Ross Industries has achieved an international reputation as the designer, builder, and marketer of the world’s finest food processing systems. All Ross systems are designed to help our customers streamline the processing and packaging function in order to improve quality and productivity while minimizing waste.

Ross Tenderizers dramatically improve the mouth-feel of any cut of meat by making 32 unique T-shaped surgical incisions per square inch in both bone-in and boneless products. Ross TenderPresses simultaneously tenderize and flatten products while also removing the product’s “memory,” resulting in an increase in portion yields with a decrease in cooking times. Ross Meat Presses and Slicers give you unmatched control of product density, shape, thickness, and weight. Our Meat Presses uniformly shape products while our high speed Slicers quickly and precisely cut tempered or crust-frozen meat and poultry to uniformly thick portions. Food processors are realizing significant productivity gains and higher yields with Ross BLC II Impingement Tunnels for chilling or crust freezing meat primals, freezing flat products, with minimum weight loss, and production of free flowing IQF products such as nuggets, meat balls, fruits, and vegetables.

In the fast-growing and increasingly important field of value-added case-ready packaging, Ross systems are recognized for innovation, efficiency, durability, and low operating cost. Ross Modified Atmosphere Preformed Tray Packaging systems offer greater seal integrity, design flexibility, and longer shelf life while reducing processing down time and material waste caused by production line rejections and store returns. Our new state-of-the-art Ross S Series represents the world’s most advanced modified atmosphere tray packaging technology.

Challenged to build a revolutionary machine to tenderize meat more effectively and efficiently than anything available in the market, ex-fighter pilot and aerospace engineer, Henry M. “Bud” Ross, set out in a Northern Virginia garage to forge his Ross 501 prototype in January 1970.

The technologies Bud Ross invented and incorporated in his new machine were far ahead of the industry. The Ross 501 tenderizer automated the tenderizing process, using pressure sensitive blades, not rigid needles, to tenderize bone-in meats by making 32 unique T-shaped surgical incisions per square inch without distorting shape and degrading meat quality. For the first time, meat processors and retailers were able to mechanically tenderize primal sections and cuts without having to remove the bone. The Ross bone-in tenderizer enhanced product values. In fact, it literally created new markets by allowing processors to break the age-old “cattle cycle” and tenderize the tougher, less expensive cuts of range-fed cattle to obtain the higher quality and prices of grain-fed beef.

The Ross 501 meat tenderizer was the first in a series of food processing equipment innovations that reflected Bud Ross’ common sense approach to engineering. His design enhancements often featured multiple benefits from a single idea.

Ross tenderizers quickly gained a following and the business began to take off. In 1972, the company moved to a gleaming new manufacturing plant in Midland, Virginia. Since then, Ross Industries has expanded to design and manufacture Meat Presses, Slicers, Tenderpresses, BLC II Tunnels for chilling and freezing, and a full line of Modified Atmosphere Preformed Tray Packaging equipment, all of which featured the “multi-benefit” design improvements and highest quality that have become the signature of Ross engineered equipment.

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