Processing and packaging equipment OEM MULTIVAC was recently selected for the Sustainable Packaging Awards as the Sustainable Packaging Machinery category winner.
MULTIVAC’s winning entry was for the innovative Cooling@Packing concept, developed by MULTIVAC for the baking industry.
In the production of baked goods, products traditionally leave the oven and go through a separate cooling process before being ready to be packaged. This takes up space, needs capital investment and uses energy resources. Cooling@Packing integrates the cooling and packaging processes, providing some key advantages.
“By using our Cooling@Packing system, which is about to be launched on the market, bakery products can be placed directly from the oven into the open pack cavities on the thermoforming packaging machine – and even automatically by means of loading robots.
Thanks to the evacuation process in the chambers of the packaging machine, the bakery products are cooled down within a few seconds from 95°C to approximately 30°C.
The evacuation process produces vaporisation energy, which is released by the evaporation of the bakery products’ own moisture, and which then cools down the bakery products.“
~ Thomas Fickler, Product Manager, MULTIVAC.
In addition to the Sustainable Packaging News win, MULTIVAC had previously won the Gold Award at the German Packaging Awards for 2024 – Cooling@Packaging has certainly made an impact.
Benefits of Cooling@Packing include:
- Space saving by integrating two processes and allowing products to be loaded directly from the oven to the infeed of the cooling and packaging system.
- Lower energy requirements for cooling.
- Less handling of products, reducing the risk of contamination.
Check out the MULTIVAC news releases for the German Packaging Awards and the Sustainable Packaging News Awards for more info.
