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Depositors and Filling Machines for Sauces and Ready Meals in the UAE and Gulf

Riggs Autopack build volumetric depositors and filling machines in Lancashire, from a foot pedal unit for a small kitchen to multi-head conveyor lines for ready meal factories. Hot or cold, smooth or chunky, into jars, pots, trays or pouches. We supply, install and support every Riggs machine locally.

Ready meal trays of rice and curry moving along a stainless conveyor in a food plant

Raw to Ready

Riggs takes product from the kettle or the hopper and puts an accurate portion into the container. Hot product can be fed directly from a cooking vessel outlet, so nobody carries it across the floor.

  1. Raw Your ingredients, before they reach the line
  2. Mixing Hot product fed straight from the cooking kettle
  3. Filling Deposited by volume into jars, pots, trays or pouches
  4. Ready Handed on to your tray sealer, capper or lidder

Machine range

What Riggs Autopack builds

Every machine is designed and built at Riggs Autopack's own factory in Nelson, Lancashire. The range scales from a single head semi-automatic depositor on castors to bespoke multi-head conveyor lines, and works alongside the tray sealers, thermoformers and VFFS baggers you already run.

Riggs Autopack mobile depositor with hopper, control panel and foot pedal

Model 1000 depositors

Semi-automatic and automatic volumetric depositors, Series 1 to 5, from compact foot pedal units for small batches to multi-pump machines feeding conveyors, VFFS baggers and rotary pot machines.

Mobile depositors

Hygienic units on lockable castors with a 40 litre hopper, depositing from 3 ml to 5 litres per cycle, wheeled between products and cleaned away from the line.

Model 1002 conveyor filling lines

Bespoke automatic lines built around your container and output, single or multi-head, for medium and large scale production.

Model 1001 transfer pumps

Pumps that move product from kettle or tank to the depositor without breaking up particulates, so pieces of vegetable or meat arrive whole.

Ancillary machines

Decorating heads, cut-off valves, semi-automatic cappers, lid pressing machines, rotary tables, bag press systems and pouch opening devices to complete the line.

Built for

Who these machines are built for

Riggs depositors suit producers filling something thick, hot, chunky or all three: the products that clog a filler designed for liquids or break up in one designed only for speed. Depositing is damage free, so a stew still has pieces in it when the tray is sealed.

Sauces & condiments Soups & ready meals Hummus & dips Jams, honey & preserves Dairy & desserts Bakery fillings Pate & spreads
Stainless tote of chunky tomato and vegetable sauce on a production floor
Sealed ready meal trays stacked on a stainless rack in a chilled dispatch area

In the Gulf

Hot fill, straight from the kettle

Many central kitchens and ready meal producers in the Gulf still portion by ladle. It works until volume grows, then portion weights drift, product cools unevenly while it waits, and labour becomes the limit on output. Riggs depositors handle product up to 120°C and can be fed directly from a cooking kettle outlet, so hot sauce, curry or soup goes from the vessel into the tray without anyone carrying it.

Paired with a Limitech cooking vessel upstream and your existing tray sealer downstream, that is a line that cooks and portions without a transfer by hand. Riggs can trial your own product before you commit, which is the quickest way to find out whether a recipe deposits cleanly.

Still portioning hot or chunky product by hand?

Tell us your product, your container and the output you need per hour, and we'll size and quote the right Riggs depositor or filling line for it.

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