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FOOD ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION

AUTOMATE YOUR FOOD PRODUCTION LINES WITH PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND ROBOTICS

Take your food processing business to the next level with Grote pizza topping, sandwich assembly, and prepared food processing equipment. Further automate with high-care food robotics.

We help you increase throughput and improve accuracy, quality, and ROI. And we’re dedicated to keep your operation running optimally for years.

LEVEL UP FOOD PRODUCTION

We use over 50 years of experience to design, manufacture, and support equipment and robotics that automatically assemble processed food like frozen pizza, sandwiches and wraps, snack foods, frozen meals, ready meals, food to-go, and RTE foods.

Increased Production

Automating food assembly increases capacity and efficiency – allowing you to make more product profitably.

Accuracy & Consistency

Fixed equipment and robotics ensure accurate deposit weights, slice thickness, and targeting throughout entire production runs.

Flexibility

Our equipment lines and slicers assemble a range of prepared food products. Many machines offer quick changeouts, allowing you to do more on the same machine.

Customer Support

Our enduring commitment to outstanding customer service means we’re here from discovery to commissioning and throughout the entire life of your equipment.

FOOD ASSEMBLY ROBOTICS

Grote’s robotic solutions automate food-handling applications throughout your processing line to make a wide range of prepared foods we have decades of experience in. Applications include:

  • Feed ingredients onto the processing line
  • Pick and place food ingredients
  • Stack and lid ingredients
  • Align products for cutting and packaging
  • Pick and place end products onto packaging lines

FOOD ASSEMBLY APPLICATIONS

Baked Goods

Convenience Foods

Food To-Go

Frozen Meals

Prepared Salads & Meals

Processed Food

Ready Meals

Ready-to-Eat Foods

Snack Foods

CASE STUDY

Martel Foods Automates Sandwich Lidding with Grote Robotics

Learn how Grote’s robotic sandwich lidding solution helped Martel Foods increase production by 50% and reduce manual labor.

FOOD ASSEMBLY EQUIPMENT LINE

Grote equipment has been proven in food processing for decades. Our machines are flexible, durable, and easy to maintain, and they help you increase production, improve efficiency, and grow your business. Choose from our entire machine catalog below, or contact us to figure out the best solution for you.

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Equipment Categories

Equipment Categories
  • Bread Cutter (1)
  • Bread Feeder (2)
  • Bulk Slicer (2)
  • Depositor (2)
  • Pizza Topping (9)
  • Sandwich Assembly (12)
  • Sandwich Cutter (3)
  • Sauce Applicator (2)
  • Slice and Apply (5)
  • Slicer (7)
  • Targeting (5)
  • Topping Applicator (3)
  • Wrap Assembly (7)

Food Applications

Food Applications
  • Sandwich (13)
  • Pizza (10)
  • Plant Based (9)
  • Cheese (5)
  • Pizza/Pepperoni (5)
  • Condiments/Sauces (4)
  • Bacon (3)
  • IQF (3)
  • Bread (2)
  • Fresh Meat (2)
  • Fruit & Vegetable (2)
  • Lunch/Deli Meat (2)
  • Jerky (1)

Fresh Produce Slicer

Bulk slice a wide range of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables with no damage or cracking, up to 120 strokes per minute, per lane.

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High Speed Slicer

Bulk slice and apply food directly onto an oven belt or conveyor at up to 400 strokes per minute, per lane.

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Horizontal Bisector

Slice fresh or frozen bread in half, up to 100 pieces per minute, per lane, and transfer them to your sandwich assembly line.

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Inline Tortilla Warmer

Evenly warm tortillas and flatbreads for quality and pliability at a rate of 60 tortillas per minute, per lane.

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Modular Slicer

Slice and apply a wide range of foods onto your single-lane line with accurate targeting at up to 120 strokes per minute.

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Particulate Depositor

Consistently deposit accurate portions of wet salad products onto your food production line.

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Peppamatic

Improve quality and increase production by precisely slicing and applying pepperoni on your pizza lines.

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Pizzamatic Linear Slicer

Slice and apply cold pepperoni directly onto your pizza line in a full pattern, on a variety of crust sizes, all in a single motion.

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Sandwich Assembly Conveyor

Enable efficient sandwich assembly with a custom conveyor designed specifically for industrial sandwich production.

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Sandwich Cutter AC60

Cleanly and accurately cut sandwiches into halves using either mechanical or ultrasonic blades.

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Slicer/Applicator

Slice and apply a wide range of products directly onto your food processing lines in multiple lanes with precise targeting.

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UltraDose Sauce Applicator

Evenly apply a wide range of sauces onto your multi-lane, high-production pizza lines while leaving crust edges clean.

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Ultramatic Slicer

Slice and apply full topping patterns on your multi-lane pizza production lines.

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Universal Cutter

Use a single machine to cleanly cut any sandwich, wrap, or sub in half at up to 60 per minute.

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ValuDose Sauce Applicator

Evenly apply a wide range of sauces onto your single- or two-lane, high-production pizza lines while leaving crust edges clean.

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Volumetric Depositor

Accurately and consistently deposit, inject, and decorate any liquid or semi-liquid condiment.

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Waterfall Cheese Applicator

Automatically apply cheese to baking trays for efficient and fast cheese crisp processing with no waste.

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Wrap Cutter

Cleanly cut up to 33 sandwich wraps into halves or pinwheels per minute with ultrasonic frequency and a titanium knife.

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Wrap Glue Applicator

Apply a natural liquid adhesive to up to 40 sandwich wraps per minute, per lane, for a strong seal after the assembly process.

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The Grote Company
Advantage

We’ve designed, manufactured, and supported top-quality, durable equipment that makes the foods our world eats for over 50 years.

And we promise to use that expertise to guide and support you through every step of a project – from discovery to the years and decades in the field. We call it “enduring commitment.”

Learn more about our people-first approach to automating food processing and feeding our growing world – together.

Test Our Equipment With Your Product

We understand that food processing equipment is a large capital investment and a potential change in culture. That’s why we invite you to test our equipment with your specific products and precise operating conditions in our demo facilities. Available at both of our locations – Columbus, Ohio and Deeside, UK – you can evaluate one piece of equipment up to a full line, in standard temperatures or in a controlled cold room – giving you peace of mind that equipment will work the way you need it to in your plant.

Ship your product for a virtual demonstration or visit in person to get a real-life view of how Grote Company equipment can optimize your production.

TALK WITH OUR EXPERTS

Planning a food processing project? We’re here to help you define specs, find equipment and automation options, test products, and support existing lines.