Raisio: Ensuring Food Safety and Quality with Mekitec X-ray Inspection
Raisio is a Finnish food company that refines agricultural raw materials into food products marketed under well-known brands such as Benecol®, Elovena®, Sunnuntai®, Torino®, and Nalle®. Founded on February 3, 1939 as a mill named Oy Vehnä Ab by Finnish wheat farmers, the company has grown into a food producer with around 350 employees across six countries, exporting to more than 40 markets worldwide. Raisio operates a modern, highly-automated food factory that has been in use since spring 2021, built to ensure stable quality, product safety, and traceability.
Ensuring Product Safety Across a Modern Food Factory
As a food producer supplying trusted household brands to more than 40 markets, Raisio operates under strict expectations for product safety and consistency. The company's food factory, in use since spring 2021, was built as a highly-automated facility specifically to ensure stable quality, the best possible product safety, and perfect traceability across its production lines.
Raisio's products, including oat-based foods, cholesterol-lowering ingredients, and everyday staples marketed under brands such as Elovena® and Benecol®, are consumed by millions of people. Maintaining consistent product safety and quality at scale is central to the company's purpose of making food "with the aim of bringing health to ourselves and the Earth," and to protecting the trust consumers place in its brands.
Building a Long-Term Partnership with Mekitec
Raisio's approach to food safety is built on continuous investment in production capabilities and modern technology. Between 2018 and 2021, the company invested nearly 70 million euros in expanding its production capacity and product portfolio, culminating in the new, highly-automated food factory. Within this environment of rigorous quality standards, Mekitec X-ray inspection systems have become part of the equipment Raisio relies on to safeguard its food production.
As a Finnish company itself, Mekitec's presence as a local technology partner aligns with Raisio's long history of Finnish food manufacturing, dating back to its founding as a wheat mill in 1939. The partnership supports Raisio's broader commitment to product safety and traceability across its production lines, values that are reflected throughout the company's operations and its responsibility programme, Transformative Power of Food 2026–2030.
Integrating X-ray Inspection into Production
A Mekitec X-ray inspection system operates within Raisio's production line to screen products for foreign objects and quality deviations before packaging. The system fits into the highly-automated environment of Raisio's food factory, where consistent quality, product safety, and full traceability are core operational priorities.
By adding X-ray inspection to its production process, Raisio reinforces the same standards that guided the design of its modern food factory, taken into use in spring 2021 to ensure stable quality and the best possible product safety. The inspection system complements the factory's automation, supporting Raisio's goal of delivering safe, high-quality food products to consumers across more than 40 export markets.
Supporting Food Safety at Scale
Reliable inspection technology supports Raisio's ability to deliver safe, consistent products across its brand portfolio, including Benecol®, Elovena®, Sunnuntai®, Torino®, and Nalle®, to consumers in more than 40 markets worldwide. As part of a food factory built for stable quality, product safety, and full traceability, X-ray inspection helps Raisio uphold the standards expected of a company whose products reach millions of households every day.
For a company with an 85-year history rooted in Finnish agriculture, maintaining product safety at every stage of production remains central to its purpose of making food "with the aim of bringing health to ourselves and the Earth." Continued investment in modern inspection technology reflects Raisio's broader commitment to responsible, high-quality food production as it grows its export markets and strengthens consumer trust in its brands.