollerised handling solutions can support faster transfer of goods, reduce reliance on conventional pallets and improve warehouse efficiency.

Application: Air-cargo handling
Technology partner: Meijer Handling Solutions