As an industrial food processor, you need to have the right size machinery to handle your throughput. That machinery has to manipulate your base ingredients and your final product deftly, with maximum quality and minimum waste.
At Challenge RMF, our industrial food processing technology delivers bespoke solutions for companies across the world. Contact us to set up a consultation, or use our Request a Quote online tool to get an efficient bid from Challenge RMF.
Read our blog to understand the Challenge RMF process, and find more about the right industrial food processing equipment for your plant.
It Starts With Industry Thought Leadership
Challenge RMF has been manufacturing proprietary industrial food processing equipment for over 45 years.
Our engineering includes:
Helical flights that naturally reinforce the drum.
Massive rollers to support the drum track.
Thick steel construction for hardcore durability.
Easier cleaning by design.
Simplicity of operation.
Enhanced welds that have been ground smooth.
Challenge RMF continues to help meat processors across the globe achieve maximum yield, minimum waste, and excellent quality. As the kids say, we’re the “OG” for industrial food processing design and manufacturing.
Big and Bold Innovation
To achieve these advancements, we first designed our largest model. This allowed our engineers and manufacturers to establish the rigorous and demanding standards that are hallmarks of our commitment to excellence.
From that success, we moved on to create our smaller meat massagers/marinaters. Starting at the top and moving down works much better than designing and manufacturing the smallest model and then trying to scale the technology to continuously larger models.
Choosing Your Industrial Food Processing Manufacturer
Your best investment is always the one with both maximum return and minimum risk. For over 45 years, Challenge RMF has built some of the longest-lasting meat processing equipment in the world.
Heavy-Duty Performance
We fabricate the Challenge RMF from the best materials.
- Heavy stainless steel plate makes up the drum.
- Reinforced stainless steel forms the uploading chutes.
- Self-aligning stainless steel doors that are hydraulically powered.
- Solid shaft stainless steel crowns the helical flights..
- Precision welding secures all drum seam welds and interior welds.
- All surfaces and welds are carefully finished to facilitate easier cleaning and total sanitation.
Our team’s outstanding craftsmanship delivers a meat massaging/marinating system in a compact equipment envelope—requiring up to 50% less floor space than many comparable-capacity meat tumblers.
Real Experience for Real Results
Challenge RMF expertise combines advanced engineering with real-world experience—so you receive dependable solutions. Challenge RMF developed our Meat-on-Meat Massage™ technology to meet the needs and goals of meat processors.
When selecting a partner to improve your industrial food processing chain, you want the best customer service and equipment performance along with another key ingredient: choice.
Size Choices to Meet Your Needs
The size of your current operation defines your needs, but your goals will determine how to prepare for the future.
To accommodate different operation sizes, the models of Challenge RMF Meat Massager/Marinaters offer an impressive array of capacities:
| MODEL | MM-1 | MM-2 | MM-3 | MM-4 | MM-5 | MM-6 | MM-7 | MM-10 |
| CAPACITY (LBS) | 2500 | 5000 | 8000 | 10,000 | 11,000 | 12,000 | 15,000 | 22,000 |
| CAPACITY (㎡) | 45.4 | 90.8 | 145.4 | 181.8 | 200 | 218.2 | 272.7 | 400 |
Your current operation’s throughput may only require an MM-1 Massager/Marinater for your meat massaging. But if your goal is to increase output within the next 3 to 5 years, you may want to consider the MM-2 or even MM-3 models.
Because your meat massager/marinater (often incorrectly referred to as a “meat tumbler” or “tumbler marinater”) should be built to last for many, many years, you can plan ahead—with immediate needs and future goals all wrapped up in your purchase.
Floor Space Choices
Knowing your throughput needs is one thing. Knowing whether new equipment will fit is another. Our engineering and manufacturing teams will help you work through all the requirements and limitations of your space to achieve a customized fit.
We’ve done the same thing for decades for companies like Hormel, Cargill, Kraft, Smithfield, HEB, Publix, and Maple Leaf. We’ll apply the same excellence to your projects too.
Equipment Longevity
We don’t mean to brag, but this is the kind of performance you should expect from your industrial food processing equipment: the first massager sold by Challenge RMF still does its job in a plant in Nebraska! That’s nearly 5 decades of dependable service, which doesn’t happen by accident.
Prolonged performance must be the goal built into the culture of the manufacturing company. Other companies use “built-in obsolescence” to create a secondary revenue stream: repair and maintenance. The Challenge RMF team designs and builds every piece of equipment with long-term reliability at the core.
Our secondary revenue stream is called “word of mouth.” Our clients love our vacuum massager/marinater reliability so much that we have a 92% customer retention rate. We invest in quality, so your investment delivers results.
Custom Solutions
No two businesses are exactly the same. Why should their core industrial food processing equipment be carbon-copies when their business needs aren’t?
Our 6-step process puts your needs front-and-center. We don’t sell equipment. We create solutions.
Step 1: Understanding Your Needs
We start with a deep conversation about your business. We’ll talk with your team to explore all the facets of your current facility layout and your production goals.
Our engineers and experts will leave no stone unturned to understand what you want to achieve, so we can create a food processing solution that’s built to handle your exact requirements.
Step 2: Designing the Equipment/System
Call them Meat Alchemists, Systems Wizards, or Success Whisperers—our team goes to work, with your continued input, to nail down your needs and specifications. The result: a design concept for Challenge RMF tech that’s customized to fit your production space and capacity specs.
Step 3: The Quote
Time to get down to the brass tacks. When we’ve created the design that accomplishes all your goals, we’ll formulate a customized quote for the project. You’ll see transparent costs listed, so you can make decisions with all the information you need right in front of you.
Step 4: Let’s Go!
After you’ve approved your design and quote, our expert engineers go to work crafting your industrial food processing equipment—piece-by-piece. Your precision plans move out of the conceptual phase and are delivered to our manufacturing plant here in the Midwest. There, our experienced crews create, test fit, and performance test every single piece of equipment customized for your plant.
Step 5: Installation and Start-Up
Once your processing system is manufactured and ready to use, our experienced crews can assist you with installation.
As the engineering and manufacturing force behind your new equipment, we’re uniquely qualified to make sure everything properly fits together in your space.
After installation, we also assist with dry and wet testing so that you can start using your system for production as quickly as possible.
Step 6: Maintenance
We’re not a “one and done” kind of shop. The Challenge RMF team will help you take care of your system throughout its production life—even 40 years after installation!
Should a need arise, our highly experienced service technicians and top-quality parts department will assist you with quality parts and up-time advice. We don’t believe in downtime, just on-time.
Challenge RMF Equipment Plays Well With Others
You may already have an industrial injector to put brine deep into the muscle. Maybe your industrial meat processing line includes a macerator.
Our meat-on-meat massagers/marinaters are ready to fit into your line—delivering uniform, dependable performance without meat degradation. With our customizable settings, you can tenderize and massage even the most delicate meats all the way to the core without damage to the surface.
Because of our game-changing engineering and precision manufacturing, you’ll be able to keep on doing that for years. And years. And years.
Maximum Flexibility for Meat Processing
Different meat groups require different handling abilities, and Challenge RMF delivers. Our massager/marinaters, cryogenic marinaters, dumpers, vacuum loaders, microwave thawing systems and more can be designed and programmed to suit the enhancement needs for each meat, including:
- Beef
- Chicken
- Pork
- Seafood (yes, even delicate seafood products!)
Our client list also includes some of the world’s leading producers of:
- Cured meats: roast beef, cured turkeys, hams, beef jerky and more.
- Marinated meats: chicken, beef steaks, beef fajitas, pork tenderloins and more.
Bigger isn’t always better. Better is better.
No matter how big your project is (or how small), you need the best equipment to make your investment count. Challenge RMF delivers on all fronts. Call us, contact us online, or do a little DIY estimating. We’ll get back to you quickly, so you can make the best decisions for your project, your plant, and your profit.
About Challenge RMF
We’ve been here for food manufacturers and processors for over 45 years, and our long-time clients and relationships are a standing testament to excellent products backed by equally excellent service.
We’ve helped industrial food processors the world over. Our team will continue to be here when you want us and there when you need us.
