As specialists in meat and food processing technologies, Ross Industries helps its customers improve the processing, quality, and safety of their food products.

Ross Industries has built an international reputation as the engineer, manufacturer, and marketer of the world’s finest food processing systems. All Ross systems are designed to help processors streamline their food manufacturing and packaging functions in order to improve quality, productivity, and food safety while minimizing waste.

In 1970, Henry M. “Bud” Ross was challenged to build a revolutionary machine to tenderize meat more effectively and efficiently. His Ross 501 Tenderizer automated the tenderizing process, using pressure-sensitive blades rather than traditional rigid needles. The 501 tenderized bone-in meats by making thirty-two unique T-shaped surgical incisions per square inch without distorting the product shape or degrading the 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 increased product values. In fact, it 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 – a trait that would become the signature of Ross-engineered equipment.

Today, Ross is known for its wide range of proven processing and packaging equipment and solutions, including their line of meat tenderizers, chilling and freezing equipment, formers and presses, slicers, macerators, and tray sealers. Most recently, on the processing side, Ross introduced its line of Antimicrobial Intervention Systems that bring a whole new level of food safety to processors and consumers alike.  In addition, on the packaging side, Ross has introduced the most advanced and flexible “Inline” tray sealer on the market.

In 1991, the owners of Robert Reiser & Co., Inc. purchased a majority interest in Ross Industries. Reiser is one of the food industry’s leading suppliers of processing and packaging equipment. Our partnership with Reiser allows us to provide our customers with a wealth of knowledge and experience unmatched in the industry. We encourage our customers to take advantage of this combined expertise so that together we can help you produce a better, higher quality, more profitable product.

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