The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing System is the winning Sustainable Packaging Machinery, a category of the Sustainable Packaging News Award. It is a vacuum application that integrates the cooling process for bakery products into the thermoforming packaging machine. This enables the bakery products to be packed immediately after baking, so that they remain fresher for longer and have an extended shelf life.

Thanks to the evacuation process in the chambers of the packaging machine, the bakery products are cooled down from 95°C to approximately 30°C within a few seconds. “The evacuation process produces vaporization energy, which is released by the evaporation of the bakery products’ own moisture, and which then cools down the bakery products,“ explains Thomas Fickler, Product Manager at MULTIVAC.

The Cooling@Packing system will soon be launched on the market.

“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,” explains Thomas Fickler, Product Manager at MULTIVAC. “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 vaporization energy, which is released by the evaporation of the bakery products’ own moisture, and which then cools down the bakery products.”

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