Mekitec MEKI AI-Powered X-ray Food Inspection

Mekitec is a Finnish company founded in 2005 that develops X-ray inspection systems for food producers, with offices in Espoo and Oulu, Xi'an in China, Irving in Texas and Lerma in Mexico. It installed its first MEKI system in 2011, began AI detection pilots in 2018, acquired an AI software company in 2021 and received a US patent for AI in food safety in 2024. Its systems help bakeries, meat, dairy, snack and frozen food makers find foreign bodies and packaging defects before products leave the plant.

The MEKI range covers the all-in-one MEKI ONE for small packs, MIDMEKI and HIGHER MIDMEKI for trays, multipacks, cheese and butter, SIDEMEKI for bottles, cans and jars, WIDEMEKI dual-view units for wide bakery packs, BULK MIDMEKI for unpackaged nuts and dried fruit at up to 20,000 kg per hour, and BIGMEKI for large end-of-line packs. The systems detect metal, stone, glass, bone and dense plastic, even in foil packaging. MEKI AI adds checks for fill level, missing product, count, seals and clips plus paperless critical control point validation, while MEKI Analytics stores records and reports.

• MEKI ONE: all-in-one inspection, rejection and reject confirmation for small primary packs.
• MIDMEKI and HIGHER MIDMEKI: larger apertures for trays, multipacks, cheese and butter.
• SIDEMEKI: side-view inspection of bottles, cans and jars with fill level and cap checks.
• BULK MIDMEKI: inspection of unpackaged nuts, dried fruit and vegetables at up to 20,000 kg per hour.
• MEKI AI: fill level, missing product, count, seal and clip checks with paperless CCP validation.
• MEKI Analytics: connected records and reports across installed systems.

• Cashew and dried fruit exporters inspecting bulk kernels for stones, glass and shell fragments before packing.
• Snack and confectionery plants checking foil-packed products for contaminants and seal defects.
• Beverage and sauce producers verifying fill level and caps on bottles and jars.

• High detection accuracy: the company states a precision rate of up to 99.9%.
• Foreign body and quality checks together: one system finds contaminants and fill, count and seal defects.
• Works with difficult packaging: foil and metallised packs can be inspected where metal detectors fail.
• Easier audits: paperless CCP validation and MEKI Analytics keep retrievable inspection records.

Food safety standards and retailer audits increasingly treat X-ray inspection as a critical control point with documented records. Vietnamese exporters of cashews, dried fruit, snacks, seafood and bakery products face foreign body complaints and audits from overseas buyers, raising demand for AI-assisted X-ray inspection that also checks packaging quality.

Founded in 2005 in Finland, with European locations in Espoo and Oulu and offices in China, the USA and Mexico. The company reports installations in over 40 countries and more than 30 partners. Customers shown on its site include Royal Greenland, Raisio, Verkade and Sokolow. X-ray leakage is below 1 microsievert per hour, conforming to EN 61010-02-091 and FDA 21 CFR 1020.40.