Biodegradable packaging, a real alternative in the food industry

Petroleum-based plastic materials stay in the environment for hundreds of years, entering the food chain and negatively affecting wildlife. Biodegradable packaging, made by vegetable material, has appeared as a solution since they decompose naturally, thus not affecting the environment. The worldwide innovation, Hiperbaric Bulk technology for processing big volumes of liquids in bulk, potentially adds to the solution in the High Pressure Processing field, since it allows to use any kind of packaging for HPP beverages.

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Packaging and HPP, what should you focus your attention on

HPP Packaging

Packaging not only extends the shelf life of foods but protects the products from detrimental external agents like chemical compounds or spoilage microorganisms. And combined with high pressure (HPP) lengthens the shelf life as well. Although, many food industries wonder if their current packaging would withstand pressures of up to 6,000 bar. In this post we talk openly about the technical aspects of packaging applied to HPP products and, especially, the use of polymer ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) so widely used in the food industry for its oxygen barrier capabilities.

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Hiperbaric will assist to the Propak Asia in Bangkok, 13-16th June 2018

Hiperbaric will assist to the Propak Asia in Bangkok, 13-16th June 2018 in BITEC Bangkok, Thailand.

This year´s Propak will be the 26th edition of the event and will bring hundreds of companies to the Bangkok International Trade Exhibition Centre (BITEC) in Asia’s Number One international trade event for Food, Drink & Pharmaceutical Processing & Packaging Technology. Continue reading

Maryland Packaging opens their second HPP Facility

Maryland Packaging has recently announced that they are opening their second premier High Pressure Processing (HPP) facility. Located at 3610 Commerce Drive in Baltimore, this new 30,000 square foot facility makes Maryland Packaging the foremost responsible and sustainable food life cycle company in the mid-Atlantic. With a state-of-the-art Hiperbaric 525 machine that allows for cold and safe pasteurization of sealed food items, the facility offers a host of packaging services, such as hot and cold fill bottling, cold press juicing, skin packaging, MAP packaging, and more.

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Hiperbaric will attend Pack Expo 2016

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This has been a very intense year for High Pressure, a growing sector which is called to be “must-have” technology for any food company whiling to be recognized as fresh, natural and nutritious.

The passion for HPP has become global: despite the United States remain the main market for Hiperbaric, other countries in Asia, Middle East or South America are growing quite fast as awareness about the relationship between our diet and our health grows around the world. Continue reading

Food Packaging and Innovation Course: Cremona Food Valley

EXPO Milano 2015 is the Universal Exposition held in Milan about food and nutrition. During the EXPO 2015 semester (May 1st 2015 through October 31st 2015), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is going to arrange in Cremona (1 hour from Milan) an international program of top-class 3-5 day executive courses on agri-food related topics.

CEEP – Cremona Executive Education Program courses are addressed to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial associations belonging to the agri-food industry; buyers and traders of food products; experts and managers of public and international institutions; academics, researchers and Ph.D. students; managers of multinational agri-food and green chemistry related firms; etc.

Each course includes a mix of lessons led by experts in an international perspective and field trips throughout the Po food valley, with visits to the most prestigious Italian manufacturing sites.

For full details about CEEP Calendar, please visit: www.cremonafoodvalley.com

In particular, join CEEP course SAF03 Food packaging: innovation, safety and sustainability, as Hiperbaric is a partner of it: http://www.cremonafoodvalley.com/courses/food-safety-saf/course/food-packaging-innovation-safety-and-sustainability.html

For more info, do not hesitate to contact CEEP Staff:

E-mail: [email protected]

Tel.: ++30 0372 499187

Cremona Executive Edu Program

Cremona Executive Edu Program

PACKAGING: an essential part of the success of HPP technology


packaging maquina“Before I state the details of my process, I ought to observe that it consists principally,

1st. In inclosing in bottle the substances to bepreserved.

2nd. In corking the bottle with the utmost care; for it is chiefly on the corking that the success of the process depends”

3rd. In submitting these inclosed substances to the action of boiling water in a water-bath (BALNEUM MARIAE), for a greater or less length of time, according to their· nature, and in the manner pointed out with respect to each several kind of substance.

4th. In withdrawing the bottles from the water-bath at the period prescribed.” Continue reading